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TheVinylApe

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Just a primate who collects #vinyl. Music isn’t everything, but it’s an awful lot.

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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.

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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, to vinyl
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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

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@Whiskeyomega I say it all depends on how shorty a job was done on it to begin with.
Some albums are so butchered right out of the gate, it is immediately required. I’ve seen albums get remaster treatments after 3-5 years.

Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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No more for April please. Preorders

TheVinylApe,
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@Whiskeyomega I never got the Young Fathers thing.
I just…

don’t get it.

Whiskeyomega, to random
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@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

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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe I’ll certainly check for you.

TheVinylApe, to vinyl
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PIXIES
Surfer Rosa
2004 U.S. Reissue

Looks like I’m having a Pixies weekend at my place.
That’s how it starts.
You throw on one, & then you throw on ALL of em.

There’s nothing left to say about Surfer Rosa. It’s all been said before. An indie masterpiece, & somehow, it sounds better with each passing year.

Instructions For Starting An Indie Rock Band From Scratch:

  1. Meet people
  2. Get instruments
  3. Buy copy of Surfer Rosa
  4. Do what they do
  5. Enjoy

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bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- the cozy ecstasy of jim o'rourke's "bad timing" on a dreary night. will illuminate even the brightest solarium. https://jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/bad-timing @vinylrecords

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@bourgwick @vinylrecords I just had Jim’s Simple Songs on the other day. He’s criminally undervalued as a musician.

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FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
The Raw And The Cooked
1988 Canada pressing

Despite how massive “She Drives Me Crazy” was (& still is), I feel that this is one of the great underrated ALBUMS of all time. A very artful record that has aged very well.
Better than a lot of the other pop that came out around that same time.
But let’s put that aside…

You NEVER hear Roland Gift’s name mentioned in regards to the great vocalists in history. Pop or not.
That’s insane.

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DROP NINETEENS
Delaware
2024 Europe MOV pressing

I’d been after a copy of this album for a very long time, but I was never going to pay $200 for an original pressing of it.
So happy somebody finally reissued this great album; a bit of a lost gem of the thing, and one of the best albums to ever come out of my hometown of Boston.
If you like the genre, and don’t know this album, I strongly recommend it.
Thank you MOV for a great sounding pressing.

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TheVinylApe, to 80s
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A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
A Flock Of Seagulls
1982 Canada pressing

All these years later… still a fun as hell pop record.

One of my five or so preferred pop albums from that decade. “Space Age Love Song” is an incredible song, and it’s not even what this record is known for.

If there’s any young kids out there reading this, and you’re into or straight music in general, spend some time with this.
Classic and essential.

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RVLara23, to vinylrecords
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Another fun one from the 90s. Sounds great on the sunshine!

Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience

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TheVinylApe,
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@RVLara23 @vinylrecords agreed! This is one of my favourites as well. Congratulations, I’m Sorry is very good too, though not as heralded. This one is magic because of Doug Hopkins, one of the most tragic stories of ANY of those musicians who died.
He gave us some wonderful songs despite his pain.

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@RVLara23 @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords they never really went away, but the quality of their records weren’t as good past CIS.
Not having major label money anymore effected how those later albums sounded, and after they kicked Doug out and he died, they were never going to make anything as great as NME.

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@RVLara23 @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords I don’t mind Major Lodge Victory. It’s pretty decent. However, I did not feel the same about No Chocolate Cake and Mixed Reality, and it starts with how they were recorded and mixed. The songs were average, but the albums just didn’t SOUND great.

neonbubble, to vinyl
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Been a little while since I stuck some on while I'm working but fancied it this afternoon. Starting with Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by The Cure, an album I picked up when I was going through my "buy music by artists I don't really know well and see what it's like" phase in the late 80s and early 90s. The first track on side one, The Kiss, is such a strong opener and I still utterly adore it.

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@neonbubble @vinylrecords

It might be time for this one myself!
I had Wish on last night. Might as well keep it going, and make today a Cure day.

Whiskeyomega, to random
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@TheVinylApe remember I had the issues with a few records getting destroyed after I dry to wet clean them. Think I finally solved it. The de-ironized water I was using went off 3 years ago. Oops.

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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe 😂
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Well at least you know now.

That’s hilarious man.

RVLara23, to vinylrecords
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Pretty excellent Record Store Day list for 2024. Good thing I save up for this well in advance! Sponge, Collective Soul, G Love and South Park are probably the ones I'm most excited about (I'm all about these 90s records getting pressed) but there's so many good ones overall.

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@RVLara23 @vinylrecords big fan of Sponge myself. The first two albums are absolute gold.

Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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You have to be a certain mood for some of Sigur Ros' albums. This one is loud and demands a big soundstage. I almost went out of my way to buy the grey smoke limited edition but after wanting £30 shipping on a £36 vinyl I thought better of it and given that I'm now trying to just get the blacks for their better sound quality over coloured vinyl, I'm glad I stuck to this black.

Sigur Ros - Kveikur
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@Whiskeyomega @vinylrecords I must admit, I never had much use for them past Ágætis Byrjun.
That was a magical album for where I was in my life, and WHO I was. After that, they did nothing for me. But you’re right. Even my friends who stuck with them say the same thing. “I can’t always listen to them. It takes a rare mood.”

bourgwick, to vinylrecords
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- side A is perfect for getting ready to go out, side B is perfect for getting home. @vinylrecords

TheVinylApe,
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@bourgwick @vinylrecords Cherry Chapstick!

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THE JESUS LIZARD
Goat
2023 US REISSUE
Ltd. Ed. White vinyl

One of the greatest rock n roll bands of all time.

They never waivered.
Not one misstep, not one bad song, not a single bad album.
They were punishing live; with one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time in Sims and McNeilly, as well as the greatest frontman/showman/singer of the in David Yow, who by the way, is the kindest dude I’ve ever met.
A monster JL album in a long line of many.

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TheVinylApe, to vinyl
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FUZZ
Fuzz
2013 U.S. pressing

Killer hazy, heavy with Ty Segall playing drums.

A friend bought me this when it came out in ‘13, and it took me a while to click with it. Now, I listen to it multiple times a year, and it’s become a fun album I consistently revisit.

Super goodness, particularly the song “What’s In My Head?”.

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Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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I'm Enjoying the parts more without Jason on the bass. It's just a drone but it's seems to have been remastered to bring it out and hasn't done a great job. One is the best track so far.

Metallica - And Justice For All
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Dark Green Vinyl

TheVinylApe,
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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords I never understood the appeal of Suede. And I realize it’s a British thing, because my country didn’t want them and they failed miserably there, but I can respect Butler’s guitar playing. But Brett Anderson’s voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Or somebody swinging around a sack full of injured cats. Any aspect of those Suede records I appreciate immediately get canceled out by that “guy’s” voice.

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@RVLara23 @TheVinylApe @Whiskeyomega @vinylrecords 😂 Let’s not encourage that.

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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords

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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords my apologies for the single hair beard hanging off my regular beard.

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@Whiskeyomega @TheVinylApe @vinylrecords 😂

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