These are the first ever vinyls you will purchase, to be played for the first time on your first ever record player. You (meaning me, if you didn't get that at this point) may not be able to purchase new wax for a long time.
edit: upon further review I must leave room for 1 Led Zeppelin and 1 Pink Floyd record, though I'd still appreciate it if you suggested which record from each band
If somebody handed me $100 and said "here, go buy some records" I would head down to a record store with a good used section and just go find some cool things. When it comes to records half the time I enter a store I don't have anything particular in mind, sometimes it's nice to go in and thumb through everything and see what kind of classics or just plain interesting records are laying around. You'd be surprised at what you find. I've bought records based off of cover art, liner notes, who produced it, etc. and came out with some great stuff I never would have listened to otherwise. But for the topic of first ever vinyl, the first record I ever bought was Abbey Road.
This is the way to do it! Don't collect records to have a collection, collect records so that you can enjoy them. Half the fun is looking and talking about the records themselves. If someone gave me $100 and said "go get some records" I'd come home with a shit load of the weirdest covers and comedy records I could find. Seriously, I know you probably want suggestions, but in my humble opinion that will ruin your experience entirely. Just go and hang out, dig underneath the shelves if you are allowed. I don't usually buy records unless they are $5 or under, exceptions are made of course, but for the most part, I've found some great stuff ( George Harrison's "All things Must Pass" - $7 Wikipedia) Okay fine I'll make a suggestion or two, don't hate me for it if you don't like em! Johnny Cash Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison Elvis Costello and the Attractions "Get Happy" Devo Q: Are we not men? A: We are devo! Bob Dylan: Basically any album from the 60s era. David Bowie: The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust
MC5 Kick out the Jams Talking Heads: Remain In Light Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Wu-Tang Clan: Enter The WuTang/36 Chambers
The Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride II Heiroglyphics: 3rd Eye Vision
I might just be linking to stuff I like I dont even think I own the hiphop stuff on vinyl, I dunno, these albums all mean something to me, so I consider them essential.
Weird things are great! Except sweet jesus, never buy a record that has glitter imprinted because it will sound horrible and could damage your needle. Comedy records are great. I don't have any yet, but one of my roommates has a bunch of Bill Cosby records and I love all of them. nowaypablo, flea markets and thrift stores are your friends for cheap records. The only thing is to make sure they're not in awful condition.
Yeah, that was kinda my initial worry, although for $5 you're beating a CD price four times over, and the experience five times over, I also don't want to cherish something that's actually shit :D I'll be careful flea markets and thrift stores are your friends for cheap records. The only thing is to make sure they're not in awful condition.
Oh god, did I ever tell anyone on Hubski about the time where I thought I was the proud new owner of the White Album and then it turned out, I was only the proud new owner of about .75 of the White Album? But - I paid $2 for it - would rather half one playable record and one not for $2 than not at all. Thrift, pabst, thrift and gift. Buy really, really special albums you love and can't live without online but don't rush into it. I would say you should buy the first 100 good albums you can find in thrift shops. Prices range of course, usually between $.50 and $2/album, but I figure you could average out at about $1/per. Be patient. Don't let it burn a hole in your pocket, it's so rewarding to gradually build a collection.
If they're that cheap I guess I don't even care if the quality isn't good-as-new. Then again, the first records I heard were my dad's $250 box set of Radiohead's whole discography, played on a $10,000 sound system which creates instant transcendence, so it might be a bit different. Since I lack the proper unnecessary amount of cash to throw at shit, I will stick to your plan. Thrift and gift it is.
sweet.. right in front of Columbia University across from my music school, there's an annual fair/flea market type thing where an army of hipsters materialize and open up shop. Few months ago I caught it open during the day and all their records were $5, from the most obscure artists I asked for to Nicki Minaj's latest release. Stupid of me to pass it up, but I didn't even plan to own a record player at that point :'(
This is the same thing I would have said. I would guess that the record I've bought that has gotten the most plays is Jim O'Rourke's Eureka. But yeah, check out the dollar bins and get 100 records.
