TheVinylApe

icastico, 20 days ago to vinyl

Focus - Ship Of Memories #vinyl @vinylrecords #ProgRock #JazzFusion #CrateDigging #NowPlaying

This has some of their best work. Nice cheap bin find.

TheVinylApe, 20 days ago to vinyl

SEX PISTOLS
Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
2020 Europe Reissue

Needed upgrade from my og UK pressing, which has seen FAR better days.

Reviews on THIS were pretty positive, so I grabbed one to have a good playable copy.

I put it on my turntable and was astonished. It sounds FUCKING GREAT.
Big, punchy, dynamic. Just massive sounding on my speakers.
I am beyond pleased.

Is there a better or more effective one trick pony in music history?
#vinyl #vinylrecords #punk #sexpistols

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TheVinylApe, 22 days ago to jazz

BOBBY HUTCHERSON
Cirrus
1974 U.S. pressing

One of my 3 favorite #jazz albums to get my Thursday morning started.

A hauntingly beautiful record.

My 14 yr old has just started to appreciate certain kinds of jazz music, and Cirrus was one of the records that did it for him. Like his father, he isn’t totally wild about the genre, but knows the kind he likes when he hears it.

A great choice to go with my apple pancakes this morning.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #modaljazz #70s #70smusic #70sjazz #1970s

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TheVinylApe, 23 days ago to HipHop

DE LA SOUL
3 Feet High And Rising
2023 Europe 2xLP Reissue
Yellow Opaque Vinyl

1 of my 3 ALL TIME favorite #hiphop album. A masterpiece of the genre.

I was in the mood to hear this, & thought I had it in my library, but didn’t.

So I remedied that & grabbed this excellent sounding reissue.
Deep, thumpy, & killer.

We recently lost David Jolicoeur (Plug 2) in ‘23.
When our time is over, we should all be so lucky to have given a gift like this to the world.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #rap #jazz #80s

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TheVinylApe, 24 days ago to vinyl

TIN MACHINE
Tin Machine
1989 Canada pressing

I love both Tin Machine albums, but it has less to do with Bowie than it does with Reeves Gabrels. His guitar playing on both is otherworldly.

This album is better than the second on whole, but still not looked upon favourably by Bowie disciples and I don’t know why.

It is a killer metallic slice of art-rock. A pre-cursor (along with Pixies) for what would happen throughout the next decade.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80s #80smusic #art #artrock #1980s

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TheVinylApe, 26 days ago to vinyl

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
No 4
2015 Europe MOV Reissue

Starting Sunday off with an extremely underrated STP album.
Although they were pretty much done being a regular touring act due to Scott’s “issues” (I was lucky enough to see them three times), they were still able to make really great studio albums, of which I think No. 4 is the last TRULY great one.

It’s a great balance of early raucous STP (Down) and the more moody textural material (Sour Girl, Atlanta).
#vinyl #vinylrecords #90s #90smusic

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TheVinylApe, 29 days ago to vinyl

LINDA COHEN
Leda
1972 Canada pressing

A wonderful avant- garde album that is perfect for the windy, raw night that’s raging outside.

Linda Cohen was a self-taught musician from Philadelphia. LEDA is a folk album of fingerpicked #acoustic guitar, accompanied by modular #synth & bass.
It has a comforting electronic sound; with some flashes of psychedelia about it.
Quite the captivating record.
I have no memory of where or when I got it, but I’ve had it since 2007 at least.
#vinyl #vinylrecords

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icastico, 29 days ago to vinyl

Sandy Bull - The Essential #vinyl @vinylrecords #folk #guitar #CrateDigging #NowPlaying

Rough and ready copy from the cheap bin

TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to vinyl

THE POSIES
Frosting On The Beater
2018 U.S. 2xLP Reissue

One of the greatest #powerpop albums of the #90s if not all time.

This is one of my Desert Island Discs, and not even Ken Stringfellow’s horrible atrocious behaviour can effect my love for it. There is not one musical misstep, not a single flaw to be found anywhere.
Auer and Stringfellow never reached these heights again. Just one of those lightning in a bottle type albums, but what a bolt it was.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #90smusic

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TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to 80s

BUGGLES
The Age Of Plastic
1980 Canada pressing

Fun on a Sunday morning.

