Wish List For Vinyl Pressings



Vinyl is king. Lets make it bigger and better.

With the huge resurgence of vinyl pressings new, reissue, 45RPM Lp's and specialty box sets, not to mention turntable sales, we are certainly living in the great second life of the analogue vinyl Lp album. All this and the abundance of used records is wonderful.

Here's the thing, I was thinking that the industry could use a list by us of albums that would be well received if put to press. Who else but a group of AudioGoners to offer up a wish list. This helps everyone, the artist, the record industry, the record stores and us the music lovers. Everyone wins.

Please keep with a couple of simple guide lines to make this an easy read for those industry guys. This is a list of titles that have never been on vinyl or are out of print, or very, very rare items. This should be record titles, artist names, maybe even catalog numbers if the item had previously been in press. Lets keep the banter to a bare minimum, if you would. The hope is that this will be read by the right folks and we will see (and hear) all this great stuff on our favorite format.

Happy Listing & Happy Listening, as always!
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Showing 30 responses by r_f_sayles

I've got another one that is soooo good... and so hard to find on vinyl.
Los Lobos- Kiko from 1992 Warner Bros / Wea

Happy Hunting, Happy Listening!
jbhiller, you aren't kidding, hard to find... Just found Black Foliage: Animation
Music 1996 in Japan on vinyl and have had Singles and Beyond 2000 Lp for
some time now. Nice work.

Oh, and please, I add... Collective Soul S/T from 1995
never on vinyl as far as I know.


The Cowboy Junkies - Crescent Moon 1993

the only album of theirs not offered on vinyl to the best of my knowledge and another beautiful offering from our Canadian friends.

Happy (analogue) Listening!

Gordon- The BareNaked Ladies

Wrecking Ball- Emmylou Harris

Bed Bugs- The Odds

Breakfast in New Orleans Dinner in Timbuktu- Bruce Cockburn

Nothing but a Burning Light- Bruce Cockburn

Music by Ry Cooder- Ry Cooder (soundtracks compilation)

Collective Soul- Collective Soul 1998 Atlantic Records

Beautiful Freak- Eels (1996)

two letter words- Richard Thompson Band (live 1994)

Lakme- Delibes (Sutherland, Vanzo, Bacquier. Orchestre National De l’Opera de Monte-Carlo ~Richard Bonynge London/Decca 1989

Here's a start
Loki1957, your wish have already been granted!

http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/59104/Cowboy_Junkies-Trinity_Revisited-180_Gram_Vinyl_LP

See how easy it is ;^)

Happy Listening!
Mosin, thanks.

I do own Wrecking Ball, Nothing but a Burning Light, and Beautiful Freak, all on low volume, hard to find Netherlands pressings and I realize their value. I love the music and would hope to have a pristine copy and of course, for others to be able to have a copy for less than a hundred a piece or so.

Happy (analogue) Listening!
Luna

Lunapark (1992)
Bewitched (1994)
Penthouse (1995)
Pup Tent (1997)
The Days of Our Nights (1999)

Yeah, I know they were pressed briefly, try to find all of them...

Happy (indie) Listening!
A Hifi reissue of JAZZ PARTY (MONO) a 1959 album by jazz legend Duke Ellington would be wonderful. I have a slightly dog-earred copy on six-eye Columbia that absolutely smokes the Classic Records stereo version, as good as it is and that many think is so dynamic. No comparison.

Happy Listening!
Van (the man) Morrison-

Poetic Champions Compose 1987

Hymns to the Silence 1991

Too Long in Exile 1993

Days Like This 1995

The Philosopher's Stone (1969-88) 1998 Polydor

All great albums that are hard to find and in good shape, and in the case of the last title, a two disc set, spans almost thirty years of his career and to the best of my knowledge has never been pressed on vinyl.

Happy (analogue) Listening!
a new Audiophile pressing of Suzanne Vega's - 99.9 F° (1992 A&M Holland)
would be nice.

Happy (analogue) Listening!
Emorrisiv, Look also for the UK press Chris Isaak - Wicked Game on Reprise
GEMA/BIEM 1991, it has a different play list than "Heart shaped
World" including an (instrumental) rendition of the song "Wicked
Game" and a stunning cover of the Yardbirds "Heart Full of
Soul". I think it is pretty hard to find also, yet worth it.