I agree that that is the best way to shop for records, let alone by far the most fun. What I'm talking about now is essentially defining the "essential" records to own, with the limit of $100 worth of essential-ness. Beatles would be sick.
I'll second The Clash - London Calling. Here's some others I would consider "essential", any combination of the following and yes there's plenty I'm missing. Bold is for emphasis. Without further ado, I present bfx's big and wholly incomplete list of badass records: The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon The Beatles- Abbey Road The Beatles - Revolver Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures or Closer Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico Fugazi - Repeater The Descendents - Milo Goes to College The Stooges - Raw Power Husker Du - New Day Rising Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols Television - Marquee Moon The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash Mission of Burma - Vs. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Arcade Fire - Funeral Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses New Order - Substance Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters The Band - Music from Big Pink The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Big Star - #1 Record (I don't know how available this one is but it is the essential Power Pop record) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo Nirvana - Nevermind Nick Drake - Pink Moon Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Prince - Purple Rain Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Radiohead - The Bends Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Invisioning the sound of some of these albums on a record player.. Kind of Blue and The Bends hnnng
I only started buying vinyl a couple of years ago, but I already have a crate full. I agree with Bfx though, the best albums were the best finds. Here's what I'd try to find: The Wall by Pink Floyd, or Wish You Were Here. Original The Wall's don't have The Wall written on the front side. DSotM is great, but I've never liked Breathe nor Money much. The Wall is a musical story, not in the High-School-Musical kind of way but in the there's-more-depth-in-this-than-some-literature kind of way. If you can get Animals for cheap it's also a great album. The Red Album / The Blue Album by the Beatles. They're somewhat chronological, so if you like early Beatles (Love Me Do etc) go for red and if you like later stuff go for blue. Both great though, which is why I own the two of them. Toto IV by Toto. Has the well known songs (Rosanna, Africa) but the rest of the album is pretty solid too. Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel. I have this Greatest Hits which was like 2 euro in a bin somewhere, it has better songs but it feels kinda like I'm missing the songs in the context of the album. Paris (Live) or Even In The Quietest Moments by Supertramp. Former is an amazing live concert on vinyl and the latter is my favourite album of theirs. Breakfast in America is more of a vinyl classic, Crime of the Century is great too but for me nothing beats EITQM. Only real flaw on the album is Babaji. Hate that song. But it's the first of side two so I just start side two with From Now On. Chronicle by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Technically a greatest hits album but fuck it's just too good. Now that you mention it, I don't even have Led Zeppelin on vinyl. But I prefer IV - When The Levee Breaks is such a fucking great song. Here, go listen.
"Waiting for Columbus" by Little Feat is always appropriate
In a perfect world, MODVL004. Also known as the original, Australian version of The Avalanches' - Since I Left You. This is certainly one of the best albums of the last 15 years, and in my opinion, of all time. If you haven't heard of it, this is a masterful collage of a record, constructed from at least 3500 separate vinyl samples. It's an immersive, hour long journey that I never get tired of. This version of SILY is special because all versions afterward contained missing or replaced samples, due to copyright issues. It's very rare now, most copies I see sell for $200 or more. But I intend to buy my own copy someday.
Waaaat. That's crazy. I'm going to check it out, thanks!
No problem! You can find the original version on the pirate bay, shouldn't be too hard to find. Some of the edited versions are worth checking out too, to be fair. I listened to one version that only had samples removed (any version with samples replaced, on the other hand, is unlistenable) for years before finding the original version, and in some ways the incomplete version is an improvement on the original album.
Brothers - The Black Keys Discovery - Daft Punk London Calling - The Clash Turn Blue - The Black Keys Quite a bit of that is "new" and not really something you think of when buying vinyls, I guess. Of course I'd want a lot of Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson (Off the Wall especially) and tons of other stuff, but those are my favorite records personally.
