Vinyl anyone?

[Cain]

It really is scary how quickly vinyl has become something of a relic possessed by a few hardy souls. It seems only yesterday that we were in awe of CD's coming onto the market and surely posing no threat to our beloved 12" long plays.
Are there any others out there who have kept some vinyl albums to remember the good old days and what do you think you will hold onto come what may?
For me there is only one which shall escape the trash can and that is War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne. I still play it today on a record player. The kids wonder how much they will get for this antique in a few years. Shame on them!
So what have you kept and which is your favourite vinyl album?

[Krummhorn]

I've kept all my LP's acquired during the 60's & 70's. In fact, I still have a working single-play LP turntable as part of my home sound system. Hard to say which one is my favorite as I have so many (a few hundred or so) - since I am a classical organist, I guess the most treasured ones would be those of Helmut Walcha, Virgil Fox and E. Power Biggs. Included in my collection are the complete organ works of Bach all recorded in Europe.

Eventually I would like to record all my LP's into digital form and burn them onto CD's, if only for preservation concerns. I would tend to think that vinyl would not deteriorate over time if properly stored.

[Ouled Nails]

The long-playing records I have kept to this day extend chronologically from the early days of Columbia's "micro-groove," in 1948, to the mid-1980's, when some labels issued recordings on both vinyl and cd discs. I only discarded the rock 'n roll albums, like the Beattles, not the classical music ones.

[Cobalt]

Though I don't possess anything in the way of vinyl, I'll always have a soft spot for it. I remember as a kid playing my parent's records from the seventies and eighties on my stereo, listening to the music of a decade or two gone by.

I still like the much more lively sound you get from records - I think that in some ways CD's have lost something. I can't quite place it, but to me sometimes music can sound a little lifeless.

Besides, keeping hold of vinyl is a good investment, especially if you or a parent got hold of anything that was on a limited run.

[traveller]

I've kept nearly all of mine, with a few exception that weren't in great condition and even then only when I had a CD or MP3 replacement.

I've got about 1000 but only recently started playing some of them again. I unearthed them from storage when I moved house.

This amused me. I was playing one when my 9 year old son picked up the album sleeve to read it. As the music finished he told me that it was broken because half of the sons were missing. His CD mind was stunned when I flipped it over to play the other side.

[Albert]

It really is scary how quickly vinyl has become something of a relic possessed by a few hardy souls. It seems only yesterday that we were in awe of CD's coming onto the market and surely posing no threat to our beloved 12" long plays.
Are there any others out there who have kept some vinyl albums to remember the good old days and what do you think you will hold onto come what may?
For me there is only one which shall escape the trash can and that is War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne. I still play it today on a record player. The kids wonder how much they will get for this antique in a few years. Shame on them!
So what have you kept and which is your favourite vinyl album?

My wife and I have over 200 vinyl albums. They range from folk (The Kingston Trio, etc.) to Dixie (including the Left Bank Bearcats, who use a tuba as one should - not a washtub or string bass - can't march with them) to Feike Asma's recording of the Widor 5th symphony in the "Old Church" in Holland. I even have a vinyl PDQ Bach.

We also have some 100 odd cassette tapes and 200 odd CDs - including ALL the PDQ Bach ever recorded. Got that one in Chicago.

My wife's part of the collection includes many Chanteurs Canadiens (note the spelling!)- elle est une Canadienne. We have a few RD albums - including two organ ones - and lute playing and ...

One vinyl with very special meanng to me .... "The Band of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Salutes the Candaian Armed Forces." The band is under the direction of Lt. Charles A. Villeneuve, LRAM, ARCM. The special meaning is because he's the guy who got me hooked on the organ. He was director of music and the Fort Chambly Chapel in Westfallen, West Gerrnany and drafted me to play the organ when his organist was posted back to Canada. I had no idea what this thing was. It was an electronic, 2 m & p, with a 30 note parallel concave bunch of keys on the floor, a great long list of funny shaped toggle switches across the top, broken up into 3 groups labeled Schwellwerk, Hauptwerk und Pedalen. I bought Ernst kaller's Orgelschule at the local music shop. Next thing you know I was playing the thing, and not just hymns and psalms. Great fun!

