Vinyl to buy

People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is one of the finest albums in hip-hop. It’s easy to argue that a Tribe Called Quest reached their zenith on this, their debut album: though they went on to produce other world-class discs. Q-Tip and Phife’s delivery is deceptively simple, flowing like wine and tasting like candy, and Jairobi adds some contrast. The music, so self-assured that it never raises it’s voice to make a spectacle, follows suit. Four albums later, on their last tour, songs from Paths of Rhythm still were at the top of the set list. – Randy Silver.

Limited edition 180-gram, audiophile vinyl LP pressing of this album from the Fab Four comes housed in replicated artwork. The 1966 masterpiece features The Beatles at their most individually creative peaks. John is delving into the drug scene and sound. Paul is orchestrating sophisticated, layered pop. George is exploring the darker side of his songwriting, and Ringo takes us on a hallucinatory trip in a yellow submarine. This vinyl pressing contains the 2009 digital remaster of the album, making it sound more vibrant and electrifying than ever before.

A favorite at LOM for sure. This ALWAYS sounds great at the bar.  The Cars 1978 debut album might as well be called their greatest hits.  This is a must own release with Good Times Roll, My Best Friends Girl, Just What I Needed….those are just the first three songs.  Go back to a better time when (waves arms in the air in all directions) this wasn’t going on.

What record sounds the best at the bar on vinyl?  This record.  Every single time someone puts it on you watch people light up, feel good and be in the moment.  That’s what groundbreaking seminal moments like this record do and that’s why music is life. Released in 1977 it sounds better than ever.

Idles with “Joy as an Act of Resistance.” is an attempt to be vulnerable to their audience, to encourage vulnerability; a mere brave naked smile in this messed up new world. They have stripped back the songs and the lyrics to their bare flesh to allow each other to breathe and to celebrate our differences and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them because without our community, we’d be nothing.

Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. This septet features Jazz heavyweights John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley. Newly remastered and pressed on 180g vinyl.

The CLASSIC album gets a limited edition on its 25th anniversary in 2019. The fastest-selling debut album at the time in the UK. One can get lost in the dumb brother and Blur feuding and miss that it is simply one of the landmark debuts, as well as one of the best albums of the 1990’s. A must own.

The demo, that became the debut, that changed everything.  No one sounded like this before and no band has sounded like this after…though thousands of musicians have been influenced by this one of kind band.  Bands like this don’t come along often and thank god they did.  Own this record and go back to a better time when you were just discovering Pixies.

Vinyl LP pressing. Reissue of the third PJ Harvey studio album To Bring You My Love. Produced by PJ Harvey with Flood and John Parish, and originally released in February 1995, To Bring You My Love features the singles ‘Down By The Water’, ‘C’mon Billy’ and ‘Send His Love To Me’. The album – which celebrates it’s 25th Anniversary this year – received wide critical acclaim on release, with nominations for Grammy Awards and the Mercury Music Prize. Reissue is faithful to the original recording and package.

There are many ways to listen to Queen. The best way to listen to Queen is on vinyl, on your turntable, very loud. It’s what Freddie Mercury would want you to do.

2019 was the band’s 35th anniversary and they celebrated with a 180-gram translucent red and gold vinyl reissue of one of the greatest NW albums of all time.  On sale and we have a few copies left.  Listen to what Seattle used to be.

I read somewhere that his was the band’s transitional, apocalyptic 1979 album.  This was a band on the verge of leaving the New York scene and blowing up and this was their brilliant response…adding players, instruments and Byrne and Brian Eno collaborating like never before.  They created an album that brought all of 1979 together, the punk, the disco, the aggression….with our current end times, this might be the right record for now.

2008 digitally remastered vinyl LP pressing of the Irish wonders’ third album, originally released in 1983. 10 tracks including ‘New Year’s Day’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘Two Hearts Beat As One’ and more. Universal. Urgent. U2.