Thank you, Abby, for the shout out, and I'm very happy and honored that you liked the albums that much. I never imagined in college when I saved "Zuma" from the radio station throw-away bin and doodled that cover onto the blank promo sleeve that it would mean so much to someone someday. It's been on my shelf all this time, and I've kept it in mint condition. I understand that early promo copies of that album are supposed to have the best sound available. I hope that one does. And don't worry, it was very easy for me to give to you because I know you'll appreciate it and take good care of it. Also, Laura's album is 180-gram virgin vinyl, so it should sound pretty good, too.
If you have never heard this before, only in the U.S. does the first Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) album has a title. Jeff Lynne in a documentary mentioned that the president of the U.S. record company gave a memo to his secretary to call over to England and get the name of the album. The secretary called but no one picked up the phone. So the secretary wrote “No Answer” at the bottom of the memo and set it back on the record company president’s desk. That’s why in America the first ELO album has a title.
Hi Abigail…as a 22 year old girl who loves records, it’s so refreshing to watch your videos! Entertainment by Gang of 4 is one of my favorite records of all time, it’s full of bangers and a staple in the evolution of punk/post-punk. You should definitely give it a listen ASAP
Hi Abby, you are not alone in having difficulty warming up to Steely Dan. I was actually in my first year of college when Aja came out in 1977, and despite that was the “Disco vs. Punk” era, Aja was played to death on the radio. So I decided I wanted nothing to do with Steely Dan. Fast forward to 2022 and a like minded music loving friend of mine trade CDs back and forth from our collections. He lent me some early Steely Dan and… I gave it a listen. I found I loved it! Sometimes it takes decades to learn to appreciate something. Don’t give up hope, Abby!
@@stuartriefe1740 Good point about having to take decades to appreciate things. Same way with Steely Dan. I never disliked them. When I heard "Can't Buy A Thrill" for the first time, it was an amazing experience. I have an early pressing on the ABC label, and the blue-spec CD. Great sounding CD. Great way to hear that album too. I have the same sentiment about Led Zeppelin.
I am Fact Man. Or was. Bought Abbey Road when it was knew, played in bands, had radio shows and made documentaries. Now your channel is where I come to learn. Cannot thank you enough for what you do, and sharing your huge heart in the process.
I'm not sure how much Stevie Wonder you have (other than Talking Book which you showed in this video) but if you want to increase your funk and soul - getting a collection of Stevie Wonder is a terrific place to start.
By the way, remember The Monkees' Fairy Tale episode where Mike plays the Princess and Peter allows her to walk across his back? One of the knights in that episode, the one that spoke with a loud gruff voice, was Murray Roman. He started out in the early `60's as a Borscht Belt comedian. His first album was entirely about a skiing trip he took at one time. It sounds like it was recorded on a tape recorder set up way in the back of the room and it was released on a low budget label called, Everest! His second and third albums were made in the late `60's and were psychedelic comedy! (He told funny stories and, between the stories as well as backing them, there was a lot of psychedelic music and sound effects playing throughout.) He was Keith Moon's fave comedian so, that's probably how one of those two albums ended up on Track Records! The other was on the label Bill Cosby started, Tetragrammaton. I don't remember which was which but, one was called, "A Blind Man's Movie". Except for the spine, the entire cover was completely black!! It was a gatefold cover. You open up the gatefold and the inside is completely black! Then, you notice there's actually an extra page glued into the gatefold and both sides of that are completely black! I THINK there's a word or two on the cover in Braille. The other album is called, "You Can't Beat Someone Up And Have Them Say, "I Love You"?". Anyway, there was a 4th album in the mid `70's right before Murray died (I'm pretty sure it was a car crash) and, it was called, "Busted". One side is nearly a half hour long semi-psych telling of his few months being thrown in jail on a drug bust. The other side is a sort of compilation of stuff from the previous 2 albums but, there's one bit on it that's not on either one. In the long list of credits he has on the album, Mike Nesmith is listed as one of the musicians on the album! There were also a few promotional singles pushing the album but, I've only been able to find two of them. I suspect there were quite a few more. Both of the ones I've got have a completely silent track on the flip side. Mike had nothing to do with those, as far as I know, they were just Murray talking and goofing around. The album and all of these singles were on United Artists. If you want a copy of, "Busted" let me know! I've got 5 of them! (They were 58 cents @, the store only had 5 in their deep-bargain bin so, I grabbed them all. Also, there was a psych band in the late `60's called, The Penny Arcade, who had an album of theirs produced by Mike! AND, about 20 years ago, Mike's son, Jason(?) put together his own psych band and I think they were called, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom. The only album I have of there's was called, "Octopus Sauce", I think. (I've been away from my records for the past 4 years so, memory wains slightly because none of my children have been here with me since then. I REALLY miss them but, the way things look, I'm gonna have to keep them in storage for another few years unless I can find a bigger place to live and it's gonna BE COMPLETELY MINE, FREE AND CLEAR!!! NO MORE of this fucking bullshit from greedy bastard relatives about how this person might object to me having it or that one CLAIMS to have dibs on it so, I can't live there!! At least not without a legal battle!!)
I'll add to the chorus about that Gang of Four record. Andy Gill doesn't get enough credit for his revolutionary approach to playing guitar. And lyrically, there's so much there, about interpersonal relationships, consumerism, socioeconomics. I listen to it all the time, and the subject matter never seems dated.
