One of my favorites was Revelator by Phosphorescent. Mathew Houck has been putting out great music for a long time but this one is one of his best.

In India vinyl costs 6000₹ for famous albums, a dollar equivalent would be paying 150$ for each vinyl. Have some gratitude Americans🤦🏻

It is almost impossible to choose just 5. My choices would be Hwy 61, Blood, Desire, Shot of Love, and - nobody will agree with this - Real Live. Number 6 would be The Basement Tapes.

Are all of those originals? Even Time Out Of Mind?

this is great. i love pearl jam and this makes my day.

It’s to bad there not selling to Canada anymore

Totally agree with you GI. There’s nothing like dedicating a certain amount of time to sit back and listen to music on vinyl. I can remember evenings when I’d put on a record, sit down and relax on the couch and spend the night listening to music. Happy times and something I’m trying to get back to doing on a regular basis.

Love and Theft is 10 times better than time out of mind.

No Nashville Skyline? I think you’re wrong to leave it out.

I'll stick to movie soundtracks. There is one that every collector no matter what kind of music you are faithful to is from the film OBSESSION by Bernard Herrmann. My #1 film score (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!

So I bought my first record player about 10 years ago (Crosley Cruiser) and it came with hardware and software to digitize your vinyl… And that’s why I bought it, because I was fully bought-in on the iPod experience. But about as soon as I started converting these records I came to realize that the vinyl experience WAS JUST SO MUCH BETTER. You’ve gotta just sit and listen to it. And that’s part of what makes them great. I ditched that Crosley and went hifi very quickly. So glad we’re back man!!!

BLONDE ON BLONDE is number one. 🇺🇸

The collection *IS* worth that much. It's just that when you buy or sell in bulk, there's a discount involved. This is with anything when you buy/sell in bulk; it's not unique to records.

I never stopped buying vinyl but as for DJing I did switch to CD & DVD in the mid 2000's. I came across some Technics 1200's then I was back into vinyl hardcore. I wanted to represent what a true dj is.

People hate the ones advertising out of print lps for prices that are in orbit; until the day they do the same thing...then they hate it even worse. Not being able to find anyone to buy them at those prices. Then they think "Maybe I'm not so rich as I thought." The reality is that even if your prices come back down to Earth; 80 to 90% of your records, you will never find a buyer for.

Nothing wrong with Dynaflex !

This was a good video/story about how vinyl has risen from the dead. Everything you talked about was true. I feel that the introduction of record store day had a big impact on the vinyl revival though and you didn't mention that at all. I am a CD collector and watching you tell this story about how this physical format is coming back was uplifting but sad at the same time. Your friend still had no Idea about the current vinyl revival. It is hard to miss at this point. I love your content and can't wait to see what you bring this year.

Personally I would include Desire also from '75. Hurricane, Mozambique, Black Dimond Bay and Sarah. One of the most beautiful love songs ever written.

Cancelling my Prime really changed the way I shop . I buy way less on Amazon and instead support my local shops.

Would you have even liked Time Out of Mind if it didn’t win a Grammy?

Exactly right

I love my records. Back in the 80s I didn't care what media I owned. Whether it was cassette or record and by 1989 CDs. When stores stopped carrying vinyl by 1993 I just bought everything on CD. Then in 2012 I open boxes in my closet of my old records and just started playing them again. Then within a year I started only buying records again unless my favorite artist hadn't jumped back in with releasing their music on record. I'm glad I got back into collecting records again in 2013 because I was able to get so many from different countries for very cheap. This past year 2024 with the price gouging not only from New vinyl, but used is getting to a point it's gonna push people away from buying. A used album shouldn't cost $20, $40, $500. I don't care if it was first press, misprints, signed, made with the artists DNA. As long as it's able to play and sounds decent , I'm good with it. I've seen hundreds of albums sold in the most terrible conditions for too much money, but because it's an original certain people don't seem to care. They may have a better copy of it, but needed that original just to say they have one.

We didn’t really have records in my house. I’m 40. We had CDs and the cd player. I only streamed for more than a decade. Then, one day I thought it would be near to have a record player and something tangible to show my teenager. Now I’m hooked. I love all the colored vinyl, liquid records, pop ups in the jackets. So much fun. It’s super fun to listen to a record with my kid.

