Colored Vinyl

[vinyldavid]

Whoops! Double post!

Sorry.

 

[sfox52]

Only one : Larry Fast "Cords" in clear vinyl..

 

[grillebilly]

Moby Grape "Live Grape' grape vinyl
Danny Gatton "Redneck Jazz" red vinyl
Simple Minds "New Gold Dream" gold vinyl

 

[Saint Johnny]

Was the "standard black" vinyl the original pressing and the colored came later?

Interesting--does anyone know if Colored Vinyl sounds the same, or is it an inferior pressing?

IIRC Black was first and early. Elvis died a few months after it's release and all subsequent pressings were blue, in honor of his passing. That's why the black vinyl is more collectible. And I guess maybe because he was still alive when the black copies were being pressed, might have something to do with it's collectibility.

There is still some debate as to whether colored vinyl discs sound as good as the black variety, from what I have read.

 

[Saint Johnny]

Too many to name.

Off the top of my head though. The Beatles White album on white imported vinyl.

 

[SkyLounger]

Styx: The Grand Illusion & Equinox, clear yellow/gold

Pretty In Pink OST: pink

Pink Floyd: Division Bell, light blue/turquoise

Police: Synchronicity, violet

Pat Metheny: Offramp, dark green

Bob Marley: Survival, red

 

[Saint Johnny]

Graham Parker-The Pink Parker: On pink vinyl no less. LOL
Rolling Stones-Miss you 12" on pink vinyl
Prince-When Doves Cry and Purple Rain 7"- You guessed it. Purple vinyl.

Some many discs, so few brain cells.....

 

[Arkay]

I have perhaps a dozen colored disks, and almost as many picture disks. Also a few with interesting cut-out shapes; that is, they are not round (although of course the grooved part is!). Can't remember them all, and I try to play them less than black versions (if/when I have both), if I play them at all. I heard that the colored vinyl wears much faster than black vinyl. Don't know if that is really true, but why take chances?

 

[SkyLounger]

I currently have 3 copies of The Police's Synchronicity. I just noticed that all three of them are violet coloured vinyl.

Were all copies coloured or did I just get lucky?

 

[Saint Johnny]

I currently have 3 copies of The Police's Synchronicity. I just noticed that all three of them are violet coloured vinyl.

Were all copies coloured or did I just get lucky?

IIRC, All first pressings were very dark, yet translucent purple vinyl. I have a purple vinyl one, too.

 

[SkyLounger]

IIRC, All first pressings were very dark, yet translucent purple vinyl. I have a purple vinyl one, too.

Looking closely, one is much darker, like you mention, the two others are noticeably lighter, but all violet/purple...

Thanks for the info. I'll be doing some more research.

 

[Elfasto]

Mine's a dark blue.

 

[P. Shivers]

I only have three:

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger on orange vinyl
Ryan Adams - Cardinology on red vinyl
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues on clear vinyl with the Rauschenberg cover

 

[wajobu]

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue - sexy ocean blue vinyl
Synergy (Larry Fast) - Cords - "A Revolutionary Transparent Recording" on clear vinyl

 

[virak]

I've got a couple, but the most interesting is the Luke Vibert "London Is A Country" glow-in-the-dark 11" (yes, eleven).
Only 500 copies were pressed, and later a repress of 1000 on regular black 12"

Visually very cool, but those glow-in-the-dark records have an HUGE amount of surface noise.

 

[NewKidInTown]

I could kick myself for getting rid of ELO's Out of The Blue on blue vinyl and the Moody Blue's Octave on blue marble vinyl years ago. Titles I've held on to include the Beatles Red and Blue Albums, Abbey Rd on green, German pressing of the White Album on white vinyl and some various Beatles 45 colored vinyl singles. Also have a clear vinyl version of Chilliwack-Lights in the Valley on Mushroom records which looks cool.

 

[Saint Johnny]

Titles I've held on to include the Beatles Red and Blue Albums, Abbey Rd on green, German pressing of the White Album on white vinyl and some various Beatles 45 colored vinyl singles.

I've got a French pressing of the white vinyl, White Album, and quite a few of the colored vinyl jukebox singles. I may have a "Happy Xmas, War Is Over" on green vinyl, too. And a copy of 'Reel Music' on gold vinyl. And a bunch of Stiff records singles on colored vinyl.

I have way too many records for my own good.:yes:

 

[derekva]

Let's see...offhand and in no particular order:

Sleater-Kinney The Woods (brown & green vinyl)
Spinal Tap Break Like The Wind (picture disc)
Spinal Tap Christmas With the Devil (45RPM picture disc)
Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland (clear vinyl)
Motorhead No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (clear vinyl)
The White Stripes Elephant (red & white vinyl)
Bongwater Double Bummer (blue vinyl)
Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining (blue vinyl)

I'm sure I have some more, but I'm not up to trolling the collection tonight. To be honest, I've always found the colored vinyl (not so much with the clear) to be noisier than basic black.

-D

 

[davidk5]

I have a bunch , a few i have

Prince - purple rain - purple vinyl

Stryper - soldiers under command - whie vinyl

stryper - yellow & black attack - blue vinyl

stryper 12" - yellow vinyl

Todd Rundgren "Hermit of Mink Hollow" Green vinyl

the Nazz - pinkish vinyl

Type o negative - double red vinyl

Brian wilson - 45 on orange vinyl

The donnas - 2 45's one white vinyl & strutter on clear vinyl

 

[leesonic]

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Edwin Starr - H.A.P.P.Y. Radio

Sparks - Beat the Clock

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