Thread: My vinyl collection

Here's a few of the more obscure cuts from my score today:





not obscure, but for Canmore:

Originally Posted by Pudge

So it took me a couple days of coming back to this thread to read through it all. I'm not a vinyl guy, but this made me want to buy some vinyl. I might just do it, I dont know.

But this is your first vinyl purchase? Stardew valley soundtrack? I'm heartbroken that you got my Hope's up for stardew Valley.

I just need some time to myself. It's not you, it's me.

Ok, wait.

First of all, the Stardew Valley soundtrack is sneaky epic. It's like the manna of life in 8 bit. It's full of gems like this one...



With great art. Plus it's $100 on discogs, so I stand by the $60 fangamer purchase.

Now, I owe you an apology, because this isn't how I wanted to start my vinyl collection either. But it just happened. Had to pop the cherry somehow, it ended up happening in a sketchy alley in Korea, no bigs.

But since then, I've made some responsible purchases:

Godspeed You Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞
Donnie Darko Soundtrack
The Jazz Butcher - Cult of the Basement
Bon Iver - For Emma
Altered States Soundtrack (Corigliano)
Bruckner - #8 "Apocalyse" (cond. Klemperer)
Wagner's Ring Opera (cond. Solti)
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Alfred Brendel - Beethoven Piano Sonatas (incl. Pathetique and Moonlight)
Percy Faith & his Orchestra - Chinatown
Artur Rubinstein - Brahms Piano Concerto #2
The Best of '66 Vol. 2
Yes - Fragile
Big Bro & the Holding Co. - Cheap Thrills
Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Andy Williams - Moon River
Richter plays Bach
Richter - Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor
Debussy - Piano music vol. 1 & 2
Fleisher / Szell - Brahms Piano Concerto #2
Chico Hamilton Quintet - Pacific Jazz 1225
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy (link so you can have a random taste of the quality of these recordings)
Leon Russell - The Best of Leon
Santana - Santana
Jerry Jeff Walker - Jerry Jeff Walker
Prague String Quartet - Borodin / Prokofiev (mint Jap. import, rare)
Boston - Boston
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
The Pentangle - Solomon's Seal
...some other classical stuff, I won't bore you.

There's a long ways to go...

https://www.discogs.com/wantlist?user=hawgdriver

For now, these (below) are the few cuts I need to get a stable operation so I can at least fall asleep at night without feelings of incompleteness.

Horror-type soundtracks: Twin Peaks, It Follows, Alien
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Agalloch - Mantle
Screamadelica

Originally Posted by slim

I have an Olivia Newton John album you can have

Xanadu?

Check your Facebook messages

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Also in lieu or moravec is there another you would recommend for download?

Ah, for mp3 download or streaming, just try to find something by any of these pianists--I approve of them. They 'get it'. This top 5 is the A-list, seek out a recording by them first. Richter is *the* best at anything piano.

Sviatoslav Richter
Martha Argerich
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Maurizio Pollini
Artur Rubinstein

Alfred Brendel
Vladimir Horowitz
Barenboim
Pierre Laurent Aimard
Evgeny Kissin

Hamelin
Hough

ofc Dinu Lipatti but they didn't have the recording equipment to do him justice...he would have been the all-time greatest probably, we'll never know. Think: Lanye Staley, Salvadore Sanchez, John Keats, Ian Curtis...

Arrau, Cortot, Schnabel and others are also brilliant but the sound quality sux

If it's not from one of them, it's probably sketch. e.g., Lang Lang is super sketch.

There are some Chopin specialists who are good...

Garrick Ohlsson
Ivo Pogorelich
Cecile Ousset
Sokolov (dude is a beast when it comes to Chopin, especially the sonatas)

I'd start with these and then branch out. Morovec is amazeballs but didn't record much...his recording of the nocturnes is the consensus best recording. Sometimes magic happens.

