Vinyl Me Please Classics

The problem people have with the King and/or Bar-keys selection aren’t that they are cover albums or an outtakes albums it’s that they are THESE specific albums. I get that the critique may be a bit lazy but the bigger point is that these records would not be the albums that most would choose as representative of these artists and would hope that if you were gonna provide audiophile treatment to some of these artists records you would choose something more substantial.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
The problem people have with the King and/or Bar-keys selection aren’t that they are cover albums or an outtakes albums it’s that they are THESE specific albums. I get that the critique may be a bit lazy but the bigger point is that these records would not be the albums that most would choose as representative of these artists and would hope that if you were gonna provide audiophile treatment to some of these artists records you would choose something more substantial.
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People were saying they had the problem with them exactly because they were covers and outtakes albums, thats' why we kept going on about that. I don't know, if you think about it, for Albert King they couldn't do Born Under A Bad Sign because that was just reissued recently by Speakers Corner and on RSD by Craft Recordings in all-analog reissues, and then the Stax Anthology had I'll Play The Blues For You. So his two biggest, most obvious titles were off the table for them to give the Classics treatment, and there isn't a third title that stands out head and shoulders above King Does the King's Things, which turned out be a fitting choice the considering it hasn't been reissued and it comes from his and Stax's peak, defining era.
 
keylime_5 said:
People were saying they had the problem with them exactly because they were covers and outtakes albums, thats' why we kept going on about that. I don't know, if you think about it, for Albert King they couldn't do Born Under A Bad Sign because that was just reissued recently by Speakers Corner and on RSD by Craft Recordings in all-analog reissues, and then the Stax Anthology had I'll Play The Blues For You. So his two biggest, most obvious titles were off the table for them to give the Classics treatment, and there isn't a third title that stands out head and shoulders above King Does the King's Things, which turned out be a fitting choice the considering it hasn't been reissued and it comes from his and Stax's peak, defining era.
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I've literally zero beef with the King pick. It's great. Absolutely great. I get why it's not the place holder for a sub called classics but I love it

I mean... For 17 quid (UK prices) it was a belter of a record.
 
Rowan said:
I've literally zero beef with the King pick. It's great. Absolutely great. I get why it's not the place holder for a sub called classics but I love it

I mean... For 17 quid (UK prices) it was a belter of a record.
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I couldn’t agree more. I love this album. It’s really fun. I’m not an elvis fan at all, but a huge fan of this. It makes elvis more than listenable.
 
btf1980 said:
This thread has been moving way too fast for me to keep up with. Last I read, y'all were talking about an Al Jarreau record being the next release. Is that still a solid guess? Honestly, an Al Jarreau release might be the worst one since Oriental Jazz.
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Seems like clues dried up after the whole price hike upset. Hard to say there is reason to be confident we know what it is.
 
keylime_5 said:
People were saying they had the problem with them exactly because they were covers and outtakes albums, thats' why we kept going on about that. I don't know, if you think about it, for Albert King they couldn't do Born Under A Bad Sign because that was just reissued recently by Speakers Corner and on RSD by Craft Recordings in all-analog reissues, and then the Stax Anthology had I'll Play The Blues For You. So his two biggest, most obvious titles were off the table for them to give the Classics treatment, and there isn't a third title that stands out head and shoulders above King Does the King's Things, which turned out be a fitting choice the considering it hasn't been reissued and it comes from his and Stax's peak, defining era.
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Years Gone By, Jammed Together, Live Wire/Blues Power, The Big Blues (ok, not Stax so wouldn't have happened), and any of his other archival live releases would have been better Classics picks for Albert King.

Also, if you're talking about my post, its not the fact that its an outtake, novelty or covers album disqualifies this from being a good pick, its that if you're going that route it better be damn good and have something to draw you back repeatedly. All of your examples have been legitimately great albums that would have been worthy of highlighting. These albums just aren't all that great.

The Bar-Kays pick was apparently done at the request of Stax from Storf's story and the King album was to fill out his goal to own every Stax album during quarantine.
 
wmeugene said:
Years Gone By, Jammed Together, Live Wire/Blues Power, The Big Blues (ok, not Stax so wouldn't have happened), and any of his other archival live releases would have been better Classics picks for Albert King.

Also, if you're talking about my post, its not the fact that its an outtake, novelty or covers album disqualifies this from being a good pick, its that if you're going that route it better be damn good and have something to draw you back repeatedly. All of your examples have been legitimately great albums that would have been worthy of highlighting. These albums just aren't all that great.

The Bar-Kays pick was apparently done at the request of Stax from Storf's story and the King album was to fill out his goal to own every Stax album during quarantine.
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I would have definitely gotten it if it was Years Gone By and probably Jammed Together. They are both out of print, so would have also fit VMPs model of liking to pick not easily available titles.
 
We actually thought it was gonna be Jammed Together for a while during guesses before we figured out it was King Does The King's Things. That would've been a great pick too, but both are excellent. Ya'll are still sleeping on that album and it's been out for months, tsk tsk. Better no Albert King Classics (one of THE most legendary blues guitarists ever) than to release that album (which is killer)? Crazy disappointed, I still chalk it up to the stigma of it being a covers album (even though most blues albums are by vast majority full of covers/standards). People hated the idea of it before they even listened to it.
 
keylime_5 said:
We actually thought it was gonna be Jammed Together for a while during guesses before we figured out it was King Does The King's Things. That would've been a great pick too, but both are excellent. Ya'll are still sleeping on that album and it's been out for months, tsk tsk. Better no Albert King Classics (one of THE most legendary blues guitarists ever) than to release that album (which is killer)? Crazy disappointed, I still chalk it up to the stigma of it being a covers album (even though most blues albums are by vast majority full of covers/standards). People hated the idea of it before they even listened to it.
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I listened to it twice on Spotify, I didn't hate it. I thought it was fun, but not substantive and have had no desire to listen to it again.
 
keylime_5 said:
We actually thought it was gonna be Jammed Together for a while during guesses before we figured out it was King Does The King's Things. That would've been a great pick too, but both are excellent. Ya'll are still sleeping on that album and it's been out for months, tsk tsk. Better no Albert King Classics (one of THE most legendary blues guitarists ever) than to release that album (which is killer)? Crazy disappointed, I still chalk it up to the stigma of it being a covers album (even though most blues albums are by vast majority full of covers/standards). People hated the idea of it before they even listened to it.
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I knew the album before VMP did its version and still have the original pressing as well as the VMP version. It is not a killer album and is a rather poor choice to represent Albert King. Please do not put some sinister motivation behind my opinion.
 
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