What an amazing haul, T. Rex's The Slider is the greatest rock n' roll record of all time!!! Also love Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything, in association with Todd if you haven't heard Bebe Buell's Covers Girl EP it's a must, her cover of Tom Petty's "The Wild One, Forever" on it is completely epic, almost as epic as that copy of Neil Young's Zuma! I have a plain white jacket white label promo version of Led Zeppelin II before it had a cover so I completely understand the excitement!
Shoutout to Pat for sending all those great records. There would have been a nice chunk of change to be made selling them, so donating them for the community to enjoy is a class act. And this is only one third of them?!?
You need to do an episode on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. It's a masterpiece, and no one on RUclips has really given it the treatment it deserves, and tbh vinyl Monday is the perfect format for it
Imagine how many steps how many hours it would have taken for you to find this stuff. People can be so generous but maybe Abby they're seeing in you a sure thing guardian of these treasures. Well done to them. John Barleycorn a classic, I'm envious of anyone listening to Mahavishnu for the first time and John McLaughlin is a guitarist to be reckoned with ( grew up in my neck of the woods): Zuma well Zuma is Zuma. A lovely emotional thing to happen near the anniversary. This is the channel to be watching in 2023.
Zuma is the name of the beach near Neil's old house in Topanga Canyon. It's right next to the last scenes in Planet of the Apes. Zuma is used in about ten thousand t.v. shows and movies, right up to Old by that guy Shama-lama-ding-dong.
Abby, I probably don’t have to tell you this, in a sense I’m preaching to the choir, but as you grow your collection no matter how that happens, be aware of the weight of many record albums put together, especially as you may need to shift and move portions of the collection. There is a thing called “record collector’s back”, and if you want to hear many painful stories of it, just visit a record swap and talk to some of the table dealers. In short, NEVER try to pick up more than your body can handle. Vinyl is wonderful, full stop. But when it comes to shifting and moving them, WATCH YOUR BACK! Pain is no fun, sweetie! That being said, enjoy your haul. Obviously you have many more vinyl Mondays in the making!❤
Wow! What a treasure of albums you got! Congratulations on your 1st Anniversary of your channel. I love your presentations and look forward to your vinyl Mondays every week.
@@abigaildevoe I think you’ll enjoy Gang of Four’s “Entertainment!” The scholar in you will see guitarist Andy Gill’s influence everywhere. Mahavishnu Orchestra‘a “Birds of Fire” is an all-time favorite of mine. I have a feeling they’ll really click for you.
The debut album for Electric Light Orchestra , with Roy Wood as the leader and main musician was actually a self-titled album. It was on Harvest in the U.K., but when the master copies were sent to United Artists headquarters the director of U.A. wanted to know the title of the album. His secretary called the band's manager to request the title, but they never answered the phone call, so the secretary simply wrote "no answer" to the result from the phone call. The U.A. director assumed that the name of the album was "No Answer", so that's why it has been called that fictitious name since it was released in 1971.
I got that SMILE bootleg in 1983! It was part of a 3 LP series. SMILE, Landlocked, and Made In The U.S.A. I later got it autographed by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson in 2000. We met Van Dyke in Arkansas where he gave a fantastic concert at a beautiful private college outside of Little Rock.
WowWowWow, what a cavalcade of classic albums ! That Todd album! Those Traffic albums! I don't think I saw Low Spark, but maybe you have it already. Along with Charles Mingus's "Self Portrait in Three Colors" the track "Stolen Moments" from 'Blues and the Abstract Truth' is one of the most beautiful jazz recordings ever. Enjoy !
Those are some gifts you have there, Abigail. I have all those Traffic albums- some original pressings. 'John Barleycorn' you can never have too many of! 'The Blues & the Abstract Truth' is a divine album. J.J Johnson did a version of Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson on his album 'J.J!'. Another great jazz album.
Yes, Abby, you need to revisit Spirit- Twelve Dreams Dr. Sardonicus. It is a masterpiece where all the songs run together and must be listened to in its entirety!
Hi Abigail. I've been watching your videos for a while now and I totally dig your vibe . Btw, awesome score. There were literally some gems that I can't imagine how it would feel to part with them, like you said referring to the Zuma release. I can truly say that the love that you give is the love that you get. Your videos are a reflection of your love for vinyl and the videos you produce, therefore you got the love back when you were gifted these boxes of vinyl. KIU (keep it up).
Please, please, please, Lovely Lady, cover a Guess Who album. Ideally Wheatfield Soul/|Share The Land/So Long Bannatyne. American Woman is a fair second choice (I like all GW albums and Burton Cummings solo stuff too), so would love to hear your views.
Fantastic additions to the collection! Them Changes is such a great album and I think Zuma may be my favourite Neil album, so that's an amazing copy to own!
Diggin' through the crates, Devoe's gettin' dusty fingers. Great haul Wait 'til you hear the the back up beep of the u-haul van as it backs up your driveway.😊
@Abigail Devoe methinks you will be relocatin' to your new batcave lair location soon, as you're starting to experience what all of us with a ton of vinyl have to deal with. If i put my Nostradamus hat on, I foresee a carpenter arriving on your doorstep to build new shelves soon. His name shall be Vinnie, and he will be recognized by the toothpick in his mouth.
You are very welcome. I think I will have another box for you in a few weeks. I hope u will enjoy the Mahavishnu some of the best jazzrock ever recorded.
