Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Mather said:
Ah, yes I mean the fact that they didn't even get the NAME of the album correct tells me that this isn't in the cards. If they were working with the band I'm sure they'd at the very least know the names of their albums. Also I can't really see Omar and Cedric being down with giving another company control over their pressings after how mad they were about MOVs releases way back when...
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There was a more recent tweet when they teased "Literally any The Mars Volta album" and Graduation as well. So my money is still on Amputechture, with Omar playing on the Erykah Badu album featured in the Motown Anthology as hinted.
 
Since we might not get a clue for a while, thought I would round up the possible Anthology connections in a list and see what else we can link anything else from 2006 to them.

Labels:
Blue Note
Motown
Ghostly
Stax
Multiple labels for Zamrock and Grateful Dead

Artists in Anthologies:
Blue Note
Horace Silver
Dexter Gordon
Lou Donaldson
Wayne Shorter
Bobby Hutcherson
Ambrose Akinmusire

Motown
Mary Wells
Martha and the Vandellas
The Supremes
Tammi Terrell
Syreeta
Tata Vega
Teena Marie
Erykah Badu

Ghostly International
Shigeto
Chior of Young Believers
Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto
The others 3 are comps, which could open it up even further....

Stax
Booker T. & The MG's
Sam & Dave
Otis Redding
The Bar-Kays
Eddie Floyd
Johnny Taylor
William Bell
Albert King

Zamrock
The Witch
Amanaz
Ngozi Family
Ricky Banda
Crossbones
Fireballs
5 Revolutions
The Oscillations

Grateful Dead
Ummmm...... Grateful Dead


At first glance, I would think that Zamrock and Stax might be the furthest stretch for connecting something big enough in 2006. Bob Dylan is the only connection I can come up with to the Dead, but I'm not super well-versed in them. Erykah and Teena Marie are the most likely connections from Motown. Connections are plentiful for Ghostly, mostly to electronic music. There are definitely potential Blue Note connections, but traditionally a jazz/blues/soul pick happens in December.

Anyone else have a memory jogged from the list?
 
BattleFlag said:
Since we might not get a clue for a while, thought I would round up the possible Anthology connections in a list and see what else we can link anything else from 2006 to them.

Labels:
Blue Note
Motown
Ghostly
Stax
Multiple labels for Zamrock and Grateful Dead

Artists in Anthologies:
Blue Note
Horace Silver
Dexter Gordon
Lou Donaldson
Wayne Shorter
Bobby Hutcherson
Ambrose Akinmusire

Motown
Mary Wells
Martha and the Vandellas
The Supremes
Tammi Terrell
Syreeta
Tata Vega
Teena Marie
Erykah Badu

Ghostly International
Shigeto
Chior of Young Believers
Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto
The others 3 are comps, which could open it up even further....

Stax
Booker T. & The MG's
Sam & Dave
Otis Redding
The Bar-Kays
Eddie Floyd
Johnny Taylor
William Bell
Albert King

Zamrock
The Witch
Amanaz
Ngozi Family
Ricky Banda
Crossbones
Fireballs
5 Revolutions
The Oscillations

Grateful Dead
Ummmm...... Grateful Dead


At first glance, I would think that Zamrock and Stax might be the furthest stretch for connecting something big enough in 2006. Bob Dylan is the only connection I can come up with to the Dead, but I'm not super well-versed in them. Erykah and Teena Marie are the most likely connections from Motown. Connections are plentiful for Ghostly, mostly to electronic music. There are definitely potential Blue Note connections, but traditionally a jazz/blues/soul pick happens in December.

Anyone else have a memory jogged from the list?
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Anybody think they'd go with Tycho's debut album Past is Prologue? A version of it was actually released in '06, has been known to associate with fellow Bay Area stalwart Christopher Willets, and has released stuff on Ghostly too. And if memory serves me, VMP did an exclusive of a Tycho album a couple years back. Only pressing was in 2013, though it still looks readily available in the marketplace. Just a thought.
 
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The Voidoid said:
Anybody think they'd go with Tycho's debut album Past is Prologue? A version of it was actually released in '06, has been known to associate with fellow Bay Area stalwart Christopher Willets, and has released stuff on Ghostly too. And if memory serves me, VMP did an exclusive of a Tycho album a couple years back. Only pressing was in 2013, though it still looks readily available in the marketplace. Just a thought.
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Tycho is definitely a decent possibility, as I think they have become a big enough name in the last several years to drum up interest from a wider audience. Not sure if Past Is Prologue would be the one they would go with though. I would say it might be Awake, but it has had a few pressings since it came out (including a Newbury exclusive last year). But Past Is Prologue fits the 2006 clue, so I'd say it's in the running.
 
Jan said:
Cat powers the greatest had booker t drummer steve potts playing.
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This would be an outstanding pick. I already have the 2008 RTI 180 gram pressing with the original cover art so I am good but it is an exceptional album and the recent repressing have different art so I think they could do something interesting if they reissued it with the original iridescent art.The Greatest also just has a VMP type feel to it.
 