Like a lot of other people I know, I bought very few LPs from the early '90s to the late '10s. Why? Partly because my old turntable and most of my collection of records from the '70s and '80s were in the garage and nobody was making new turntables. Few were making LPs, either, so you had to go out of your way to find them. They became largely a luxury/novelty for retro-trendy kitsch fans, like lava lamps (I kept mine!) and Pet Rocks. When more new and used independent record stores started opening up (not just thrift shops and "antique malls"), it became easier to start thinking of records as something worth revisiting. But for about 20 years or so, they were an underground cult collector's item. So, how were record companies persuaded to start pressing vinyl records again? Was file sharing/streaming and the consequent collapse of the CD market what made "physical media" a thing again?

I agree with everything you said. My Great Niece loves vinyl and loves Taylor swift and just likes hanging with me listening to her vinyls of swift at my house. And also likes choosing from my collection as well. ❤

Vinyl has outlasted everything and long May it continue.

Great vid...curious if you are still in contact with any of your old bandmates and have ever discussed jamming together again in some fashion

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Great synopsis. I recently rewatched a documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records and its spiral of $1 Billion in sales to bankruptcy in a few short years. I’ve been collecting vinyl since 1977. There is noting like the ritual of preping and playing the lp while reading the liner note, seeing which guest musicians are playing on the album and discovering new music that way.

I used to work for CBS Records/Sony Music and I took a business trip to Carrolton, Georgia where CBS Records has one of their pressing plants. The warehouse where the use to press vinyl was as large as a football field. I was told it use to house 30 to 40 vinyl presses. When I visited the site, there was 1 vinyl press. The site also did CD duplication and cassette duplication.

From my point of view; becoming a first time father in -89, followed by two more, it coincided with the decline of vinyl along with my time available. A few cd’s here and there felt ok, at least. Until -08 !!! I came across the 4 Lp reissue of Led Zeppelin’s ”The song remains the same” in a media store. I didn’t have a turntable anymore, but I still had my old records , and I just HAD to ad that album to them. Speed blindness made me buy AC/DC’s ”Black ice” at the same time. Now, I was on the dark side again. Later I bought a turntable and started the quest to obtain the ones I’d missed out on vinyl in the 90’s and 00’s. Now there’s only four left on that list, and one of them is Alice in chains ”Tripod”, which you made a -short- about. Along the way I’ve infected two buddies, my brother in law, my boss and my sister. A ragtag band of vinylheads rummaging the crates of increasing shops in northwestern Scania in Sweden.

Love the videos! Especially the how to open up a record store series. Well done. Question, would you consider doing a video about if you were to open a record store today knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? Thanks

Great video. All valid points. And, I think, the key idea is commitment. Buying a record means you have literally invested in it, so you are much more likely to sit and really listen to it. Deeply. That doesn't happen as much with streaming etc. I liken it to radio: it's on in the background, and it's pleasant, but it's no big deal if you zone out. Records focus your listening. (Streaming and downloads have their advantages too, of course. It's great to have all these options.) Curiously, the same thing happens with books and readers. I can download millions of electronic books (for free, because where I live nobody cares about copyright). But I still prefer paper books because of... Commitment. And the reading process is deeper. Retention of info is stronger. And there's also the collector instinct of seeing all your books on the shelf. (And again, at the same time, e-readers are a great boon. It's great to have all these choices.)

Out of My 1970-1983 Lp Collection. My Most Valuable R My Hardcore Punk .. Dks The Descendants .. Etc....