Wow, what a cache. At this rate you’ll soon have more music than time to listen. Looks good on you. Glad to see a girl happy in her work. If you can be compensated for doing what you enjoy, it’s better than winning a lottery. Oh, by the way if you are ever feeling down and blue and want to be even more depressed, just listen to Berlin. Really great album through and through, but also probably one of the most down of any I know.
John Mayall made an album called the Blues Alone that is oddly quite good, in the late sixties. I child-cared his kid back in the nineties (Maggie). I saw the Bluesbreakers in 1969, Mick Taylor on guitar, they tore the roof offa da sucka. Albert King and Deep Purple were there, as well. Mick was heavily inspired to pull all of the stops on Parchman Farm and we took a little trip. For some reason I remember the song Little Bird. Somebody has that Les Paul, and it weighs like 20 pounds so they can keep it. My Epi SG weighs 4 pounds, total.
That John Mayall & Bluesbreakers album I recently got on cd. Nice collection of new albums! That Jimi album you refer to I got on vinyl, Machine Gun my fav Hendrix song. Transformer & Ziggy I often play after eachother.
One happy and lucky Abby! So much fantastic music to explore. For Your Love was my first Yardbirds album. Clapton quit because he thought they were headed in a pop direction. Dear Mr. Fantasy 'n John Barleycorn are amazin'. Cry Of Love was the first album after Jimi's death with great unreleased material. The Last Waltz is perhaps the greatest concert film. I passed on a free ride 'n ticket to the concert 'n didn't know what I missed until after the fact. Golden Hair is my fave Barrett track. Second Winter is so great. New York City Serenade is my favorite Springsteen song. Steve Miller Band-Sailor (2nd album) is absolutely a classic! You mentioned Roy Buchanan-Treat Her Nice is a must hear! Hours 'n hours o' vinyl thrills in your near future...All best wishes.
Happy anniversary..Wow! I’m so jealous of that haul ..magnificent. ..ECHOES IS THE BEST PINK FLOYD SONG!!!! by the way .Santana III is absolutely fantastic ,you will love it .
Those additions are lights out. The "For Your Love" album is not easy to find cheap and that promo copy of "Zuma" is awesome! A few more additions like this and you'll need a forklift to manage your LPs. Whew!
Wow What a fantastic haul of some great records. Santana 3 is my favorite Santana record of all. I think you'll really enjoy it. You have some great listening ahead there. Take Care.
Hi Abby, how nice to see your collection growing. As it happens, I have a lot of records too, but many of your new ones aren't in my collection. Traffic by the way is an awesome band, and The Guess Who are indeed extremely underrated. In fact they are one of my favourite bands. Share The Land is a 10/10 album, American Woman a close 9/10. Wheatfield Soul, Canned Wheat and Rockin' are amazing too.
On the American version of Mr. Fantisy was this goofy psych tune called Hole In My Shoe. It was a single in the UK. I have never heard of the band. I had a CD called Psychedelia and Hole In My Shoe was on it. It is so wierd and goofy. The two faveorite songs off that T-Rex album is of course Get It On and Cosmic Dancer. I first heard the song at a bookstore called Borders. I'm not sure if you heard about it since you're the age of 23. I think they had played the whole album. That's when I heard of the song. That music on that video is far out! It definitly has that late 60's vibe. Groovey!
The Blues and the Abstract Truth (especially that Acoustic Sounds version) is a bona fide, can't go wrong, top 10 (IMO) jazz essential...nuff said. Absolutely blasted through the first half of that Bad Spell record from the bandcamp site and am waiting to hear back from my go-to local indie store to see if it's available from one of their distributors; I'm in Canada so it's often cheaper that way...because shipping... Great episode. Congrats on your major haul!
I don't recall from your "collection" videos seeing any Laura Nyro albums. She's an artist that I came to know about relatively recently, although I knew her work from the many covers by other artists. She had a style I very much enjoyed, with elements of Jazz, Soul, and Blues melded into Pop songs. Sorry if I just missed any.
...and you don't warm up to Steely Dan...you cool down with them - and you hear the incredible humor in the lyrics. It took me like 40 years to actually like them.
@@abigaildevoe I got lucky with the VU cuz the guy in my town who told everyone about them in the 70s had a younger brother I knew through a great friend. Said great friend borrowed a copy of Nico LP forever and I taped it. This would be around 1983 and maybe within the first 100 albums I knew. I was the only kid with a boombox playing Venus In Furs over and over again. I saw Lou at a college in 85 - with the same great friend - and was SUPER disappointed that the whole set was not the banana album. In 1986, The Feelies happened for me, the REM B-sides thing was out and maybe the next year was President Yo La Tengo. Somewhere in that whole mess, all the VU Verve LPs were reissued along with the two outtakes collections. I lived and breathed that stuff at least until the Milk/Aeroplane album but I still will not give up the dream of forming a band who only plays Sister Ray and does Berlin for an encore, in Sterling's strum style and Mo's beats of course.
I also feel like Steely Dan is hugely praised despite not really grabbing me in the way i wish it would. The hits are good of course (Dirty Work was in my rotation a lot last year), and Aja might be one of the best sounding records I have heard, but listening to them wasnt the mind shattering experience that so many people made it out to be.
Amazing haul, Mahavishnu Orchestra’s a John McGlaughlin project, he played on “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis. They toured with Zappa and they bickered over who closed almost every night.
