Vinyl Me Please Country

You guys think they got the mono Folsom? That would be a pretty huge get and even though I have one, I would be tempted to beg someone who didn't want it to grab me one as an add on. Same for Red Headed Stranger probably, though I think my original of that is less noisy.
 
dhodo said:
You guys think they got the mono Folsom? That would be a pretty huge get and even though I have one, I would be tempted to beg someone who didn't want it to grab me one as an add on. Same for Red Headed Stranger probably, though I think my original of that is less noisy.
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I suspect this is it - they'll make a huge deal out of this being the first mono pressing in 50+ years

MOV did a reissue a few years ago, and there was the 5x LP box set for RSD that contains the complete show & extras, but they'll try to sell this as the 'definitive' edition or something like it.

Great album, and mono is nice if you have the system for it, but this still feels like a complete waste of potential. Nothing is going to get people to sign up long-term who wouldn't already be into a country track, especially at the inflated prices.
 
serotonein said:
I suspect this is it - they'll make a huge deal out of this being the first mono pressing in 50+ years

MOV did a reissue a few years ago, and there was the 5x LP box set for RSD that contains the complete show & extras, but they'll try to sell this as the 'definitive' edition or something like it.

Great album, and mono is nice if you have the system for it, but this still feels like a complete waste of potential. Nothing is going to get people to sign up long-term who wouldn't already be into a country track, especially at the inflated prices.
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You don't need a different system for it. I've read reports that people prefer the mono sound wise, which is why I sought that one out. If it is AAA it is a big get and if it is possible, I'm surprised that no big reissue company has done it yet. It will sell very well to the expensive audiophile market that they have now targeted with their pricing.

Not really concerned what it means for their success as a company/track because they have priced me out of considering any subscription.
 
serotonein said:
I suspect this is it - they'll make a huge deal out of this being the first mono pressing in 50+ years

MOV did a reissue a few years ago, and there was the 5x LP box set for RSD that contains the complete show & extras, but they'll try to sell this as the 'definitive' edition or something like it.

Great album, and mono is nice if you have the system for it, but this still feels like a complete waste of potential. Nothing is going to get people to sign up long-term who wouldn't already be into a country track, especially at the inflated prices.
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If it's fancy colored vinyl tho.....and AAA (there hasn't been a AAA reissue of this album that I'm aware of since like the 80s probably)

Plus if it's Johnny Cash, then they'll sell out really fast and several of those people will subscribe for more than 1 month, regardless of what the demographic is.
 
Super on brand for a Storf track so far though with the hyperbole. At least historically in the other tracks, when there is an extreme statement like this, we are usually wrong.
 
Lee Newman said:
Um... Honky Tonk Heroes. And unlike the other two it’s in need of a repress.
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Agreed that it needs a repress (I have the fat possum which is meh), but I feel like "Widely Considered" can only be Folsom.
It is VMP so Hyperbole is their game. But if we're talking about widely considered best country album the only answer is Folsom.
 
wynn72 said:
Agreed that it needs a repress (I have the fat possum which is meh), but I feel like "Widely Considered" can only be Folsom.
It is VMP so Hyperbole is their game. But if we're talking about widely considered best country album the only answer is Folsom.
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Just about any best of country albums is gonna list the same top ten. Any of those is in contention. “Widely” is not “it is”
 
keylime_5 said:
If it's fancy colored vinyl tho.....and AAA (there hasn't been a AAA reissue of this album that I'm aware of since like the 80s probably)

Plus if it's Johnny Cash, then they'll sell out really fast and several of those people will subscribe for more than 1 month, regardless of what the demographic is.
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I believe there was an AAA from Sundazed in 2010. And the comments on that in discogs seem to say there's a KG AAA/ QRP cut of Folsom too.
 
Lee Newman said:
Just about any best of country albums is gonna list the same top ten. Any of those is in contention. “Widely” is not “it is”
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I hear what you're saying but I just don't agree that that any other fits that wording. Its not only at the top (or damn close) of every country list, but also every not country list. If they said "many say best of all time" or "could be considered" than that's a different story.

But "Widely Considered" can only be "At Folsom Prison". Now what Im not saying is VMPs wording is appropriate or that I even agree its the best. It could be something else, but I don't see how the frontrunner can be anything but...
 
wynn72 said:
I hear what you're saying but I just don't agree that that any other fits that wording. Its not only at the top (or damn close) of every country list, but also every not country list. If they said "many say best of all time" or "could be considered" than that's a different story.

But "Widely Considered" can only be "At Folsom Prison". Now what Im not saying is VMPs wording is appropriate or that I even agree its the best. It could be something else, but I don't see how the frontrunner can be anything but...
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I think you're right. They'll want to go with something so famous that even a man or woman that's has never been kicked by a horse before... Or has never ate chicken wings in the bath... Or has never had sex with a second cousin at a hillbilly wedding will have heard of... and Folsom is probably the one big fat famous Country name that fits the bill.
 
Doesn’t fit their mo. They’re not gonna be able to tell a story that hasn’t been told a million times already. If it’s any of those regular ten it will sell out regardless. VMP has always been about the underappreciated album, not the biggest. This is the company that brought you Verdon Fleece and Sorcerer as the essential albums by Van Morrison and Miles Davis.
 
MikeH said:
I believe there was an AAA from Sundazed in 2010. And the comments on that in discogs seem to say there's a KG AAA/ QRP cut of Folsom too.
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I dont know about AAA (sundazed is cagey about their sources, most are digital except some that they specify as AAA such as their Byrds reissues) But the ones that Kevin Gray recut for them and were pressed at QRP like Jeff Beck - Truth among several others do sound very nice albeit are mostly not AAA.
 
Lee Newman said:
Doesn’t fit their mo. They’re not gonna be able to tell a story that hasn’t been told a million times already. If it’s any of those regular ten it will sell out regardless. VMP has always been about the underappreciated album, not the biggest. This is the company that brought you Verdon Fleece and Sorcerer as the essential albums by Van Morrison and Miles Davis.
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Right, and that's why it's a surprising pick but it does fit the description (and honestly any of those top 10 is the most obvious choice for the respective artist). And if it's Mono, that could be the selling point.

This is also the company that did Day at the Opera, Stankonia, and John Prine as Essentials. I'll agree they're usually for the underappreciated but not always.
They could be going for a wider audience here, at least at the start, knowing that Country is a tougher sell.
 
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