Is anyone else really into...

VINYL!!! I love music...more specifically, records. I started my collection less than 2 years ago, but I'm proud of it. Share what you have and I'd love any recommendations. Here's what I've got.

Vinyl List

1) Bush - Sixteen Stone
2) D' Angelo - Voodoo
3) Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu
4) Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love
5) Fugees - The Score
6) The Naked and Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You
7) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
8) The Libertines - Up The Bracket
9) R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim
10) Daughter - If You Leave
11) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12) Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
13) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14) Jack White - Blunderbuss
15) The Black Keys - Attack & Release
16) The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
17) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
18) Local Natives - Hummingbird
19) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm not
20) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
21) Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
22) Violent Femmes - Violet Femmes
23) Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
24) Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
25) Zola Jesus - The Spoils
26) Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
27) Outkast - Aquemini
28) Queen - A Night At The Opera
29) Slint - Spiderland
30) Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
31) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
32) The Band - The Band
33) St. Vincent - Strange Mercury
34) Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
35) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
36) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
37) Radiohead - Ok Computer
38) Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanicism
39) The Black Keys - Magic Potion
40) M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
41) MF Doom & Madlib - Madvillain
42) The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
43) The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
44) The Who - Who's Next
45) Sufjan Stevens - The Age of ADZ
46) Led Zeppelin - 3
47) The Smiths - Hateful Of Hollow
48) The Doors - Morrison Hotel
49) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
50) Father John Misty - Fear Fun
51) Real Estate - Atlas
52) Manchester Orchestra - Cope
53) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
54) Tool - Undertow
55) Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
56) The Postal Service - Give Up
57) Cat Power - You Are Free
58) Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
59) Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
60) Jim James - Jim James
61) Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
62) Fitz And The Tantrums - Pickin Up The Pieces
63) Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
64) Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash
65) Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
66) Arcade Fire - Funeral
67) Tyler The Creator - Goblin
68) Inside Llewyn Davis - Inside Llewyn Davis
69) Aesop Rock - Skelethon
70) Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
71) Ramones - Ramones
72) Animal Collective - Centipede
73) Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
74) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
75) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
76) CHVRCHES - The Bones Of What You Believe
77) Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal
78) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
79) Finch - What It Is To Burn (Live)
80) Young The Giant - Young The Giant
81) Deftones - Deftones
82) Cold War Kids - Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
83) Deftones - Diamond Eyes
84) Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
85) The Walkmen - You & Me
86) Japandroids - Celebration Rock
87) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
88) Ottis Redding - Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
89 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
90) Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song
91) The National - Boxer
92) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
93) Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
94) The Heligoats - Goodness Gracious
95) Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
96) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
97) The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
98) Iron & Wine - Woman King
99) Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
100) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
101) Madeline - The Slow Bang
102) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
103) Rocky Votolato - Makers
104) The XX - XX
105) The Thelonious Monk Quartet
106) The Front Bottoms - Talon Of The Hawk
107) Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
108) The Clash - London Calling
109) Pixies - Doolittle
110) Janis Joplin - Pearl
111) The Beatles - Revolver
112) Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
113) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
114) Portugal The Man - In The Mountain In The Clouds
115) Nas - Illmatic
116) Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
117) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
118) Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
119) A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
120) SBTRKT - SBTRKT
121) The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms
122) Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
123) Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over The Sea
124) The Apollo Presents In Person - The James Brown Show
125) Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
126) Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
127) Elliot Smith - Either/Or
128) The Strokes - Is This It
129) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
130) MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
131) Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star
132) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
133) Santana - Abraxas
134) Led Zeppelin - 4
135) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
136) Santana - Santana
137) Head and The Heart - Head and The Heart
138) Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
139) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
140) Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
141) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
142) Hot Chip - In Our Heads
143) Purity Ring - Shrines
144) Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
145) My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
146) Tame Impala - Lonerism
147) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
148) Leon Bridges - Coming Home
149) Billie Holliday - Lady Satin
150) The Mama's and Pappa's - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
151) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
152) Octopus Project - One Ten Hundred Million
153) Lady Sparrow and The Dirty Birds - Weather Bellow
154) Credence Clearwater Revival - Como's Factory
155) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
156) Antlers - Hospice
157) Weezer - Pinkerton
158) Chet Baker - Sings
159) Etta James - At Last
160) Rise Against - The Suffer and The Witness
161) American Football - American Football
162) Grateful Dead - American Beauty
163) Cream - Disraeli Gears
164) Gloria Estafan - Let It Loose
165) The Doors - The Doors
166) Lauryn Hill - Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
167) Nat King Cole - After Midnight
168) The Cure - Disintegration
169) System of a Down - Toxicity
170) Muse - Absolution
171) Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
172) The Upsetters - Super Ape
173) Caribou - Swim
174) System of a Down - Mesmerize
175) Ty Segall - Manipulator
176) My Chemical Romance - Black Parade
177) Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
178) My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
179) Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
180) Against Me - Transgender Dysmorphia Blues
181) Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic
182) Portishead - Dummy
183) Flamming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
184) The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
185) Wilco - A.M.
186) Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Tio

I am a big fan of vinyl and the unique sound and feel it gives to music, provided that music was created in the pre-CD era. Artists recording songs in lesser sound quality just to charge you double for a gigantic product that you can't skip, fast forward, or rewind easily seems gimmicky and a little bit hipster to me.

