frank zappa 7" pre-mothers single - mr. clean b/w jessie lee circa 1963
frank zappa 7" tears began to fall b/w junior mintz boogie
elvis costello 7" on 2tone lable - i can't stand up for falling down b/w girls talk
elvis costello 12" my aim is true/this year's model picture disc autographed by elvis and bruce thomas
elvis costello 12" 2 LP set - introduces songs from imperial bedroom promo autographed by elvis
prince - the undertaker on cd original, fully playable

namepeace said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:

These ones are hard to get on CD, but not LP.

I got Vanity 6 on CD.

CinisterCee said:

i probably have a bunch of rare stuff that i don't know about. one that i do know is rare, though, is the beatles "please please me" record in stereo released on parlophone records in 1963.

i forget how much it goes for, i just remember being very surprised last time i checked.

Gotta bunch of original 45s by The Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones and others...



...Unfortunately, none of them are in mint condition.


My Dad has an s-load of what i'm sure are collectible Jazz LPs.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

On LP...not sure, lots of 'em are hard to find, but maybe not particularly rare ( like costing hundreds of dollars).....

on CD:... well, rare, in that many of 'em are out of print now:

The Family
Jill Jones
Madhouse 8
Madhouse 16

Les Baxter - Le Sacre De Sauvage/Tamboo!

Bernie Worrell - All The Woo In The World

Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan

Laura Nyro - Mother's Spiritual

Laura Nyro - Live At The Bottom Line

Axiom Funk - Funkonomicron

Eddie Hazel - Rest in P

Parliament -Funkadelic - Mothership Connection- The Newberg Sessions

P-Funk Greatest Hits Live 4 CD Set (US version)

Mutiny - Mutiny On The Mamaship
Mutiny - Funk Plus The One

The Sweat Band (Bootsy Produced) , ftrng. "Freak to Freak"

The Brothers Johnson - Winners
The Brothers Johnson - Blam

Eddie Kendricks - My People Hold On

Twennynine w/ Lenny White - Best Of Friends(featuring "Peanut Butter")
Twennynine - Just Like Dreamin'

The Isley Brothers - Go All The Way
The Isley Brothers - Grand Slam
The Isley Brothers - Showdown

Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy

Stevie Wonder Presents ...Syreeta Wright

Brenda Russell - Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell - Love Life

Randy Jackson - Randy and the Gypsys

Sheree Brown - Straight Ahead
Sheree Brown - The Music

Brewster McCloud - Original Soundtrack

David Spinozza - Spinozza

John Tropea - Tropea

Ronnie Laws - Solid Ground

Earl Klugh - Crazy For You

Jon Lucien - Rashida
Jon Lucien - O Mind's Eye

Rare Silk - New Weave
Rare Silk - American Eyes
Rare Silk - Black and Blue

I'm trying to think if there's any others...

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The Family CD
Eroica w/ special mini cd by Lisa Coleman- Wendy & Lisa
Fruit & The Bottom w/ mixes- Wendy & Lisa

nobody'd give a crap about my most valued rarity, but i have an anthology of a band called tragic mulatto called "italians fall down and look up your dress".

the band's lead singer was named flatula lee roth, and she was a very big girl who could scream like nobody's business, plus she also played lead tuba in the band. when i was in a band in college, we opened for them once and we had to play with a police escort, because tragic mulatto had a reputation for either having sex onstage during their show or bum rushing the stage and sexually assaulting their opening acts.

anyway. their music was really fun but you could only get their stuff on vinyl or cassette, and i have the only official CD of their best songs, and it's a super duper rare import, mainly because they didn't have enough fans to warrant a lot of copies, i'm sure.

but i love it!

endorphin74 said:

Ive got that too. Its in my parents basement(I hope) Havent seen that cover in years, man.