I have deep, personal qualms about Turn Blue. Otherwise I'm with you in that the Black Keys would be a good pick.. between Brothers, El Camino, Rubber Factory and the Big Come up though, it'd be tough...
Ok, you must appreciate that I'm older than I feel, so some of these might very well put some of the "younger" generation off :) Matt Monro - And you smiled;
The Archies - Sugar Sugar;
Johnny Cash - Walk the line;
Conway Twitty - You've never been this far before;
Val Doonican - Delaney's Donkey;
Tommy Cooper - Don't jump off the roof, Dad;
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven;
Pink Floyd - Brick in the wall;
David Bowie - China Girl;
Blondie - Heart of glass;
Europe - Rock the Night;
Europe - Final Countdown :- I'm going to stop there, because not being American, I have no idea how far $100 would stretch when buying vinyl. That should give you a good taste of (my) musical likings.
this is making me so freaking excited. Thanks for the recs, Cash and Bowie are tempting for me...
This is the only acceptable answer. Pack it up folks, we're done here.
So. There are 11 versions of this available in the LP format. Going off of the median prices on Discogs, it would cost $104.31 to purchase one of each edition. This is using $10 for the editions (releases in Greece and Israel, and the Club edition release in Canada) that have never been sold on discogs. Also, the German release appears to only have been available in West Germany. SO CLOSE.
No New York-compilation the perfect prescription-spaceman3 But I would not buy them I would use the money for the ski-mask crowbar gloves and Beer for the heist.
Woah you know Spaceman3?? I've met one other person on earth who's into them. Crazy, crazy stuff. I don't think an average record player could handle that.
Look online for estate sales. There is always vinyl for sale at those events, and most of the people selling the stuff are just happy to get rid of it. 50 records for $25 is not uncommon. It may be crap, but then again it may be something that you never heard before that you end up loving. Edit to add: Heartless Bastards- All This Time if you can find it for under $20 is amazing.
aha! Sound card is also words. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll google what this all means asap! :D
Am I buying reprints or original 1st edition prints? That is what will matter price wise... Pink Floyd - I'm partial to The Wall
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Beatles - White Album; or Abbey Road I think that would wipe out $100 USD and that would be reprints sold on Amazon. In 1st prints, probably would only get Pink Floyd - The Wall for that.
Of course you could always just go to the local goodwill or swap meets and yard sales looking for something special.
I have a 1st print of Meddle, and it's fukn sweet. Also have an original run of the White Album, but the cover is in piss poor shape (the seller even had the audacity to write $2 in permanent marker on it--shameful). But I bought it in or about 1995; vinyl wasn't so in fashion at that time. Not sure you'd see it for that price at a garage sale these days.
See I liken an Album to books, I like an old book with dust jackets and first prints, there's more to the experience, it becomes something that way, I guess I just view it as art, not just the music but the whole thing, you just don't get that in today's digital world.
I had no idea. I don't even know what that means. I'm going to look it up! Thanks! :DIn 1st prints, probably would only get Pink Floyd - The Wall for that.
NorJersey, not even close :'( but there are record warehouses in nyc that i will check out.
I eventually want to learn to make electronic music, just as a hobby. I currently know very little about it. Assuming I had a copy of Ableton and a setup that let me sample from vinyl (neither of which is currently true), I would find a bunch of the cheapest, bargain bin records and go to town on youtube tutorials on various things for the next few weekends.
It would have to be something that I would be unable to find online. I like the idea of just buying a record that you haven't heard of at all and stumbling upon something really cool. I have one vinyl record, it's Who Are You by The Who. My friend gave it to me years ago for my birthday, unfortunately I've never played it because I don't actually have a record player...
Shit, my gift to you is still shipping to me! I was planning on mailing it. Don't offset my gift to you in return for your first gift with a second gift! Gah!