Eighty-three, to be precise, most containing superb music.
What happened was, last year I ripped a thousand or so CDs. Shortly thereafter, I rediscovered the pleasures of vinyl. So I went through my whole LP collection end to end, with the objective of classifying them into three buckets:
Records to throw out because they’re horribly scratched.
Records which are duplicated in digital form or I just don’t like.
Records to cherish and keep.
I did keep a few duplicates just because I cherish the music so much or the album art is great. But now I want to dispose of the 83 records in bucket #2.
It’s Been Fun · Going through the stack listening to them, I mean; I left a few cookie crumbs along the trail. I really don’t have any urge to digitize these, I enjoy playing the records too much. Perhaps I’ll be moved to do a few more 5★♫ pieces.
Quality · Few of the surfaces are perfect, but most are very good, having been played exclusively on high-end turntables. On the other hand, I’ve been sloppy and neglected to wrap the albums in plastic, so a lot of the covers look beat-up.
How To Sell? · I’m not sure. I could list ’em on Craigslist or eBay I suppose, but then I’d have to take care of potentially as many as 83 separate negotiations and shipping tasks.
I could lug them all over to a local old-vinyl retailer, but it’d be nice to avoid that too.
So I’m posting the list here, in the hopes that someone will read this and offer me a lavish sum for the whole stack; the ideal outcome would be if this were someone in Vancouver who’d drop by and take them away. If nobody does, I guess I’m off to one of the local vinyl emporia, which include Neptoon Records and Red Cat Records.
Here’s the list. If you’re interested, email me.
| Artist | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Allman Brothers | Live at Fillmore East | |
| Anderson, Laurie | Mr. Heartbreak | |
| Anderson, Laurie | United States Live | 5 LPs |
| Arab Folk Music | Arab World, its Music and People | Christobel Weerasinghe |
| Bach, J.S. | “Masterpiece”, greatest hits | |
| Bach, J.S. | Cello Suites | Yo-Yo Ma |
| Bach, J.S. | Goldberg Variations, 14 Canons | Yuji Takahashi, piano and synth |
| Bach, J.S. | Goldberg Variations | Glen Gould (1955) |
| Bach, J.S. | Violin Concertos | Szering/Marriner/ASMF |
| Baez, Joan | Joan Baez | |
| Beck, Jeff | Blow By Blow | |
| Beck, Jeff | Wired | |
| Beefheart, Captain | Trout Mask Replica | |
| Beethoven | 9 Symphonies | Karajan/BPO, 1977 |
| Beethoven | Emperor Concerto | Arrau/Haitink/Concertgebouw |
| Bragg, Billy | Talking With The Taxman About Poetry | |
| Brahms | Handel Variations, Four Ballads | Claudio Arrau |
| Bush, Kate | Hounds of Love | |
| Cale, John | Sabotage/Live | |
| Chieftains | The Chieftans 7 | |
| Chopin | 18 Waltzes | Aldo Ciccolini |
| Clash | Give Em Enough Rope | |
| Coltrane | Live at the Village Vanguard Again! | |
| Corea, Chick, and Return to Forever | Light as a Feather | |
| Davis, Miles | Kind of Blue | |
| Deep Purple | Made in Japan | |
| DiMeola, Al | Elegant Gypsy | |
| Dire Straits | Communiqué | |
| Dire Straits | Dire Straits | |
| Dire Straits | Twisting By The Pool (EP) | |
| Genesis | Selling England by the Pound | |
| Grant, Eddy | Walking on Sunshine | |
| Hendrix, Jimi | Band of Gypsys | |
| Hicks, Dan, and his Hot Licks | Where’s The Money? | |
| Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow | |
| Jefferson Starship | Red Octopus | |
| John, Elton | Greatest Hits | |
| Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin 1 | |
| Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti | |
| Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsodies | Roberto Szidon |
| London, Julie | Easy Does It | |
| Marley, Bob | Bob Marley and the Wailers Live! | |
| Martyn, John | Sapphire | |
| McKenna Mendelson Mainline | Stink | |
| Metheny, Pat, and Lyle Mays | As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls | 2 copies |
| Metheny, Pat | American Garage | |
| Metheny, Pat | Pat Metheny Group | |
| Mingus, Charles | Mingus at Antibes | |
| Mitchell, Joni | Court and Spark | |
| Moustaki, George | Moustaki | |
| New Barbarians | Breathe on Me | |
| Parsons, Gram, and the Flying Burrito Brothers | Sleepless Nights | |
| Pink Floyd | Animals | |
| Pink Floyd | Dark Side of the Moon | (2 copies) |
| Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | |
| Plant, Robert | The Principle of Moments | |
| Presley, Elvis | The Sun Sessions | |
| Pretenders | Learning To Crawl | |
| Queen | A Night At The Opera | |
| Redbone, Leon | On The Track | |
| Reed, Lou | Rock n Roll Animal | (2 copies) |
| Reich, Steve | Sextet, Six Marimbas | |
| Renbourn, John | The Lady and the Unicorn | |
| Russian folk music | Moscow Radio Russian Folk Instruments Orchestra | |
| Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia | |
| Santana | Caravanserai | Quadraphonic! |
| Santana | Moonflower | |
| Schreiner, Alexander | Great Organ of the Mormon Tabernacle | |
| Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols | |
| Shriekback | Oil and Gold | |
| Sting | Nothing Like the Sun | |
| Taj Mahal and the International Rhythm Band | Live and Direct | |
| Talking Heads | Fear of Music | |
| Tchaikowsky | Nutcracker Suite | Ormandy/Philadelphia (78RPM!) |
| Tosh, Peter | Equal Rights | |
| Traffic | John Barleycorn Must Die | |
| Traffic | Low Spark of High-heeled Boys | |
| Ween | 12 Golden Country Greats | |
| Who | Live at Leeds | |
| Wonder, Stevie | The Secret Life of Plants | |
| Yamashta, Stomu | Go Live From Paris | |
| Young, Neil | Decade | |
| Young, Neil | Zuma |
Contributions
Comment feed for ongoing:
From: Eric H (Nov 21 2010, at 18:54)
You're selling "Live at the Fillmore East"? Shame on you.
Seriously: for "Live at Leeds" (and perhaps others), you should specify which edition you've got. There are some very rare originals, and some presumably-more-common reissues, which contain a ton of goodies like posters and various amusing scraps (a tour schedule, set lists, bills from Keith having trashed a hotel room, etc). Those are worth considerately more than the run-of-the-mill MCA disc from the late '70s.
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From: Ric (Nov 21 2010, at 19:26)
Heaven forbid we ever find ourselves in the same place over a few beers! I would be interested, but there's too much overlap (both vinyl and digital), plus the logistics of getting the vinyl to Australia could be prohibitive ...
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From: Scott (Nov 21 2010, at 22:13)
You really shoal hang on to that Ween record. It'll be worth something some day ;)
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From: JoostM (Nov 21 2010, at 23:04)
discogs.com has a marketplace for selling records. If you offer discounts for larger orders you have a good chance of losing them in less than 80 transactions.
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From: David Glidden (Nov 27 2010, at 16:37)
You have some beautiful things in thus list. The '55 Goldbergs are outstanding. On vinyl they must be even more so.
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