Albums that you are HAPPY (even honored) that you still own?

[DrZeeLit]

I have the original vinyl album in mint condition of HAIR.
Also, the complete Bobby Darin library.
And... a couple Beatle 45's that I won from a radio station call-in contest back in 1965 or was that 1964?

And I still have original vinyl Joan Baez; Crosby, Still & Nash (first album, yes in vinyl).

and the beat goes on.

[gnofg]

1. Getz- Gilberto

I have a Japanese vinyl copy of Getz and Gilberto(the girl from Ipanema) and the quality is astounding- Better than any CD by a mile

[truthpusher]

5. Never grows old...I love this one...

[hahahey]

30. YES, timeless.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. You fetus

I have original Elvis Presley albums.

I am older than dirt.

[eleonora]

3. we found an old box full of vinyls in great condition here

some early presleys, old country songs from the 60s, 70s...it was a great find in the basement of a house we're remodeling

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I also have the original "Hair" album,

and "Sergeant Pepper" and the Beatles' White Album and "Abbey Road" and the first Doors album. I am old.

[DrZeeLit]

31. Wow! And we are not "old"...yet... we are TREASURES! (almost) n/t

[gnofg]

6. Vinyl

I have a good 200 vinyl albums-Vinyl sounds better than CD's if you have a good turntable

[havocmom]

7. Kenny Ball & the Jazzmen

Hair and the soundtrack of the origninal Muppet Movie :D

[bloodyjack]

I have the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, eighth, and ninth

Dylan albums on original vinyl, though some of 'em have seen better days.

so these would be: Freewheelin', Another Side, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and Nashville Skyline. It is difficult to find Blood on the Tracks most anywhere.

Most of the Smiths' stateside-released vinyl LPs in fine condition (except for Meat is Murder, which keeps skipping toward the end of side A). What's more, they had the most fantastic sleeves.

Nico - "Chelsea Girls"

And a lot of other stuff most people either won't notice or care about

REM's first three records, which are fairly easy to come by at any used music/book store. The Cure's 'Head on the Door' and 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me' because these are clearly their best albums.

Thank you, Half Price.

edit: Oh yeah, also 'Revolver', the white album, and Sgt. Pepper's.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. I wish I owned this one......

NOT!

[Zensea]

9. What's Shakin'

An Elektra compilation from 1966 that my parents bought me because it has the Lovin Spoonful on it.
Also has The Butterfield Blues Band, Tom Rush, Al Kooper, and Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse.
This is not the original cover



"In 1966, billed as Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse, a one-off band that featured Jack Bruce, Paul Jones, and Steve Winwood, Clapton recorded his first Robert Johnson song, a reworked “Cross Road Blues.”

Also have a complete Beatles collection (Capitol versions, not the British) on vinyl (that's what I used to buy with my paper route money)and nearly complete Kinks collection (everything except the last two or three.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Before they named the band Cream?.... New one on me

I was an avid vinyl collector for a long time. Went to a lot of record show and such..... Never heard of The Powerhouse.

Pretty cool

[Zensea]

19. It wasn't Cream, no Ginger Baker

Here's a little about it at this link I should have provided before

http://www.whereseric.com/clapton/articles/2004/08/mr_claptons_blues.htm

about the 12th or 13th paragraph.

I also read an interview with Duane Allman once where he said that the way the Allman Brothers (or it might have even been the Allman Joys before the Allman Brothers) did Crossroads was based on their having and hearing that What's Shakin' album when they were teenagers.

The Butterfield Blues Band stuff on there and the Al Kooper stuff also kicks major ass.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. Always learning...Thanx

[devilgrrl]

10. The Mothers of Invention - Mothermania

[CanuckAmok]

11. Lots of rare punk and New Wave LPs from '77-'83... Autographed Echo & BMen

Autographed by the whole original band, including the late Peter DeFreitas.

All 23 LPs of Psychic TV's "Live" series, including the bonus LP only sold to people who owned the other 22.

An LP copy of Jim Jones' mass-suicide oratory, while everone is drinking the Kool-aid in the background.

A copy of "No New York" (various artists, produced by Brian Eno).

An autographed copy of James White and the Blacks' LP "Off White".

