bickster Posted January 6, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Xann said: I have many albums. No need buy any for awhile Tsk, not in a white box 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 10 minutes ago, bickster said: Tsk, not in a white box The 'Dimensioni Sonore' box was plain wood, so maybe we go full Ikea with the white next time? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Whats the VT consensus on The Bee Gees? Just listening to some of their music for the first time in a while and I always forget how good they were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 14 minutes ago, Xela said: Whats the VT consensus on The Bee Gees? Still living in hope of a velvet 'Odessa' from the charity sector. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 6, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, Xann said: Still living in hope of a velvet 'Odessa' from the charity sector. You don't fancy a copy of their Australian debut.... Barry Gibb & The Bee Gee's – The Bee Gee's Sing & Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs? Such an artistic title (The grocers apostrophes are almost missed in the maelstrom of ego) C'mon I know they were brought up in Aus but.... I was a Lover, Leader of Men is either absolutely awful or a cover of a rare Laibach love balad. My opinion of the Bee Gees, hair you want to shave and teeth you want to punch, sorry but I've never been able to take anyone with hair like that seriously, so there's zero chance I'd ever listen to any of their output objectively. I suspect their soft rock [period was better than the disco era but... mah, the hair is still getting in the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, bickster said: You don't fancy a copy of their Australian debut.... Barry Gibb & The Bee Gee's – The Bee Gee's Sing & Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs? 'Horizontal' perhaps? 'Odessa' yes. That's about it really. Don't mind some Disco, but don't own much, couple of comps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Someone managed the impossible and manger to make Radiohead sound even worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Quote Explore the full lists of the UK’s top 40 best selling vinyl albums and singles below. The top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2021 1. ABBA — Voyage 2. Adele — 30 3. Fleetwood Mac — Rumours 4. Ed Sheeran — = 5. Amy Winehouse — Back To Black 6. Nirvana — Nevermind 7. Queen — Greatest Hits 8. Lana Del Rey — Chemtrails Over The Country Club 9. Wolf Alice — Blue Weekend 10. Harry Styles — Fine Line 11. Sam Fender — Seventeen Going Under 12. Pink Floyd — The Dark Side Of The Moon 13. Oasis — Knebworth 1996 14. Royal Blood — Typhoons 15. Coldplay — Music Of The Spheres 16. Foo Fighters — Medicine at Midnight 17. Arctic Monkeys — AM 18. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying — Back The Way We Came Vol.1 19. Billie Eilish — Happier Than Ever 20. Taylor Swift — Red (Taylor’s Version) 21. Taylor Swift — Evermore 22. Olivia Rodrigo — Sour 23. Beatles — Abbey Road 24. IDLES — Crawler 25. Stone Roses — The Stone Roses 26. Arlo Parks — Collapsed in Sunbeams 27. Beatles — Let It Be 28. Bob Marley & The Wailers — Legend 29. Paul Weller — Fat Pop 30. Oasis — What’s The Story Morning Glory 31. Iron Maiden — Senjutsu 32. London Grammar — California Soil 33. Dave — We’re All Alone In This Together 34. Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert 35. Lana Del Rey — Blue Banisters 36. Radiohead — Kid A Mnesia 37. Arctic Monkeys — Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m 38. Inhaler — It Won’t Always Be Like This 39. Taylor Swift — Folklore 40. Snuts — W.L. Bought nothing from this list during 2021. There are vinyl copies of No3 and No5 in the house, bought back in the day, they aren’t mine. There are CD’s of No 27 and No 30 somewhere out the garage. Other than that, zip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I have 4 on that list. None of them on vinyl though. I bought the most vinyl last year that I have ever bought. Ridiculous amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 10, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 10, 2022 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Bought nothing from this list during 2021. There are vinyl copies of No3 and No5 in the house, bought back in the day, they aren’t mine. There are CD’s of No 27 and No 30 somewhere out the garage. Other than that, zip. I Bought one, the Radiohead Kid A Mnesia reissue. I have 5 of the others mentioned on one of those is on vinyl, Legend by Bob Marley (which was only bought for DJing purposes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted January 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2022 Quote 3. Fleetwood Mac — Rumours I hear this is a really good album, but my mom always told me to never listen to it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2022 4 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Fleetwood Mac — Rumours This is all getting quite amusing. When CDs first came out, there were a bunch of 'classic' albums that people went out and bought all over again - Rumours, Kind of Blue, Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, etc. The mantra was: "If you've only ever heard this on vinyl, you'll be amazed how great it sounds on CD". Fast forward to 2021 and many of those same albums are being pushed with: "If you've only ever heard this on CD, you'll be amazed how great it sounds on vinyl". P. T. Barnum would be proud. