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Colored vinyl?

Ugh, years ago , at the flea , was a guy selling Beatles 45’s in various colors from a jukebox find . 3.00 each . They were pristine .
And I fkin passed on em .
Now, the only albums I have in color ( yellow - picture discs ) are my daughter’s old Care Bears records.
Sigh.
 
Madeline12 said:
That is gorgeous.
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Funny thing....I have about 4 or 5 copies of Aja. I buy used records when I see a decent title in excellent condition and it's only a dollar or two. Sometimes I just grab a bunch at an estate sale or thrift store without too much scrutiny, if the cover is in really good condition.

Imagine my surprise when I went through some of my records I had picked up over time and pulled this one out !!

It was like a score from my own collection :rflmao:
 
I have hundreds of colored disc, all colors and marble, or spattered, they sound good to me. I would say I prefer black, except the colored disc seem to go up in value much quicker. I think it might be a fad thing.

I have plenty of old picture disc as well, and for the most part they do have more surface noise. My copy of Color by Number sounds pretty good, as does some others. But I really do prefer the traditional black vinyl.
 
Tomita's Bermuda Triangle. Rumor has it, if you play it backwards, it disappears ...

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Coloured vinyl looks great. I was always excited to get coloured vinyl when buying bootleg LPs in the 1970s, especially when one was a splatter (multi-coloured) disk. With boots, it's sometimes hard to differentiate poor vinyl from the terrible audio quality of the music.

However, many people with good quality systems report that the sound quality of (officially-released) coloured vinyl is often not as good as black vinyl - usually it's noisier. I recall some saying that clear vinyl wasn't too bad. But there are reports of good coloured vinyl pressings. Ultimately, I think the quality of a coloured vinyl pressing is a matter of luck. So I would tend to be conservative and go with the black when given the choice, even though the colour looks cool.
 
Looking at some of the pics reminds me that many years ago there was a glow in the dark record, which was particularly appreciated when played with enhancing listening substances.
 
Madeline12 said:
How do fellow AK-ers feel about colored vinyl? I have a few in my collection that sound fine and I quite enjoy :) But how about you guys? Like it? Hate it and prefer the classic black? Let us know and post a few you have if you can!

Here’s mine:
HOME - Odyssey. Translucent orange vinyl. Only 500 pressings made. According to Discogs, worth $1200. :) Lucky Buy.
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Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze (Loser Edition). One of my favorite albums in college.
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Lorde - Melodrama. Unfortunately got a little scratched, but still no skips :)
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I have a few more, but these are the three that I probably cherish most. Let’s see ‘em!
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If a partcular title I sought was, for reasons beyond my knowing fully, available only @ color, e.g., Rykodisc's mid (?) 1990s releases of Hendrix @ Radio One and Hendrix @ Winterland, then I was obliged to accept / opt for the coloured vinyl. But if a title was also available in black vinyl, I went for that and skipped the coloured -- no mater how "limited" the pressing -- variant. Prefer my vinyl in black, thank'ya veddy much. Don't care if the "limited" pressings @ colour gonna amount to a (suspected) higher value @ a later date; man, I got rare enough and then some LPs in standard black vinyl (or 78RPM in black shellac) so the valuation means little to nuthin' to me, and 'sides, I never sell my vinyl, so who gives a **** about potential future value? What's on the record and how it sounds is all that ever matter(s)ed to me.
 
P.S. Now, you wanna talk about collecting certain variants of labels for their "design", I'm game: Vertigo Swirls of UK issue.
 
Not that long ago I learned something. I posted somewhere about the copy of Alice Cooper - Love it to Death that I bought when it was released, 1971 I think. It looked to be a normal black record until it was under a black light when it become a vivid multi colour disc. I thought that might have made it rare but apparently not necessarily so.

A link either to an article or video was posted by someone about that being relatively common with 7" 45's. My black light is long gone so I've not been able to put that to the test. But I am now reminded why, whenever I see one in a 2nd hand store, I think "what was it that I wanted one of these for". That thought crossed my mind last Saturday when helping a friend re-organizing her antique and collectible shop. She had 3 or 4 small ones brand new in boxes. I'm helping her again this weekend so will either buy of borrow one.

But in any case, that copy of Love it to Death is long gone. My roommate at the time stole it. But I am keen to see how common this actually is.
 
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Several in my collection:

Beatles - White Album [WHITE VINYL]
Beatles - 1962 - 1966 [RED VINYL]
Beatles - 1967 - 1970 [BLUE VINYL]
Bel Canto - Stereo Demonstration Record [MUTI-COLORED VINYL]
Dave Brubeck Trio - The Dave Brubeck Trio [10"] [GREEN VINYL]
Dave Brubeck Quartet - brubeck a la mode (featuring bill smith) [BLUE VINYL]
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition [BLUE VINYL]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer [PICTURE DISC]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus [PICTURE DISC]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition [PICTURE DISC]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy [PICTURE DISC]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery [PICTURE DISC]
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [YELLOW VINYL]
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells [PICTURE DISC]
Tuxedo Junction - Tuxedo Junction [YELLOW VINYL]

The Beatles, Miles Davis, and Elton John colors are apropos.

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Couple of mine (the good, the bad, the ugly)

My oldest one:
1st Press Japanese Meet the Beatles (mono)
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My newest one..
MOV release of Blue Oyster Cult S/T... like the blue color, but think its all-in-all kinda ugly against the "original-like" Columbia label
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Couple of "odd splatter/marble" ones...
I like the look of this one Ween The Mollusk, but sounds pretty not good, though I dont blame the color but rather "Plain records," they Plain suck
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This one sounds really good, but I think looks awful (looks like the end effect of a BIG Mexican dinner)
Slightly Stoopid "Everyday Life, Everyday people"
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Ben
 
45rpmspinner said:
The first 45's made in 1948 by RCA for their new player were colored vinyl.
Color coded by genre in fact. Didn't last long though.
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Correct. According to this page, the color-coding went as follows:

"Popular releases were on standard black vinyl. Country releases were on green vinyl, Children's records were on yellow vinyl, Classical releases were on red vinyl, "Race" (or R&B and Gospel) records were on orange vinyl, Blue vinyl/blue label was used for semi-classical instrumental music and blue vinyl/black label for international recordings."

Here are some pictures of early colored RCA 45s, from said page:
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I had an example of a red vinyl/red label 45 as one of my very first records when I was a kid. Never had a chance to play it on a decent turntable before it ended up getting broken.
-Adam
 
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