A superb group singing excellent arrangements.
The 80s LA punk band the Minutemen put out some fantastic albums on SST. I assume most are OOP. One of my most prized records is this 1984 release of Double Nickels on the Dime I purchased when it came out.
Part of a rare 3LP Carmen MFSL box. Gorgeous 3D sound of a kind you wonât hear from a file. After some further adjustment optimizations I canât stop listening to vinyl at the moment, the difference, this open room full of air and 3D adventure, is too big.
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the Elephant Table album. double LP of very weird stuff, most of it âdemo qualityâ at best.
some of it still haunts me 35 years after a bunch of us used to listen to it pretty much every day when lounging about on long very chilled nights.
I do see copies pop up on ebay sometimes, but usually quite expensive. iâll get my own copy one day when the time / price / bank balance all align 
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Havenât added to the out of print thread (which I guess is where the 2 SVR one-steps technically should now reside).
As for one under the radar, I actually think this Greatest Hits is my best sounding Steely Dan vinyl at the moment (better than my AA & AB Aja). You can still get this pressing at a reasonable price in +VG condition and it is Ludwig mastered. It may not be at the one-step level, but the price/sound value is one of my best so far.
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Indeed thatâs a great Ludwig mastering!
And the SRVâŚyes, often not long after I post something in the in print thread itâs out of printâŚbut I think itâs still possible to get the SRV titles at just little higher prices in some shop stocks.
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I bought the SRV MoFi SACD for Couldnât Stand the Weather, but Iâm going to stop there. Iâm just not that into SRVâŚnot that I donât see pure talent thatâs completely off the scales. I do.
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Is there one audiophile Pop record which I would recommend at least as much as this SRV?
Yes, the Hoffman/Gray mastered AP 45 RPM Rumors.
The cheapest one on Discogs is 150$âŚbuy it, itâs worth it and sounds quite as perfect as the One step SRV. Otherwise the same 33 RPM mastering which I also bought at the time is similar enough.
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Jazznut - This sorta freaks me out, so may have to buy to see what you could possibly be talking about. Though ending up with a $150 45 I never play gives me pause. I tend to hate the experience of not being able to listen to what was originally a two-sided rekkid without getting up and down every two or three tracks. So that biases me in advance. The other thing is the notion that Rumours should ever have turned into - lo, these many years hence - an album of Audiophile Veneration. I canât recall the last time Iâve spun in.
And I was very much into it at the time. I used to play songs from it solo acoustic in bars, and saw the North American Tour and so on. My then-girlfriend was a waitress at an organic restarant and store they ate at in Ann Arbor when they played there. She called up whispering into the phone, âI THINK FLEETWOOD MAC IS HERE, YOU HAVE TO COME RIGHT NOWâ.
I walked in and found Stevie in the front of the place, looking at a shelf of Soap or something, so I stood next to her, as if I wanted some dang soap. Found I was utterly unable to speak, as she was one of The Biggest Things in My World at the Time.
This is despite the fact that Iâd found the merging of Buckingham and Nicks with Fleetwood Mac to be aâŚMystery To Me (haha). Iâd bought their album prior to Mick asking them to join the band, and so saw them as something Entirely, Vastly Separate from my long-term concept of Mac starting from the PG days.
Or to summarize, in the day âokâ, today a nostalgia trip. Got the album, have not played it in some time. Have the B & N got it pre Fleetwood Mac break out, it sits on the shelf to this day.
Now speaking of Fleetwood Mac, this is a âBest Ofâ I can relate to and still play,
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Oh man, you donât know this release yet? You definitely need it, if you heard it youâd pay even more! Buy the 33 RPM if youâre bugged by record flipping. This record and mastering is a proven must, you can read it everywhere.
Thereâs another one (jazz) which will be worth the few hundred $ it costs now (sold in less than a minute and just got shipped): the Craft One Step of Jusef Lateef / Eastern Sounds.
Just because itâs one of the very best timeless (not many of the era are really timeless) 60s jazz, great sounding and the only audiophile mastering.
Just looked on Discogs againâŚthere seems to exist a misprint version. Thereâs also an open NM non misprint version for 125$ currentlyâŚguess thatâs the one to go for.
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EhhhâŚthis is one of those things where, yeah - if I was still into this particular period of FM as I still am for, say, âThen Play Onâ - OK. But I personally fail to grasp any sort of long-lasting Musical fascination with Rumours. Despite having stoodâŚTHIS CLOSE to the Welsh Witch back in the Day.
If youâre talking about this being some sort of Holy Grail of Vinyl 45âsâŚmaybe. But still. Donât understand it unless you totally LOVE this album and play it regardless of the format.
EDIT:
Frankly at the time, the thing that struck me was that the merging with Mac was more of a realization of Lindsey Buckinghamâs deal - âGo Your Own Wayâ, for example - I can stil get excited about playing on an acoustic guitar and singing:
"Loving you
Isnât the right thing to do
How can I ever change things
That I feel?
If I could
Maybe Iâd give you my world
How can I
When you wonât take it from me?"
âSecond Hand Newsâ also.
But then Christineâs âSongbirdâ harkens back to everything sheâs ever done, independent of B&N.
Recently watched a thing about the making of that track, how they went to an empty venue with just a piano and herself - and worked at it until 5 in the morning until they got the take.
And how her ex John talked about standing offstage and breaking down in tears hearing her sing it every night.
Yes sure, thereâs too much music to listen to all those special releases long enough for the money they cost now if weâre serious. I just can say there are albums you newly discover when hearing them in this quality. I recently bought the Friday Music first Toto release as audiophile version with two of my best loved songs of them (I donât listen to many more of them anymoreâŚbut those are so great and the impact and energy is incomparable to whatâs on digital.
I pulled the trigger on discogs. Thanks, Jazznut!
Jazznut - not entirely sure what version youâre referring to, as I found this from 2011, and as there would seem to have been âonlyâ 5k pressings of this - one of the most popular records ever - not sure if youâre talking about a subsequent re-release. This Mikey article refers to the Hoffman remaster.
Other responses to this query result in 45rpm versions that cost around $50
I mean the Hoffman/Gray remaster with only 5k pressings or the 33 RPM version of it which is available cheap and not that limited. Thereâs also a EU 45 RPM version to avoid as well as a misprint version of the Hoffman/Gray 45.
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Just wondering how it is that this Ur-Version could still be so easily avialable, and how to know which one youâre getting, independent of price.
Kinda pretty happy with the Qobuz at the moment - sufficiently chubby, though admittedly shiny. Have to reiterate that Iâm pretty sure that were I to buy it, I wouldnât hardly ever go to the trouble to spin it on four-sided vinyl, when the highres Qobuz mostly captures it. And it not being my fave FM rekkid.
I wonder myselfâŚI think they repressed it.
Any KPG&SH@ATM stamped 45 RPM version except the misprint version with one song missing and one double should be fine. Just read myself about that on Discogs.