Vinyl Me Please Classics
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JonnyH
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I believe multiple times in the past we learned he used Wikipedia.
NathanRicaud
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I love that Ray Charles VMP exclusive! It’s amazing!And here I would've thought you'd like his country albums best.
duke86fan
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unrelated but i dont really think this list clicks very well... i can understand an album like out to lunch or kind of blue not being as big of a firestarter into loving jazz as everyone else does. dolphy is almost a classical record in how precise it is but i feel like a charles mingus record like let my children hear music would have been a better introduction of a classical like third stream sound to a non jazz head, similarly metal heads, electronic heads, ambient heads, and many other indie music lovers might be ignored by listings like chet baker sings over say in a silent way or the inner flame
The 10 Best Albums For A Jazz Beginner
Oh jazz, you magnificent and beautiful genre. You’re having a bit of a cool-kid comeback, aren’t you, with all those young, hip cats toying with your sounds and messing with your traditions. Good, I say, because you’re a genre that’s incredibly unique and, as a result, seemingly difficult to get...magazine.vinylmeplease.com
i think the record store the in groove did a MUCH BETTER list of albums that would really be considered essential starting points depending on what music you started out with (i love his inclusion of the album a tribute to jack johnson, its hendrix like performance is what really got me interested in jazz even a little bit more)
Colonel4Bin
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Anyone know how Monk would fit in the other clues beside the “genius” one? Honestly I don’t feel too confident that we’re close but who knows
Selaws
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This is what making me think it cant be Brilliant Corners. Them releasing that is the kind of record which would see jazz fans sign up to get a copy.
Colonel4Bin
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I also wouldn’t say it was “famously overlooked.”
NathanRicaud
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Exactly! Brilliant Corners is too good to be just a Classics ROTM in my opinion! If Brilliant Corners was ever a ROTM, you would think it would be the December EssentIals ROTM!
Selaws
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The only thing I can see here (and its really stretching it) is that a lot of early critics found his playing style to be too forceful and aggressive. I suppose this could be counted as overlooked, but 'famously' would suggest its someone that was much more obviously overlooked.
I totally agree with you on cancel culture.
I’ll disagree re: Spector/Beatles recordings. Let it Be Naked and the later non Spectorized All Things Must Pass sound way better than the originals.
VMP doesn’t give a rat’s ass. VMP put out a variant of the reissue of Charlie Manson’s album- on blood red vinyl.
I thought it was in poor taste. Of course it sold out. Anything for a buck.
NathanRicaud
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I wish VMP didn’t care about NaS’ allegations, like how Newbury Comics doesn’t care and did a NaS’ Illmatic exclusive! Preferably as an Essentials ROTM!
Rowan
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Although there's no such thing as a version of All Things Must Pass that isn't completely, mindbogglingly, stupidly brilliant.
jamieanderson1968
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Monk would be a nice Classics choice. A good one to help people forget the price hikes a bit. But remember how we had it pegged as Dylan last month... and we got the Bar-Kays.
Rowan
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If only! The big Dylan guess month turned out to be Jon Mayer
I mean just think. There were people ragging on Modern Times because they thought it was 2nd class Dylan.... and they ended up with Jon Mayer instead
gregathon
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Is this the 2017 box set? I didn’t realize it was a monumental remaster!
There was a digital remaster done in 2001 removing all of the Spector goop. Sounds awesome.
keylime_5
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Brilliant Corners was a critical smash success, not sure how that would fit the clue of the artist being publicly disappointed about the reception of the album. If VMP put that album out AAA then the jazz heads would crash the servers signing up for it and you'd see it 2nd market for hundreds of dollars like the next day after they arrive haha.