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:
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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.
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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
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[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:
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I'm pretty sure we got a real one here, albeit a relatively standard one.
My parents passed these on to me
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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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