World's Biggest Record Collection

[Mikey]

I, for one, do not have that album.

I've got a few obscure ones, most of which I can't recall here at my desk.

Here's one that has a song almost anybody in our generation has heard, but prolly nobody has the album (it's on a soundtrack):



The drummer plays with Chicago now, I think.

[Jay in Phoenix]

Since we're going obscure here, how about this one?

[Mikey]

That's obscure.

[Jay in Phoenix]

It was. It was like a soundtrack for a non-existent movie, all synthy and symphonic, theatrical vocals, etc. The only thing I remember about it specifically, was a one minute earthquake rumble that faded the album in, and the quality was so rich that if you had decent speakers cranked up, the room shook.

Cool moment, meh album.

[Mikey]

Can't believe I actually found this on Amazon



This guy performed on campus when I was in college. Solo performance, he played a whole bunch of home-made instruments. Sort of early new-age.
I was sort of impressed at the time so I sprung a couple of bucks for his album. Haven't listened to it in at least 35 years - I may have to break it out one of these days.

[Joe in PB]

Been out of the LP business since I joined the Navy in 1980. Don't even have a turntable. Tape deck finally shit the bed too. Pretty much just a CD and MP3 guy now. CDs at home and MP3s on my phone which has a 65GB memory chip added. Mostly for listening in the cube at the office and every now & then on a plane.

[Mikey]

I took good care of most of mine and still play 'em once in a while. I still like looking at the album covers while I listen to the music. Yeah I'm an old fart. So what? Also, the record sleeves with ads for dozens of other albums current at the time are hilarious sometimes.

I bought a USB turntable about 10 years ago with the idea of digitizing all of my records. Two problems -

1. The hisses and pops come through.
2. It's not like copying a digital file.

You have to start the record, turn on the recording, play it through and then stop the recording. After trying one or two songs I gave up and never considered it again.