Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Joe Mac said:
Himself said in the cestpool that Jan will be old school and then a bulk announcement of Feb-Apr.
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I hate these bulk announcements. It's cool the day of but then I just lost any really hype about them. I didnt feel engaged and just like I was preordering another Record. Something that slips out of my mind until it shows up at my doorstep
 
I plan on ending my subscription after I get aretha but if January is Brandi Carlile's 2009 album that'd make it very hard to quit lol
 
mdmost said:
Hints are 2009, 1980, 2004

Classics is the middle. left and right could be either but I'll assume it's the 10 year anniversary of something for Essentials.
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Essentials: Dan Deacon - Bromst (2009, We've gotten Electronic music albums, the past two Januarys, so this would fit.)

Classics: George Benson - Give Me the Night (1980, Jazz / R&B Crossover)

R&HH: Mos Def - The New Danger (2004, New album coming from Black Star...)
 
TCell said:
Essentials: Dan Deacon - Bromst (2009, We've gotten Electronic music albums, the past two Januarys, so this would fit.)

Classics: George Benson - Give Me the Night (1980, Jazz / R&B Crossover)

R&HH: Mos Def - The New Danger (2004, New album coming from Black Star...)
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I like this quite a bit, except I feel there are far better George Benson albums that could've been chosen for Classics.

Edit: I'd still get it, though.
 
NewsFedora said:
I like this quite a bit, except I feel there are far better George Benson albums that could've been chosen for Classics.

Edit: I'd still get it, though.
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Yeah, there probably are, I was just going off albums available from 1980. I haven't gone deep on George Benson's discography and I only have a used copy of Breezin' on vinyl and Beyond the Blue Horizon (which is awesome) on CD.
 
TCell said:
Yeah, there probably are, I was just going off albums available from 1980. I haven't gone deep on George Benson's discography and I only have a used copy of Breezin' on vinyl and Beyond the Blue Horizon (which is awesome) on CD.
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On the plus side, I saw Storf was intrigued by your guess and is going to check the album out. So maybe a bit of inception for down the road with that one...


mitchwagz said:
1980 had Prince’s Dirty Mind and Stevie Wonder’s Hotter than July. I feel both are too “modern” for Classics though. Doubtful VMP could swing a Prince release either.
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Someone on Reddit suggested Diana Ross' "Diana" and I am all for it.
 
TCell said:
Essentials: Dan Deacon - Bromst (2009, We've gotten Electronic music albums, the past two Januarys, so this would fit.)
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I like Dan Deacon, excited for the new record, but skimming back over some of my favorites from that year, a few other possibilities - Memory Tapes or Moderat could fit, maybe The Field. Something Ghostly-related - Phantogram. Hilarious if they pressed 30k - Tim Hecker
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I hate these bulk announcements. It's cool the day of but then I just lost any really hype about them. I didnt feel engaged and just like I was preordering another Record. Something that slips out of my mind until it shows up at my doorstep
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Strongly disagree. I don’t care about hype, I care about actually wanting the records. If the hype dies down after a couple of months then it means I didn’t need the album anyway.
 
I try to balance Need/Curiosity. The vast majority of my collection are records that I adore. Outside of that I do have records that I have purchased because I have viewed them as touchstones, possibly something that I may revisit down the road or people will come over and want to hear. And an even smaller percentage are records that I have purchased out of curiosity or even a little bit of FOMO. Some of those records end up on the for sale/trading block but a lot I leant to love or I think they help fill out a niche or hole in my collection.
 
2009 saw Freelance Whales release their debut album weathervanes, and I have been dying to get my hands on that record, I truly hope that this month will see this record get the reissue it desperately deserves.

Passion Pit's Manners was also released in 2009 and while I have that already, I would like to see that get repressed so more people could own it.
 
bettim84 said:
Strongly disagree. I don’t care about hype, I care about actually wanting the records. If the hype dies down after a couple of months then it means I didn’t need the album anyway.
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Fair points. Maybe hype wasnt the term I need to use because I do feel this first bulk was the best run of records they had in a while and I have been excited to spin each. It's that engagement of a record a month Club I miss I guess. Knowing the december Record in September kills that because we talk about it then and then the conversation dies
 
serotonein said:
I like Dan Deacon, excited for the new record, but skimming back over some of my favorites from that year, a few other possibilities - Memory Tapes or Moderat could fit, maybe The Field. Something Ghostly-related - Phantogram. Hilarious if they pressed 30k - Tim Hecker
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Oooooooooh, Memory Tapes could make for a really interesting choice.
 
blissfullychaotic said:
2009 saw Freelance Whales release their debut album weathervanes, and I have been dying to get my hands on that record, I truly hope that this month will see this record get the reissue it desperately deserves.

Passion Pit's Manners was also released in 2009 and while I have that already, I would like to see that get repressed so more people could own it.
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Freelance Whales would be amazing. Or Pinback’s S/T (released 1999). But both are a bit too indie for VMP I think. Passion Pit I could see happening. Manners is such a great album.
 
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