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Regrets, I've had a few...

So, what LP or CD do really wish you still had. Maybe you traded it in on new tunes after not listening to it for years and now wish you had it back. Maybe you gave it to a girlfriend who subsequently dumped you. Or maybe it simply disappeared into the black hole that was your first dorm room. Wherever it went, what are you really missing these days?

To get the ball rolling, I'd probably point to my white vinyl original pressing of Be Bop Deluxe "Live in the Air Age." Or the LP of Van Morrison "Tupelo Honey" (the CD sound can't compare.) Or maybe the first Stephen Stills LP. Or ...
dawgfish
timf
237 posts
 
Bootleg tape of an album w/ Geoff and Maria Muldeir(I am spelling their last name wrong) and many other talented musicians who I am not as familar with. I remember two songs in particular-Blue Railway train and Dardinella. It was given to me when I was very young and I listened to it daily. I remember all the songs, but few of the titles. I do not know the name of the album- even then it was dated. I do remember being extremely suprised that this was(in the case of Blue Railway Train) the same woman who sang a very popular song on the radio, and one that I happened to dislike intensely. Anyway, I had the tape until recently. No title on it because I knew what it was, and I still enjoyed it very very much even as the sound quality had deteriated over the years of use. I regret its loss.
siliab
362 posts
 
My major regret is allowing friends, and friends of friends to have access to my record collection in college. I lost a quarter of my collection to one of my roomate's friends. When confronted, he denied taking them. I exacted payment of a sort, but I never saw those records again. One of them was a perfect copy of Ellen McIlwaine's Honky Tonk Angel. I had to replace it with an inferior copy and have never seen one as good the original. Other sob stories omitted for sanity's sake.
winoguy17
1,082 posts
 
Thanks for the heads-up FP
oneprof
147 posts
 
I still listen to BeBop Deluxe, Live in the Air Age is in my 'heavy rotation' pile, supposedly all the BeBop Deluxe albums are soon to be or have recently been reissued. I only have 'Axe Victim' 'Live in the Air Age' and another "live in the studio BBC' on CD, but have all the rest on vinyl. If you like BeBop Deluxe, and haven't heard it yet, I have listened to Bill Nelson's "Whimsy" CD (actually double CD) 2-3 times a week for the last 8 months or so. Not as much guitar hero stuff as BeBop, but his best solo work (I think) in a while.
To answer the question that started this thread, I gave away a bootleg cassette tape of Jimmy Thackery and the Assassins that a friend of mine made at a show we attended in a dive club in State College--The Scorpion--in the mid 80's. Gave it to my brother in law, then they got divorced and I lost custody of the tape :(
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