THAT song was (and still is) so big, that nobody ever really talks about how good the album is as a whole. It’s a super-fun slice of innovative #80s #synthpop & never disappoints whenever I put it on.

Trevor Horn had a magnificent career as a producer post-Buggles, but had this been the only thing he’d ever done, that’s a career enough in itself.
Love this album so much.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80smusic #synth

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icastico, 1 month ago to vinyl

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia #vinyl @vinylrecords #punk #poet #Rock #WomenInMusic #CrateDigging #NowPlaying

Saved a nice copy from the cheap bin. An old favorite from back in the day.

scrummy, 1 month ago to vinyl

#nowplaying Genesis “Invisible Touch” I had bought this on cassette back in 1987 and proceeded to play it so much I wore the tape out.

Interestingly, the hand on the album cover is textured by the black ink. Never knew that!

#vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

Whiskeyomega, 1 month ago to vinyl

Had a scare with a vinyl. Put Snow Patrol Eyes open and it distorts. Seemed fine when I switched to the cars then put chicane on and it was distorting again in places. Cleaned the stylus with some iso alcohol and it seems to have fixed it.

#vinyl

TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to Canada

PLATINUM BLONDE
Standing In The Dark
1984 Canada pressing

I had never heard of them until Id moved to #canada in ‘07, where copies of their records are abundant and in every used shop.

This is a fantastic power pop album, start to finish. Great hooky songs.

However, this is where it kinda ends for them.
After this, the band added a keyboard player, and everything got very… #80s . And not in a good way.
But there’s no denying how good THIS one is.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80smusic #newwave

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TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to vinyl

I hung a shelf above my television and stereo system with the intent to keep little mini-stacks of #vinylrecords in my current listening rotation.

MILO on the other hand, had other plans from the get-go, instantly claiming it as his “Sky Lounge”; a place from up on high where he can look down on the world, and judge us as the vapid, soulless and morally bankrupt creatures we are.

Well played Milo, you magnificent bastard.
#vinyl #cats #catsofmastodon

gnitro, 1 month ago to vinyl

#NowPlaying: Cat Temper – Nineteen Eighty​-​Fur

https://songwhip.com/cattemper/nineteen-eightyfur

@vinylrecords

#vinyl #Synthwave #CatTemper

slevelt, 1 month ago to vinyl

#NowListening Living Colour - Type 12” #vinyl @vinylrecords (and wondering if I should get that copy of Time’s Up from Vinted whose seller refused to haggle)

TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to vinyl

THE SPECIALS
The Specials
1980 Canada pressing

A fun listen for the Hump Day blues.

Produced by Elvis Costello, it’s just one of those classic endlessly playable and FUN albums.

I can’t spin this without immediately wanting to hear The Selecter’s Too Much Pressure afterward.
So that’s probably hitting the table after this gem.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80s #80smusic #ska #TheSpecials

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TheVinylApe, 1 month ago to vinyl

SUZANNE VEGA
Solitude Standing
1987 Canada pressing

One of my favorite female artists, & a total comfort album for me.

Sometime around 2001, Suzanne did a meet & greet/in-store performance at the record store I worked at in Harvard Square (it’s sadly no longer there).

She was so incredibly wonderful; staying for much longer than she needed to. She met every fan, signed everything, & hung out with us staff afterwards & told us dirty jokes. She’s the best.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80s #80smusic

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Whiskeyomega, 1 month ago to vinyl

Original pressing but I want to get the new American remaster. It's a shame when there's versions that are 45rpm but all the international and reissues are 33rpm when 45 could have been done all along. Still a great album

The Black Keys - Brothers

#vinyl #NowPlaying

Whiskeyomega, 1 month ago to vinyl

No more for April please. Preorders

#vinyl

Whiskeyomega, 1 month ago to random

@TheVinylApe your shop got any Stone Temple Pilots 2x45rpm' of Core coming in ? Waiting to get mine but its end of the month here by the time AP ships overseas