Show us your record collection! - Tiki Music

K khan_tiki_mon Member Syracuse, NY Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 284	K khan_tiki_mon Posted posted on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 6:37 PM On 2009-04-20 07:24, Bewitched By Tiki wrote: On 2009-04-20 05:42, khan_tiki_mon wrote: BBT aka Carrie, my albums will be posted on one wall in my Tiki Lounge. The plan is to start at the top with the true Exotica; Baxter, Denny, and Lyman. Then as you move down the wall Hawaiian and Lounge - and finishing on the bottom with Surf records. KTM aka Scott. Excellent I like that you have planned out a organizational map so to speak. I can't wait to see it! It is so nice to meet people this way who have a true appreciation for this lost art of album covers. :) My parents had a HiFi console. They had a box set of LPs from something like Time-Life that was supposed to be all the music you would ever need. Too funny. I remember one of the pieces was the theme from “The Magnificent Seven” by Elmer Bernstein. They also had one other record. That was Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”. That I thought was very cool. That LP got played a lot by me. I bought my first LP in the early 1970s. It was Led Zeppelin III. The cover opened and there was a wheel that turned. Too cool. Over the next 2 decades I would amass a record collection that numbers in the thousands (I think about 2,500). I bought a few 45s in the day but not very many. I think, for me, the paper sleeve that came with the 45 couldn’t compete with the artwork on the LP and that whole package (I did like the little plastic adapters required to play the 45s on the HiFi). I think the album cover art was a large part of the whole record experience. Can anyone, of a certain generation, hear something from the Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers” and not have the album cover come to mind. That’s true of so many of the classic LPs. I love music and my tastes have always been eclectic. I have rock, folk, progressive, jazz, grunge, new wave, lounge, Exotica, punk, bluegrass, rockabilly, emo, Irish, Latin, and more. Mostly how I listen to music now is on a CD. I don’t have any MP3s yet. For an old guy I’m usually a pretty quick adopter of new technology but I haven’t made the leap to the IPod and the like yet. Digital music is a different experience. I can remember a friend would call up, “Do you want to hear the new Chick Corea album?” And you would have to go see the friend. And hang out. Put the LP on the turntable and pass the album cover around. Today you can send a text with the file attached and you don’t even have to see anyone. I’m probably being too nostalgic. I have this book from the 1970s on record album art. I’m sure there have books since this one. Lots of famous artists, like Andy Warhol for one, did record album covers.

On 2009-04-20 07:24, Bewitched By Tiki wrote:

On 2009-04-20 05:42, khan_tiki_mon wrote:
BBT aka Carrie, my albums will be posted on one wall in my Tiki Lounge. The plan is to start at the top with the true Exotica; Baxter, Denny, and Lyman. Then as you move down the wall Hawaiian and Lounge - and finishing on the bottom with Surf records. KTM aka Scott.

Excellent I like that you have planned out a organizational map so to speak. I can't wait to see it! It is so nice to meet people this way who have a true appreciation for this lost art of album covers. :)

My parents had a HiFi console. They had a box set of LPs from something like Time-Life that was supposed to be all the music you would ever need. Too funny. I remember one of the pieces was the theme from “The Magnificent Seven” by Elmer Bernstein. They also had one other record. That was Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”. That I thought was very cool. That LP got played a lot by me. I bought my first LP in the early 1970s. It was Led Zeppelin III. The cover opened and there was a wheel that turned. Too cool. Over the next 2 decades I would amass a record collection that numbers in the thousands (I think about 2,500). I bought a few 45s in the day but not very many. I think, for me, the paper sleeve that came with the 45 couldn’t compete with the artwork on the LP and that whole package (I did like the little plastic adapters required to play the 45s on the HiFi). I think the album cover art was a large part of the whole record experience. Can anyone, of a certain generation, hear something from the Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers” and not have the album cover come to mind. That’s true of so many of the classic LPs. I love music and my tastes have always been eclectic. I have rock, folk, progressive, jazz, grunge, new wave, lounge, Exotica, punk, bluegrass, rockabilly, emo, Irish, Latin, and more. Mostly how I listen to music now is on a CD. I don’t have any MP3s yet. For an old guy I’m usually a pretty quick adopter of new technology but I haven’t made the leap to the IPod and the like yet. Digital music is a different experience. I can remember a friend would call up, “Do you want to hear the new Chick Corea album?” And you would have to go see the friend. And hang out. Put the LP on the turntable and pass the album cover around. Today you can send a text with the file attached and you don’t even have to see anyone. I’m probably being too nostalgic.

I have this book from the 1970s on record album art. I’m sure there have books since this one. Lots of famous artists, like Andy Warhol for one, did record album covers.

Post #448991 by khan_tiki_mon on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 6:37 PM