Show some spine!

[imtheocean]

Most of my stuff is in rough genre / alphabetical order in Kallax, but I have a few built in shelves above my desk that get the larger artist collections that tend to get disorganized based on how often I access them. Once In a while I'll get a wild hair and re-sort them, but today is not that day.

Pearl Jam / Pearl Jam Adjacent / Drive~By Truckers / Drive~By Truckers Adjacent. Neil Young used to live here, but he has his own Kallax square now.



Bob Dylan / Grateful Dead / Dead Adjacent

 

[Nee Lewman]

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Here’s the zoom out from my previous post.
These are about 80% of my jazz records. Abdullah through Zawinul, with various artists at the end.

Also with some shelves for 45 box sets.

Aspirations!!!!

Here’s my Jazz spines (along with a hint of one of my “overflow” cubes - stuff that ain’t been played yet):

 

[Nee Lewman]

Most of my stuff is in rough genre / alphabetical order in Kallax, but I have a few built in shelves above my desk that get the larger artist collections that tend to get disorganized based on how often I access them. Once In a while I'll get a wild hair and re-sort them, but today is not that day.

Pearl Jam / Pearl Jam Adjacent / Drive~By Truckers / Drive~By Truckers Adjacent. Neil Young used to live here, but he has his own Kallax square now.

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Bob Dylan / Grateful Dead / Dead Adjacent

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My Neil is working through a second cube. Still pales to @Yer Ol' Uncle D ’s Neil.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Here’s some spines of shit I can’t even play (should be corrected next week):

 

[CountZero]

Aspirations!!!!

Here’s my Jazz spines (along with a hint of one of my “overflow” cubes - stuff that ain’t been played yet):
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That Cuban Jam Sessions box is

Had a beat up OG copy of Volume 2 that still sounded great. It was one of my favorite records, so I bought that box immediately!

 

[avecigrec]

Today's cube features a couple of Ra-adjacent albums, another one of my all-time favourite musicians, my AOTY for last year, one of my absolute favourite live acts, a LOT of stuff by a Japanese band @Hemotep put me onto in the last year or two, at least a couple of PIFs and a forum AOTM...

 

[OMC]

really nice collection! my jazz spines look a lot like this—fewer outers than in my other sections, reflecting the fact that a lot of my jazz pickups over the years have been at garage sales, estate sales, thrifts and vintage stores, rather than record stores where they are almost always priced at top dollar.

as much as i understand the audiophile frenzy in jazz, i'd take an earlier VG pressing over a tone poet for all but the most perfect of albums. having a well-loved 6-eye copy of "kind of blue" gives me a greater sense of connection with the music, and to the social history that surrounds it, than a new AAA pressing. i also find that listening to jazz is really an exercise in focusing one's ears, so to speak—one has to be an active listener. the emphasis on mastering and perfect pressings tends to shift my listening focus away from the playing and towards the production. learning to hear through some surface noise has been a crucial part of my jazz education!

based on the stuff you have here, i think you would dig serge chaloff's blue serge—one of my favorite jazz lp's that can typically be found for under $5 in a perfectly good "capitol jazz classics" reissue

What a beautiful and perfectly right on post and thanks for the recommendation! Exactly how I feel about original vs the latest and greatest represses, of any genre. Most of my jazz collection was acquired during the mid 80s to the early 90s when people were literally giving vinyl away for the perfect sound forever CDs. My six eye Kind of Blue takes me deeper into the studio than does the really nice Classic Records copy that I did pay $$ for when it was released. You can sense the smoke and feel the musicians’ intensity more easily on the 1959 pressing. That’s how I hear it, anyway.
Fantastic looking collection you have and can you imagine how much moolah you’d have to spend to have the same stacks in represses if they were all available? Mind boggling.

 

[Russ I]

From the Psych Rock shelves:



And some non-audiophile jazz

 

[Nee Lewman]

From the Psych Rock shelves:

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And some non-audiophile jazz

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As someone who has recently started digging into psych rock: jealous!

 

[Mtcvinyl]

that “fight club” OST spine is an unusual one—looking it up on discogs, i see the vertical obi bears an epigram that hits a little too close to home: "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."

Yup. Nail meet head.

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

My Neil is working through a second cube. Still pales to @Yer Ol' Uncle D ’s Neil.

All Neil but missing a dozen or so stragglers...

 

[throwingthings]

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Today's cube features a couple of Ra-adjacent albums, another one of my all-time favourite musicians, my AOTY for last year, one of my absolute favourite live acts, a LOT of stuff by a Japanese band @Hemotep put me onto in the last year or two, at least a couple of PIFs and a forum AOTM...
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ok so i’m going to need a little primer on this R.C. Succession!

 

[Nee Lewman]

All Neil but missing a dozen or so stragglers...

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Neil starts here:

Ends here:


Good chunk in not listened overflow and there’s three or four in the various pre-shelf holding areas (have been played overflow):

 

[throwingthings]

From the Psych Rock shelves:

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this is always the most fun genre to browse just on the basis of album titles and band names. if i see a title like “apple pie motherhood band” or “through a window/hard meat,” i’m going to need to pull those out and see what the hell those covers looks like

 

[throwingthings]

just appreciating some spine typography

 

[Hemotep]

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ok so i’m going to need a little primer on this R.C. Succession!

I'd recommend starting with this album. I don't think they put out a bad album, but this one gets a lot of play by me. You can get many of them cheap too. Don't really know what to compare them to, but they've become one of my favorite bands since I discovered them a couple years ago.

RC Succession - 楽しい夕に

Url: https://www.discogs.com/master/1157566-RC-Succession-楽しい夕に

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[CountZero]

Here is a concept study pencil and ink for a proposed series of drawings or prints that I was collaborating with a fellow artist on. We thought the attempt was pretty successful, but we never went any further.

 

[Nee Lewman]

All Neil but missing a dozen or so stragglers...

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What is the big box to the right of the Greendale (book?) thing? And the box to the left of Barn deluxe?

 

[Russ I]

Here is a concept study pencil and ink for a proposed series of drawings or prints that I was collaborating with a fellow artist on. We thought the attempt was pretty successful, but we never went any further.

Damn. That's terrific! Would never have guessed it was a drawing.

 

[Hemotep]

Here is a concept study pencil and ink for a proposed series of drawings or prints that I was collaborating with a fellow artist on. We thought the attempt was pretty successful, but we never went any further.

This is definitely the kind of thing I'd ask my wife to get me for my birthday. Would look nice on my office wall at work when I have to be away from the real thing.