LP Owners: Which LP's did you duplicate on CD?

Cafe Society
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Over a period of 25-30 years I built up a largish collection of LP’s, 75% of which were jazz records.

Eventually, when car tape players became standard equipment I started collecting cassettes, some of them dupes of LP’s.

Still later, when CD’s seemed to be the only way to get new stuff, we began what’s turned into a reasonable CD stash.

If your record buying history is anything like this, what CD’s do you have that are dupes of LP’s (or tapes)?

Some of mine:

Kind Of Blue – Miles Davis
Sketches Of Spain – Miles
Time Out – Dave Brubeck
At The Village Gate – Herbie Mann
Travels – Pat Metheny Group
Live At The Fillmore East – Allman Brothers Band
At Basin Street – Clifford Brown and Max Roach
Music From Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini

and maybe 30 more

You?

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Al Stewart - Year of the cat
APP - Pyramid
APP - The turn of a friendly card
APP - Eye in the sky
Camel - Mirage
Camel - Moonmadness
Camel - The snow goose
Camel - Rain
Camel - I can see your house from here
David Sylvian - Brillant trees
Genesis - Foxtrot
Genesis - Nursery crimes
Genesis - Selling England by the pound
Genesis - The lamb lies down on broadway
Genesis - A trick of the tail
Genesis - Wind and wuthering
Japan - Quiet life
Japan - Tin drum
Joe Jackson - Night and day
Kate Bush - Hounds of love
Meatloaf - Bat our of hell
Peter Gabriel - Plays live
Peter Gabriel - So
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Queen - Sheer heart attack
Queen - A night at the opera
Queen - A day at the races
Roxy Music - Avalon
Talking Heads - Fear of music
Talking Heads - Remain in light
Tears for Fears - The hurting
The The - Soul mining
U2 - Boy
U2 - October
U2 - War

I’m sure there are many many more.

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And I was lucky that I ‘discovered’ classical music AFTER I got a CD player. :slight_smile:

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Too numerous to list.

At my peek I had about 300 LPs. I recently
resorted them into two crates: one crate contains things I have on CD, the other not. Oddly enough they split about 50-50.

Almost everything considered “progressive” (Yes, ELP, Genesis, Tull, Pink Floyd, King Crimson) got replaced. Many of the holdouts are obscure British things that never seemed to be released on CD in the USA and I never felt like shelling out for an import CD. (Most of these things tended to be bands from the '80s).

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CONTINUED:

I too discovered jazz and classical after 1985 so those parts of my collection were always on CD. In fact the last CD I bought was a Cab Calloway collection. Love that Minnie the Moocher.
:slight_smile:

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Brian Eno - Before and after science
China Crisis - Working with fire and steel
Fischer Z - Going deaf for a living
Fischer Z - Red skies over paradise
Joe Jackson - Body and soul
Kayak - Merlin
Kayak - Phantom of the night
Kayak - Periscope life
Lou Reed - Transformer
Marillion - Misplaced childhood
Talk Talk - It’s my life
UB40 - Signing off

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John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Steely Dan Aja
Dire Straits Communique
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays As Falls Witchita, So Falls Witchita Falls
Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing
The Who Quadrophenia

I know I’ve gotta be missing some…should we include albums we originally owned on 8-tracks instead of vinyl? (Maybe I should phrase that “must we?” as I’m not sure I want to own up to Anne Murray…)

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10-4, todd33rpm, on the 8-track dilemma. But if you’re not ashamed, why not?

I guess the main idea is to see how when you have a second chance to pay for music, do you?

I never had any 8-tracks or some of the other odd formats that have come and gone. If I ever had a 45 I don’t remember it.

BTW, todd33rpm, like your handle and your record list!

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Thanks, Zeldar!

I’ll ‘fess up to Anne Murray, then…Love Song was a great vocal pop album, when she was still working with Brian Ahern, later to produce…and marry…Emmylou Harris. Besides, I figure anything that has John Lennon’s favorite cover of a Beatles song can’t be bad. It was also apparently the first album in her catalog mixed to sound good through an FM radio; her earlier ones have that midrange-heavy AM mix designed to sound good on a crappy car radio. (See also early Motown, early Beach Boys, early Wall Of Sound productions, and the original U.S. Beatles’ mixes on vinyl, and much more, obviously.)

Had that one on vinyl, and 8-track, and now CD as an import.

Slight hijack that might be of interest…I’ve discovered that Capitol Records occasionally uses an actual vinyl album to remaster some of the titles for which they’re missing the master tapes. That’s happened with a pretty large percentage of the early Anne Murray stuff, and also with The Band’s Stage Fright album. (If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of cue burn and the occasional vinyl “pop” as the needle travels the grooves.)

In the case of The Band, Glyn Johns had done one set of mixes, Todd Rundgren did another set. IIRC, Rundgren ended up doing seven songs on the original vinyl Stage Fright and the other three were Johns’. When the first CD version was issued in the early '90s, it had (mostly) the wrong mixes.