The sound quality of vinyl is also a thing to be considered. Being into HiFi SQ is a thing. I know digital perhaps is more perfect - greater dynamics etc. and I got lot of digital music CD, FLAC and DSF files etc. But the commitment to listen to a record is a thing that I and some of my friends actually do and enjoy. My daughters 21 & 19 are getting into and are buying records - enjoying the physical format, the process of putting on the album dropping the needle and enjoying their music 😁🤗 They both want their own turntable. One day one of them had got a new album with a favorite artist - proudly holding it in her hands - “This is mine, I own it", “I can listen to it whenever I want to”, “No internet needed” and enjoying reading liner notes, pictures on the cover and inlets. My kids grew up with music - playlist it the car and kitchen cooking etc, playback devices in their own rooms from an early age, albums in the living room. I introduced them to several different genres that I enjoy and now they introduce me to new stuff that I didn’t know. BUT short story told - I am happy they enjoy listening to music, making decisions of their own. My collection will live on when I am gone 😃🙏 Records are here to stay 👍😁

Such a great take on how far (in the wrong way) we have come that a guy in his 40’s had no idea people have reverted back to the simple pleasure of sitting and consuming music in a physical setting. 😮 Also, what was you band??

I can't find anyone to "talk music" with ( outside of my inner circle). Pre-internet, strangers on the street had a basic knowledge. Now, even my inner circle doesnt have the knowledge that some casual listeners used to have. In 2000, Napster era, i remember thinking " whats gonna happen after people do all the downloading they feel they need"? I predicted a blasé attitude towards music. Unfortunately i was right. People dont know band names anymore, much less members names. One thing i noticed early, ( circa 2003), there was nothing to distinguish a true deep music fan with an IPOD versus a top 40 fan with an IPOD. True music fans would get a vinyl at Hot Topic, and it would serve to separate them from a casual music listener. ( Hot Topic was pretty much the only place that carried sealed new vinyl, until indie stores started carrying vinyl circa 2008. Whether they had a good turntable or not, who knows? In 1993, i was singing the new Pearl Jam to my friends. They wondered how I heard it, as it wouldnt come out for a couple weeks. I told them i preordered it on vinyl record, and they looked at me like i was smoking crack. " wait, old fashioned records?, i thought they stopped making those a few years ago?". I explained that Pearl Jam were fans of records and they did this special early release for vinyl fans. They still didnt get it lol. Preordered Vitalogy on vinyl too

Thank you for this very thoughtful video. I too am a vinyl collector, and fully agree with all you said here. Let me add one more advantage of vinyl - it's a very mature technology that's been around a long time, which means your playback equipment is not going to become obsolete and unusable. You don't have to worry that your vinyl collection that you've built up over many years will suddenly become unplayable and useless. I'm now 82, and I have some records I inherited from my mother which I still play and enjoy. And when my son eventually inherits my stuff, he'll still be able to enjoy all of it for very far into the future. I find this very comforting.

Streaming is a crime against music. I've read that streaming makes up 85% of how music is consumed by the masses. On the other hand, artists are using more and more artificial means to create music, so perhaps streaming is all new music deserves. Vinyl is lovely, too bad greed is going to kill it. This is a very informative as well as thoughtful presentation, thank you.

Nice vid as usual! What was your band’s name?

I just find it amazing that we got streaming because the record companies were still selling cd's for 18 bucks a pop in 1999 and then flash foward a decade and half and they're charging 30, 40, 50 dollars for that same audio on vinyl and hey, we're all supposed to be cool with that and not feel absolutely conned...all over again.

Yes, it made a comeback, but due to astronomical prices, awful QC (warps, pops & clicks, etc), more often than not, paper sleeves and time after time just poorly mastered copys of what was being produced back in the day I think vinyl is starting to decline again... I've even given up with the likes of mo-fi because of the appalling QC... Personally, I think because of greed, vinyl has blown it! Im much happier buying cds these days if i want a physical copy...

Freewheelin’, times they are a-changin’, another side of Dylan, bringing it all back home, blonde on blonde, blood on the tracks, desire… that’s my list. I do like a lot of stuff in between but those are albums I listen to regularly

I should give Time Out Of Mind more listens. The other 4 I fully agree and would include Nashville Skyline

I liked Street Legal a lot. But otherwise good picks.

Streaming is the Devil's own invention. When music becomes almost free it becomes worthless!

“Rapid fire” 25 minute video 😆

Do not call RECORDS - Vinyl just like , we do not call CDs - Polycarbonate plastic substrate with reflective aluminum layer and protective acrylic layer .

Waxahatchee - Tiger's Blood Liked your choices otherwise.

Blood On The Tracks is a collection of Dylan songs dusted off to try and erase his Christian “phase”. The album is not very good.