Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Latest "Guess Me Please" is out and it looks like Modest Mouse LCW and Sigur Ros Von are top contenders.
Motherfuckers I was out, why do you have to do this to me?

Grimes is def a pass for me if that's what it is, but fuck those are two albums I'm definitely onboard for.

EDIT: Not Von, Agaetis Byrjun

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bdrummond said:
Latest "Guess Me Please" is out and it looks like Modest Mouse LCW and Sigur Ros Von are top contenders.
Motherfuckers I was out, why do you have to do this to me?

Grimes is def a pass for me if that's what it is, but fuck those are two albums I'm definitely onboard for.
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Of all the Sigur Ros albums, Von is probably the least essential. In fact, I'd say it is NOT essential at all. Agaetis and ( ) would be essential albums from that band.

Also, LCW is great record, but pretty sure this album was abundant a few years ago, also in plenty of variants.
 
DevonJD said:
I don’t think Von would be considered essential.
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Disagree but would love to hear another 4 piece (although this is probably where the clues fall off as I believe there were three members at the time of Von...the fourth joined after) from Iceland releasing an album in 1997.
 
Yeah I’m not much a fan of Von. LCW is essential but I have the most recent reissue of it. Is that OOP? It was available for $20 or so for a long time and sounds great. I *think* it was recorded to tape too so if they somehow can do an AAA pressing that would be awesome. Otherwise I’m out for both of those. What about the 2012 album?
 
zdkaiser said:
So it is:

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (1999, 4 members, Iceland)

Mac Demarco - 2 (2012, 1 member, Montreal)

Modest Mouse - LCW (1997, 3 (main) members, PNW)

Whelp, I'm out. Already own all three on black vinyl that plays without right channel distortion.
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Yeah, I got screwed up on years. If it was Von I don't have it and would definitely add it to my collection. Agaetis byrjun was just re-released less than a year ago, sounds fantastic and why would I get it again? LCW I'll probably take a 1 month membership for.
 
The Voidoid said:
Honestly, all the available pressings of Agaetis Byrjun (which are very easy to find) are pretty fantastic, so not sure what VMP will do to distinguish theirs other than a color variant. Would be totally cool with Mac Demarco and Modest Mouse, though.
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I have two pressings of it, both sound fantastic and the latest is slightly better. The older one though has a locked groove though so if it didn't get a new pressing I'd totally be over this. But the fact that the band is re-releasing EVERYTHING lately and VMP is jumping on this train months later, is odd...

IMO though if they were going to do this shit, the latest pressing of Takk with the 10" would've been my pick.

EDIT: 10 not 7.
 
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All of these selections seem unnecessary to me relative to the general availability of these titles. Don't get me wrong, they are all excellent albums (and likely essential to one's collection), but they are pretty common.

Demarco - 2 had four pressings in 2012, then it was repressed in 2015, then again in 2018, then again in 2019 by Newbury Comics, then twice more in 2021.

Sigur Ros - was pressed in 2000, then again in 2001, then again in 2009, then again in 2013, then 2015, then 2017, and 2019, and 2021.

Lonesome Crowded West - 1997 OG pressing, repress in 2014 on black, 2 color variants in 2014 as well, a third color variant in 2015, and then one last black repress in the last couple years.
 
zdkaiser said:
Takk came with a 10inch, and VMP wouldn't make any money off that title because Takk has that wonderful, expensive packaging. Think it sells regularly around $40, so VMP would have to charge their members more.
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Yes, sorry 10". I'm mostly talking about what Sigur Ros album out of their represses I'd consider most essential.
 
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