Me too. It's such an awesome music store. Loads of used CDs too. Do you remember the old Manifest Discs and Tapes on Laurens Rd from back in the 90's - 00's?
The possibility of a future Dire Straits Vinyl Monday got me really excited. Their first record might not be their greatest, but every Mark Knopfler song is a masterclass on guitar. Nice to see some Echo & The Bunnymen there as well. I have The Inner Mounting Flame record by Mahavishnu Orchestra, my dad loves them. Very solid band, not an easy listening by any means, but still pretty good - quite like Black Midi. One of their occasional collaborators was violinist Jean-Luc Ponty (who also played with Frank Zappa), his works are definetly worth checking out!
I don't think anyone else has answered your question about sleeves with the corners cut off. That's one way that record labels used to mark promo copies of LPs. Sometimes you'll also see a hole punched out of the corner instead. It wasn't until a bit later that labels started using the promo stamps like on your copy of Unknown Pleasures.
That is true, but Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was designed and released with the cut-off corners. Which you probably know, but just in case you didn't. :P
what a great haul lots of great music. a lot of this stuff was the soundtrack of my youth. Hi Abby I have lots of great blues, R and B, C and W and soul albums I love I can send a small list of good ones for you to watch for if you would like, you don't see channels covering these much believe me there is a gold mine of great stuff in those categories .
In 1977 I saw Randy California (Spirit) jam for three hours at a dive bar and he channeled Handrix. Pure bliss. Cry of Love is good, Jimi was gone when they finished the songs for him. Not exactly his version however the musicians did a competent job and the songs are great - Here comes Dolly...Dagger!
You got some awesome vinyl! Aja is a great album but my favorite Steely Dan are the first 3 albums. Can't Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic are chef's kiss great 👌
3 bands that are just off the charts you just gotta check out are Kelly Finnigan and his group Monophonics, next would be Thee Sacred Souls, and finally Les Imprimés from Norway. All these people are modern groups but they sound very 60's 70'ish soul gotta check it out
YUSSS! So many bangers! First off, I gotta agree---i will bat for Stones' Satanic Majesties Request every single time as well!! My favorite R.S. album. And yes! They should've continued the psychedelic era just a bit longer. At least another Brian Jones psych style one. But oh well. And I'm so glad you got Mahavishnu Orchestra! Love that band! Those jazz kats rocked harder than a lot of rock bands at the time! And yes! John Barleycorn apparently MUST die. 😂 What a great haul, I'm so jelly! 👏🏽👏🏽 P.S. Mike Nesmith is my spirit animal, and I hope to see the Monkees on Vinyl Monday soon. 😉
Thank you, Abby, for the shout out, and I'm very happy and honored that you liked the albums that much. I never imagined in college when I saved "Zuma" from the radio station throw-away bin and doodled that cover onto the blank promo sleeve that it would mean so much to someone someday. It's been on my shelf all this time, and I've kept it in mint condition. I understand that early promo copies of that album are supposed to have the best sound available. I hope that one does. And don't worry, it was very easy for me to give to you because I know you'll appreciate it and take good care of it. Also, Laura's album is 180-gram virgin vinyl, so it should sound pretty good, too.
If you have never heard this before, only in the U.S. does the first Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) album has a title. Jeff Lynne in a documentary mentioned that the president of the U.S. record company gave a memo to his secretary to call over to England and get the name of the album. The secretary called but no one picked up the phone. So the secretary wrote “No Answer” at the bottom of the memo and set it back on the record company president’s desk. That’s why in America the first ELO album has a title.
Hi Abigail…as a 22 year old girl who loves records, it’s so refreshing to watch your videos! Entertainment by Gang of 4 is one of my favorite records of all time, it’s full of bangers and a staple in the evolution of punk/post-punk. You should definitely give it a listen ASAP
thank you so much! glad you appreciate the channel. and thanks for the recommendation!
Yes the GO4 is a belter !
Hi Abby, you are not alone in having difficulty warming up to Steely Dan. I was actually in my first year of college when Aja came out in 1977, and despite that was the “Disco vs. Punk” era, Aja was played to death on the radio. So I decided I wanted nothing to do with Steely Dan. Fast forward to 2022 and a like minded music loving friend of mine trade CDs back and forth from our collections.
He lent me some early Steely Dan and… I gave it a listen. I found I loved it! Sometimes it takes decades to learn to appreciate something. Don’t give up hope, Abby!
Gang Of Four is so badass. Part of that punky no-wave style. Great great band!
@@stuartriefe1740 Good point about having to take decades to appreciate things. Same way with Steely Dan. I never disliked them. When I heard "Can't Buy A Thrill" for the first time, it was an amazing experience. I have an early pressing on the ABC label, and the blue-spec CD. Great sounding CD. Great way to hear that album too. I have the same sentiment about Led Zeppelin.
Wow this is so fabulously beautiful! Major props to the donor, great material, we’re really looking forward to all the upcoming Vinyl Mondays!
I am Fact Man. Or was. Bought Abbey Road when it was knew, played in bands, had radio shows and made documentaries. Now your channel is where I come to learn. Cannot thank you enough for what you do, and sharing your huge heart in the process.
thank you so much! it's a one-woman operation so i won't always get the facts right. but the heart will always be there
Now that’s a great delivery!
Heaven Up Here is an insane album, one of my faves.