Has his "Forever Blue" ever been put to vinyl?

Wicked Game"" would also be an excellent candidate for reissue. Hey why not
give it the
full monty... 45RPM by Acoustic Productions?!

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Game_(album)[/url]

Happy Hunting & Listening!
I'd like to see additional pressing of two of Bob Dylan's recent releases as they are going for way too much money and are great pieces of work.

Love and Theft - 2001 Columbia

Time Out of Mind - 1997 Columbia

Happy Listening!
So many things by Yusef Lateef are either hard to find and/or pressings sound
less than optimum, especially some of the Impulse! vinyls. Titles like Eastern
Sounds form 1961 Prestige/OJC would be well worth a quality pressing, this
is an amazing record. In 1957 on Savoy Jazz the Jazz Moods title is another
beauty and Yusef's Live at Pep's of 1964 was a fine example of just how
diverse his talents are as a multi-instrumentalist from tenor sax, flute,
bassoon, and bamboo flute, and oboe etc. This was Mr. Lateef at some of his
finest. CD's just wouldn't portray these performances at their best. I hope to
see the record folks take some of these more seriously.

I saw Yusef in Detroit at the 2007 Jazz Festival in his eight-seventh year and
this man amazed me with his diverse mastery of instruments and spoken
word poetry in between songs, he was sharp, vital, and loving in his handling
of the music. I feel blessed to having experienced him live for the second
time. I hope this music is not left to lose.

Happy Listening!
I wonder if we'll see "Balm in Gilead" Rickie Lee Jones 2009 Fantasy/Concord
on vinyl, like her previous endeavors???

Hope so
another dark and beautiful gem from Cowboy Junkies the album... "Lay it Down" from 1996

love, peace, and chicken grease
Kingdeezie,

I've never seen "before these crowded streets" on vinyl.

I would also like to see the title "Under the Table and Dreaming" as well... One would think RCA might find some value in pressing these.

Happy Listening!
Ok, I know this thread has been dormant for some time but...

Well, it has been a wait, and we win again, Luna's bewitched comes out this Tuesday on vinyl Lp for the first time ever!!!

Vernneal, evidently you misunderstood the point of this thread...it was music that you wish was on vinyl, but is not, or is so rare that it is cost and sourced prohibitive, but that's ok. Fortunately no one (or their wallet) will have to die for acquiring this list of goodies.

Happy Listener!
Hifiharv, I'm with you on this one. Ani Difranco that righteous babe, we need (she deserves) to have far more of her titles but to vinyl Lp!

Happy Listener!
Ok, it's been a while but here are a few from Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus (Elvis Costello) (the true King!) that just never found there way to wax...

Painted from Memory

My Flame Burns Blue

The River in Reverse

...what are these record companies thinking?!
I would like to(NOT)thank Rodman99999 and Palasr for adding anything to this otherwise, civil thread.

Happy Listening! ;^)>
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter -Reckless Burning

(first album/briefly pressed to vinyl. Falls somewhere in the Trinity Sessions- Cowboy Junkies and So Tonight That I Might See- Mazzy Star genre)

Hauntingly beautiful

*AtmaSphere: Ralph, I would love to be a part of that!!!

Happy Listening!
Beautiful Freak from The Eels DreamWorks Records –DRLP-50001 (1996)vinyl consistently pulls just shy of four hundred bucks a copy in M- (ish shape) and good luck finding one.

Daisies Of The Galaxy by The Eels on Bong Load Records –BL47 is another.

I loved Bong Load Custom Records!!! Lovely slabs of black beauty, thick stock/high gloss gatefolds, outstanding quality...

Happy Listening! ;^)>
Yusef Lateef ‎– Live At Pep's Volume Two
Impulse! ‎– 547 961-2
(release on CD in 1999)

Yep, volume one was released on vinyl back in 1964, so go figure what Impulse! was thinking?!
The Be Good Tanyas ‎
- Blue Houses 2000 (not on label, self issued)
 -Chinatown 2003 on Nettwerk America

Gillian Welch
- Revival 1996 Almo Sounds
- Time (The Revelator) 2001 acony Records

I realize Blue Houses was briefly released on vinyl in 2011 (try to find a copy under $300)

Happy Listening!




The Rhythm Future Quartet -Travels (CD due out tomorrow)
a modern take on gypsy jazz