• I Got My Parents' Huge Old, Rare Record Collection [120+ Vintage Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys
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I was looking for my old suitcase in my mom's closet today, and instead I found a box of vinyl records. I didn't know she had much music, she said she had a collection of her and my Dad's old stuff but had apparently lost it. Either she REALLY didn't look hard enough or just didn't bother to. Regardless, I pulled out the box to look at some crappy soundtrack albums and Rod Stewart but I was stunned when I found stuff like this: [quote][img]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3261/imag0306s.jpg[/img][/quote] I told her about it and she said I could have them as long as I don't destroy them, which would make cutting off my big toe look smart. I looked through the rest of the collection of over 120 7"s and 12"s and figured you guys might like to see this too. Here's a complete list of what I found (give or take a few I missed, not by much though) [b]ALL of these records were 1st pressings, or similar. None are reissues, the youngest record here is still 30 years old. All from around 1960-81[/b] [code]LPs The Beatles - Introducing... The Beatles! The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (North American Soundtrack Edition) The Beatles - Abbey Road The Beatles - Revolver The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) The Beatles - Help! (North American Soundtrack Edition) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles - Rubber Soul Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. Rolling Stones - Flowers Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads Rolling Stones - Tattoo You Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed* Rolling Stones - Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) Talking Heads - Remain In Light Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food Talking Heads - Little Creatures Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Steely Dan - Aja Steely Dan - Greatist Hits Steely Dan - Gaucho The Cars - The Cars The Cars - Candy-O The Doors - Strange Days The Doors - The Doors Queen - A Day at the Races Queen - Greatest Hits Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975) Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees The Police - Outlandos d'Amour The Police - Reggatta de Blanc The Police - Zenyattà Mondatta The Police - Ghost in the Machine The Police - Synchronicity The Eagles - Hotel California The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)** Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John - Here and There Elton John - Madman Across the Water Elton John - Greatest Hits Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound** McCoy Tuner - Atlantis McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading - To the Limit Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun (haha there's the Rod Stewart) Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today! Styx - Pieces of Eight** Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River The Who - Who's Greatest Hits Cream - Fresh Cream Paul Simon - Graceland Pete Townshend - White City Bread - The Best of Bread Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun Paul McCartney - Tug of War Chicago - Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius Weather Report - Heavy Weather Yes - Fragile David Bowie - Let's Dance Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys The Clash - Combat Rock Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents John Denver - Rocky Mountain High Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy Dr. John - Dr. John's Gumbo Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash Neil Young - Harvest Karla Bonoff - Karla Bonoff Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Dire Straits - Dire Straits Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black Jethro Tull - Stand Up The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl The Fixx - Reach the Beach Gerry Rafferty - City to City Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant John Renbourn - The Lady and the Unicorn Gordon Lightfoot - Cold on the Shoulder Leo Kottke - Greenhouse Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual The Manhattan Transfer - Bop Doo-Wopp Atlantic Records - The Jazz Years: Atlantic Records 25th Anniversary ABBA - Some album I can't read, it's in Chinese** Jean-Luc Ponty - Electric Connection Linda Rondstadt - Lush Life Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water David Sanborn - Hideaway Roxy Music - Greatest Hits Jim Croce - Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Throught the Alley Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch Hall and Oates - Rock 'n Soul Part One Randy Newman - Little Criminals Supertramp - Breakfast in America Dan Fogelberg - The Innocent Age Billy Joel - The Stranger Richard Pryor - Is It Something I Said? Ten Years After - A Space in Time War - All Day Music Grover Washingon Jr. - Mister Magic Commodores - Greatest Hits Various Artists - The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Executive Version)* Various Artists - Crossroads: Music from the Motion Picture 7" Singles The Beatles - The Beatles' 1968 Christmas Record The Beatles - Eight Days a Week/I Don't Want to Spoil the Party The Band - Up On Cripple Creek Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) The Young Rascals - Groovin' The Cryin' Shames - Up On the River Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out/Chinatown *I have the album jacket but the actual record is nowhere to be seen :C **These are my Dad's, bought when he lived in Hong Kong. You can tell from the Chinese characters and tracklisting differences. NOTE: Introducing... The Beatles! is one of the most frequently counterfeited albums in history, but I have a really good feeling that this one is a legitimate first copy. She had it since she was a kid, like age 11-13. Since it wasn't really counterfeited much until the 70s I seriously doubt that it's fake. I'll check it tomorrow to make sure. [/code] There are at least 120 pieces of music in this box so I only took pictures of what I liked the most. [img]http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/2789/recordsrecordsrecords.jpg[/img] I did take full pictures of three records inside and out, here they are. Clearly they aren't exactly in perfect condition, but I suppose it makes sense seeing as how it hadn't been acknowledged for at least ten years and they were only kept in a box. [quote]Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [img]http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8141/sgtpepper.jpg[/img][/quote] [quote]Sticky Fingers [img]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/782/rollingstones.png[/img][/quote] [quote]The White Album [img]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5525/whitealbumu.jpg[/img][/quote] Feel free to request any pictures of any one of the records and I'll do it for you. I just wanted to share :3 Oh, and can anyone tell me if any of these records would still be worth much? Clearly some of them are damaged (they really aren't that fucked up, but some that were frequently used by a teenager fifty years ago are worse than others) but all the actual vinyls look just fine. Those Beatles LPs really make me wonder... I wouldn't sell these, it's just something I'm curious about :3:
Nice. That's pretty much a gold mine of records. [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] Your mother really knows her stuff.
