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Vinyl enthusiast | Everything you see is from my personal collection | These are just my opinions.

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Sorry for the silence, folks.

Gonna start posting again in a few days now that life has stopped being, y’know... life.

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Jeff Buckley - Grace

(Columbia, 1994)

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David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

(Parlophone, 1973)

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?

(Sour Mash, 2017)

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Ten Records Which Shaped My Post-Teens (18 - 22)

*In No Particular Order*

Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999)

Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

Royksopp - Melody A.M. (2001)

Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)

Tool - 10,000 Days (2006)

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (2000)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987)

Nine Inch Nails - Broken (1992)

Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky (1992)

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New Additions

Patti Smith - Horses (Arista, 1975) / Jeff Buckley - Grace (Columbia, 1994)

Both re-issues, and both two absolute classics which I should have bought years ago, but only got around to buying a few days ago for some reason.

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Kraftwerk - 3D (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)

(Klingklang, 2017)

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Metz - Strange Peace

(Sub Pop, 2017)

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Rest in peace, Mark E Smith. Thank you for 40 years of The Fall and all the brilliant music which came along with it.

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Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

(EMI, 1967)

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The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth 

(Virgin EMI, 2015)

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hey, your collection seems pretty rad. Since one of your posts was on The Clash's "give em enough rope" I was wondering what your overall thoughts on the Clash are?

I’ve always loved them more than the Pistols in terms of being the “definitive” punk band. For me, everything from their debut up to and including “Combat Rock” is spectacular. There is some division on their whole incorporation of Reggae, but I’ve always thought it was just a natural part of their evolution as a band. “Sandinista” is kind of a tough album to listen to and absorb just due to its length and how they style a lot of the tracks in a sort of vignette-esque way, but I still like it regardless. 

But “Combat Rock” was their last good album in my opinion. I’ve always thought “Cut The Crap” to be drastically sub-par and disappointing. Just one fanatic’s opinion.

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It's like the slow food movement. It's like I feel like I've been eating McDonalds for the past few years and I needed to get back to that really slow-cooked feeling. And everything's out on vinyl now.

Nick Rhodes on MP3s vs Vinyl

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The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope 

(CBS, 1978)

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Sparks - Propaganda 

(Island, 1974)