a trip to mansfield
― a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
did it on the strength of those three visible sleeves and the few emi red corners i could spot.
recognise the kleiber pastoral on decca and one of the other sleeves is rostropovich and giulini. any guesses on the third?
looks like someone just trying to quickly clear a collection they've inherited rather than a dealer trying to ditch their shit. reckon you can't collect 3,000 albums and not have some gold in there *somewhere*
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
dumb thing is that i was in mansfield four weeks ago and couldn't find shit in the charity shops
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
right it looks like a good purchase
― a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
might also want to buy a decent size estate to drive them home in
― a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
borrowing the wife's car, now wishing i'd attempted to drive it more than two mies in the last 18 months
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
give those axles a right proper try out anyway
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
oh wait, the third one looks like itzhak perlmann and giulini again
was listening to giulini's britten serenade earlier this evening too, definitely the man of the hour
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
gee, did i ever have a potatoe moment on this thread last night *blushes*
― space bl00ps (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
oh god oh god what have i done?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/648c4a1a-cddd-4d75-8b29-c5c52531305e.jpg
engelbert humperdinck? klaus wunderlich? scritti politti? aiiieeee!
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
the couple of DG sleeves give me a glimmer of hope, but god, that doesn't look great does it?
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
pray for me, ilv
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
gonna leave a trail of easy listening all the way back down the M1 as i frisbee those things out of the window
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
slight solace to be had from lack of visible black & white minstrels
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
glum
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
albums.......
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:15 (ten years ago) link
crooners
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Friday, 29 November 2013 08:00 (ten years ago) link
How did it turn out? All duds?
― Evan, Monday, 2 December 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
NickB I feel for you, I bought & sorted a 10,000-record collection in summer of 2012 and I think it took a few months off my life.
― sleeve, Monday, 2 December 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
at the eleventh hour i emailed the guy back and told him that i was slightly worried that the original photo he posted wasn't a representative sample of the actual contents. he swore that he had now separated out all the easy listening stuff and that it was now all 100% classical. i asked him for some further sample photos and got back shots of several records by mantovani and a bunch of budget line light orchestral comps, so at that stage i told him i was bailing and now i'm just waiting for the refund. there were lots of assorted charity shop price stickers on the follow-up pictures and it turns out he'd bought a pallet of records off "some guy" who i'm guessing must have been in the waste collection business. could still have been a few gems in there but basically it was garbage. whether the initial photo was a fluke or deliberate i don't know. seller was slightly pissed off, but it ended up being too much of a risk for me to waste a day and a tank of petrol on...
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
dodged a bullet there imo
― sleeve, Monday, 2 December 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
went to a charity shop and found some cheap scott walker vinyl instead. we came through....
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
swore that he had now separated out all the easy listening stuff = this is a clear giveaway
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
a shame but probably caveat ebayor
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
i still of course harbour completely unrealistic dreams of finding a huge stack of treasure somewhere, probably just around the next corner
― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Monday, 2 December 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/_58.jpg
what a strange collection of records i've just won
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
a bit of swingle, a bit of stockhausen
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
the three on the top left are all peter maxwell davies afaict. dunno what the ecm looking one is
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.high-endaudio.com/softw.html
this guy seems... passionate... lots of info
― brimstead, Friday, 27 November 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
These are the oldest, rarest and most expensive pressings. In addition, they are also the poorest sounding and usually in the worst condition.
lol
― brimstead, Friday, 27 November 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
he really lays into record dealers every chance he gets, it's a hoot
― brimstead, Friday, 27 November 2015 05:42 (eight years ago) link
Caution - The reader is now going to enter a bizarre world of fantasy, paranoia, ego, greed and wishful thinking: The Fantasy, Egotistical (and Greedy) World of Decca Record Collectors and Dealers
ha, this is great.
― no lime tangier, Friday, 27 November 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
also, they're spot on about the decca headline series sounding incredible!
― no lime tangier, Friday, 27 November 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
huh interesting what he has to say about the mercury golden imports which i almost always completely ignore and don't play when i get them. will have to listen to some i guess.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
while there are definitely labels that have a high percentage of great sound, he is correct in saying that it depends on the record. not the pressing, but the actual individual record that you have in your hands. (though it could be said of any kinda record i guess. i don't CALL records hot stampers but all records are not created equal.)
i can play 10 DGG records from the same era and in the same near mint condition and maybe get one truly superior record.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 November 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
What are some of the best classical guitar records or artists to look for? Segovia is obvious but I don't know enough about the "scene" and the highlights in it.
― Evan, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
i picked up this Rostropovich/Britten album over the weekend, it's pretty amazing. i think this LP was referred to upthread maybe?
https://img.discogs.com/GJjn-0ZNOXmkELOFzy7IwLyguYY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4354737-1423038215-8477.jpeg.jpg
― nomar, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link