So, that means that I’m such a sucker that I had the vinyl, and the first CD issue, and a CD remaster of the vinyl album. I’m not exactly peeved about it, but I do wish they’d said something about it SOMEWHERE in the booklet or on the back cover. (Many other companies take pains to say something, whether it’s East-West/Atlantic on The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 or Rhino on some of their reissues, so you’re not surprised by the sound…)

Let’s see…I can also add Joplin In Concert (Janis, not Scott) to my list.

Van Morrison It’s Too Late To Stop Now and Tupelo Honey
The George Benson Collection
Steely Dan Gaucho and Countdown To Ecstasy

Still thinking…

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“Travels – Pat Metheny Group”

I love, love, love this CD (which I also have on LP). The version of “Are You Going With Me?” is one of my favorite pieces of music.

Sorry for the hijack.

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I have some that I’ve had on 8-track, LP, cassette and CD.

The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
Kiss - s/t, Hotter Than Hell, Dressed to Kill, Alive, Destroyer

Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man (though I haven’t found the CD, yet)

Too many to mention that went from LP to Cassette to CD…

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Hey, folks, if it’s about LP’s or records you’ve been through some format changes with, don’t sweat hijacks.

And plnnr, that’s one of mine as well. AYGWM was something I heard as background music for some NPR news thing and just had to own it. It took months before our jazz station identified it and I went out right then and bought it. Lyle Mays blows me away.

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Arlo Guthrie - Best of
Bee Gees - Best of
Byrds- Byrds, The
Byrds - Greatest Hirs Vol II
Canned Heat - Cookbook
Doctor Hook - And the Medicine Show
Fleetwood Mac - Heroes Are Hard to Find
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
Fugs - Greatest Hits
Harry Chapin - Dance Band on the Titanic
Jimi Hendrix - Concerts
JJ Cale - Special Edition
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Leo Kottke - The Best
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Nazareth - Nazareth
Paul Revier & the Raiders - Greatest Hits
Paupers - Magic Peope
Ramones - Mania
Rolling Stones - Big Hits: High Tides and Green Grass
Steppenwolf - Live
T Rex - Electric Warrior
Tompall & The Glasser Brothers - Greatest Hits
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
Various - Fillmore The Last Days
Various - Greatest Rock & Roll Hits
Velvet Underground - Live 1969
Zombies - Early Days
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Fleetwood Mac - Vintage Years
Loudon Wainwright III - T Shirt
Loudon Wainwright III - Final Exam
Quicksilver - Anthology
Bob Dylan - Biograph
Beatles - White Album
Strawbs - Burning For You
Strawbs - Best of
Troggs - Best of
Ten Years After - Sssssh
Savoy Brown - The Best Of
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
Iron Butterfly - Evoultion - The Best Of
Zombies - The World of the Zombies
Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes

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I tried to make an itemized list, but when I got to 100+ and wasn’t out of the “C” section yet, all I can say is…a lot. :slight_smile:

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Yikes, KGS!

I thought I had a reasonable sized collection. So what have you done with those old LP’s? Ever listen to them?

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I’ve copied about 75 LP’s and cassettes to CD now, including some that have been mentioned here. But most of mine are folk music, including a number of albums by Silly Wizard, Planxty, Schooner Fare, Stan Rogers, and a whole lot of LPs released by small labels that probably never made it to CD.

In a lot of cases, I hadn’t listened to these for a long time simply because our old turntable was degrading. When I decided to start burning these albums onto CD, I invested in a new turntable just for the purpose, then went through a period of almost 5 years when I bought no new CDs simply because I was having so much fun “rediscovering” all those old LPs. (Take that, RIAA!)

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Creedence Clearwater Revival- Chronicle
Beatles- Abbey Road, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Greatest Hits 62-66
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Steve Miller Band- Greatest Hits 74-78
Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
Ramones- Rocket to Russia
Dropkick Murphys- Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Green Day- Kerplunk!, 39/Smooth
Operation Ivy- Energy
Weezer- Maladroit
Police- Outlandos D’Amour
Elvis Costello- My Aim is True

As you can see, a lot of this stuff is from newer bands. I’m 16 and just rescued my dad’s record collection from the garage about a year ago. I duplicated a lot of his best vinyls on CD and I duplicated a lot of my best CDs on vinyl. I like both.

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Oh, I get it! You folks are burning your own CD’s!

I was talking about buying them! Silly of me not to remember that other option.

I have yet to burn my first CD, so if some of the other replies have been burning vs. buying, I guess the (what seems to me) larger volume of “dupes” is less surprising.

Unyikes!

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My list is all bought…

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All of my wife’s Blue Note jazz collections including, but not limited to: Art Pepper, Clifford Brown and a host of others. I’m goofing at work, so can’t go look them up. Her records, unlike mine, were and are in nearly perfect condition, so the reproduction was excellent without having to use anything fancy.