I'm not sure how much Stevie Wonder you have (other than Talking Book which you showed in this video) but if you want to increase your funk and soul - getting a collection of Stevie Wonder is a terrific place to start.
By the way, remember The Monkees' Fairy Tale episode where Mike plays the Princess and Peter allows her to walk across his back? One of the knights in that episode, the one that spoke with a loud gruff voice, was Murray Roman. He started out in the early `60's as a Borscht Belt comedian. His first album was entirely about a skiing trip he took at one time. It sounds like it was recorded on a tape recorder set up way in the back of the room and it was released on a low budget label called, Everest! His second and third albums were made in the late `60's and were psychedelic comedy! (He told funny stories and, between the stories as well as backing them, there was a lot of psychedelic music and sound effects playing throughout.) He was Keith Moon's fave comedian so, that's probably how one of those two albums ended up on Track Records! The other was on the label Bill Cosby started, Tetragrammaton. I don't remember which was which but, one was called, "A Blind Man's Movie". Except for the spine, the entire cover was completely black!! It was a gatefold cover. You open up the gatefold and the inside is completely black! Then, you notice there's actually an extra page glued into the gatefold and both sides of that are completely black! I THINK there's a word or two on the cover in Braille. The other album is called, "You Can't Beat Someone Up And Have Them Say, "I Love You"?". Anyway, there was a 4th album in the mid `70's right before Murray died (I'm pretty sure it was a car crash) and, it was called, "Busted". One side is nearly a half hour long semi-psych telling of his few months being thrown in jail on a drug bust. The other side is a sort of compilation of stuff from the previous 2 albums but, there's one bit on it that's not on either one. In the long list of credits he has on the album, Mike Nesmith is listed as one of the musicians on the album! There were also a few promotional singles pushing the album but, I've only been able to find two of them. I suspect there were quite a few more. Both of the ones I've got have a completely silent track on the flip side. Mike had nothing to do with those, as far as I know, they were just Murray talking and goofing around. The album and all of these singles were on United Artists. If you want a copy of, "Busted" let me know! I've got 5 of them! (They were 58 cents @, the store only had 5 in their deep-bargain bin so, I grabbed them all.
Also, there was a psych band in the late `60's called, The Penny Arcade, who had an album of theirs produced by Mike! AND, about 20 years ago, Mike's son, Jason(?) put together his own psych band and I think they were called, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom. The only album I have of there's was called, "Octopus Sauce", I think. (I've been away from my records for the past 4 years so, memory wains slightly because none of my children have been here with me since then. I REALLY miss them but, the way things look, I'm gonna have to keep them in storage for another few years unless I can find a bigger place to live and it's gonna BE COMPLETELY MINE, FREE AND CLEAR!!! NO MORE of this fucking bullshit from greedy bastard relatives about how this person might object to me having it or that one CLAIMS to have dibs on it so, I can't live there!! At least not without a legal battle!!)
Someone gave you ALL those albums...? Oh my! I think someone is in love... either with 60s music... or you, dear lady.
I'll add to the chorus about that Gang of Four record. Andy Gill doesn't get enough credit for his revolutionary approach to playing guitar. And lyrically, there's so much there, about interpersonal relationships, consumerism, socioeconomics. I listen to it all the time, and the subject matter never seems dated.
He's like the Derrida of rock guitar playing. :P
Omg you’ve got For Your Love !!🤍
yes finally! yardbirds are hard to find in the wild, i’m so glad it came to me
What an amazing haul, T. Rex's The Slider is the greatest rock n' roll record of all time!!! Also love Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything, in association with Todd if you haven't heard Bebe Buell's Covers Girl EP it's a must, her cover of Tom Petty's "The Wild One, Forever" on it is completely epic, almost as epic as that copy of Neil Young's Zuma! I have a plain white jacket white label promo version of Led Zeppelin II before it had a cover so I completely understand the excitement!
Shoutout to Pat for sending all those great records. There would have been a nice chunk of change to be made selling them, so donating them for the community to enjoy is a class act. And this is only one third of them?!?
Been QUITE a year - thank you Abby !!! 🥳
You need to do an episode on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. It's a masterpiece, and no one on RUclips has really given it the treatment it deserves, and tbh vinyl Monday is the perfect format for it
Blues and the Abstract Truth is beautiful. Also, you got the two best Mahavishnu Orchestra records. They will melt your brain.
I'm gonna add everything in this video to my "Listen List". As if that list wasn't long enough already.
Imagine how many steps how many hours it would have taken for you to find this stuff. People can be so generous but maybe Abby they're seeing in you a sure thing guardian of these treasures. Well done to them. John Barleycorn a classic, I'm envious of anyone listening to Mahavishnu for the first time and John McLaughlin is a guitarist to be reckoned with ( grew up in my neck of the woods): Zuma well Zuma is Zuma.
A lovely emotional thing to happen near the anniversary. This is the channel to be watching in 2023.
Mahavishnu Orchestra, amazing stuff, great drumming
My favorite album out of the batch is Entertainment by Gang of Four.
For Steely Dan, try out The Royal Scam. It's their most rockin' album. Larry Carlton on guitars will make anyone a believer.
What an awesome stack of albums! What a generous gift 👍👍
I have 29 of those albums in my 4,000 + collection. I'm 69 and been at it for 60 years now, Your doing great. Jim
thank you for being so encouraging!