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mitchwagz said:
I would definitely be happy with either Modern Times of The Greatest. Was actually just looking for a copy of The Greatest recently. May end up buying the RTI press if this month isn’t that. Mastered by Kevin Gray too.
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I just upgraded from a more recent reissue and did a side by side comparison before PIFing the newer repress and I can attest the RTI pressing sounds great and is still going for a reasonable price on the secondary market. I am still trying to find the RTI pressings of Moon Pix and You Are Free for a reasonable price.
 
A Lost Highway said:
I think its probably the Greatest. I just can't see them doing a Bob Dylan album from the 2000s rather than the 60s, even if it is critically acclaimed.
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It screams VMP to me. Lesser known/underlooked album from a huge artist, no recent vinyl repress in the US and has a new album coming out which they could pair with a VMP US indie exclusive (VMP got the only indie exclusive in the US for David Gray, don't think there has been a color variant of Dylan's new record in the US yet).
 
A Lost Highway said:
I think its probably the Greatest. I just can't see them doing a Bob Dylan album from the 2000s rather than the 60s, even if it is critically acclaimed.
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MikeH said:
It screams VMP to me. Lesser known/underlooked album from a huge artist, no recent vinyl repress in the US and has a new album coming out which they could pair with a VMP US indie exclusive (VMP got the only indie exclusive in the US for David Gray, don't think there has been a color variant of Dylan's new record in the US yet).
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Yeah, I was going to say, you're not new here are you? VMP has done mid tier albums in so many artists catalogs at this point. To me, it's surprising anymore when they pick an album from an artist from their top tier. Some artists' mid tiers are better than others, so it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
 
dhodo said:
Yeah, I was going to say, you're not new here are you? VMP has done mid tier albums in so many artists catalogs at this point. To me, it's surprising anymore when they pick an album from an artist from their top tier. Some artists' mid tiers are better than others, so it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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And sometimes it is awesome to get a lesser known album from a popular artist. I think Mr. Hands was a cool release for a lot of people and a lot of casual Herbie listeners didn't know that one.
 
MikeH said:
And sometimes it is awesome to get a lesser known album from a popular artist. I think Mr. Hands was a cool release for a lot of people and a lot of casual Herbie listeners didn't know that one.
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I get what you mean, but I'd much rather they picked from at least 5 other lesser know Herbie albums, myself ;). Glad for the people that loved it though.
 
dhodo said:
Yeah, I was going to say, you're not new here are you? VMP has done mid tier albums in so many artists catalogs at this point. To me, it's surprising anymore when they pick an album from an artist from their top tier. Some artists' mid tiers are better than others, so it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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I've been subscribing since Soulville :)

There's mid tier album of an artist, and then there is twilight years album of one of the canon artists of American music. They've done a lot of the former, and basically none of the latter, except arguably the aforementioned Mr Hands.
 
MikeH said:
It screams VMP to me. Lesser known/underlooked album from a huge artist, no recent vinyl repress in the US and has a new album coming out which they could pair with a VMP US indie exclusive (VMP got the only indie exclusive in the US for David Gray, don't think there has been a color variant of Dylan's new record in the US yet).
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A Lost Highway said:
I think its probably the Greatest. I just can't see them doing a Bob Dylan album from the 2000s rather than the 60s, even if it is critically acclaimed.
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I think you can make I pretty strong case for either of these two. I think The Greatest screams VMP too; well regarded female indie artist most well regarded/popular album, no colored pressings.
 
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A Lost Highway said:
I've been subscribing since Soulville :)

There's mid tier album of an artist, and then there is twilight years album of one of the canon artists of American music. They've done a lot of the former, and basically none of the latter, except arguably the aforementioned Mr Hands.
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I know, that's why I said not new.

I don't see as big of a difference between those two things as you do I guess. I think Herbie is probably the only recent artist they've done with a dozen great albums, like Dylan, so I think it is a good representation. I don't think it would be a great pick for Essentials though, personally, just like Mr. Hands wouldn't have been, but not for the reason you mention, more that both are hard to argue as Essential, especially outside of the context of how important each artist is/was.

So, I'd like to think you're right about it not being that, but they continue to surprise me with what album they pick when they get great artists, so who knows.
 
dhodo said:
I get what you mean, but I'd much rather they picked from at least 5 other lesser know Herbie albums, myself ;). Glad for the people that loved it though.
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I'm in the exact same boat as you. I have a feeling they already knew the box set was going to be made and tried to pull one that they wouldn't want to include in it haha. I already owned the album so I didn't get the VMP one. It's not one of my favorite Herbie albums so didn't feel the need to upgrade it. If I didn't own it, I may have gone for it as an add-on.
 
dhodo said:
I don't see as big of a difference between those two things as you do I guess. I think Herbie is probably the only recent artist they've done with a dozen great albums, like Dylan, so I think it is a good representation. I don't think it would be a great pick for Essentials though, personally, just like Mr. Hands wouldn't have been, but not for the reason you mention, more that both are hard to argue as Essential, especially outside of the context of how important each artist is/was.
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I think we're actually basically the same thing here.
 
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