Man, my parents sold all their records in college...
ask them why they stopped collecting.
man all those albums and there's no Pet Sounds.
I expected more Bowie, but there's two Stevie Wonder records. :v:
I hope I get my Dad's albums Probably not I hope I get his sound system though >:D, it's so misused, mom is a nazi and now he can't listen to music anymore because she complains about it every time he puts an album on
She says that she remembers having a couple of albums that wasn't in this box, like With the Beatles, What's Going On, and a couple of Bob Dylan albums her boyfriend got her in college when they both used to smoke a fuck ton of pot. And once I saw Today! I just searched the whole box for Pet Sounds but I was let down :C The worst part of all is how my Dad used to have a good collection of his own, but his 2nd wife fucked him so hard for them. He had Ummagumma, DSoTM, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, Soundtrack to the Film More, and A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Not a single Pink Floyd album in this bunch D: [editline]28th July 2011[/editline] Oh, he also had the Beatles' recalled Butcher album cover. My cousin tore it apart as a toddler. Terrible.
[QUOTE=Handsome Pete;31384098]Not a single Pink Floyd album in this bunch D:[/QUOTE] How can you find a Yes album and not a Pink Floyd album. No sense was made. :)
Well all that is awesome My parents were at record-buying age in the early '80s so most of the ones I could get from them were punk rock / new wave / synthpop Also what the fuck happened to that copy of The White Album, it looks like it's had Magical Mystery Tour pressed onto it?
fucking yes remain in light i want that on vinyl
[b]GAWD[/b] [h2]DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMM[/h2] You lucky son of a bitch. Holy shit, that's a gold mine right there.
You've struck the goddamn motherload there.
Ok I've been hunting to find out if this Introducing... The Beatles is counterfeit. I've used this site [url]http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html[/url] So far I'm leaning towards the idea that it's a Version II Mono. The inner sleeve is plain white, the disc doesn't have separated album and band names, etc. Here I'll just put up some pics: [quote][img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2792/introducing.png[/img][/quote] I'm pretty sure we got a real one here, albeit a relatively standard one.
My parents passed these on to me [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/0324.JPG[/img] AND YEAH, I LOVE SAM COOKE
I would kill for those Beatles LPs.
[QUOTE=ElGrego;31395384]My parents passed these on to me [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/0324.JPG[/img] AND YEAH, I LOVE SAM COOKE[/QUOTE] OOOOHHH FUCK I want Freedom of Choice so BAD But the Pink Floyd... fuck... next time I see some at my local record store I'm emptying my bank account on em
[QUOTE=Handsome Pete;31396504]OOOOHHH FUCK I want Freedom of Choice so BAD But the Pink Floyd... fuck... next time I see some at my local record store I'm emptying my bank account on em[/QUOTE] Yeah man, Devo is the way to go!
you should be ashamed not liking the rod stewart you have. those are two of his best albums. get shot
I never said I didn't like him. I just implied that he looks silly and it's like all my Grandma listens to anymore. Maybe I'll give them a good listening to once I get my record player back this weekend.
I would kill for that Pastorius vinyl
Holy shit. And I thought some of the stuff I got off my parents had got was good! Incredible.
Why is that white album in such shitty condition?
[QUOTE=samframpton;31455146]Why is that white album in such shitty condition?[/QUOTE] looks like Magical Mystery LP was pressed up against it for years. Easy explanation.
My parents managed to lose their entire collection. No idea how it happened.
all my dad ever listened to was the smiths and the cure so thats what I got.
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