Zuma is the name of the beach near Neil's old house in Topanga Canyon. It's right next to the last scenes in Planet of the Apes. Zuma is used in about ten thousand t.v. shows and movies, right up to Old by that guy Shama-lama-ding-dong.
My absolute favorite YT video is Neil Young goes record shopping & .. finds a bootleg of his ! ✅️ it out 😊 .. Congratulations on the records 😎
omg i love that video too!
Abby, I probably don’t have to tell you this, in a sense I’m preaching to the choir, but as you grow your collection no matter how that happens, be aware of the weight of many record albums put together, especially as you may need to shift and move portions of the collection. There is a thing called “record collector’s back”, and if you want to hear many painful stories of it, just visit a record swap and talk to some of the table dealers. In short, NEVER try to pick up more than your body can handle. Vinyl is wonderful, full stop. But when it comes to shifting and moving them, WATCH YOUR BACK! Pain is no fun, sweetie! That being said, enjoy your haul. Obviously you have many more vinyl Mondays in the making!❤
Wow! What a treasure of albums you got! Congratulations on your 1st Anniversary of your channel. I love your presentations and look forward to your vinyl Mondays every week.
happy 1 year channel anniversary Abby! glad to have been here since the vinyl collection videos! a Something/Anything VM would be amazing!
thank you! i'm penciling todd into the future schedule. so much history between the solo records and nazz
Mahavishnu Orchestra is amazing! Essential fusion group! And you have their 2 best records right there.
"When will you Happen to me?"is one of the songs on Poppies. You just reminded me of that phrase....😃
Happy anniversary, Abby. You’ve changed my life for the better.
thank you so much! so have you. thanks for sticking around
@@abigaildevoe I think you’ll enjoy Gang of Four’s “Entertainment!” The scholar in you will see guitarist Andy Gill’s influence everywhere. Mahavishnu Orchestra‘a “Birds of Fire” is an all-time favorite of mine. I have a feeling they’ll really click for you.
You got some real gems there! The Yardbirds and the BEANO ….Your channel is great and your presentation and personality is the big attraction❤️.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep up the great work.
The debut album for Electric Light Orchestra , with Roy Wood as the leader and main musician was actually a self-titled album. It was on Harvest in the U.K., but when the master copies were sent to United Artists headquarters the director of U.A. wanted to know the title of the album. His secretary called the band's manager to request the title, but they never answered the phone call, so the secretary simply wrote "no answer" to the result from the phone call. The U.A. director assumed that the name of the album was "No Answer", so that's why it has been called that fictitious name since it was released in 1971.
Amazing items you got there! Wish you a happy anniversary and happy collecting!
The men who make up 100% of your subscribers will shower you with any kind of vinyl your heart desires. Facts. Over and out.
I got that SMILE bootleg in 1983! It was part of a 3 LP series. SMILE, Landlocked, and Made In The U.S.A. I later got it autographed by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson in 2000. We met Van Dyke in Arkansas where he gave a fantastic concert at a beautiful private college outside of Little Rock.
oh no way, i didn’t know it made a set! maybe i’ll seek out the others
Hi, I'm Rylie, and I wish I had a lot of records. I love recordings on vinyl. Congrats on the major vinyl haul, Abby!
WowWowWow, what a cavalcade of classic albums ! That Todd album! Those Traffic albums! I don't think I saw Low Spark, but maybe you have it already. Along with Charles Mingus's "Self Portrait in Three Colors" the track "Stolen Moments" from 'Blues and the Abstract Truth' is one of the most beautiful jazz recordings ever. Enjoy !
Congrats on one year of this awesome channel and those amazing boxes of records.
That is an absolute treasure trove!! Congratulations! 😁👍🏻
Those are some gifts you have there, Abigail. I have all those Traffic albums- some original pressings. 'John Barleycorn' you can never have too many of! 'The Blues & the Abstract Truth' is a divine album. J.J Johnson did a version of Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson on his album 'J.J!'. Another great jazz album.
Yes, Abby, you need to revisit Spirit- Twelve Dreams Dr. Sardonicus. It is a masterpiece where all the songs run together and must be listened to in its entirety!
Hi Abigail. I've been watching your videos for a while now and I totally dig your vibe . Btw, awesome score. There were literally some gems that I can't imagine how it would feel to part with them, like you said referring to the Zuma release. I can truly say that the love that you give is the love that you get. Your videos are a reflection of your love for vinyl and the videos you produce, therefore you got the love back when you were gifted these boxes of vinyl. KIU (keep it up).
I heard you say that Danny Kirwan is on your short list of favorite guitarists. I love you!! Danny is one of my unsung heroes!!
Please, please, please, Lovely Lady, cover a Guess Who album. Ideally Wheatfield Soul/|Share The Land/So Long Bannatyne. American Woman is a fair second choice (I like all GW albums and Burton Cummings solo stuff too), so would love to hear your views.
Inner Mountain Flame is awesome. Found them in high school when I was obsessed with The Mars Volta and Omar Rodríguez López
I listened to the Bad Spell and thought, man this really sounds like The Forty Fives! Sure enough, same lead singer!
Unpopular opinion: "San Tropez" is not only Pink Floyd's best song, it's also their weirdest (because it's so normal).
Fantastic additions to the collection!
Them Changes is such a great album and I think Zuma may be my favourite Neil album, so that's an amazing copy to own!
apparently this promo of zuma is one of the best sounding runs. i was none the wiser!
