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IWillPlayForGumbo wrote: March 2, 2025 1:08 pm I wondered about LAST MANGO CD release. I could've swore I had the original release with lyrics but when I looked it's the plaid reissue (or whatever it's called). Must've been someone else that had the original that I knew. I didn't see anything on discogs showing the lyrics version, not that it's a guarantee that it will be on there.

urlcenter wrote: March 2, 2025 1:01 pm

IWillPlayForGumbo wrote: March 2, 2025 12:24 pmWhy they ignored A1A, originally released in December of 1974, remains a mystery.

A1A was reissued in 2016 along with Songs You Know by Heart. There are also two CD versions of the Living and Dying in 3/4 Time and Last Mango in Paris.

Bucarader wrote: July 26, 2025 10:10 am I ordered the new colored vinyl of Life On The Flip Side.

I did write the Mailboat records folks and requested some more issues. There were receptive, but ultimately MCA controls this not them. And we know MCA sucks. While the colored pressings are fun, in my opinion they are of extremely poor quality. I have some that skip on the first play.

But it would be fun to have:

Coconut Telegraph: exact same white label center as original pressing, Coconut Brown vinyl.

Floridays: Yellow Sunshine vinyl.

Off To See The Lizard: Iguana Green vinyl.

SharkysMV1 wrote: July 28, 2025 11:43 am

Bucarader wrote: July 26, 2025 10:10 am I ordered the new colored vinyl of Life On The Flip Side.

I did write the Mailboat records folks and requested some more issues. There were receptive, but ultimately MCA controls this not them. And we know MCA sucks. While the colored pressings are fun, in my opinion they are of extremely poor quality. I have some that skip on the first play.

But it would be fun to have:

Coconut Telegraph: exact same white label center as original pressing, Coconut Brown vinyl.

Floridays: Yellow Sunshine vinyl.

Off To See The Lizard: Iguana Green vinyl.

Agreed on all points here. Those colored editions would be awesome. I have all but one of the colored pressings (Fruitcakes was the only one I missed as it initially sold out quickly, so I opted for standard). I will say they are neat to own and listen to, but there was not much improvement (if at all) over most of the older LPs I have collected over the years.

I had debated investing $$ in vinyl-ripping hardware and software when the first few runs were announced so I could start building higher-quality audio files to my collection from them, but, things got pricey quick and I opted not to, once I started listening to the vinyl batches.

My colored vinyl of Living and Dying in 3/4 Time skips at the very beginning. I'll likely just get the standard black vinyl to replace it.

I believe this has been noted somewhere on here before, but I find the overdubbed harmonica solo on Remittance Man on the new Barometer Soup vinyl not ideal. Not only does it seem to replace one of Fingers' greatest studio contributions, but it also does not seem to fit with the slow, seafaring lilt of the song. However, I would be very interested to hear the story as to how that decision came about. Any ideas/info on that?

Bucarader wrote: July 30, 2025 8:11 am Vinyl ripping can be fun, but tedious. I have found the third or fourth play to be the best run for recording. The key is to get your vinyl externally clean.

You can use any turntable with a usb. Then use audacity to record. Audacity is difficult to learn and use, for olds like me. But once you learn, it has some cool features that help you eliminate some ticks and pops.

I use the HD audio format. Save to a wave .wav at 44khz, 24k bps. Then you can covert to Apple Lossless .m4a like I do for use on an iPhone. You could also convert that .wav to any format you like if you don’t use Apple. Just make sure it is HD compatible. Wave files are good to record to, but too large for storage and use.

I store all my music in iTunes. When I import my ripped audio files from vinyl, I import it as a .wav, then do a conversion to m4a. Then I just delete the wav files out of iTunes. What’s cool is you can find the album art for the colored vinyl on Discogs and save it to your iTunes files for the ripped vinyl.

(Didn’t mean to nerd out on you!)

Bucarader wrote: July 31, 2025 12:04 pm Let me know if you need Audacity help. There are very good Audacity tutorials online. Just google, “how to rip vinyl records using Audacity” and you will find really good resources.

Bucarader wrote: August 1, 2025 7:32 am CoB, O. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time!

Bucarader wrote: July 26, 2025 10:10 am I ordered the new colored vinyl of Life On The Flip Side.

I did write the Mailboat records folks and requested some more issues. There were receptive, but ultimately MCA controls this not them. And we know MCA sucks. While the colored pressings are fun, in my opinion they are of extremely poor quality. I have some that skip on the first play.

But it would be fun to have:

Coconut Telegraph: exact same white label center as original pressing, Coconut Brown vinyl.

Floridays: Yellow Sunshine vinyl.

Off To See The Lizard: Iguana Green vinyl.