Pretty much every piece of vinyl put out by Jim Foetus Thirlwell.

some cool die-cuts, promo copies, test-pressings, etc.

[JohnnyRingo]

17. They put Jim Jones speech on an album?!?!

Hahaha... I can understand you owning it, Thats quite a find.

What freaks me out are the people that bought it originally. What was on their mind? Was it even safe in the hands of a manically depressed person with an identity crisis?

Uhhhh, If you bought it new.....never mind, nice record.

[CanuckAmok]

22. It was released by Genesis P. Orridge's TOPY label:

http://members.aol.com/peter23rd/collec/topy.html

It's really eerie. Not only because of his delusional paranoid religious ranting and his hysterical speaking style, but because as the record progresses, the sounds of people screaming and crying get less and less invasive, as more and more of them lay down and die.

[JohnnyRingo]

24. That's Bizzare

They have quite a catalalogue over there:

TOPY 041CD Tekno Acid Beat - Psychic TV & Friends (+ extra tracks)
TOPY 042 Live at thee Circus - Psychic TV (LP, 1988, lim. ed. of 5000)
TOPY 043 Groove to get down - Sugardog (12")
TOPY 044 R. U. Xperienced - Caresse & Sickmob (12" single)
TOPY 012 Music for Hashashins - Vagina Dentata Organ (LP, out 1 April 1987)
TOPY 013 The Last Supper - Rev. Jim Jones (LP, available 13 April 1987) WANTED

You need this last one to complete the collection (or maybe that's the title of yours)

[CanuckAmok]

27. No, that's a collector's list I got off the 'net...

I have most of those ones.

They have a pretty serious catalogue. At one point they were releasing an album a month, on the 23rd day of each month.

[alfredo]

12. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention. eom

[arwalden]

13. CAR WASH - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Carol King -Tapestry

[frylock]

16. car wash - - that joint rocks!

that was one of the first 45's I ever bought.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Mom's Apple Pie

"Vagina" cover - unopened,sealed. (Pic of Mom offering hot apple pie, missing slice was vagina...several thousand slipped past label censors before it was changed. ..Very Early 70s)

George Harrison 12" single picture disc - "Mind Set On You".

Alex Harvey Band - "Next" ...Ain't nothin' like a gang bang.

Alice Cooper "Love It To Death" - Thumb cover. (Cooper stuck his thumb through opening in pants... appeared to be a penis) Later censored.

Meatloaf "Bat out Of Hell" - Picture disc (Motorcycle zooming from grave on both sides) ...Great graphix, but it's stale Meatloaf.

Not an album, but I have the original art (not a print) from the Poco "Legend" album painted by Phil Hartman and autographed by band.

Thanx ...That was fun rememberin'

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Figures on the Beach.

Not too many have it.

[Tikki]

20. All first pressings...."Jolly What"....

on the Vee Jay label... vinyl by the Beatles and Frank Ifield

"Yesterday and Today"....The Beatles
"KRLA/King of the Wheels"....Bobby Fuller Four
"My Aim Is True"....Elvis Costello
"Primordial Ooze Flavored"...The Unclaimed
"What Is It!"...on the What label...LA punk compo
"Happen Happened"....Salvation Army

"Warm Leatherette/TV OD"....45rpm by The Normal

[vajraroshana]

21. I have a REM album

that was stamped for the DJs only. It's a 45, but as big as a regular album. "Don't Fall On Me" on one side and I'm not gonna go dig it out to tell you what's on the other side.

[Kat45]

23. Four Beatles 45s with picture sleeves.

And some early Beatles albums in mono or with "stereo" in big, bragging letters.

Lots of Zappa albums, including "Thingfish," the Broadway play that he never got to stage.

[Lady Sonelle]

26. The Velvet Underground's Album 666

It was by members of the Velvet Underground but under a different name... Aphrodite's Child ... but it's in storage. Incredible album!

Got it from a submissive who got it from Anton LaVey when he visited ALV at his famous Black Victorian home in SF

Lady S.

Edited to add the correct group name

[CanuckAmok]

29. wow, now that's a story in need of some serious closure!

Welcome to DU, Mistress Sonelle!

[tuvor]

28. For the music itself, no question:

Simple Minds' New Gold Dream from 1982.

Brillllllllllliant!