Diggin' through the crates, Devoe's gettin' dusty fingers.
Great haul
Wait 'til you hear the the back up beep of the u-haul van as it backs up your driveway.😊
ah yes, the backup signal. my dog’s least favorite sound in the world
@Abigail Devoe methinks you will be relocatin' to your new batcave lair location soon, as you're starting to experience what all of us with a ton of vinyl have to deal with. If i put my Nostradamus hat on, I foresee a carpenter arriving on your doorstep to build new shelves soon. His name shall be Vinnie, and he will be recognized by the toothpick in his mouth.
Play the heck out that Gang of Four!
Keep on Chooglin!
Insane package.
Looking forward to hearing you talk about some of this in depth on the channel.
'Empty Rooms' is a very nice John Mayall album btw.
and to think there’s still more to come! i can’t wait to get into this stuff on the series too
I'm with ya on Steely Dan.
You are very welcome. I think I will have another box for you in a few weeks. I hope u will enjoy the Mahavishnu some of the best jazzrock ever recorded.
again, thank you so much!
Wow, what a cache. At this rate you’ll soon have more music than time to listen. Looks good on you. Glad to see a girl happy in her work. If you can be compensated for doing what you enjoy, it’s better than winning a lottery. Oh, by the way if you are ever feeling down and blue and want to be even more depressed, just listen to Berlin. Really great album through and through, but also probably one of the most down of any I know.
Wow, nice bunch of records! Lucky You!
John Mayall made an album called the Blues Alone that is oddly quite good, in the late sixties. I child-cared his kid back in the nineties (Maggie). I saw the Bluesbreakers in 1969, Mick Taylor on guitar, they tore the roof offa da sucka. Albert King and Deep Purple were there, as well. Mick was heavily inspired to pull all of the stops on Parchman Farm and we took a little trip. For some reason I remember the song Little Bird. Somebody has that Les Paul, and it weighs like 20 pounds so they can keep it. My Epi SG weighs 4 pounds, total.
Congratulations on one year, love your channel.
thank you so much!
That John Mayall & Bluesbreakers album I recently got on cd. Nice collection of new albums! That Jimi album you refer to I got on vinyl, Machine Gun my fav Hendrix song. Transformer & Ziggy I often play after eachother.
Mahavishnu Orchestra will blow your mind. John McLaughlin is amazing 😊
Ive been binging your vids ever since i discovered your channel couple days ago
One happy and lucky Abby! So much fantastic music to explore. For Your Love was my first Yardbirds album. Clapton quit because he thought they were headed in a pop direction. Dear Mr. Fantasy 'n John Barleycorn are amazin'. Cry Of Love was the first album after Jimi's death with great unreleased material. The Last Waltz is perhaps the greatest concert film. I passed on a free ride 'n ticket to the concert 'n didn't know what I missed until after the fact. Golden Hair is my fave Barrett track. Second Winter is so great. New York City Serenade is my favorite Springsteen song. Steve Miller Band-Sailor (2nd album) is absolutely a classic! You mentioned Roy Buchanan-Treat Her Nice is a must hear! Hours 'n hours o' vinyl thrills in your near future...All best wishes.
If you like John Mayall, you'll probably like Climax Blues Band.
Steely Dan albums take like 3 spins before they become great but then it’s impossible to stop listening.
Happy anniversary..Wow! I’m so jealous of that haul ..magnificent. ..ECHOES IS THE BEST PINK FLOYD SONG!!!! by the way .Santana III is absolutely fantastic ,you will love it .
Happy Birthday Abby
Those additions are lights out. The "For Your Love" album is not easy to find cheap and that promo copy of "Zuma" is awesome!
A few more additions like this and you'll need a forklift to manage your LPs. Whew!
Gang of Four - Entertainment is filled to the brim with tight bass-driven pop-punky bangers
Wow What a fantastic haul of some great records. Santana 3 is my favorite Santana record of all. I think you'll really enjoy it. You have some great listening ahead there. Take Care.
i'm looking forward to digging into that one
Hi Abby, how nice to see your collection growing. As it happens, I have a lot of records too, but many of your new ones aren't in my collection. Traffic by the way is an awesome band, and The Guess Who are indeed extremely underrated. In fact they are one of my favourite bands. Share The Land is a 10/10 album, American Woman a close 9/10. Wheatfield Soul, Canned Wheat and Rockin' are amazing too.
On the American version of Mr. Fantisy was this goofy psych tune called Hole In My Shoe. It was a single in the UK. I have never heard of the band. I had a CD called Psychedelia and Hole In My Shoe was on it. It is so wierd and goofy. The two faveorite songs off that T-Rex album is of course Get It On and Cosmic Dancer. I first heard the song at a bookstore called Borders. I'm not sure if you heard about it since you're the age of 23. I think they had played the whole album. That's when I heard of the song. That music on that video is far out! It definitly has that late 60's vibe. Groovey!
The Blues and the Abstract Truth (especially that Acoustic Sounds version) is a bona fide, can't go wrong, top 10 (IMO) jazz essential...nuff said. Absolutely blasted through the first half of that Bad Spell record from the bandcamp site and am waiting to hear back from my go-to local indie store to see if it's available from one of their distributors; I'm in Canada so it's often cheaper that way...because shipping... Great episode. Congrats on your major haul!
Score! Several lps I wish I had in my collection. Congrats!
