The Greatest Vinyl Album Ever..........

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Back in the day vinyl records were the state of the art recording media. Google that you young whipper snappers.:rofl:

Anyway, for you guys & gals old enough to have spent your lunch money on the latest album which ones were your favorites?

(Not in any order)

1. Beetles "White Album"
2. Fleetwood Mac "Rumors"
3. Led Zepplin II
4. Babe Ruth Band "First Base"

Any more? Do you still have them and play them?

Come on gang, get out the vinyl and Gerital and lets kill the rest of our hearing.

Turn it up!
 
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1. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
2. Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
3. Billy Joel - The Stranger
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Doors - "The Doors" or "LA Woman" - don't make me choose.
6. Asleep at the Wheel- (take your pick- all genius)
7. Willie Nelson - Stardust (musical genius)
8. Hmmm... there's a concerto with a heart-rending solo by Mayumi Fujikawa, and I am just forgetting... it sucks to get old...

That's enough for today, kiddies...

You make me want to dig-out my Luxman turntable, set it up and pull out the vinyl...
 
In school I learned how to create test pressings on Acetate, and then do mastering engineering for vinyl, where you'd apply the RIAA curve and tweak with additional eq and dynamics (compression/limiting) as needed. Was really an art form, and the GOOD mastering engineers were always in demand. Then Digital came along and that whole art became a niche.

Curse you Sony! (who really were the leaders in pro digital audio with the 1600 series of processors and digital editor, and the first digital tape solution that you could splice with a razor blade). Ah, the good old days.
 
TMetzinger said:
In school I learned how to create test pressings on Acetate, and then do mastering engineering for vinyl, where you'd apply the RIAA curve and tweak with additional eq and dynamics (compression/limiting) as needed. Was really an art form, and the GOOD mastering engineers were always in demand. Then Digital came along and that whole art became a niche.

Curse you Sony! (who really were the leaders in pro digital audio with the 1600 series of processors and digital editor, and the first digital tape solution that you could splice with a razor blade). Ah, the good old days.
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Two words: "cue burn". ;)

I spliced a lot of analog tape with razor blade. Digital tape = much more difficult.
 
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
 
SCCutler said:
1. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
2. Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
3. Billy Joel - The Stranger
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. The Doors - "The Doors" or "LA Woman" - don't make me choose.
6. Asleep at the Wheel- (take your pick- all genius)
7. Willie Nelson - Stardust (musical genius)
8. Hmmm... there's a concerto with a heart-rending solo by Mayumi Fujikawa, and I am just forgetting... it sucks to get old...

That's enough for today, kiddies...

You make me want to dig-out my Luxman turntable, set it up and pull out the vinyl...
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I remember the Studer/Revox turntable with a linear magnetic track for the cartridge, so you didn't get the phase errors that a standard tonearm could cause.

5 of your records are at the top of my list too.
 
I actually watched a show that said there has been an increase in album production, obviously geared to the collectors I would think.

Spun many a long play in my DJ days during the late skate sessions at the skating rink........(the only way to get a break and socialize with the ladies)
 
So many choices....

But to limit the top five:

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Supertramp, Crime of the Century
Fleetwood Mac, Mystery to Me (Rumors is pretty good too)
Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell (lot’s of fun!)


Gary
 
wsuffa said:
Two words: "cue burn". ;)

I spliced a lot of analog tape with razor blade. Digital tape = much more difficult.
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Yeah, I was fortunate enough to study Audio Engineering in the mid 80s, right when the transition from Analog to Digital was underway. Spent lots of time with razor blades on 10.5 reels of tape, and the Sony PCM-F1 recorder and a good UMatic VCR for live recording.

Then the DASH format came out and you could splice the tape on the digital boxes - it wasn't pretty as all it was was lots of error correction and interpolation going on, but it worked.
 
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
Pretenders -- first album, self titled
Elvis Costello -- My Aim is True
Joe Jackson -- I'm the Man
The Who -- Who's Next
 
I find it interesting that so much of the music indicated here among pilots has titles, band names or members associated with the use of various substances that would not look good on a Form 8500.

