I had to think about my contribution for #TuneTuesday where @satsuma is asking for #MyPreciousMusic your favourite album on physical media or the one with the best cover art.
john coltrane • a love supreme • original issue stereo, impulse a-77. i have many cherished records but this one gives me street cred #TuneTuesday#MyPreciousMusic
For @Kitty's Tune Tuesday, @satsuma gave us a theme of "My Precious Music."
It's all about physical media.
I do not buy a lot of physical media as of late, though my oldest has been.
Here's the most recent physical album I got myself, Magnolia Park's "Halloween Mixtape II." And it RULES.
Magnolia Park gives us a fantastic emo / pop punk album that I have kept in my car since I got it over a month ago. Also, my 12 year old has gotten SUPER into it too.
For #TuneTuesday, @Kitty and @satsuma want to know everyone's favourite album on physical media.
Did you know that our debut album "fogdriver" is a precious physical medium ;-) You can change the cover of this CD because we have hand-cut a square on the front. We have included an interchangeable cover image for each song.
So, even if this is a bit of self-promotion. For me personally, it really is #MyPreciousMusic
A favourite album on physical media for #TuneTuesday
For me, music has memories and stories attached, even more so when it's in a physical media format. It's hard to pick just one, but I will.
The Essential Foo Fighters, bought in an accidentally found music section of a huge department store where I bought it with cash as if I'd taken a leap back in time to the 1990s. I was extra happy as I'd wanted the CD for a while and had not been able to find it.
I starting rummaging through my CDs and LPs, looking for something cool and unusual and precious.
But then I realised that I had a much more recent precious thing.
This is the tape release of the dungeon synth soundtrack to the indie RPG Moonring - it's also one of my favourite DS releases of last year.
And I honestly love the fact that I can get tape, CD, or even LP releases of fairly obscure modern things (I have cassette decks and a turntable), produced on a small scale by people who care about putting them in the hands of enthusiasts.
I have always adored Queen, they are my favourite band of all time and I have all their studio and live albums up to “Made In Heaven”.
That said, my favourite album of all time, from the vinyl my father played when I was very young, to the CD I ordered from eBay, is not a Queen album.
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast” is a ‘70s concept album written by Roger Glover after he left Deep Purple. Several great artists are featured on the tracks, notably:
• Glenn Hughes of Trapeze, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath.
• Ronnie James Dio of Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell.
• Jimmy Helms of Londonbeat.
• David Coverdale of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
• John Lawton of Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep and the Les Humphries Singers.
• and several other great ‘70s talents!
The album follows a story based on a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals.
The album cover design is from Alan Aldridge's design for a 1973 book based on the poem.
I've got a lot of CDs and a fair amount of vinyl, but this one just jumped out at me. EN's meditation on World War I that premiered on that war's 100th anniversary is a gorgeous collection. Favourite tracks are Der 1. Weltkrieg (Percussion version) and All of No-Man's Land Is Ours.
This week, we have been asked to post our favourite album on physical media as suggested by @satsuma for @Kitty 's #TuneTuesday#MyPreciousMusic
This is a hard one, being a massive record collector with thousands of choices. This is not my favorite album of all time, but it’s the one I’m happiest to own. A promo copy of #1 Record by Big Star.
Today's #TuneTuesday is about your favorite album on physical media.
This one is difficult...
A couple of weeks ago, I visited my father's home and entered my old room. I could see many of the CDs I owned in my early 20s, mostly heavy metal/hard rock.
I'm not sure if this is the one from all the favorites, but part of the music I like nowadays has a strong vibe of Black Sabbath.
...and talking about art, one of the best cover arts I owned was "Lateralus" from Tool."
I bought this CD at a gig. I love Amorphis and this is one of my favorite albums of theirs. It was also signed by the entire band.
And then I lost it on some cube-shuffling at work.
#TuneTuesday is all about #MyPreciousMusic this week - the physical copies of our favourite music. I'm going with this homemade compilation that was my introduction to the music of Chris Knox, which was sent to me by someone I met on Usenet back when I was in university. While I don't listen to the actual tape anymore, and I own all the albums that these songs come from, I do have this set up as a playlist and listen to it from time to time.
This week, we have been asked to post our favourite album on physical media as suggested by @satsuma for @Kitty 's #TuneTuesday
I'm going with An American Prayer by Jim Morrison with music by the Doors. My copy is on vinyl ❤️ I always notice something new with each listen. #MyPreciousMusic
#TuneTuesday asks us to celebrate our favourite album on physical media which is an impossible choice .. I love all my very expensive KPop cardboard! 😂 :blobmeow_heart:
So, I'll just go with the first BTS comeback album I was around for. It's a gem and the art that came with it is so pretty! 💗💟
Well, since I left my room in my parent's house years ago, I didn't retrieved my CD collection yet. Neither I bought a decent stereo to play them.
So, as suggested by @Kitty , I will just post the album cover.
I love Edge Of Sanity's "Crimson II" cover. It really caught my eye when I saw it on the music shop shelf before buying it, with it's retro style and vivid colours.
Daphne and Celeste is my most owned physical release - I have the cassette, a signed cd, the single, a standard black vinyl and a special edition pink translucent vinyl. It’s gorgeous!
Nat Johnson always puts a lot of thought and care into her physical releases. The Lonesome Lake cd has an individually hand drawn cover and the Liberty System has a unique insert complete with a magnifying glass to read the tiny writing.
I buy or have bought a lot of physical media in my life, so there is a lot of #MyPreciousMusic on my shelves: PF's "Meddle", Eluveitie's "Slania", ERR's "Marked for death", etc. But the hashtag calls for something more special and there is only one album, on CD, that I have scratched only due to extended overuse. It was my first CD ever, and therefore is my treasure.
Well, I still buy all my music on CD (hoping for the same kind of renaissance vinyl had) for ripping later. So, I'm going with the first digipak album I bought: -
Otep's 'Sevas Tra'. I saw this advertised on daytime TV in Woolworths. Arguably Otep has outlasted both, largely by flying under the radar, remaining resolutely nü metal and staying cool in spite of that.
A particularly well-loved piece of physical media in my life would be Step One by Steps. In 1999, I played the CD so much, all the teeth in the middle of the case eventually fell off! This song was my favourite and shows my love for haunting-sounding music started young.