I don't recall from your "collection" videos seeing any Laura Nyro albums. She's an artist that I came to know about relatively recently, although I knew her work from the many covers by other artists. She had a style I very much enjoyed, with elements of Jazz, Soul, and Blues melded into Pop songs. Sorry if I just missed any.
...and you don't warm up to Steely Dan...you cool down with them - and you hear the incredible humor in the lyrics. It took me like 40 years to actually like them.
maybe i’ll “get” them in 20 years, who knows. it took me ages to get the velvet underground!
@@abigaildevoe I got lucky with the VU cuz the guy in my town who told everyone about them in the 70s had a younger brother I knew through a great friend. Said great friend borrowed a copy of Nico LP forever and I taped it. This would be around 1983 and maybe within the first 100 albums I knew. I was the only kid with a boombox playing Venus In Furs over and over again.
I saw Lou at a college in 85 - with the same great friend - and was SUPER disappointed that the whole set was not the banana album. In 1986, The Feelies happened for me, the REM B-sides thing was out and maybe the next year was President Yo La Tengo.
Somewhere in that whole mess, all the VU Verve LPs were reissued along with the two outtakes collections. I lived and breathed that stuff at least until the Milk/Aeroplane album but I still will not give up the dream of forming a band who only plays Sister Ray and does Berlin for an encore, in Sterling's strum style and Mo's beats of course.
BLT like being stuck at a railway crossing with Lordans cymbals
I also feel like Steely Dan is hugely praised despite not really grabbing me in the way i wish it would. The hits are good of course (Dirty Work was in my rotation a lot last year), and Aja might be one of the best sounding records I have heard, but listening to them wasnt the mind shattering experience that so many people made it out to be.
i struggle with stuff that's REALLY technical (see the black midi video) and steely dan is very technical
Amazing haul, Mahavishnu Orchestra’s a John McGlaughlin project, he played on “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis. They toured with Zappa and they bickered over who closed almost every night.
oh no way! i love bitches brew, such a legendary album
im geeking out that you went to greenville. horizon records is where i get most of my vinyl lol.
Me too. It's such an awesome music store. Loads of used CDs too. Do you remember the old Manifest Discs and Tapes on Laurens Rd from back in the 90's - 00's?
Congrats on 1 year!!! 🎉
Wow, those are some excellent albums. What a haul!!!
The possibility of a future Dire Straits Vinyl Monday got me really excited. Their first record might not be their greatest, but every Mark Knopfler song is a masterclass on guitar. Nice to see some Echo & The Bunnymen there as well.
I have The Inner Mounting Flame record by Mahavishnu Orchestra, my dad loves them. Very solid band, not an easy listening by any means, but still pretty good - quite like Black Midi. One of their occasional collaborators was violinist Jean-Luc Ponty (who also played with Frank Zappa), his works are definetly worth checking out!
I don't think anyone else has answered your question about sleeves with the corners cut off. That's one way that record labels used to mark promo copies of LPs. Sometimes you'll also see a hole punched out of the corner instead. It wasn't until a bit later that labels started using the promo stamps like on your copy of Unknown Pleasures.
That is true, but Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was designed and released with the cut-off corners. Which you probably know, but just in case you didn't. :P
what a great haul lots of great music. a lot of this stuff was the soundtrack of my youth. Hi Abby I have lots of great blues, R and B, C and W and soul albums I love I can send a small list of good ones for you to watch for if you would like, you don't see channels covering these much believe me there is a gold mine of great stuff in those categories .
In 1977 I saw Randy California (Spirit) jam for three hours at a dive bar and he channeled Handrix. Pure bliss. Cry of Love is good, Jimi was gone when they finished the songs for him. Not exactly his version however the musicians did a competent job and the songs are great - Here comes Dolly...Dagger!
You got some awesome vinyl! Aja is a great album but my favorite Steely Dan are the first 3 albums. Can't Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic are chef's kiss great 👌
Abigail, you just popped up on my feed, good vibes, love it ☮️
P.S. One of the sides on second Winter is blank (only 3 sides) very cool release.
Awesome haul!! Some absolute classics and bangers in there for sure!
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Todd is god 😉
3 bands that are just off the charts you just gotta check out are Kelly Finnigan and his group Monophonics, next would be Thee Sacred Souls, and finally Les Imprimés from Norway. All these people are modern groups but they sound very 60's 70'ish soul gotta check it out
WHUT?? Lucky! That is a fine collection of titles. That Oliver Nelson is his best album IMO. PS That Zuma, wow.
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Trower bridge of sighs and
Traffic when the eagle flies
Good listening together
Generous people out there, what a great haul!
Electric Warrier is like 9 alternative boogies to Bang a Gong and minimal filler. A+ concept, very sexy.
Abimail!
YUSSS! So many bangers! First off, I gotta agree---i will bat for Stones' Satanic Majesties Request every single time as well!! My favorite R.S. album. And yes! They should've continued the psychedelic era just a bit longer. At least another Brian Jones psych style one. But oh well. And I'm so glad you got Mahavishnu Orchestra! Love that band! Those jazz kats rocked harder than a lot of rock bands at the time! And yes! John Barleycorn apparently MUST die. 😂 What a great haul, I'm so jelly! 👏🏽👏🏽 P.S. Mike Nesmith is my spirit animal, and I hope to see the Monkees on Vinyl Monday soon. 😉
Listen to that Santana record. Its like a sister album to Abraxis.