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Ghost said:
Can I has De La??
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I've been waiting a LONG time for this one - finally coughed up $80 on Discogs after I got a raise at work.

There are only 2 left on Discogs, and honestly I've only seen a handful for sale ever. If you want it, try to budget now for it! I don't even know how many of these were made, but I can't imagine a ton due to the nature of the release. Although there is a smidge of surface noise, the bass on this bangs louder than most other records I have! :)
 
agutierrezb said:
The agutierrezb 2019 record collection challenge

So I've decided to embark on my own personal challenge, which consists of listening every record in my collection before the end of the year. My record collection is not that big -only ~250-, but I still feel like there are a bunch of records I don't give enough attention to, while still adding more titles to my shelves.

For this reason I've set a couple of rules in order to play every record at least once before December 31st: I'll play at least one record a day, going from front to back in the way I have them sorted in my shelf. I can play a different record (i.e. Not the next one in alphabetical order) if I feel like listening to something else in any given moment, but at least one of the records I spin in the day has to be the LP in turn.

I didn't take pictures for the first two days, but I'll try to document the process from here on, so I'll be posting daily on this thread. Wish me luck!
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#124: John Lee Hooker - It serve you right to sufger

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When I was in my teens I listened to some blues, specially virtuoso guitar kind of blues, but I soon lost interest in the genre in favor of more "complex" and "refined" kinds of music (that's what silly 19yo me thought). So when this record was reissued by VMP I wasn't really excited, since Blues seemed then to me like a bland genre where all artists sounded the same. I actually didn't buy this album, because I wasn't interested in it, I won it in a raffle they did.

Yet, for some reason, this record grabbed me from the start. There is something in the performances that made it sound so unique and authentic to me, in spite of following the well-established formulas of the genre. This has sent me down a path of blues rediscovery, where I have grown to appreciate and understand the genre more and more. I have yet a long way to go in my Blues studies, but this record right here sure was a key turning point in them.
 
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