vinyl revival

[labguitar1003]

hey guys i just got a vinyl record player and i was wondering, what are your top three records to listen to?

 

[line6man]

In what genre?

 

[labguitar1003]

In what genre?
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Along the lines of ACDC,Aerosmith,metallica,lynard skynard,judas preist,styx,beatles,boston you know rock n roll and metal.

 

[AutoBat]

I own a full DJ rig and have maybe 100 records, a favorite doesn't spring to mind.
Most of what I have is Drum & Bass, Breaks, and some Dubstep.  I don't expect most people here to know what those are.
I've played a couple parties (aka raves) but stick mostly to playing for myself, like I do with guitar.

Of 'vintage' vinyls I do have a half dozen Beatles, Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odyssey, a dozen Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, and several Henry Mancini albums.

 

[Mor Paul]

Dubstep's alright.

 

[hannaugh]

When my record player still worked, I played a lot of old folky stuff and The Smithsonian Jazz Collection a lot.  I also have all of the Beatles and most of Zeppelin on vinyl.  Oooh, and the Allman Bros.  Man, now I miss my record player. 

 

[Tempest]

Dark Side of the Moon (duh) - Pink Floyd

Equinox - Styx

and

Fragile - Yes

Right now anyways, I have like 30 something records at the moment

 

[Velcro]

Scott Joplin, Thelonious Monk, Django Reainhardt.

Or

Black Sabbath, Robin Trower and Free

 

[labguitar1003]

alright so ive been listening to some of my parents old records and here are my three so far

Styx - live caught in the act
Santana - Abraxas
Quiet riot - Metal Health

 

[line6man]

Thelonious Monk

+1.

 

[Cletus]

Johnny Cash, American Recordings
Sabbath- paranoid
The Who- Live at Leeds
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense

 

[back2thefutre]

Hehe I just got one too. I bought Tool's Lateralus. My old man is coming over to show me how to use it :redflag:

 

[labguitar1003]

Hehe I just got one too. I bought Tool's Lateralus. My old man is coming over to show me how to use it :redflag:

have fun with that, ive spent the last few days just listening to the records of my parents and im nowhere near the end of there collection, plus i have to go through the ones i bought at my local music store, 20 records for 24 bucks, what a deal.  :hello2:

 

[rapfohl09]

My dad has almost all of The Beatles vinyls still in original plastic wrap, with one of them signed by the four members. He also has ones that he has played, and when I listened to his records it was those.

 

[Jusatele]

I look for old original stuff, I found some killer Freddy Fender stuff the other day. and in the back of the collection I found some Funkadelic and Blood sweat and tears in great shape.
I love the old old stuff I find also, like what they called race records, I have found at estate sales 78s of some of the original blues and jazz guys.
My best finds come from estate sales. the best shape stuff comes from places that trade in used vinyl.

 

[taez555]

My favorite....

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres  (You have not heard an electric guitar recorded properly until you've heard this album on vinyl)

Beyond that, I really like mid/late 70's Billy Joel like The stranger or 52nd Street (both sound better on vinyl than the CD remaster), also Rush around that period.  Cool stuff.

In my vinyl collection my favorite stuff is from the '70's.   So much of the 80's stuff started to go too digital in the studio, sounds harsh and honestly just sounds better on CD, were as the '60's stuff is hit or miss with the best being the more rare collectors items.  There's just something about a well recorded vinyl record of that 1970's combined with actual performances before everything was completely cut and pasted.  Sort of a perfect storm of analog technology meets performace.  Maybe it's just me.

 

[Jusatele]

Erik, I think the Digital in the studio is where the true Key to this discussion may lay.
unfortunately vinyl and analog recording went out of style at the same time, and analog recording does have a different vibe than digital.

 

[texicus]

I...uh...I...

ABBA - Love Songs

 

[Ted Spencer]

unfortunately vinyl and analog recording went out of style at the same time

Well, speaking from my experience as a professional recording engineer for the last few decades, I'm going to have to respectfully correct you here:

-CDs and CD players were first introduced as a consumer product in 1983. It was only a few years later that they all but supplanted the LP in record stores.

-While the earliest multitrack digital studio recorders appeared in the very late 70s, analog multitracks remained the dominant format in professional studios well into the 90s, with digital tape machines gradually achieving parity around the mid 90s when cheaper systems became prevalent, in particular the Alesis ADAT, and to a considerably lesser extent the Tascam DA-88, which became dominant in film post work.

-Sony's 3324, 3348 (16 bit) and 3348HR (24 bit) 1/2" reel-to-reel tape machines were the dominant big-studio digital multitracks in the 90s, coexisting as an alternative with the still more dominant 2" analog decks, but were spectacularly expensive (around $185,000 for the 3348s) and died out almost instantly after...

-The real seismic shift in digital studio recording, which came in around 2000, a couple of years after Digidesign introduced its 2nd (major) multitrack Pro Tools system upgrade: the so-called "Mix24" generation, in the very late 90s. These systems came into near-complete domination of the pro studio recording world by 2004 or so (once engineers and musicians got comfortable with their reliability, which had been a major issue with the previous "Pro Tools III" systems). Analog tape machines were still quite prevalent until then though, not tapering off (almost) completely until 2006 or so. Most major studios still have analog 2" tape machines, but rarely use them. I haven't initiated a project on mine since 2004, although I have had various occasions to use it since for mixing and transferring of older projects.

-In 2002, the first Pro Tools "HD" systems were introduced, and gradually replaced the Mix24 systems. Pro Tools continues to dominate the pro studio recorder world although (as you probably know) other popular systems have gained ground such as Logic, Nuendo and others. But none is anywhere close to toppling Pro Tools as the industry standard to date.

 

[Ted Spencer]

By the way, I kept my entire vinyl collection from all the way back to my teen years (as well as my turntable, which is still working fine). I have hundreds of 'em, including original pressings in good to excellent condition of many classics: Sargent Pepper, Rubber Soul, Hendrix's Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland, Cream's Disraeli Gears, the "Brown" album by The Band, etc...

Fun stuff!