Vinyl Me Please Classics

[jamieanderson1968]

It seems like this thread/forum is on life support. I know that when my subscription at the old prices ends I won't be around here. That's a shame. And I think VMP is going to see a similar drop off. You can't ask me to pay premium prices, months in advance, without knowing what I'm going to get at the time of purchase.

They will be announcing the next 3 months for all 3 streams later this month. But will they be good enough for people to stick around?

 

[RobbieBobby]

They will be announcing the next 3 months for all 3 streams later this month. But will they be good enough for people to stick around?

Makes me think that they at least THINK they have some really big gets coming down the pipeline.

 

[Gavaxeman]

I’ll be gone once my three month reduced deal ends $50 a record is too much to take a chance on stuff I don’t know about

 

[Jan]

It seems like this thread/forum is on life support. I know that when my subscription at the old prices ends I won't be around here. That's a shame. And I think VMP is going to see a similar drop off. You can't ask me to pay premium prices, months in advance, without knowing what I'm going to get at the time of purchase.

No reason not to Stick around here without being a vmp member. Hope this forum can exist independently of vmp

 

[Selaws]

It seems like this thread/forum is on life support. I know that when my subscription at the old prices ends I won't be around here. That's a shame. And I think VMP is going to see a similar drop off. You can't ask me to pay premium prices, months in advance, without knowing what I'm going to get at the time of purchase.

No reason not to Stick around here without being a vmp member. Hope this forum can exist independently of vmp

Plus the forum was never made as a VMP hub, it just so happened to be needed once the VMP one shut down. Although the VMP threads have a lot of activity, they are just a small chunk of available threads.

 

[NathanRicaud]

It seems like this thread/forum is on life support. I know that when my subscription at the old prices ends I won't be around here. That's a shame. And I think VMP is going to see a similar drop off. You can't ask me to pay premium prices, months in advance, without knowing what I'm going to get at the time of purchase.

I’ll make sure I keep this and the other VMP threads active!

 

[jamieanderson1968]

No reason not to Stick around here without being a vmp member. Hope this forum can exist independently of vmp

Don't worry, we will find something else to complain about

 

[NewsFedora]

For anyone curious about how the Record Store Day edition of Nat Turner Rebellion compares with the original VMP release, I gotcha covered:

Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh To Keep From Crying

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Vinyl release of "Laugh To Keep From Crying" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

• RSD is single jacket vs VMP's gatefold tip-on
• RSD feels like standard weight vs VMP 180g
• RSD is "fire red" vinyl vs VMP's standard black
• RSD pressing is quiet, comparable in quality to VMP. Based on the runout I suspect it was pressed at Gz like the VMP version.
• RSD has the VMP "listening notes" booklet printed on the inner jacket as liner notes
• RSD does not have Storf mentioned anywhere in the album credits. This might be an added bonus for some people idk
• RSD does not include the VMP bonus 7" but...
• RSD includes a digital download card which does include the 7" tracks along with the full album

The digital download is only 128kbps which totally blows, though. I do personally prefer the RSD color scheme/artwork more than the original VMP edition, however.

In conclusion, both versions are great A++ will double-dip again

 

[mdmost]

Time for some sleuthing.


1968 jazz releases

• Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun
• Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm
• Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Tone Poet)
• Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
• Bill Evans: Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
• Milt Jackson: "Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet"
• Roland Kirk: Left & Right
• Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
• Hugh Masekela: The Promise of a Future
• Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious
• Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmin Tree
• Sun Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated
• Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin
• John Surman: John Surman
• McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments
• Kenny Wheeler: Windmill Tilter
• Gary Bartz: Another Earth
• Pat Martino: Baiyina
• Charles Tolliver: Paper Man
• Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child
• Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
• Hugh Masekela: The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela
• Hugh Masekela: Africa '68

1957 jazz releases

• Stan Kenton: Kenton with Voices
• Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods
• Art Blakey: Orgy In Rhythm
• Yusef Lateef: Jazz Mood
• John Coltrane: Blue Train
• John Lewis: The John Lewis Piano
• Milt Jackson: Soul Brothers
• Miles Davis: Miles Ahead
• Kenny Burrell: All Day Long
• Ben Webster: Soulville
• Sonny Rollins: Way Out West
• Ben Webster: Tenor Giants
• Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section
• Art Taylor: Taylor's Wailers
• Max Roach: Jazz in ¾ Time
• Jay Jay Johnson: Blue Trombone
• Hank Mobley: Hank Mobley Quintet
• Herbie Mann: Flute Soufflé
• Tito Puente: Top Percussion
• Johnny Griffin: A Blowin' Session
• Sonny Rollins: The Sound of Sonny
• Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
• Duke Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder

 

[Colonel4Bin]

Time for some sleuthing.

• Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun
• Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm
• Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
• Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
• Bill Evans: Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
• Milt Jackson: "Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet"
• Roland Kirk: Left & Right
• Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
• Hugh Masekela: The Promise of a Future
• Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious
• Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmin Tree
• Sun Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated
• Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin
• John Surman: John Surman
• McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments
• Kenny Wheeler: Windmill Tilter
• Gary Bartz: Another Earth
• Pat Martino: Baiyina
• Charles Tolliver: Paper Man
• Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child
• Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
• Hugh Masekela: The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela
• Hugh Masekela: Africa '68

This seems very promising. Heres to hoping they're all great!

 

[mitchwagz]

Time for some sleuthing.

• Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun
• Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm
• Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
• Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro
• Bill Evans: Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
• Milt Jackson: "Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet"
• Roland Kirk: Left & Right
• Michael Mantler: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
• Hugh Masekela: The Promise of a Future
• Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious
• Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmin Tree
• Sun Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated
• Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin
• John Surman: John Surman
• McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments
• Kenny Wheeler: Windmill Tilter
• Gary Bartz: Another Earth
• Pat Martino: Baiyina
• Charles Tolliver: Paper Man
• Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child
• Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
• Hugh Masekela: The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela
• Hugh Masekela: Africa '68

I’m hoping for Duke Ellington’s- And His another Called Him Bill.

 

[keylime_5]

All the Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, and Ben Webster are out too since they already had a Classics. I doubt it's Tijuana Moods (there is a good AAA, Speakers Corner version in print for $35) or Brilliant Corners. Bill Evans at Montreaux was just repressed by Analogue Productions too. Interesting note that Storf said the upcoming jazz albums would be all very different types of jazz (I'm betting fusion for the 1968 jazz album and maybe bigger band, or piano jazz or something for the '57 one)

 

[mdmost]

Ben Webster could be a Classics as he was what would now be Essentials. I eliminated Miles and Coltrane since VMP said before they wouldn't do another Miles and the Coltrane is the most available Coltrane around.

I wonder if 68 is Sun Ra. They've done 2 exclusives already. We're also due for another Blue Note.

 

[gregathon]

For anyone curious about how the Record Store Day edition of Nat Turner Rebellion compares with the original VMP release, I gotcha covered:

Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh To Keep From Crying

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 Vinyl release of "Laugh To Keep From Crying" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

• RSD is single jacket vs VMP's gatefold tip-on
• RSD feels like standard weight vs VMP 180g
• RSD is "fire red" vinyl vs VMP's standard black
• RSD pressing is quiet, comparable in quality to VMP. Based on the runout I suspect it was pressed at Gz like the VMP version.
• RSD has the VMP "listening notes" booklet printed on the inner jacket as liner notes
• RSD does not have Storf mentioned anywhere in the album credits. This might be an added bonus for some people idk
• RSD does not include the VMP bonus 7" but...
• RSD includes a digital download card which does include the 7" tracks along with the full album

The digital download is only 128kbps which totally blows, though. I do personally prefer the RSD color scheme/artwork more than the original VMP edition, however.

In conclusion, both versions are great A++ will double-dip again

Also maybe it's me, but I really hate the jacket design of the VMP version. I don't know who gave them the "okay" on that typeface...

 

[keylime_5]

Ben Webster could be a Classics as he was what would now be Essentials. I eliminated Miles and Coltrane since VMP said before they wouldn't do another Miles and the Coltrane is the most available Coltrane around.

That's right I forgot Soulville was Essentials/pre-Classics.

 

[wmeugene]

I don't think it will be the Bill Evans - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival - it's readily available and was just done by AP.

 

[Rowan]

Pretty sure AP has just released Bill Evans at Montreux as a 45 so they'd be playing with fire there

 

[keylime_5]

I kinda hope it's that Roland Kirk album. Though the orchestra might turn some people off.

 

[GelloJive]

Also maybe it's me, but I really hate the jacket design of the VMP version. I don't know who gave them the "okay" on that typeface...

agreed, this RSD cover is way better

 

[mitchwagz]

Actually I want 1957 to be Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder. Possibly his best album. 1968 can be free or fusion for all I care. What about a soul album for 1970? Curtis Mayfield- Curtis finally sees a reissue?