Vinyl Me Please Classics

[NathanRicaud]

I have a brown pressing of Musical Massage that sounds good, but I am curious about VMP’s pressing of it. I might get it as a swap somewhere down the line.

I went with Man On The Moon this month. It was an album I kept holding off on. Thank God I did. Pressing looks very nice!

I’ve also got the brown pressing of Musical Massage! It does sound pretty good but I am 100% certain the VMP pressing will sound better as it’s AAA, remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed at QRP!

If you want though, I can compare the two pressings just to see if there is a massive difference in sound quality!

 

[NathanRicaud]

I really want VMP to do a VMP Classics ROTM for Sylvia Striplin’s Give Me Your Love, RAMP’s Come Into Knowledge or Roy Ayers’ Vibrations!

 

[JonnyH]

I’ve also got the brown pressing of Musical Massage! It does sound pretty good but I am 100% certain the VMP pressing will sound better as it’s AAA, remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed at QRP!

If you want though, I can compare the two pressings just to see if there is a massive difference in sound quality!

You getting the Cash and bandana?

 

[NathanRicaud]

You getting the Cash and bandana?

Yes!

 

[NewsFedora]

Debating on whether to keep Leon Ware or swap for a third copy of Billie Holiday. I'm getting Cash and dropping the other two tracks this month (talked my wife out of Kid Cudi yay)

 

[keylime_5]

Debating on whether to keep Leon Ware or swap for a third copy of Billie Holiday. I'm getting Cash and dropping the other two tracks this month (talked my wife out of Kid Cudi yay)

Why do you need 3 copies of the same pressing?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Why do you need 3 copies of the same pressing?

The first two had issues I believe.

 

[NewsFedora]

Why do you need 3 copies of the same pressing?

First two had major surface noise issues and VMP would only give me credit instead of a third copy. Sorry for not elaborating, I’ve been bitching about it here for the past two weeks and figured everyone here was sick of hearing me complain about it at this point.

 

[jfitzy]

First two had major surface noise issues and VMP would only give me credit instead of a third copy. Sorry for not elaborating, I’ve been bitching about it here for the past two weeks and figured everyone here was sick of hearing me complain about it at this point.

Uh oh. I swapped Leon Ware for Billie Holiday... now I’m worried that was a mistake.

 

[NewsFedora]

Uh oh. I swapped Leon Ware for Billie Holiday... now I’m worried that was a mistake.

Don't worry too much. Based on everyone else's reviews, I'm literally the only person getting crappy copies.

 

[VMPKJ]

Don't worry too much. Based on everyone else's reviews, I'm literally the only person getting crappy copies.

AND.... you got 2. That's tough.

 

[TCell]

So, we've got a Blues album coming in the next 3 months. That seems like a positive after these fallow past 3 months of uninspiring R&B albums.

 

[mdmost]

That's a lot of dueling laughing out louds.

 

[TCell]

That's a lot of dueling laughing out louds.

To quote a previous Classics album:
Laugh to Keep From Crying

 

[JonnyH]

So, we've got a Blues album coming in the next 3 months. That seems like a positive after these fallow past 3 months of uninspiring R&B albums.

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3 blues albums in the next two years. Lol

 

[keylime_5]

3 blues albums in the next two years. Lol

Sounds like 4 in the next 2 years actually, which is about par for what they usually put out.

 

[TCell]

Sounds like 4 in the next 2 years actually, which is about par for what they usually put out.

Well, after the first 9 months, when we got 3 Blues albums.

Unlike R&B where they've literally pressed obscure Stax records, for Blues artists, they've mostly stuff to the big name Blues artists (BB King, JLH, Muddy, et al.)

Who's left for big names of Blues?

Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Freddie King, Elmore James, John Mayhall.
(Robert Johnson and Son House too, although, they didn't really have full albums the same way did they?)

What obscure-ish Blues artists / albums do folks want?

The two I want most are:
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Hound Dog Taylor - Natural Boogie.

 

[Mather]

Well, after the first 9 months, when we got 3 Blues albums.

Unlike R&B where they've literally pressed obscure Stax records, for Blues artists, they've mostly stuff to the big name Blues artists (BB King, JLH, Muddy, et al.)

Who's left for big names of Blues?

Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Freddie King, Elmore James, John Mayhall.
(Robert Johnson and Son House too, although, they didn't really have full albums the same way did they?)

What obscure-ish Blues artists / albums do folks want?

The two I want most are:
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Hound Dog Taylor - Natural Boogie.

Junior Wells, Leadbelly, Lightnin' Hopkins... I'd be good with any of those as well as your list..

 

[trickyseven]

Well, after the first 9 months, when we got 3 Blues albums.

Unlike R&B where they've literally pressed obscure Stax records, for Blues artists, they've mostly stuff to the big name Blues artists (BB King, JLH, Muddy, et al.)

Who's left for big names of Blues?

Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Freddie King, Elmore James, John Mayhall.
(Robert Johnson and Son House too, although, they didn't really have full albums the same way did they?)

What obscure-ish Blues artists / albums do folks want?

The two I want most are:
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Hound Dog Taylor - Natural Boogie.

Pinetop Perkins, Son Seals, Bobby Rush, Roscoe Gordon

I love Hound Dog Taylor, I've got his first album, it's good. That Magic Sam is cool too. Would be totally on board for either.

 

[Mather]

Some Skip James...