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 10, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 10, 2022 Just now, mjmooney said: This is all getting quite amusing. When CDs first came out, there were a bunch of 'classic' albums that people went out and bought all over again - Rumours, Kind of Blue, Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, etc. The mantra was: "If you've only ever heard this on vinyl, you'll be amazed how great it sounds on CD". Fast forward to 2021 and many of those same albums are being pushed with: "If you've only ever heard this on CD, you'll be amazed how great it sounds on vinyl". P. T. Barnum would be proud. It's not quite that, a lot of these sales are to first time younger buyers, they are sales to people who buy records. The kids today have a much wider spectrum of listening than you or I ever did, they aren't just listening to newish material. Sure there are some people rebuying it but that isn't the case for a lot of them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Regarding Bicksters point, Fleetwood Mac in particular are very popular with the youth, and by youth I mean under 35s. My daughter's circle of friends, if I had to guess, all of them listen to Fleetwood Mac. My thinking is Stevie Nick's and her being a great role model to young women. Otherwise I am not sure where this resurgence of interest has come from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Ha! Well it’ll be a cold day in hell before I listen to music or musical advice from someone that clearly dabbles in drugs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 10, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 10, 2022 As someone who has (almost) no vinyl, I’ve always assumed, probably incorrectly, there’s a percentage of people who buy LPs of classic albums, not primarily to listen to them, but to just kinda own them as a statement. Particularly if it has a classic or interesting cover. Kinda like owning a copy of “Finnegans Wake” just to look cool and interesting, but not actually to read the damn thing. Obviously I’m saying it would be a small percentage, but do they exist? And if so is it probably like 0.5% of vinyl collectors rather than 5%? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 10, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 10, 2022 20 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: As someone who has (almost) no vinyl, I’ve always assumed, probably incorrectly, there’s a percentage of people who buy LPs of classic albums, not primarily to listen to them, but to just kinda own them as a statement. Particularly if it has a classic or interesting cover. Kinda like owning a copy of “Finnegans Wake” just to look cool and interesting, but not actually to read the damn thing. Obviously I’m saying it would be a small percentage, but do they exist? And if so is it probably like 0.5% of vinyl collectors rather than 5%? I think most of these people that own vinyl and don't open them are collectors, it won't be people buying say Rumours or Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, the one's that will go unopened are the supposedly rare limited editions (which often aren't that rare or limited). There will be people who have bought Kid A Mnesia and not opened it, in the hope that it rises in value (it won't - much, there's loads of them) - vinyl speculators if you like. They might realise in about ten years time when they want to realise their "assets" that they aren't worth anything like they imagined they would be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 29 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: As someone who has (almost) no vinyl, I’ve always assumed, probably incorrectly, there’s a percentage of people who buy LPs of classic albums, not primarily to listen to them, but to just kinda own them as a statement. Particularly if it has a classic or interesting cover. Kinda like owning a copy of “Finnegans Wake” just to look cool and interesting, but not actually to read the damn thing. Obviously I’m saying it would be a small percentage, but do they exist? And if so is it probably like 0.5% of vinyl collectors rather than 5%? I’m sure they must exist. Personally, I don’t know any, not now not ever in the past. I’ve known flippers, a version of what Bicks has mentioned above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Good this and it's not all Hip Hop, Johnny Cash fans. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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