There, now I can respect your collection

omg

that is my absolute favorite punk recording that has ever been

that one is the absolute best

holy fvk!

I know every song word for word...Guy Lombardo is the dude...

Now I understand why Val missed your musk.

It's one of my favorite albums of all time too. There are very few albums that I can listen to over and over and never get tired of. Silly girl is probably my favorite. That or good good things.

Godspeed you, black emperor! Are the shit - I’ve never met anyone else who likes them!

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Godspeed you, black emperor! Are the shit - I’ve never met anyone else who likes them!

North is a big fan too.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

North is a big fan too.

No way!!

Allelujah, don’t bend, ascend is a masterpiece

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Ah, for mp3 download or streaming, just try to find something by any of these pianists--I approve of them. They 'get it'. This top 5 is the A-list, seek out a recording by them first. Richter is *the* best at anything piano...

Ok, last thing for classical music starter kit.

I have always tried like hell to branch out and find reasons to enjoy other types of music. Classical took me a long ass time to make it worthwhile. Maybe too long. But damn I sure enjoy it now.

Jazz--same thing--lot of people probably turn around because the line is too damned long to get in to the 'jazz is fun' club. I'm not there yet, but I haven't given up.

I finally began to enjoy classical, this was difficult.

There is still a lot of classical that does *nothing* for me, namely, almost all of it.

Lot of musical elitist knobs are all into Brahms symphonies. Or Mahler symphonies.

And maybe they kick ass. But I'm not there yet. It's all just earwash.

Ok. So what worked for me?

Pictures at an exhibition was probably the one piece of music that captured my imagination. It's like prog rock on piano. It just lured me in. I'd listen to Ashkenazy, Richter, or Kissin's version. Just the piano.

For some reason, solo piano speaks to me. I like the austerity and tone of the instrument. Is there another instrument that allows one human to express so much musically? It's like a window to another soul. Trumpet and sax and all that, it's neat, and kudos to the Coltranes of this world, but the piano allows such a full-formed expression. It's more cerebral and less visceral.

Whoa. Ok. I was supposed to be doing things.

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition caught my ear. Rachmaninoff's prelude 23 no. 5 did the same. Catchy and driving.



But it didn't really take. I was far more impressed with Tool, SOAD, Linkin Park, Slipknot, etc.

About 6-7 years later, I gave it another go. Schubert caught my ear this time, but it turned out to be more the playing of Maurizio Pollini than Schubert himself. A mix of both. I listened to *every* other recording of this particular piece of music by Schubert, and no one played it the right way. Only Pollini. It spoke to me is a tremendously moving way. In that kind of way that makes your life come into focus and make some slight sense.

That exact path won't work for you I am almost certain. But it's been worth the effort.

A few things to try (broken up into categories):

Lots of classical instruments playing at once (try in this order):
Grieg Piano Concerto
Bruch Violin concerto #1
Brahms Piano Concerto #2
Bruckner #8 symphony, if you want to try the symphony thing
Schuman's piano concerto

Just piano:
Debussy fille aux cheveux de lin, then estampes pagodes
Chopin--sonatas, preludes, nocturnes, ballades
Mussorgsky -- pictures at an exhibition
Schubert--D960
Prokofiev--#8 war sonata but only after some of this other classical shit is semi interesting. As a point of departure it's kinda cray, but it's a good 'eye-opener' see spoiler

 

@18:59

Mozart, Bach--pass on this shit unless you are going to play it as the musician. It's boring af. Maybe Mozart's no 40 symphony or #21 piano concerto is neat

Strings:

Shostakovich--#8 violin quartet
Schubert -- Death and the Maiden quartet
Dvorak -- "American" quartet

anyway, good luck and hit me up if I can help

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Godspeed you, black emperor! Are the shit - I’ve never met anyone else who likes them!

Have you ever listened to Jazz Butcher? I feel insanely elite for being among five Americans who have heard of them. They were my favorite band for a few months as a teen.