My collection is small, so far, but I've got some gems. Off the top of my head:

1. Michael Jackson - "Thriller" (1982)
2. Beatles - "Help" (1965)
3. Frank Sinatra - "My Way" (1969)
4. Ray Charles - "The Ray Charles Story" (1962)

as well as a handful of post-Beatles Paul McCartney and Wings albums and a couple under-the-radar Dylan albums that I can't think of at the moment.

I just recently picked up the latest batch of Led Zeppelin remasters on vinyl and they sound great! Unfortunately between everything else music related I have I don't have the funds for a high end record player to enjoy the vinyl I have to its fullest extent so for me I usually rock out with a decent pair of headphones and lossless digital recordings. But one day I shall take the plunge because vinyl does have a unique soundscape to it that gives for a unique listening experience. There is something about the aesthetic of physically "pushing" the sound into the air from the piece of vinyl that is very cool

Great topic!

Some of my earliest memories involve time with my Grandad playing vinyl from his collection, which was folk/easy listening artists such as The Spinners (legendary Liverpool folk group) and Roger Whittaker - I loved the music, the way it sounded clear and live, but also the contraption used to play them, I would watch the records spin round.
In a nice little 'full circle' of music and technology, I have recently re-discovered these artists through Spotify!

I would love to be able to afford to build a proper vinyl collection as I'm a sucker for anything old/vintage/old fashioned etc, but I have too many other hobbies for me to do so at the moment.

I do have a few that I've acquired over the past few years, although at the moment I have nothing suitable to play them on, which is partly why I can't justify buying vinyl regularly.

I have:

The Mock Turtles - Turtle Soup
Barclay James Harvest - Time Honoured Ghosts (I actually bought this for the sleeve artwork, but the music is good so I bought another record by this band. The band's story is tragic)
Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon
Boney M - Oceans of Fantasy
Andre Previn - Music from Lerner and Loewe's Camelot
Tammy Wynette - Stand by Your Man
King of the Slums - Dandelions
Undercurrent - Bill Evans & Jim Hall
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - Original Grease Soundtrack
Inspiral Carpets - Life
Inspiral Carpets - The Peel Sessions
Sinead O'Connor - The Emperors New Clothes
The Ruts - Grin and Bear it
All About Eve - All about Eve
Ancient Beatbox - Ancient Beatbox
Into Paradise - Change

Your list is extensive and varied, there's so much good stuff on there and there's also many artists that are new to me so I'll check them out, but I would like to give a mention to some of the artists on your list that are perhaps lesser-known that I love, so It's great to see the following on your list:

The Naked and Famous
Chvrches
The Postal Service
M83
Cocteau Twins
Tame Impala

Cheers
TTG

yep,i collect classic rock and metal

Just picked up Nina Simone - Pastel Blues!!!!!!

UpSide2Gravity said:

Just picked up Nina Simone - Pastel Blues!!!!!!

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Niiiiiice!

When my father passed, he left all of his record collection to my siblings and me. When were kids we used to play folk records almost every Saturday night, and he would sometimes bring his guitar out and play some of our favorites from the records we listened to. I do not listen to them often anymore, but when I do it reminds me of North Carolina tobacco farms and the smell of my dad's favorite cigars. Good times

I'm a vinyl freak since a time I can't remember. I have about 800 LPs or so. Mostly rock music, but also some classical, soundtrack and spoken word, plus a bit of Jazz. Anyone want to chat about it is very welcome !

You and I have sixteen albums in common !

To Upside 2 Gravity : You and I have sixteen albums in common !

Got rid of my vinyl 20-some yrs ago, mainly because others in the family wouldn't let me play the danged things - it was better that someone own them that would be able to enjoy them (or use them as frisbess...). Wish I still had the blasted things now.

I'm mainly into lossless digital or CDs. But I'm not throwing away my turntable anytime soon!

Recent vinyl acquisitions:

Ken Nordine - Word Jazz (a little scratchy, but fun!)
Leo Kottke - Leo Kottke (Chrysalis Records)
The 78 Project, volume 1
Chokers & Flies - old-time music album with 2 regional bands

I have a big vinyl collection but some favorite are
Freak Out----Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Wired--- Jeff Beck
Close to the Edge---Yes
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out--- The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack "Apocalypse Now"---The Rhythm Devils
Soundtrack "Risky Business" (side 2 is entirely by Tangerine Dream).
Cry Of Love---Jimi Hendrix
Sailing Shoes---Little Feat
Live Rust---Neil Young
Montrose---Montrose
Fastway---Fastway
Through The Past Darkly---The Rolling Stones
Grand Funk's Greatist Hits---Grand Funk
Masters of Reality---Black Sabbath
Magical Mystery Tour---The Beatles
and many more...