This is an excellent piece John, truly questioning your collection and an honest appraisal of what you acquired over time. In our youth much of this music spoke to us and it was vital to our very soul. Having moved several times over the years we have purged some of our collection of records. I have all four of those Southside records you mentioned and I still give them a spin on occasion. And I still enjoy Steely Dan. My taste in music expanded greatly when I was working in a college radio station back in the early eighties. I discovered traditional and Delta blues artists, explored a wide range of jazz recordings and became exposed to the punk rock era artists, some of them influenced by Lou Reed who I had followed for years and seen in concert. Our tastes evolve over time but we have nearly all of the music of Bruce Springsteen, REM, Joni Mitchell and Pearl Jam and they continue to resonate with us. I am sure I don't have nearly the collected works of Bob Dylan that you own but I do have eighteen of his best records. 1975 was a special year for rock music just as 1959 was a seminal year for jazz. I really enjoyed this piece John, thanks.
Graham Parker’s album Howlin’ Wind is one of the best ever. It was produced by Nick Lowe and most of the band (The Rumour) were in Nick’s previous band Brinsley Schwartz. My vinyl collection is down to one box but that one is in there.
I can identify with this situation. Every so often I go through. both my records (78 & 33rpm & cd) and my book library, and do a purge, usually giving the discards to the local library's annual book sale. At this point it's painless, and makes room for what I want now :) As for LP's once I had hundreds, and now only 3 , and I keep those only for sentimental reasons, one is an very early (1958) Classical Stereo LP, that was a favorite of Dad's, & the other two are autographed.
Thank you for sharing this story. It brought back a lot of memories. I once had a huge stack of albums that I accumulated during the mid 70's to early 80's. Once I went to college my mother sold the house I grew up in and moved to a townhouse, and somewhere in that move, my pile of records (both large and .45 singles) vanished. I wish I had them back. There were some clunkers in there, but also a lot of great memories.
While I have culled my vinyl collection from 3200 to its present number of 800 or so, there are albums I wish I had kept. Mistakes were made...
This is why I started a complete listen through of all my records. I went by 1.Genre 2.Alphabetical 3. Chronological.
It took me 2 years.
IMO the Kinks “Superman” was disco, especially the 12” version.
This is an excellent piece John, truly questioning your collection and an honest appraisal of what you acquired over time. In our youth much of this music spoke to us and it was vital to our very soul. Having moved several times over the years we have purged some of our collection of records. I have all four of those Southside records you mentioned and I still give them a spin on occasion. And I still enjoy Steely Dan. My taste in music expanded greatly when I was working in a college radio station back in the early eighties. I discovered traditional and Delta blues artists, explored a wide range of jazz recordings and became exposed to the punk rock era artists, some of them influenced by Lou Reed who I had followed for years and seen in concert. Our tastes evolve over time but we have nearly all of the music of Bruce Springsteen, REM, Joni Mitchell and Pearl Jam and they continue to resonate with us. I am sure I don't have nearly the collected works of Bob Dylan that you own but I do have eighteen of his best records. 1975 was a special year for rock music just as 1959 was a seminal year for jazz. I really enjoyed this piece John, thanks.
Graham Parker’s album Howlin’ Wind is one of the best ever. It was produced by Nick Lowe and most of the band (The Rumour) were in Nick’s previous band Brinsley Schwartz. My vinyl collection is down to one box but that one is in there.
Memories are always good things. There is no mystery about it. What we viewed, what music we loved, who we loved are what we are right this very day.
I can identify with this situation. Every so often I go through. both my records (78 & 33rpm & cd) and my book library, and do a purge, usually giving the discards to the local library's annual book sale. At this point it's painless, and makes room for what I want now :) As for LP's once I had hundreds, and now only 3 , and I keep those only for sentimental reasons, one is an very early (1958) Classical Stereo LP, that was a favorite of Dad's, & the other two are autographed.
Thank you for sharing this story. It brought back a lot of memories. I once had a huge stack of albums that I accumulated during the mid 70's to early 80's. Once I went to college my mother sold the house I grew up in and moved to a townhouse, and somewhere in that move, my pile of records (both large and .45 singles) vanished. I wish I had them back. There were some clunkers in there, but also a lot of great memories.