Vinyl I am listening to...

[Selvin]

Last Night listen was "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar". Music by Jatin-Lalit. 1991 Gramophone Company of India Pressing. Amazing sound quality.. even this LP hands down many overseas pressings and definitely make shine any system. Got from a seller in mint condition for throw-away price of Rs.50.

 

[reubensm]

Great to see these LPs from the 1990s, especially from the HMV label. Just a few years more, and production was to stop

 

[Atanu]

Last Night listen was "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar". Music by Jatin-Lalit. 1991 Gramophone Company of India Pressing. Amazing sound quality.. even this LP hands down many overseas pressings and definitely make shine any system. Got from a seller in mint condition for throw-away price of Rs.50.

Great to see this in good condition! I do listen to these late eighties and early nineties stuff on HMV records. JJWS, Sailaab, Zindagi Ek Juaa, Lekin, Lamhe - all had very clear audio, but I am not very happy with the bass output on these records.
I want to know this, please pardon if the question seems silly - do we compromise on recording quality when we try to press more time onto one side of vinyl? That is, will the grooves be narrower and lead to weakening of bass? I remember, HMV did bring out compilation albums that had around 25 minutes on one side. The sound was mostly pathetic.

Regards
Atanu

 

[aks07]

Great to see this in good condition! I do listen to these late eighties and early nineties stuff on HMV records. JJWS, Sailaab, Zindagi Ek Juaa, Lekin, Lamhe - all had very clear audio, but I am not very happy with the bass output on these records.

Agree. Films like Lamhe, Lekin, Chandni etc had very clear audio but the bass is lacking. Exceptions are LP's like Saajan, qayamat se qayamat tak etc. Most of T Series film music releases were lacking in bass, but non filmi ones had better balance.

I think filmi music SQ mixing/balancing peaked with LP's such as Burning Train, Silsila and few other from that time period. Even TBT could do with slightly less Reverb but overall it was balanced.

 

[bhaskarcan]

Great to see this in good condition! I do listen to these late eighties and early nineties stuff on HMV records. JJWS, Sailaab, Zindagi Ek Juaa, Lekin, Lamhe - all had very clear audio, but I am not very happy with the bass output on these records.
I want to know this, please pardon if the question seems silly - do we compromise on recording quality when we try to press more time onto one side of vinyl? That is, will the grooves be narrower and lead to weakening of bass? I remember, HMV did bring out compilation albums that had around 25 minutes on one side. The sound was mostly pathetic.

Regards
Atanu

It's to some extent true that when groove size...depth and width... is reduced, sound quality is compromised. But again it all depends upon the competence of the mastering engineer doing the job. I have a Japanese pressing Beatles Ballad compilation which has 10 songs each side...but the quality is superb. Even Western compilation albums mostly have very good quality unlike our Indian counterparts.

To give my understanding to Naturelover's question..IMHO reproduction of Indian film music were never taken so seriously as the Western band's albums... hence comparison is not proper... Pink Floyd recorded almost 700 hours of music to make a 53 min album in case of DSOM. Even their leftover recordings from Division Bell could make a full new album.Those genius musicians were making less than a single album per year on an average. Whereas our Music directors were so much overworked that quantity always took preceding over quality. And of course the babu's of record companies were not interested at all. The majority of the target listeners of Hindi film music and their equipments were perceived as low-fi...so the loudness war was fully active.

JJWS is a nicely recorded album...though I don't fully like the pressing... IGD is very evident on both sides. YMMV. Maybe by the time this album was released HMV has lost interest in record pressing.

Regards,
Bhaskar

 

[souravin]

How about Sajda which was released in early 90s. I am curious to know the pressing- never listened. I have the CD pack which is very good.

Thanks,
Sourav

 

[bhaskarcan]

How about Sajda which was released in early 90s. I am curious to know the pressing- never listened. I have the CD pack which is very good.

Thanks,
Sourav

Sourav... Sajda has top quality recording and pressing.... but again most of the non-film albums in Hindi as well as in regional languages had high standard/quality that was rarely present in film records.

In the same line of Sajda..I'd like to add Madhushala, DPH, Shraddhanjali, Miraz e Gazal, various other Jagjit Singh albums... etc. etc. There are also numerous example from Indian Classical recordings and pressings which are literary stunning.

Regards,
Bhaskar

 

[Atanu]

Sourav... Sajda has top quality recording and pressing.... but again most of the non-film albums in Hindi as well as in regional languages had high standard/quality that was rarely present in film records.