I do babble on - that stint was in the middle 1960's.

[StuckOnBandaid]

I was born in the 70's so when I got old enough to start buying my own music the 8-track was going out and the cassette was the new technology. When tapes were coming in my parents still kept all their vinyls, and I now listen to them. Their collection startsin the early 60s. There's some great stuff in there!

[SecondBass]

I kept the lot and I'm glad that I did. I still have a turnable to play them on and I'm looking to get a converter to MP3 because there are some fantastic tracks that are not available on CD or download that I want to keep.

[Leigh]

I've only kept around a dozen albums. Generally the stock gets smaller each time I move house and they go missing. I don't actually own a record player now to play the LPs but perhaps one day I will go out and buy one to listen to the sounds of yester-year! The Scorpions are one album and Jeff Waynes War of The Worlds is another that have escaped the rubbish bin.

[Albert]

It really is scary how quickly vinyl has become something of a relic possessed by a few hardy souls. It seems only yesterday that we were in awe of CD's coming onto the market and surely posing no threat to our beloved 12" long plays.
Are there any others out there who have kept some vinyl albums to remember the good old days and what do you think you will hold onto come what may?
For me there is only one which shall escape the trash can and that is War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne. I still play it today on a record player. The kids wonder how much they will get for this antique in a few years. Shame on them!
So what have you kept and which is your favourite vinyl album?

My wife and I have 200+ LPs. Some are old enough to be monaural. I even have one surviving 10" platter, just like a 78, but it was recorded at 33. I was playing some just the other day. I have a Sony turntable in my system, and can handle 45 and rpm. My wife has a record player upstairs when she doesn't want to listen to my heavy music. I have demo recods of obscure and defunct electronic organ companies, lots of folk music. Julian Bream on Lute. Leonard Bernstein's version of Handel's Messiah. My wife's collection includes a lot of French Canadian folk music.

Some odd ball items are book inserts and demos on flexible very thin vinyl. One is whale songs - I think it's out of a National Georgraphic magazine.

[EgyptianConcerto]

Vinyl remains a favorite in my and my parents home (3 working record players between us - and no, no problems getting needles for them!). I collect all kinds of classical vinyl - even 78's. There are so many recordings that were simply lost in the transition to CD. Plus, it's just plain fun to go to some library sale, sneaking through dark conrers and coming on a find...I clean them, play them a few times, and transfer them to CD using Magix Audio Cleaning Lab.
I've also stuck to cassette tapes over the years, and have a few hundred of them. One of the oldest is from 1975; I'm always amazed at the sound quality and the fact it still plays perfectly.
I like thinking each format has something to recommend it: CD's have pristine sound, cassettes (if the machine is well-cared for) are reliable and tough, vinyl has a special sound which many associate with analogue.
Love my vinyl, and I'll never part with it.

[AeroScore]

I started collecting Original Soundtrack albums in the late-70's, through the 80's, until the CD finally swept them away in the retail stores.

I have about 100 or so OST's in LP, and about 30 more Theatre Organ LP's, and about 30 more miscellaneous stuff.

I'll never get rid of them, and like my fellow theatre organ afficiando Krummhorn, I have a working single-play turntable in my A.V. setup.

Dean

[porky]

Oddly, the only record I own is the soundtrack to Labyrinth, which has sentimental meaning because I was 10 when that movie came out and had a big crush on David Bowie.

[ses]

I listen 50% to vinyl and 50% to CD.
The high % for CD is due to that new classical recordings never come in vinyl. Good new rock and jazz album still comes on vinyl.
I never listen to bad sound like DAD, MP3 or such things.

[thevibes]

No I don't listen to vinil ...I listen to 100% CD!!!