Whats your favorite album in your collection for each color of the rainbow! 🌈 for me, Red: Infestissumam by Ghost, Orange: Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur, Yellow: Gratitude by Earth Wind and Fire, Green: The Bible 2 by AJJ, Blue: Some Great Reward by Depeche Mode, Purple: Transangelic Exodus by Ezra Furman, Black: Elephant by The White Stripes, White: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows by Damon Albarn.
Finally got around to getting this one! It sounds so good, this one's a great remaster too.
Essential Record to have in collection this one!!
July is going crazy! got more than a few cool pickups
Their best album in my opinion. Second hand at my local record shop for 15 pounds. Great condition.
Common - Be
I know he's a piece of shit of a human being, but this is one of Kanyes best produced albums, everything just flows.
And Common is just brilliant on this, no skips whatsoever.
This album is absolutely perfect.
Caravanserai 1972 UK release
I always found the Blur vs Oasis media driven rivalry ridiculous. Oasis wanted so badly to be the Beatles, but lacked the talent. The media wanted Blur to be the Stones, but sounded nothing like them (. Media driven sensationalism just to drive record sales (and newspapers/magazines) always comes up shallow.
Oasis had two great albums, but Blur had a more sustained and better catalog. Blur are infinitely more creative and produced more interesting music. Turns out Damon Albarn is one of the best song writers of the past 35 years. The Gallagher brothers are just loud.
In my opinion, Modern Life is Rubbish is up there with Park Life and Blur (Self Titled).
I’ve had very good results with my inexpensive vevor. Quite a few of my inherited albums were stored in a garage with a leaky roof. So, I have quite a few that have mold visible on the vinyl. I used to hand scrub the mold with a microfiber cloth and soapy water. It got them playable, but not great and it was a lot of time consuming work. Now I just give them a quick wipe with 25% iso, scrubbing a little more on visible mold, then sonicate for 25 minutes. I’ve done 8 moldy records and got 7 of them playable with minimal effort. The one that didn’t work out had signs of rough handling and I didn’t expect much. Some even had paper sleeve material melted and married to the grooves. Two of the successful rescued disks have a little more noise than I like. While they’re playable and enjoyable, I’ve set them aside for a 2nd dip (once I have two more recovered mold monkeys so I can run a full batch of four).
For normal records, not moldy, I’m running distilled water and 15 drops of Tergikleen, 15 minutes at 30 degrees C. 4 records per run. I just let them air dry overnight. Results are amazing. The only water spots I’ve seen were on the glossy dead wax, where they are very easy to spot.
For my rinsing process, I use a Zep spray bottle with distilled water. I go around the record once, turn it 180 degrees and rinse again. Then I flip it over and repeat on the other side.
I’m planning to modify my rinsing process. Do as above, then flip back to the first side I rinse and give it another lap. Then flip it again and do another lap on the other side.
It might be overkill, but the amount of distilled water used in my rinse process is not expensive. Especially not expensive compared to replacing an album.
Highly recommended for anyone with more than a few hundred records (vevor or other brand). I have a couple thousand. Running the USC just when I have time on the weekends is producing more cleaned records than I can listen to in a week.
Of course once cleaned, you want to place them in inner sleeves that don’t generate static electricity or scratch the disks. I’m using Hudson HiFi brand. Good quality and not too expensive.
Edit: added rinse process.
Edit edit: IMHO the vevor rotisserie motor runs way too fast. I run the rotisserie motor at around 3 VDC to get around 1 RPM. A cheap variable output transformer/power supply from amazon does the trick.
I found myself in a large shopping mall and found a store called D&R. They sell a lot of Turkish vinyl for 600-1100 lira, along with Italian compilations. I found something interesting: Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma" for 2100 lira, but with the dollar-to-lira exchange rate, it's not very profitable to buy at this mall, and this store only accepts lira. And the question is, how do I transfer the vinyl without warping it
Have been collecting for awhile now. Never had an issue with ring wear except on some of the second hand stuff I've picked up over the years but my OCD got the better of me and I turned to Google to ask if this was too tight and of course it said yes. I see there is a slight lean in the middle cubbie and the right and left are upright but I can fit my finger through the middle of the stack without issue so I know there is some kind of breathing room there. I was just seeing how the community felt about how I have it set up because of course a human would know better than ai lol
It’s a best of album, but unfortunately doesn’t include Dead Man’a Party or Weird Science.
Do you have anything that you love to play first thing in the morning when you’re making breakfast or cleaning?
Do you guys ever look at your collection and think "none of this makes any damn sense?"
I'm not sure what this week's additions reveal about myself. It's almost like I'm trying to appease three eras at once. Phantom is for the late 80s/early 90s high school band nerd, while Rage is there for my angsty early college years. Book of Mormon finds me still angsty about religions in the aughts, but then we have Epic Universe which is just absolute chill, mellow atmospheric stuff (with the occasional pop of the Stardust Racers theme, which is just absolute badass music for an absolute badass rollercoaster).
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to put on Bombtrack while I make muffins for next week.
This changes all the time but currently GhostBusters and Footloose are missing songs on YTM. The missing songs change and come and go.
Luckily, the record shop in Tokyo I always go to has one soundtrack i want every year i visit. Cheap, good condition, and the extras are fun to check out. Tiny shop near my inlaws in Jimbocho with mostly Jazz.
I can't stop from cleaning my house when Footlose is on. My wife is Japanese and loves 80s music as well. So she is now dancing. Win win.