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Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

I have them in order of release (roughly) so they're also a history. First one: Disraeli Gears. I've just got a NICE replacement with incredibly unfaded cover and it's insane, but I've had an old worn copy forever. Represents guitar music beginning to step out post-skiffle and post-blues.

Following it, a radio station Steamboat Reprise copy of Are You Experienced. Jimi came around after Cream was already playing. My copy is BEAT UP but it's the three-color Reprise label, i.e. unbelievably old. Sounds live and wild. I'll be showing it on an Unauthorized at some point. Old tube record.

The next row (they're two wide) is a spare copy of the first Led Zeppelin. Represents inventing a whole, huge-scale sound with that instrumentation, there is so much to be learned from the production of old Zeppelin. Not as much personal value there, but a spare legit 1969 record.

The one after that is (I believe) THE copy of Bayou Country I played to death over my lifetime. I don't think it's heavily damaged but I think this is the one I turned to for those gripping, super-intense sounds. I found a less scratchy one, but this one was mine. It belted FOR me when I daren't :)

Next to that, the copy of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick I grew up with. I got a cleaner copy, also original, but this showed me what music and sound could even do, when I was a kid entering (so briefly) college. It was a revelation, and I never knew it was also intended as a joke. Heard only music.

Then, one of the 'cannot give up' discs, my copy of Larks' Tongues In Aspic'. I found a copy that was quieter and has a funny misprint, but my old copy represented THE most astonishing music it was possible to make. (should put up a Fragile in place of the ZZ Top really: Bill Bruford means so much)

And lastly, my copy of Apostrophe. It has severe groove damage starting Side One from a cartridge experiment 35 or so years ago. I got another copy, but this record combines the wildest virtuosity with humor and soulfulness, and I'll happily have Frank stare at me from over my record player <3 <3 <3