Vinyl Purge: Day 1 - The Letter "A" - Which albums make the cut? - #vinylcommunity

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:01][screaming] >> All right, everybody.

[00:00:09]I'm Steve.

[00:00:10]This is A is for Alice, B is for Bob, and C is for the continuation of my purge, but oh yeah, the CD purge is done.

[00:00:18]The box set purge is done, and now we are moving on to the one that everybody's been waiting for. Well, at least Gary over at Physical Format Rock and Roll.

[00:00:27]He wants to see albums.

[00:00:30]So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to do the A's today.

[00:00:36]I believe there's 108 of them. Go through them, decide which ones I'm keeping, which ones I'm not.

[00:00:42]And I have my box here.

[00:00:45]Ones that are being purged are going right in here.

[00:00:49]Rest are going to stay up on the shelf.

[00:00:50]This may take a while. I'm going to try to do these fast. I'm not going to talk much about the albums.

[00:00:56]ABC, keeper.

[00:00:59]Now, we got a lot of AC/DC. Holy cow.

[00:01:02]And you know what? I have all this AC/DC also on CD.

[00:01:09]And that's a lot of room right there.

[00:01:11]That's a lot of space, a lot of weight.

[00:01:15]I am not moving the albums. I'm keeping my CDs. I'm getting rid of the LPs. So, what do we got here? Got High Voltage.

[00:01:22]Goodbye.

[00:01:24]Into the box.

[00:01:25]Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Goodbye.

[00:01:30]Let There Be Rock.

[00:01:32]My second favorite album by them.

[00:01:35]Powerage, or do you say Power Rage?

[00:01:37]Gone. These are all gone.

[00:01:41]Highway to Hell, my favorite album by them.

[00:01:43]Gone.

[00:01:46]That can stay in.

[00:01:49]Back in Black, gone.

[00:01:53]Uh, For Those About to Rock, gone.

[00:01:59]Flick of the Switch, gone.

[00:02:05]Fly on the Wall, gone.

[00:02:09]Razor's Edge, gone.

[00:02:14]Who Made Who, gone.

[00:02:19]Ballbreaker, gone.

[00:02:23]Stiff Upper Lip, gone.

[00:02:28]What's that one called again? I even forget. Tells you how much I play it.

[00:02:31]Black Ice, even saw them on that tour, gone.

[00:02:35]Rock or Bust, gone.

[00:02:40]Power Up, gone.

[00:02:45]Where are we at now? We got 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 That is 16 albums.

[00:02:59]Gone.

[00:03:02]All right, moving on. Still in the A's.

[00:03:06]Ace, You know what? There's one good song in there, How Long.

[00:03:12]Gone.

[00:03:14]17.

[00:03:16]How do I get a CD in here? Jesus.

[00:03:20]Ace Frehley, keeping it, picture disc.

[00:03:25]Ace Frehley Origins Vol. 2, keeping it.

[00:03:32]All right, Ace Frehley, which one is this?

[00:03:37]The Ace in Sp- Oh, Spaceman. Yep, keeping it.

[00:03:42]All right, Aerosmith, I have five keepers Aerosmith. That's all I need. Debut, Get Your Wings, Toys in the attic.

[00:03:54]Rocks.

[00:03:56]And draw the line. I can get rid of these others.

[00:04:00]Cuz I have the CDs.

[00:04:02]Night in the Ruts, don't need it. Was that 18?

[00:04:05]Done with Mirrors gone, 19.

[00:04:10]And that is it, I believe. Okay, now.

[00:04:14]Airbag, Identity Keeper. We keep all Airbag.

[00:04:19]All rights removed.

[00:04:23]Discontinued or disconnected, I mean.

[00:04:28]Uh, what's this one called again?

[00:04:33]>> [snorts] >> Shouldn't I can't remember the name of it.

[00:04:37]Oh, yeah, The Greatest Show on Earth.

[00:04:39]Keeper.

[00:04:43]Day at the Beach.

[00:04:46]And The Very Fine, most recent album, Century of the South.

[00:04:50]Album closer is an epic track.

[00:04:53]All right, A.J. Croce, 12 Tales. Don't need it.

[00:04:59]Oh, yeah, here.

[00:05:01]That gets us to 20.

[00:05:03]Woo, we are doing good.

[00:05:06]I Robot, Alan Parsons. That's keeper.

[00:05:10]Aldo Nova. I like his stuff and I don't have these on CD, so I'm keeping them.

[00:05:17]Subject.

[00:05:19]And The Big One.

[00:05:22]Al Stewart, Year of the Cat. I've got the big box set on CD. I don't need it.

[00:05:27]Is that 21? Well, keeping that. That's my Alice Cooper bookmark.

[00:05:31]We're keeping all Alice Cooper, obviously.

[00:05:36]Pretties for You, Easy Action.

[00:05:41]Love It to Death, then Killer.

[00:05:44]Oh, yeah, I've got two Love It to Deaths. That's right, cuz I have the Rhino which Trevor sent to me as VCLT. Thank you, Trevor.

[00:05:55]Keeping that. Another killer. I don't know why I have two killer kappies.

[00:06:02]School's out.

[00:06:04]Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love.

[00:06:10]Moving on here.

[00:06:12]I can move some of these into this cubicle going out.

[00:06:17]Welcome to my nightmare.

[00:06:19]Goes to hell. Lace and Whiskey.

