This is a catalogue of my current vinyl record collection. I have to stress I am not a record collector. I buy things I intend to listen to so I actually play them; I store stuff upright but not in a hermatically-sealed bank vault. My stuff is not a long-term investment.
There are a few albums that I’ve sought out specifically on vinyl because I felt that the sound of the album was more suited to the medium (Faith and Disintegration by the Cure; AFI’s Shut your mouth and open your eyes spring to mind). However, most of my collection is either modern singles (priced much more sensibly than CDs) or old things I was interested in hearing.
The Cure
I’m listing The Cure separately because there’s quite a lot of it.
rare / weird
- Half an Octopuss (10”, 1984)
- Brits ‘91 press conference (12”, 1991)
12” Albums
- Faith (1981)
- Japanese Whispers (German, 1983)
- Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987)
- Disintegration (1989)
- Entreat (1990)
Singles
- Boys Don’t Cry (12” Club mix, 1986)
- Lovesong (7” 1989)
- Pictures of You (12” 1990)
12”
albums
- The Damned – Grave disorder
- AFI – Shut your mouth and open your eyes
- Cocteau Twins – Treasure
- Guns and Roses – Appetite for destruction
- Gary Numan – The pleasure principle
- Tubeway Army – Replicas
- David Bowie – Heroes
- Led Zeppelin – 1
- Joy Division – Closer (1980)
Singles / EPs
- New Order – Ceremony / In a lonely place (FAC33, 1981-01-22) – first recording, sans Gillian Gilbert
- Amit – MK Ultra / Re-order (2005)
- The Sugarcubes – Coldsweat remix EP (5000 ltd ed)
- Orbital – Nothing left Part 1&2 (FXDJ365)
- Soft Cell – Memorabilia (long; HARD 12; 1981)
- New Order – Blue Monday / The Beach (FAC73; 1983-03) – die-cut sleeve
- New Order – Temptation / Hurt (FAC63)
10”
- The Arctic Monkeys – Who the fuck are the arctic monkeys? (2006)
7”
Old
- Gary Numan – Complex/Bombers (1979)
- Dead or alive – You spin me round (1984)
- Madness – Driving in my car (1982)
- Billy Bragg – Between the war (1985)
- Depeche Mode – Everything counts (1983)
- Depeche Mode – People are people (1984)
Far too many more to list, as I bought a job lot from the shop up the road.
New
- The Raconteurs – Steady, as she goes / store bought bones (B) (2006)
- The Raconteurs – Steady, as she goes accoustic / call it a day© (2006)
- Tiger Army – Rose of the Devil’s Garden / The Loop (2006)
- Mark Ronson – Just (2006)
- Orbital – Times fly (1995)
- Cranes – Jewel (boxed set, 007(1) and 007(3), 1993)
- Sigur Ros – Hoppipolk (numbered 1,617 of 3,000; 2006)
- Red hot chili peppers – Dani california (2006)
- My Chemical Romance – Helena (2004)
- Editors – Bullets (2005)
- The Zutons – Why won’t you give me your love? (2006)
- Yeah yeah yeahs – Gold Lion (2006)
- Starsailor – This time (2006)
- Stellastar* – Sweet troubled soul (2006)
- The Futureheads – Area (EP, 2005)
- The Futureheads – Skip to the end (2006)
- Longview – Stripped (2004)
- The White Stripes – The denial twist (2005)
Maximo Park
Maximo Park are a local band that put out their singles at 99p a pop. Most of the singles have a distinguishing feature (colour of vinyl, etc.) indicated in brackets.
- I want you to stay / field music remix (turquoise, 2005)
- I want you to stay / remix / La quinta (white, 2005)
- Going missing / GM accoustic (etched, 2005)
- Graffiti / Hammer horror (white, 2004)
- Apply some pressure / My life in reverse (transparent orange, 2004)
- Apply some pressure live / Isolation (transparent white, 2005)