Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

[Barry]

Two good choices there Dom.

[Barry]

Melody Gardot live.

I think I would find the cover too distracting (she does have a lovely body) and not pay enough attention to the music!

[AJSki2fly]

Friends came for the day on Saturday and very kindly he gave me his records that had been sitting in record cases in his loft for the past 30 years, 49 LP's and about 100 singles from the 70's and 80's, all seem to be in at least VG+ condition. There is a good mix some I already have but hoping they may be better condition that some I already have. I sat and ultrasonically cleaned the albums on Sunday afternoon.

This one is a better copy and is better than the 180gm re-release IMO.

Pink Floyd ‎– Wish You Were Here
Label: Harvest ‎– SHVL 814
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 12 Sep 1975

[Barry]

Nice gift Adrian.

I'm not surprised the copy of WYWH is better than the re-release. Sadly the art (or 'know how') of record pressing seems to be lost.

[AJSki2fly]

Nice gift Adrian.

I'm not surprised the copy of WYWH is better than the re-release. Sadly the art (or 'know how') of record pressing seems to be lost.

Yes I am very please with them, Sandi, Jon's wife gave me her 70+ records about 2 years ago, and he gave me his when he got to them clearing their loft out getting ready to move. We checked if any interesting ones were 1st issue and valuable, but not the case, even the limited edition Elton John "Yellow Brick Road" is only worth around £20 if you can sell it. They were quite happy for me to benefit form them keeping what I wanted and then trade on the rest to buy other. As you say a very kind gift from some lovely friends, we are godparents to a couple of their children.

Re-issues do tend to be a bit hit and miss, newly released records do not seem to suffer in the same way so much, although I have a couple which seem to suffer from the sound wars mixing a bit. Generally I think early originals seem better, as long as you get one near the beginning of a pressing run, which can be a lottery, I replaced Genesis ...and Then There Were Three, 3 times until I got a good one resorting to a CA pressing which only had 10K copies done, chalk and cheese compared to the crappy UK ones.

[AJSki2fly]

Spun earlier..., possibly my best copy sonically, but needs another clean I think, has suffered from smokey rooms in its life

Pink Floyd ‎– The Dark Side Of The Moon
Label: Harvest ‎– SHVL 804, Harvest ‎– 1E 064 o 05249
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, 5th, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 1977

[AJSki2fly]

Just finished this one, also needs another clean as a few crackle hear and there

Yes ‎– Close To The Edge
Label: Atlantic ‎– K50012, Atlantic ‎– K 50012
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold, Textured Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: 1972

[AJSki2fly]

Spinning this ones from my friend, never heard it before and it is rather good, well worth a listen

Electric Light Orchestra ‎– Secret Messages
Label: Jet Records ‎– JETLX 527
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Jun 1983

[AJSki2fly]

Forgot I listened to this earlier, very good it is too...

Level 42 ‎– Level 42
Label: Polydor ‎– POLS 1036
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1981

[Pigmy Pony]

Not been to North Wales very much, but this is how I picture Marco relaxing in his garden with Wrexham in the background