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20th Jan 2015, 2:49 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3725 Points Moderator	Went a bit nuts yesterday... but it was all good. Had one of those days you dream of having when out foraging, where I just kept getting winner after winner in the bins, and causing me to spend lose to £30 on 18 vinyl albums, 12 vinyl singles, a digpak album and a CD single! All the talk of classical music vinyl albums, and the excellent link posted in the forum thread about inherited classical vinyl here by deltic, made me want to get some of these label examples in my collection, and see what all the fuss was about as regards the audio quality... so I set out to scour those bins of neglected classical vinyl I keep passing over in the charity shops. Thought I'd fail in this attempt, but managed to get a german pressed Deutsche Grammophon of Brahms (Tulip Rimmed label), an HMV red with black half moon dog label of a Toscanini conducted Beethoven symphony selection, and even a Decca wide band label of Benjamin Britten doing William Blake, John donne (none of which are super rare or expensive - hence my ability to find them! - but at least I have them to hand in order to know what those labels look like while tentatively dipping my toe into the classical world of vinyl) Haven't listened to them yet, but will. Cosmetically though, you can see these are a different order of plastic altogether from that standard fare they press rock and pop on to... thick, and super shiny (Compared the Decca wide band with Let It Bleed, which also has a "Wide band" unboxed label, and is contempory with this Classical Decca, and you can see what Decca saved all the good wax for!). But while out, I started getting albums turn up again and again that I'd wanted: The Stranglers: Feline Roxy Music: Flesh + Blood, and Avalon George Harrison: Somewhere in England John Lennon: Double Fantasy Robert Plant: The Principle Of Moments Santana: Caravanserai, and Borboletta Elvis Presley: G. I. Blues, And the comeback T. V special album. Cat Stevens: Catch Bull At Four Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Stevie Wonder: Talking Book, Songs In The Key Of Life, and Hotter Than July. Jimmy Knepper: Tell Me (Rare jazz album, which I got because it's on that curious Affinity /Charly label). And also Sparks: the Number One Song In Heaven 12" blue vinyl. Singles I found: The Beatles: Let It Be (In a Help reissue sleeve) The Jess Roden Band: Under Suspicion (Island D. J. Copy) Fifth Dimension: 7" Mini album (Scoop 33) Saxon: Never Surrender Fleetwood Mac: Dreams Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Fanfare For The Common Man Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg: Je T'aime (Looking forward to listening to that one!) Ned Miller: From a Jack To A King (It's on the old faithful silver top London label, I Just grab these whenever I see them now) The Walker Brothers: Deadlier Than The Male David Bowie: Boys Keep Swinging. Forrest: Rock The Boat. Louis Armstrong: E. P. (RCX-1007). The digipak was Seasick Steve: Dog House Music, and the Cd Single was a contribution to my Oasis CD bingo game I'm playing: Supersonic. How happy am I!?! £30 doesn't seem that much now I've itemised it.