:D
 
I must admit I'm somewhat surprised by the lists of albums I've seen so far. I can't say any of the choices would be outside my top 30 or so. I wonder if our mutual addition to aviation has also homogenized our tastes in music from the album era?
 
KennyFlys said:
I find it interesting that so much of the music indicated here among pilots has titles, band names or members associated with the use of various substances that would not look good on a Form 8500.

:D
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I did NOT inhale! ........ or was that exhale.:rolleyes:

Life was pretty crazy in the 60's & 70's.
 
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jtheune said:
I must admit I'm somewhat surprised by the lists of albums I've seen so far. I can't say any of the choices would be outside my top 30 or so. I wonder if our mutual addition to aviation has also homogenized our tastes in music from the album era?
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I just hope none of us are "Running on Empty" or actually see the "Dark Side of The Moon". :rofl:
 
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Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Chicago Transit Authority

Blood Sweat & Tears

What can I say, I play trumpet.
 
I still have my peach crate full of LPs.

I have you all beat though. I can play them on my Linn-Sondek, if I hooked it up.
 
vontresc said:
What no Herb Alpert?? :rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Actually I tried putting a band together as a Junior playing their style.

Was much more successful doing Dixieland and Big Band Jazz with a small group(7) as a Senior.

I have and still play the whole TIME-LIFE The Swing ERA, Big Band collection but suspect not many here listened to those.
 
Geico266 said:
I did NOT inhale! ........ or was that exhale.:rolleyes:

Life was pretty crazy in the 60's & 70's.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Gary said:
So many choices....

But to limit the top five:

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Supertramp, Crime of the Century
Fleetwood Mac, Mystery to Me (Rumors is pretty good too)
Doobie Brothers, Toulouse Street
Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell (lot’s of fun!)


Gary
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I think I'm pretty much the only person in my generation who likes Supertramp. I even have six or seven of their songs on my MP3 player...boy do I get some weird looks when those come on.

I still have my dad's turn table hooked up; I've had it in my room since, probably middle school. Only Album I ever bought for myself was Genesis, otherwise he pretty much has everything in creation, but especially all things Beatles, Chicago, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, and Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young).
 
I lost my vinyl in a flood while I was deployed - by the time I got back the covers were ruined, and I was able to replace most of it with CDs.

I miss some of those covers, from Yes, Genesis, and some of the other progressive bands.
 
Live at the Pershing- Ahmad Jamal trio
Abby Road
Sargent Peppers
Dark Side of the Moon

I still have a stack and an old Realistic (not quite real) linear tracking turntable that gets weekly use
 
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The great gig in the sky is stil one of my personal favorites.

I remember buying my then girlfriend a new stereo for Christmas one year when I was in the Navy. I took it to my office on base and set it up in a storage room that we had converted into a pool hall to test it out. Had bought a new copy of Dark side of the moon and played it at a rather loud level. The music echoed up and down the hallways of the building and the chief had to come in and ask what the heck was going on.

Those were the days :)
 
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I think I'm pretty much the only person in my generation who likes Supertramp. I even have six or seven of their songs on my MP3 player...boy do I get some weird looks when those come on.

I still have my dad's turn table hooked up; I've had it in my room since, probably middle school. Only Album I ever bought for myself was Genesis, otherwise he pretty much has everything in creation, but especially all things Beatles, Chicago, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, and Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young).
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My favorite Supertramp story was this. I was stationed at NAS Memphis in 77 and was living in the barracks going to school. Star Wars had come out and the closest place it was playing was in downtown Memphis. One evening one of the guys in the barracks who had a car offered to take a few of us in to town to see the movie. I was in the communal bathroom getting cleaned up to go and another guy came in and said he had a extra ticekt to go see Supertramp that night ( one of my favorite bands even then ) and I said no I'm going to go see Star Wars. He left and I came to my senses and tried to find him but he was gone. Took me 3 years to be in a place where they played again so I could see them in concert.
 
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