Also, Ive got Vanity 6 on CD.
And Bauhaus 1979-1983 gatefold (the numbered edition w/ the black and white glossies)

Metallica - Garage Days EP

sosgemini said:

Oh Yeah, I forgot, that one, too! I like Lisa's mini-cd!!

unkemptpueblo said:

we rock!

Anx said:

was this a punk act?

I have almost all of the early Paisley Park albums on CD. They sounded better on vinyl.

I have tons of vinyl albums, 12 Inches, and 45s that are out of print. I don't know how rare they are though.

Probably the rarest thing I have is a 12 Inch UK import I have of "Little Red Corvette". It's a very slick lightweight cover that has the gray "negative" picture of Prince's head. Side A is "Little Red Corvette" and Side B is "Automatic" and "International Lover". I had the record store to specially order it for me back in the day when I couldn't find the 12 Inch remix of "Little Red Corvette". When I got it home, I was pissed because all the versions were album versions. It's in excellent condition because I very rarely played it because I already had the album.

I was on eil.com a few years ago and saw they were selling it for $150. I hurried up and covered the damn thing with plastic to preserve it even more.

endorphin74 said:

yes we do!

vainandy said:

i bet you've got an incredible music collection. how many cds do you own?

sextonseven said:

I am willing to pay for a burned copy of Mavis Staples firt PP album, or we can trade. org note me

this thread piqued my curiosity as to what my beatles record goes for. i'm about to sell it! i saw some people selling it for 5 figures! that could be a shopping trip in milan for me!

does anyone know of any reliable record appraisal sites?

dancerella said:

He probably has more vinyls than cds

The rarest thing I probably own is the Step on the Beast EP by Eurythmics and many of their 45s.

I did land a very, VERY rare tune the other day, though.

Meloh9 said:

how'd ya guess?

write-ups usually describe them as "art-punk"...i just describe them as weird and filthy.

Moonbeam said:

if it's "natural aphrodesiac" by peaches, we gotta talk.

I have Led Zeppelin 4 on Purple Vinyl. I bought it from a yard sale about 15 years ago for 50pence. I didn't even know it was purple vinyl til i took it home. Its worth about $100 so its not mega rare. Also have Ramones Too Tough To Die on Vinyl signed by all four members. Whats cool is that it's signed by Ritche Ramone who was only there for two albums.

I couldn't even begin to count them.

Rarest things I've got are Apollonia 6 on cassette and the Black Album

Hmmmm....that's hard to tell. Back in the day, I only bought albums by people I knew were going to have lots of good tracks on the album such as Prince, Rick James, The Barkays, Cameo, Zapp, Midnight Star, Lakeside, etc. Other than that, I bought 45s and lots of 12 Inches....unless there was a non-single by an artist that I just had to have. I wasn't going to waste my money on an album full of dull ballads with only one fast song, when I could have bought four or five 45s with my money or two 12 Inches.

Every weekend, my grandmother would either let me buy three 45s (they were on sale 3 for $5) or a 12 Inch for $4.99. A new Prince or Rick James album was just automatic, she let me get those the day of their release. Albums were $7.99 and on special occassions I got albums, or if I begged for one hard enough. She also bought me albums to bribe me from going to the fair or places she didn't want to take me to.

Over the years though, I probably have accumulated as many CDs as vinyl. In those years in the 1990s when I didn't have a turntable, I bought a lot of CDs that I already had on vinyl.
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Meloh9 said:

You got me. I'm missing four PP CDs and that's one of them. Sorry.

The others:
George Clinton - The Cinderella Theory
T.C. Ellis - True Confessions
Eric Leeds - Things Left Unsaid

All the rest I have.

sextonseven said:

Still pretty awesome sextonseven, I must say.

CinisterCee said:

It took me years and lots of $$$, but I'm happy. As for non-Paisley Park CDs, I have a pretty good pirate of Vanity 6. I tried several times to find an authentic copy, but there are so many fakes floating around (especially on ebay), I think I've given up on that one.