Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

wmeugene said:
This album definitely would have been on my list of what I would want to see in Essentials.

Other albums I'd want to see:

Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (3x LP, I know)
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Billy Joe Shaver - Old Five and Dimers Like Me
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers (if they could ever improve the fidelity, which I know is unlikely)
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

I know there's a bunch I am leaving out.
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mudketeer said:
This would be my choice.
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I think Gillian and Dave are/would handle Time (The Revelator) themselves.
www.stereogum.com

Q&A: Gillian Welch On The Arcane Process Of Pressing Vinyl & Why She Didn’t Feel Like A Proper Artist Until Now

The music of Gillian Welch exists outside of time. When she first started performing under her own name in the ’90s, she was singing dirges and ballads and rambling cautionary tales in a voice that harkens back to folk songs you’d be more likely to hear in the Library Of Congress’ archive than...
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I also completely agree that Waylon's Honky Tonk Heroes is absolutely essential, easily one of my most listened-to albums. However, a Google search just now shows that it is widely available. If you don't trust the newer issuings, I have a copy from the early 80's that sounds fabulous and it is a relatively inexpensive one to pick up.
 
MadLucas said:
I think Gillian and Dave are/would handle Time (The Revelator) themselves.
www.stereogum.com

Q&A: Gillian Welch On The Arcane Process Of Pressing Vinyl & Why She Didn’t Feel Like A Proper Artist Until Now

The music of Gillian Welch exists outside of time. When she first started performing under her own name in the ’90s, she was singing dirges and ballads and rambling cautionary tales in a voice that harkens back to folk songs you’d be more likely to hear in the Library Of Congress’ archive than...
www.stereogum.com www.stereogum.com

I also completely agree that Waylon's Honky Tonk Heroes is absolutely essential, easily one of my most listened-to albums. However, a Google search just now shows that it is widely available. If you don't trust the newer issuings, I have a copy from the early 80's that sounds fabulous and it is a relatively inexpensive one to pick up.
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It's taking them forever to get them out. I had heard rumors that they would release her albums in a box set. Would be an instant-buy. Glad to hear that it's QC issues that are taking this long.
 
bobomac2 said:
Hahaha looks like they learned from Caesar Frazier and didn’t throw that in there this time.
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Yeah I checked out the links, looks like they're all colored variants. I thought VMP already had this one? Maybe it was just the standard black in the old "curated" store...
 
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Mather said:
I'm not gonna lie, while it may not be my top album by any stretch, I think this upcoming Spiritualized release is a quitessential essentials album. Almost universal praise from every corner of the music world, an album that many will have probably never heard, or even heard OF at all. By all accounts aside from MAYBE the OG there are no good pressings of it that exist, mainly due to the black hole of suck "Plain" having the rights to it for the past little while. It's been remastered WITH the artists oversight, and apparently has the original Elvis edit of the title track... And it is one of the best packaged albums you'll ever find, all done up like a pharmacy prescription complete with the foil and labeling. As I've said earlier on here, it's deluxe "Mondo" packaging before Mondo was a thing. I think it's pretty close to a perfect example of what this sub should be.
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Is this getting a re-issue with a different label (i.e. not plain / 4 men with beards)?
 
I'm gonna reiterate the need for repressings of 90s unsung heroes Acetone.
I am in contact with Mark Lightcap (we were in the same Scout Troop) if that would help get a ball rolling.

www.treblezine.com

The ghostly, enigmatic music of Acetone

A look back at the obscure, yet musically rewarding Los Angeles trio.
www.treblezine.com www.treblezine.com

Self-titled would be a start:
www.discogs.com

Acetone – Acetone (1997, Vinyl)

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 Vinyl release of "Acetone" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
 
djdavedk said:
I'm gonna reiterate the need for repressings of 90s unsung heroes Acetone.
I am in contact with Mark Lightcap (we were in the same Scout Troop) if that would help get a ball rolling.

www.treblezine.com

The ghostly, enigmatic music of Acetone

A look back at the obscure, yet musically rewarding Los Angeles trio.
www.treblezine.com www.treblezine.com

Self-titled would be a start:
www.discogs.com

Acetone – Acetone (1997, Vinyl)

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 Vinyl release of "Acetone" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
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I love the LITA comp
 
Skeletonframes said:
My #1 would be Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse. Can't get a copy for less than $300 and, although it's not the band's best album, I feel like the last 4 FR albums are all Essential and it's the only one you cannot get freely. I would be fine with black vinyl, but if they were going to make it color I would think a nice blue/green swirl would fit. Also, work with Scott's brother and make a percentage of the proceeds go to the Tiny Changes charity set up by his family. NO LINER NOTES BY A VMP STAFF MEMBER! Pehaps they could get an essay from someone close to Scott as the Magazine article for this one.

Worst? For essentials? I don't really know. There's nothing they could make that would actually offend me. Oh wait, what's that punk band where the singer turned out to be a pedo? Yeah, never do anything regarding that band.




Bonus could be the original silk-screened cover as an art print. Kind of like how they did a lenticular version of the cover for Flaming Lips.
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I can feel that. Pedestrian verse is the fr album i am missing as well. But i hope that will be reissued to benefit tiny changes
 
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