Played a few gigs where I worked, don’t recall them playing that time though.
I’ve got these 2 vinyl classics floating around somewhere
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makes them sound like sick bmx riders
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My recent Discogs delivery.
The LP under the Midnight Oil cover has ‘Walking on the Chinese Wall’, which I’ve always liked.
Absolutely stoked to get the live Oils LP in near Mint condition, which wasn’t actually released in Australia.
It’s a deadset belter…
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I’ve got Real Gone Kid. 
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Good quality 45 of Real Gone Kid, except for a very pronounced bump of glue (???) smack in the middle of the lead in groove.
I tried to remove it with conventional means, but that wasn’t cutting it.
Had to do some surgical removal with pointy ended tweezers and a magnifying glass.
Got most of it out but not all.
Really not sure I want my stylus running over that.
Might purchase again.
Man o man, Discogs is going to lighten my wallet 
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Mine does look in a bit better nick than yours.
I actually think I have two copies of Love Shack. Not sure how that happened.
(Although neither are a promo copy like I assume yours is).
1 for the awesomeness of the song, and 1 for your early 20’s crush on Kate Pierson !
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Nerd question. Did the quality of vinyl get better in the eighties?
Because my seventies singles…I didn’t buy any singles until 1984(?)…but the seventies ones all seem to be low quality and it doesn’t seem like that can be explained just by age.
I mean there’s no difference between my ‘84 and ‘89 singles, even though I’ve played the ‘84 ones to death.
I’ll leave that one for Blitzers with large and varied collections.
Mr Jez for one.
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More likely the recording technology improved
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Did you try eucalyptus oil? It’s always good for non-destructively getting rid of glue (made light work of the glue left by those pesky JB Hi Fi tags back in the day when they used to plonk them directly onto the cd case). It won’t harm the vinyl either…
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No I didn’t.
Come to think of it now, I do have this stuff called ‘Goof Off’ which is good at loosening old residue.
Not sure if it’s suitable for a vinyl record.
Anyhow, I tried playing it last night and the stylus can’t get over the hump, and keeps skipping back.
Won’t be playing that one again.
It was only a few bucks so no disaster.
Did vinyl get better? Based on limited knowledge, I think there were improvements made in the late 60s, and I think the 80s were a peak. But it also has/had to do with country and pressing plant too.
It’s also said that many plants reused vinyl which made it sound poorer than virgin vinyl.
I put on the Aussie original of Oil’s 10-1 the other day and it sounded amazing - no surface noise and a big clear gorgeous sound.
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Some labels were better than others - I assume that was to do with what pressing plant they were using.
I always found mid-late 80’s Virgin singles sounded thin and flat. It’s odd because the concurrently produced albums sounded gorgeous.
I always found vinyl released by EMI sounded fullest for some reason.
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I might’ve read somewhere about 33 albums generally being better quality than 45s. Can’t remember the specifics behind it though.
It’s interesting collecting the Japanese releases here. They also have a lot with how they’re EQed for pressing, and favour brighter sounds with less low end. Usually that makes them sound great, but for bands that need that warm oomph (Birthday Party, Pop Group, Nirvana) the original releases sound better to me.
I thought it was to do with the spacing of the grooves - the more the better. It’s simplistic obviously (there’s also mastering etc), but vinyl always had space limitations.
For a while after CD’s appeared, the vinyl equivalent of an album would often have tracks either edited down or omitted altogether so as to fit to a roughly 20 minute pressing per side.
That’s why a lot of modern remastered vinyl issues tend to take an original single LP and spread it over 2 records (more spacing = better sound). Though it does also equal more $$$, so you do wonder…
I always found 12" singles (at 45 rpm) had the best sound. Often they’d have the 12" mix on the A-side and the 7" version on the B-side. The sonic quality of that B-side compared to the same song on the album and 7" single always seemed to be best, and I’d always attributed it to the groove-spacing being better than either the 7" or the LP.
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I always wondered why they did that!
Makes sense now.