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    Cool Great Albums you had but have come up missing over the years

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    ...That would be another subject, name all the great records you had at one time but have come up missing over the years.
    He has got great albums. Does he lend them?

    We had a friend, Hopworth. He'd got an album from Denys and didn't return it.
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    He said, "No, but he has, hasn't he?"

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    For some stupid reason when we got our Mercedes it completed the garage in terms of cars with no tape decks.

    I also had a Sony K950ES and managed to play a ton of Grateful Dead bootlegs off this. Now that deck is somewhere in the basement in boxes and my tapes are all long gone.

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    I got Neil Youngs "Harvest" on vinyl which I borrowed from a buddy almost 30 years ago. He was more of a metal head and never asked me about getting it back it and I never mentioned returning it.

    I borrowed a few albums from another friend one time and put them in the back seat so I could give them back to him next time I saw him.

    They sort of got ruined when it turned hot and the windows were rolled up

    I put off telling him about it and after a while we both forgot about them

    Cant remember what the albums were now
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    I could never keep albums long, they all got ruined from use, misuse, or loaned out and came back ruined. CDs were a godsend for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevMcNJ View Post
    I got Neil Youngs "Harvest" on vinyl which I borrowed from a buddy almost 30 years ago. He was more of a metal head and never asked me about getting it back it and I never mentioned returning it.

    I borrowed a few albums from another friend one time and put them in the back seat so I could give them back to him next time I saw him.

    They sort of got ruined when it turned hot and the windows were rolled up

    I put off telling him about it and after a while we both forgot about them

    Cant remember what the albums were now
    When I was a kid, my mom lost a great deal of her album collection (lots of early rock & roll-Elvis, Buddy Holly and the like) when we were moving one sweltering summer day, and my grandfather forgot them in his truck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Fury View Post
    When I was a kid, my mom lost a great deal of her album collection (lots of early rock & roll-Elvis, Buddy Holly and the like) when we were moving one sweltering summer day, and my grandfather forgot them in his truck.
    Yup, it dont take that long at all. I really felt horrible when I did it

    Was she PO'd?

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    The Sound of Deep Ellum - a local cassette I picked up in high school in '87 or so down here, that ultimately was probably "ganked" from 1411 North Jordan sometime in the early 90's. Some artists you'll recognize. Basically the soundtrack of my HS days shotgunning Strawberry Hill and Lone Star's, and sneaking into downtown clubs...

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevMcNJ View Post
    Yup, it dont take that long at all. I really felt horrible when I did it

    Was she PO'd?
    She was in tears. This was the end of the 1970s, and in a little Oregon town like ours back then, you couldn't exactly run right out and replace a collection like that. She had owned some of those records since she was 11 or 12 and they were brand new.

    I remember that one of them was the very first Elvis album (the one the Clash paid tribute to with the cover of London Calling with the green and red lettering) and another was 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong.

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    You know something will get broken whenever you move but you always hope its nothing too valauble or is at least replaceable

    Thats a big hit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Fury View Post
    I remember that one of them was the very first Elvis album (the one the Clash paid tribute to with the cover of London Calling with the green and red lettering) and another was 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong.
    And of course The Fall paid tribute to the latter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ensign14 View Post
    And of course The Fall paid tribute to the latter.

    So did Bon Jovi.


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    In the basement, we have this little room. When my brother washes his clothes, he sits in there listening to vinyl records, mostly country and western. But, he must have hundreds down there.

    What I wish, would be that some record company puts out a Norman Luboff album on CD. I got it on vinyl. It is a chorus sing south seas music.

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    Just to sate MD. . .


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    Quote Originally Posted by lutesk View Post
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    I've got that one, as well as their debut "I Forgot To Remember To Forget". One of my top ten favourite groups.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Fury View Post
    So did Bon Jovi.

    100,000,000, huh...

    At least Elvis and The Fall had some semblance of truth in advertising...lol...
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    Of all Albums Sgt Peppers turned up missing. It was probably one of the party deals. A couple years later I found a Parlaphone labeled import with a glossy album cover and the lost one became a faded memory

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    Quote Originally Posted by lutesk View Post
    Just to sate MD. . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Indy-One View Post


    The original, pre-crash "Street Survivors". Not sure what happened to it.
    Years and years ago I had a 4ft x 4ft promotional poster for this album. Disappeared some time in the mid 80's. Hate to think what it might be worth today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Indy-One View Post


    The original, pre-crash "Street Survivors". Not sure what happened to it.


    I have the post-crash version which is just them with an all black backgorund. Ive been wanting to find one of the pre-crash copies for 30 years now


    Quote Originally Posted by MD-IRLFAN View Post
    Years and years ago I had a 4ft x 4ft promotional poster for this album. Disappeared some time in the mid 80's. Hate to think what it might be worth today.
    Im sure theres at least one of them on Ebay right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hardscrabble View Post
    100,000,000, huh...

    At least Elvis and The Fall had some semblance of truth in advertising...lol...
    You might want to look up Bon Jovi's album sales and tour figures sometime. They're still a major draw, like 'em or not. (And I haven't bought one of their albums since Keep the Faith.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Fury View Post
    You might want to look up Bon Jovi's album sales and tour figures sometime. They're still a major draw, like 'em or not. (And I haven't bought one of their albums since Keep the Faith.)
    This Jersey boy cant stand him. My wife LOVES him. Our rule has always been driver chooses the music. Its made for some long rides for me when I see her Bon Jovi cd get put in the car

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sea Fury View Post
    You might want to look up Bon Jovi's album sales and tour figures sometime. They're still a major draw, like 'em or not. (And I haven't bought one of their albums since Keep the Faith.)
    I did...their biggest seller sold 12 million in the U.S., 28 million worldwide...

    To somehow conclude that those numbers equals 100,000,000 fans one has to use the grand old "CART 3-Day Total" math...

    And I'm not saying they aren't/weren't hugely popular, but I'm guessing Elvis had/has more fans than Bon Jovi could ever dream of...

    As to The Fall...I think they might have tempered their numbers...I'm sure they had 60,000 fans across the globe...

    As for the artistic merits of Bon Jovi...they have a few songs I like, some I don't and a bunch I could care less about (my brother will disagree on their merits, of course)...

    I do have to say, though, I did like Jon in Ed Burns' "No Looking Back", so I'm at least a little flaky...or misguided...

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    I used to have a copy of this, disappeared years ago:



    The whole album was solid, this was the single that was in heavy MTV rotation for a while:



    I had this on cassette, just about wore it out and then lost it somewhere. Later albums were not nearly as good and they broke up.

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