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

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 3, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987 "2003-07-03T10:37:38Z")
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### Author: ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/1 "2003-07-03T10:37:38Z")

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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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### Author: ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
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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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### Author: ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
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And I was lucky that I ‘discovered’ classical music AFTER I got a CD player. 🙂

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### Author: ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
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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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### Author: ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/5 "2003-07-03T11:40:05Z")

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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.  
🙂

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### Author: ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \*  
> \*\*I’m sure there are many many more. \*\*

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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### Author: ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)
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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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### Author: ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/8 "2003-07-03T12:16:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by todd33rpm \*  
> \*\*  
> 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…) \*\*

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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### Author: ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/9 "2003-07-03T12:57:04Z")

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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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### Author: ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
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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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### Author: ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/11 "2003-07-03T13:02:13Z")

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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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### Author: ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/12 "2003-07-03T13:06:24Z")

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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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### Author: ![S\_Puppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@S\_Puppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/S_Puppy)
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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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### Author: ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/14 "2003-07-03T14:54:42Z")

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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. 🙂

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### Author: ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
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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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### Author: ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)
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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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### Author: ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)
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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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### Author: ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-owners-which-lps-did-you-duplicate-on-cd/185987/18 "2003-07-03T18:54:01Z")

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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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### Author: ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
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My list is all bought…

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### Author: ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
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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.

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