things you prize (in yr collection)

so bright...so beautiful...pppppppppprecious....

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but, you know, doesn't have to be something worth a ton. just stuff that you would never want to part with barring some financial catastrophe.

stuff you looooooove. and cherish.

like my minty japanese pressing of madcap laughs. the kind of record that actually makes me believe in god when i play it cuz it sounds so insanely good.

feel like such a n00b compared to most of you dudes, but...

michael hurley LPs
francis bebey -- akwaaba
sonic youth -- sister
catatonic youth 7"
beat-to-shit copy of bohannon's stop and go

leo kottke -- mudlark

weirdly enough?

yeah, like i said, it doesn't have to be a fancy record. i have five dollar records i would never part with cuz i never see them anywhere and i luuuuuuv them.

um

peter grudzien - the unicorn
fahey - volume 4
byrds rekkerds
burritos 'gilded palace of sin'
pearls before swine records

i've got this pink vinyl of a riot grrl comp with a bunch of bands i've never heard of and it's pretty much my favorite thing on earth

coupla records bb king signed for me on his tour bus

Couple of signed Hans Reichel records, my Slovenly albums that my cat was sick on before she died, Zen Arcade, John Coltrane albums in nice think Impulse sleeves, Free Jazz with the hole cut in the gatefold, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) cos that is the nicest sounding vinyl I own, some Chrome albums on coloured vinyl cos they're vv pretty, SCG Live From Planet Boomerang

a bunch of old foetus on vinyl, particularly the double picture disc of rife with luchadors all over it
the worn out copy of Welcome To My Nightmare that ive had since i was a kid

more stuff i cant think of but im at work right now

eric dolphy, at the five spot vol. 1
ricardo villalobos, achso
ornette, change of the century
ryuichi sakamoto, left handed dream
circle (dave holland, anthony braxton, chick corea, barry altschul) paris-concert 1971
coltrane, s/t (the blue impulse album)

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huh i guess it was limited to 500 copies which explains why ive only seen it once.

coltrane, s/t (the blue impulse album)

That was the first Coltrane I ever heard, 'Out Of This World' was a total gateway to another dimension for me, love that thing so much. Great call!

This:
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and this:
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yea 'out of this world' is really really special xp

Silver Apples s/t with the silver foil (if only I had the poster!) and United States of America s/t

also this

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by now I've got rarer stuff than those I'm sure, but at the time I found em I was like "omg yes." and still listen to all three all the time

mushroom stained la monte well tuned piano box set. never selling that shit

wait i wanna hear that story!

My father once got me an album by a New Orleans musician named Willie Humphrey. He was on a business trip there, and must have picked it up on the street 'cause he knew I liked records. Geez, every time I see that record I think of dad.

first uni summer. working at the faversham in leeds (hipsterish kind of club/venue). futureheads first big show, kind of disillusioned with leeds and uni as a whole, guy wearing plants round his neck, young me says wtf. old school friend who got me the job invites me back for mushroom tea. drink a lot of that. watch family guy. sun comes up. taxi home, meet next door neighbour who was getting home at the same time. hippy tin foil type of dude, lovely though. he has more shrooms and weed. we bond on his front doorstep. head inside. i suggest koyaanisqatsi. we watch that. retire to my room for chats about lucid dreaming, the world and buddhist stuffs. can't sleep now, mushrooms taking over. sun beaming through the windows. i suggest some chill music. i put la monte on. we take turns turning the record over. i can't really describe it but the chords were floating and time become irrelevant. truly magical, much laughter, more shrooms.. tiny pieces at a time. sleep-not-sleep, blissful states. somehow it's four in the afternoon and there's a dog outside my bedroom door. we take it for a walk through meanwood valley, apprently it belongs to my housemate's parents who are visiting for the day. only found this out a few days later. i really can't describe how the music sounded. music to me always had abstract shapes, forms and patters, this didn't. it just existed in the same way as the sunlight, the room we were in and the tress outside. every time the record stopped it bummed us out. incredible experience. the last time i did any drugs like that and the only time i heard the well tuned piano in its entirety.

trip report style

easter every fuckin where

two more: my buzzcocks box set (i've owned all the albums seperately, but the box vinyl is just so nice and pretty. i think it only came out in the u.k. plus, it has the album collecting those last lsd-soaked singles.)

maybe even more importantly, my major force box set on mo' wax. one of my favorite things on earth. so beautiful, so brilliant. i've played those records a zillion times and they still sound as great as ever. once, maria's family was around, maybe for a holiday, and i went to bed while everyone was still up drinking and when i got up in the morning i saw the box set lying open next to a table covered with empty beer bottles and one record still on the turntable and i thought about leaving maria forever. hahaha, okay, maybe not forever. but i did want to kill her. a little. i mean, it might have gotten a drop of beer on it!

La Monte Young - Black Album
Pork Queen - Beautiful Vision (I was at this show)
Charalambides - Market Square
Muslimgauze - Tandoori Dog & Blinded Horses
Jazz Butcher, Chrome, The Ex, Virgin Prunes, Pop Group, Slits, Raincoats
Boredoms - Michidai 7"
Zoviet France - Shouting At The Ground
H.N.A.S records
Chumbawamba - Jesus H. Christ

etc.

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my caff and able label 45s
my original blue vinyl 'tugboat' 7"
my christine's cat flexi

two more: my buzzcocks box set (i've owned all the albums seperately, but the box vinyl is just so nice and pretty. i think it only came out in the u.k. plus, it has the album collecting those last lsd-soaked singles.)

The big paving slab that is "Product:" ?

The first copy of On the Beach i bought (£40 at a record fair in Norwich as a teen - exciting times).

Spirit of Eden - the clerk in the shop in Vancouver was drunk and crying when he sold it to me.

Dad's Shaking All Over 7". VG+ (some beer stains but plays fine).

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"The big paving slab that is "Product:" ?"

yeah, that's the one.

japanese pressing of aghartha-miles davis
schnappsie-the only dog in th world w a magic button
thurzton moores harlem globetrotters record and supremes poster where he writes a note to his mom explaining he wont be home xcuxx hes going to see blue oyster cult at new haven coliseum
some weird mime xian revue
things musicians gave me-dearraindrop picture disc,larkin grimm 10",fursaxa lp,vetiver 12" etc
may keep robbie basho sings cuzz its really good