In the same line of Sajda..I'd like to add Madhushala, DPH, Shraddhanjali, Miraz e Gazal, various other Jagjit Singh albums... etc. etc. There are also numerous example from Indian Classical recordings and pressings which are literary stunning.

Regards,
Bhaskar

Yes, many of these ghazal albums and classical music records had great audio. Even Soulfully Yours by Manna Dey, which had almost 25 minutes of recording per side, had such nice output. Good that you mentioned Meraj-e-Ghazal. Listened to it recently. Lovely songs and great audio. Sad that Hindi film music had sporadic brilliance (as far as audio quality is concerned) ...

Music India came out with many super ghazal albums. Mostly in rich stereo. I happened to compare Nayaab double LP with the CD. Although the CD is fantastic, the LP output is out of this world. Simply heavenly.

 

[Atanu]

Yes, many of these ghazal albums and classical music records had great audio. Even Soulfully Yours by Manna Dey, which had almost 25 minutes of recording per side, had such nice output. Good that you mentioned Meraj-e-Ghazal. Listened to it recently. Lovely songs and great audio. Sad that Hindi film music had sporadic brilliance (as far as audio quality is concerned) ...

Music India came out with many super ghazal albums. Mostly in rich stereo. I happened to compare Nayaab double LP with the CD. Although the CD is fantastic, the LP output is out of this world. Simply heavenly.

But again, in the eighties, we did have a mono Qayamat or Jhutha Sach, or the stereophonic Polydor records of Abdullah and ZKDH, and the mono Yeh Vaada Raha and Shubhkaamna, which brought the smile back to our faces. What recording!

 

[souravin]

But again, in the eighties, we did have a mono Qayamat or Jhutha Sach, or the stereophonic Polydor records of Abdullah and ZKDH, and the mono Yeh Vaada Raha and Shubhkaamna, which brought the smile back to our faces. What recording!

Also mono Sitamgar, Lava, Manzil Manzil, Kaun Kaisee?? were superb pressings. Kudrat is stereo on LP but pathetic on ACD.

 

[jmascreen]

A Quick Question
How to identify the first pressing for Hotel California by Eagles LP?

 

[prem]

It is a U.S. pressing 7E 1084 on Asylum records in gatefold cover with a poster. There will be a Sterling LH on the dead wax on both sides. On the dead wax runout there will be Is it 6 o clock yet? On the other side in the run out will be VOL is five piece live

 

[nimcapri]

My Dear Kuttichathan:

Nat King:

Snehabandham:

Brother, I am looking for My Dear Kuttichathan everywhere. Do you know any place I can hunt for it? I love those songs...

Also, most of Shyam's songs and Devarajan Sir. They sound much better on analogue!

 

[Anil kumar]

Spinning Eagles ? Eagles Greatest Hits Volume 2

Special thanks to my friend murali_n for procuring this Lp in 2009

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Brother, I am looking for My Dear Kuttichathan everywhere. Do you know any place I can hunt for it? I love those songs...

Also, most of Shyam's songs and Devarajan Sir. They sound much better on analogue!

Even I am looking for a second copy...in good condition.

 

[Naren]

Recently I took a copy of "Superuna" from Mohan at Richie street Chennai. This album is a childhood dream of mine. We were young and would visit my uncle in my village. He used to play a lot of cassettes. This particular album I used to listen to very often. It used to be different from rest of the Hindi albums at that time.

This time I took the LP. Now I understand why it sounded so different. Recorded at Abbey Road studios, Buppi Lahiri in collaboration with Runa Laila of Pakistan. It still sound the best.

Try it.

 

[TD150]

Today's newspaper adv of Salman Khan with some cool vintage stuff. A bit off topic.

 

[souravin]

Now I understand why it sounded so different. Recorded at Abbey Road studios, Buppi Lahiri in collaboration with Runa Laila of Pakistan. It still sound the best.

Try it.

AFAIK Runa Laila is from Bangladesh, not Pakistan. She rendered a lot of Bengali folk songs and there are plenty of releases from EMI/ HMV.

Thanks,
Sourav

 

[Selvin]

Now listening... "Neethipathi". Music by Gangai Amaren younger brother of Ilayaraja. 45RPM, 1982 Gramophone Company of India (EMI) pressing. Nice songs... Side 2 first track "Paasamalare.. " is one of my favorite track.

 

[aks07]

In this ongoing season of Shri Jagannath Rath Yatra, some classic devotional LPs in my mother tongue Odiya.