Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Mather]

Theoretically, a heavier album will couple better to your platter reducing resonance causing better sound. @Mather would vehemently disagree about warpage too. I think it makes sense that if a heavier record were pulled off the press too soon it would be more likely to be warped. I would also say in my experience, lighter vinyl tends not to be warped as often.

Personally I don't give a toss about weight because I clamp everything down anyhow. And yeah if they are warped they're easier to deal with if they're lighter weight in my experience. Every OG Japanese pressing I have are very light weight and they sound fantastic.
But yeah don't advertise 180 then give us 130. THAT'S JUST POOR FORM YO

 

[duke86fan]

 

[avecigrec]

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80th anniversary of Oklahoma by the Original Broadway Cast, let's go!!

 

[bdrummond]

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Lauryn Hill is definitely one of them (doesn't actually say the anniversary is in the same month as it would be 25 years in August). Wonder if the second album off pitchfork's list is going to be that quarter too.

In Utero 30th anybody?

 

[DevonJD]

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Miseducation of Lauren hill will be 25 next year

 

[duke86fan]

i think miseducation is the march "wow they are going for it" choice because of how difficult lauryn can be to work with.. but also is not that shocking since they did a fugees release so we knew they had a connection

 

[bdrummond]

A 40th anniversary of "The Hurting" (would also take a definitive version of "Power Corruption and Lies") would definitely be something. Not a subgenre they regularly dip into. A 40th "Speaking in Tongues" would also be rad if the last reissue wasn't amazing.

 

[bdrummond]

i think miseducation is the march "wow they are going for it" choice because of how difficult lauryn can be to work with.. but also is not that shocking since they did a fugees release so we knew they had a connection

Storf also pretty much confirmed they were doing it.

 

[Sparks_03]

Tracy Chapman’s S/T turns 35 in 2023. It would be nice to get a reissue on it.

Thanks to whoever corrected my math! It’s been a long day!

 

[bdrummond]

Going through next year's anniversaries and jotting down a few I think would be good for Essentials (not that VMP would do any of them, or they're hard to find or haven't received a pressing recently).

20th:
Postal Service - Give Up
White Stripes - Elephant
Radiohead - HTTT
Jay-Z: The Black Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Muse - Absolution
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

25th:
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation... (confirmed)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Outkast - Aquemini
Air - Moon Safari
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Blackstar
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Big Pun - Capital Punishment

30th:
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Nirvana - In Utero
Bjork - Debut
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devlotion
Mazzy Star - So Tonight I May See
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Tool - Undertow
Souls of Mischief - '93 to Infinity
Janet Jackson - Janet

40th:
The Police - Synchronicity
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Metallica - Kill Em All
Bowie - Let's Dance
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Violent Femmes - S/T

50th:
Zeppelin - House of the Holy
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Lynryd Skynryd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd'
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On

 

[avecigrec]

Going through next year's anniversaries and jotting down a few I think would be good for Essentials (not that VMP would do any of them, or they're hard to find or haven't received a pressing recently).

20th:
Postal Service - Give Up
White Stripes - Elephant
Radiohead - HTTT
Jay-Z: The Black Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Muse - Absolution
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

25th:
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation... (confirmed)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Outkast - Aquemini
Air - Moon Safari
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Blackstar
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Big Pun - Capital Punishment

30th:
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Nirvana - In Utero
Bjork - Debut
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devlotion
Mazzy Star - So Tonight I May See
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Tool - Undertow
Souls of Mischief - '93 to Infinity
Janet Jackson - Janet

40th:
The Police - Synchronicity
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Metallica - Kill Em All
Bowie - Let's Dance
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Violent Femmes - S/T

50th:
Zeppelin - House of the Holy
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Lynryd Skynryd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd'
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On

Tubular Bells 50th!

 

[avecigrec]

Going through next year's anniversaries and jotting down a few I think would be good for Essentials (not that VMP would do any of them, or they're hard to find or haven't received a pressing recently).

20th:
Postal Service - Give Up
White Stripes - Elephant
Radiohead - HTTT
Jay-Z: The Black Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Muse - Absolution
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

25th:
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation... (confirmed)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Outkast - Aquemini
Air - Moon Safari
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Blackstar
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Big Pun - Capital Punishment

30th:
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Nirvana - In Utero
Bjork - Debut
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devlotion
Mazzy Star - So Tonight I May See
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Tool - Undertow
Souls of Mischief - '93 to Infinity
Janet Jackson - Janet

40th:
The Police - Synchronicity
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Metallica - Kill Em All
Bowie - Let's Dance
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Violent Femmes - S/T

50th:
Zeppelin - House of the Holy
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Lynryd Skynryd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd'
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On

But, in all seriousness, Blue Öyster Cult's Tyranny and Mutation would be a cool pick as well.

 

[bdrummond]

Tubular Bells 50th!

I don't think there's an antique store I've walked in without at least 10 copies of this

 

[4080]

I wouldn't be mad if they would go ahead and do the 20th anniversary of The Rapture "Echoes"

 

[tvham]

A 40th anniversary of "The Hurting" (would also take a definitive version of "Power Corruption and Lies") would definitely be something. Not a subgenre they regularly dip into. A 40th "Speaking in Tongues" would also be rad if the last reissue wasn't amazing.

I would love if they did more 80's albums. Give me all the Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, the Cure, etc etc.

 

[bdrummond]

I would love if they did more 80's albums. Give me all the Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, the Cure, etc etc.

100%. Toss in some Siouxsie and definitely some Talk Talk.

 

[LiamGallaghersBucketHat]

I guess it’s not impossible for the band to work with VMP(I don’t think they would) but next year will be the 25th anniversary for Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band.

 

[bdrummond]

I guess it’s not impossible for the band to work with VMP(I don’t think they would) but next year will be the 25th anniversary for Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band.

Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby.

(I really dislike DMB).

 

[tvham]

I guess it’s not impossible for the band to work with VMP(I don’t think they would) but next year will be the 25th anniversary for Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band.

Would love this!

 

[Jonathan Y]

I guess it’s not impossible for the band to work with VMP(I don’t think they would) but next year will be the 25th anniversary for Before These Crowded Streets-Dave Matthews Band.

YES! YES! YES!

I don't care what they say about ya, you are quite alright in my book!