[00:06:24]From the Inside.

[00:06:26]Flush the Fashion.

[00:06:28]Special Forces.

[00:06:31]Zipper Catches Skin.

[00:06:34]Da Da. Underrated album.

[00:06:38]Raise Your Fist and Yell.

[00:06:41]Constrictor.

[00:06:44]Hey, Stupid.

[00:06:47]Trash.

[00:06:52]Last Temptation, Alice Cooper. Very good album.

[00:06:59]Dirty Diamonds.

[00:07:03]All right, going to have to move this back a little here, I think.

[00:07:07]To accommodate this next cubicle. Dragon Town. Keeper.

[00:07:15]Brutal Planet.

[00:07:21]Keeper.

[00:07:24]The Eyes of Alice Cooper. Along Came a Spider.

[00:07:30]Welcome to My Nightmare 2.

[00:07:35]Got uh the Breadcrumbs EP.

[00:07:42]Paranormal.

[00:07:45]Detroit stories Road, yeah, even keeping that.

[00:07:51]And revenge of Alice Cooper.

[00:07:54]I don't even remember ordering that. I thought I only got the CD box set.

[00:07:59]>> [snorts] >> All right, Alice in Chains, yep, keeping it.

[00:08:03]And Alice in Chains, keeping that.

[00:08:05]All them witches God, you know what? I never play this. Goodbye.

[00:08:12]I think that makes 22. I lost track.

[00:08:15]Allman Brothers, Seven Turns, that's a keeper.

[00:08:19]Ally Venable, VCLT from Gary. You don't get rid of any VCLT people.

[00:08:25]Oh, Tommy Bolin makes an appearance.

[00:08:27]Alphonse Mouzon Uh, Animal Tracks. I got this sent to me by Amazon as a mistake.

[00:08:36]Um I guess I think this was Yeah, it was [clears throat] a record store day release.

[00:08:44]All right, Alter Bridge, Last Hero, no, gone.

[00:08:51]Al Stewart, Time Passages. How the hell this get over here? All right, see?

[00:08:55]That's the good thing about going through your collection.

[00:08:58]Get rid of that. I've got it on CD. Alex Chilton of Big Star fame. Well, we're keeping that.

[00:09:06]Uh, Alvin Lee Band, yes, that's a definite keeper.

[00:09:10]Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre Pretty good album.

[00:09:17]Ambrosia Why do I have this? What song is on here that I want Oh, Holding On to Yesterday, yeah.

[00:09:24]I guess I'll keep that. What the hell?

[00:09:27]Oh, yeah, keeping that. American Breed, Bend Me, Shape Me Okay, some new age music, Down to the Moon, Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harpist. My wife and I saw him live, actually. And White Winds, actually.

[00:09:39]White Winds was released before that.

[00:09:42]Andy Taylor.

[00:09:45]That is a guitar player's album, man.

[00:09:47]Talk about some great riffs. Also great hooks.

[00:09:51]Fantastic album, Angel. Yeah.

[00:09:54]Debut.

[00:09:57]On Earth as it is in Heaven.

[00:10:00]White Hot.

[00:10:04]Hello of a band.

[00:10:06]Sinful.

[00:10:09]That should be it for them. Yep. Then we got Anthrax, um doing nothing but covers. Um Aaron Muth Alamar talked this album up and I bought it and you know what? He was right. That's very good.

[00:10:22]April Wine.

[00:10:23]My favorite album by them, All World's Going Crazy.

[00:10:27]Artful Dodger. Very much underrated.

[00:10:29]Power pop band, their debut.

[00:10:32]Honor Among Thieves.

[00:10:36]Babes on Broadway.

[00:10:38]And then their last studio album, Rave On.

[00:10:42]Those are hard to find.

[00:10:45]All right. Argent, All Together Now.

[00:10:47]What the hell's on this? Oh, okay. Hold Your Head Up is on here.

[00:10:51]Yeah, we're keeping it.

[00:10:56]Arthur Brown, Crazy World of.

[00:10:59]Keeping it. I Am the God of Hellfire.

[00:11:01]Asia.

[00:11:05]And I don't know what is this. Alpha?

[00:11:06]Isn't that what this one's called? Yep, Alpha.

[00:11:11]And Astra. Keeping those.

[00:11:15]Then we got your Asterix. And what this is, this is Lucifer's Friend before they became Lucifer's Friend.

[00:11:23]Yeah, you got John Lawton on here, Peter Hesslein, Dieter Horns.

[00:11:29]Fantastic band.

[00:11:32]Astro, yeah, this is a fellow member of the VC keeping it some good psych out music.

[00:11:40]Uh Atlantis, now supposedly okay, well this is Frumpy before they became Frumpy with my favorite female singer of all time Inga Rump. Supposedly that's her signature, who knows?

[00:11:52]Oh, we're keeping it.

[00:11:56]Uh Atlanta Rhythm Section Champaign Jam, you know what? I never play this. Plus it's a cutout.

[00:12:03]Get out of here.

[00:12:05]And this is a time of Rooster. Well, we are keeping that and I believe that it is for the A's. Yeah, so we did some good damage. Let's see.

[00:12:14]I know we had 16 AC/DC 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25, we got rid of 25 of 108 LPs. That is a pretty good purge everybody.

[00:12:37]Thank you. Uh the B's are going to take a couple days because I think there's like 180 190 of them.

[00:12:44]I will see you tomorrow.