What are your top 5 favorite VMP store exclusives that you’ve gotten and top 5 VMP store exclusives you’re most gutted for having missed?

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Here are mine

Top 5 I’ve gotten
  1. Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal
  2. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains
  3. Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
  4. Os Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorare
  5. Ofege - Try & Love

Top 5 I’ve missed
  1. Tom Waits - Closing Time
  2. Ted Lucas - Ted Lucas
  3. Orquesta Akokán - Orquesta Akokán
  4. Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
  5. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions)

Sorry if this was a pre existing thread, I looked and didn’t see anything. If a mod knows of such a thread, please merge me.
 
Top Five Haves:

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit...
Young Thug - Barter 6
Young Thug - Jeffery
Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness

I'm sure I could make a case for a few others (Cherry Tree, Grazie!, Phrenology), but those above are probably the ones that I listen to most. Gang of Youths might be the only one I've ever secured during a TBT.

Top Five Misses:

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Anderson .Paak - Venice
Caroline Polacheck - Pang
Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 1
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

I missed out on a good number of things because of website issues and whatnot, but I hate not having these the most.
 
Leaving out RoTM, just exclusives.

Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Sundays and Cybele - Gypsy House
Daniel Norgren - Skogens Frukter

In all honesty, there is nothing that I am kicking myself for missing. Since there are very few true VMP exclusives I have been able to find comparable pressing of stuff that I missed or sold
 
Top 5:
1. Donald Byrd- Stepping Into Tomorrow- might be the most beautiful record I own
2. The National- Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
3. Art Blakey- Just Coolin'- another beautiful record
4. MF DOOM- Born Like This
5. Johnny Griffin- A Blowing Session

Missed Out On 5:
1. The National- Cherry Tree EP
2. MF DOOM-Special Herbs complete set- VMP did a special bundle price for all of them back when Mm...Food was released. Had the awesome Dr Doom covers too.
3. Freddie Gibbs- Pinata
4. Madlib- Flight To Brazil
5. Mitski-Bury Me At Makeout Creek- just because my kid adores Mitski right now
 
Top 5 in no particular order (non ROTM):
Kate Bollinger
Still Woozy
Flight to Brazil
Mick Jenkins - The Waters
Aretha - spirit in the dark

Missed:
Eddie Gale
Toots and the maytals
Jack Dejohnette - sorcery
Sonny Rollins - the bridge
Tom Misch - what kinda music
 
In no particular order, but I don't worry about what I've missed ;)

Fiona Apple - Tidal
Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care
Nick Cave & the BS - The Boatman's Call
St, Vincent - St. Vincent
 
Top 5 in no particular order:
Donald Byrd - Stepping into Tomorrow
Claudia Thompson - Goodbye to Love
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Crumb - Jinx
Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW/Stone Woman

Top 5 misses
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil




Mostly just kidding, here are four others I wish I had gotten/been around for:

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps
Quasimoto - The Unseen
 
NewsFedora said:
Top 5 in no particular order:
Donald Byrd - Stepping into Tomorrow
Claudia Thompson - Goodbye to Love
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Crumb - Jinx
Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW/Stone Woman

Top 5 misses
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil




Mostly just kidding, here are four others I wish I had gotten/been around for:

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps
Quasimoto - The Unseen
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Yussef Dayes Trio – Welcome To The Hills
Alicia Keys – The Diary Of Alicia Keys
Yusef Lateef – Before Dawn: The Music Of Yusef Lateef
Sonny Sharrock – Ask The Ages
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders



I was really choked I missed Oliver Nelson's Skull Sessions when it was already sold out by the time I got the email, but I wound up getting the Tidal Waves version a few months later. There have been tons I would have liked to have gotten, but that was the only one I was really bummed to have missed.
 
NewsFedora said:
Top 5 in no particular order:
Donald Byrd - Stepping into Tomorrow
Claudia Thompson - Goodbye to Love
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Crumb - Jinx
Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW/Stone Woman

Top 5 misses
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil
Madlib - Flight to Brazil




Mostly just kidding, here are four others I wish I had gotten/been around for:

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps
Quasimoto - The Unseen
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Forgot how good that Charlotte Day Wilson is. I bought it later on from somebody here and spin it a lot.
 
avecigrec said:
I was really choked I missed Oliver Nelson's Skull Sessions when it was already sold out by the time I got the email, but I wound up getting the Tidal Waves version a few months later. There have been tons I would have liked to have gotten, but that was the only one I was really bummed to have missed.
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The mock-up vs. reality on the vinyl color for Skull Sessions was atrocious. Just a blobby mess.

The album itself is great so I'm glad you did get it on vinyl, even if it's not the VMP variant.
 
Top 10 Favourites:
  1. Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
  2. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
  3. Toots & The Maytals - Sweet & Dandy
  4. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
  5. Link Wray - Link Wray
  6. Fela Kuti - Zombie
  7. Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 1
  8. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
  9. Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care
  10. Wagon Christ - Musipal
No super regrets, but...I probably should've Tina'd these ones:
  • Madlib- Flight To Brazil
  • Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
  • John Prine - Tree of Forgiveness (Have this on black now, but still...)
 
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I have a lot of favs, many are mentioned in this thread already.

I have only one regret and it's the Moses Sumney Rising. Thought $20 or whatever it was was too much at the time. Sigh
 
Top 5 haves, in no particular order
U.G.K - Ridin Dirty
Sparklehorse - Box of Stars
Cody Jinks - Lifers
Ted Lucas
Sebadoh - Bakesale

Top 5 missed (most of them mostly because they are hard to get in any version at the moment):

Madlib - Flight to Brazil
De La Soul - Is Dead (Got lost in the mail...:mad:)
The National - Cherry Tree E.P
Little Simz - Stillness in Wonderland
DOOM - Born Like This

I have actually traded quite a few exclusives over the years, mainly because they're just not worth holding on to compared to what you can get for them. These include Young Thug - Jeffrey, Mitski - Bury Me..., Weyes Blood - Titanic..., Khruangbin- Con Todo... and Nick Cave - Boatmans Call.
The second hand market for VMP stuff is pretty crazy.
 
mdmost said:
Top 5:
1. Donald Byrd- Stepping Into Tomorrow- might be the most beautiful record I own
2. The National- Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
3. Art Blakey- Just Coolin'- another beautiful record
4. MF DOOM- Born Like This
5. Johnny Griffin- A Blowing Session

Missed Out On 5:
1. The National- Cherry Tree EP
2. MF DOOM-Special Herbs complete set- VMP did a special bundle price for all of them back when Mm...Food was released. Had the awesome Dr Doom covers too.
3. Freddie Gibbs- Pinata
4. Madlib- Flight To Brazil
5. Mitski-Bury Me At Makeout Creek- just because my kid adores Mitski right now
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Holy shit I forgot Flight to Brazil. That could easily be my number one truthfully I think I had repressed missing out on that one and the non VMP repress because it had truly slipped my mind, big ISO on this one
 
Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal
Ted Lucas
Os Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorare
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Malik
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass (the full bundle was a lot of fun)

Don't know what I've missed out on, doesn't matter.
 
mdmost said:
2. MF DOOM-Special Herbs complete set- VMP did a special bundle price for all of them back when Mm...Food was released. Had the awesome Dr Doom covers too.
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Dang. I don't remember there being a bundle. I think I picked through the leftovers in the sale section. At this point I'm still missing Vol 1 & 2😭
 
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