{"id":1558,"date":"2021-08-14T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:22:36","slug":"list-my-twelve-inch-record-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/08\/14\/list-my-twelve-inch-record-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"List: My Twelve Inch Record Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m organizing some of my things for a construction project, and one of those things is my Long Playing Record (LP) collection. My first actual music “album” was an audiocassette of Rick Springfield’s Working Class Dog<\/em>, and the original Sony Walkman made cassettes preferable, so I could take music with me on long transit rides (and somehow, all transit rides were long back then!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, records were… special<\/em>. You would plop down in front of your home stereo and listen to records to listen to records<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, not just as background music for other things! It was a wonderful activity, and I had some enormous headphones (which surely belonged to my father) with a spiral cord that would attach me to the stereo for HOURS. But it was also good to have friends over to listen to records together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t buy records anymore, in this era of buying online and having music on many devices — who would have thought I would listen on tiny Bose earbuds to my music ON MY PHONE (!?!?!?) — but I still enjoy my collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sharing a list of my 12″ records sorted by year recorded. This will tell you about my age (eek), and also when my core record-buying years were. Even during those years, my audio cassette purchases were high at the beginning, and my CD purchases overlapped at the end, so this isn’t a complete reflection of my music buying at the time. It does reflect music I took the time to enjoy at home, or took a risk on, since records were reasonably priced (and were what I spent my allowance and job income on). This list includes LPs (long playing records), EPs (extended playing records – collections of 2 or more songs), 12″ singles (songs too long to fit on a 45 single song record, usually because they have been remixed), and various special variations of these (versions released in other countries, picture disks, etc.).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 12″ Records Sorted by Year of Release, then Artist Name ( 122 Items)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n