Space, the vinyl frontier... (oops, that's Star Trek)

Well, I've always been a bit of a vinyl junkie so it was natural for me to start a small run of Star Wars 7 and 12 inch vinyl records.


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These discs are fun and mostly quite cheap to collect, and some of the artwork is just amazing! And I've listened to them all (apart from the sealed ones) with a mixture of exhilaration and sometimes horror to my ears! It's true that the original John Williams soundtracks are awesome classics, while some of the 're-imagined' works are fuggin awful! But that's only a few rare examples. Mostly there are some real gems to be found that cross the borders of late 70s jazz/funk and airy 80s dark synths.

Enough rambling, here's my small collection so far. There's a few more on the way but here's the starters...

Tidy platters:



Untidy:



Side 2 of the Story of Star Wars picture disc. Cool Vader!



Vintage 7" record tote.




Various 12".




Various 12" including 80s knock-off 'Chart Wars' LP. Cheers Soren!




more Various 12".




Cool lot of 7" including sealed read along story books and some French pressings.




Sealed ESB Symphonic Suite LP. Superb artwork!




Reverse of ESB Symphonic Suite LP.




Boris Midney LP. Nice tunes on this and cool artwork!




Meco funktastic!




The Story Of Star Wars picture disc. Cheers Chris J!




Ewok Celebration 12" Promotional Copy. Thanks again Chris J!





Various 7".




Various 7". Sealed read along books.





Non Star Wars: I also have a few animated TV series and film soundtracks too



Some non SW animated TV series 7".



Spider-Man and Pac-Man".




Cool other albums! The Barbarella soundtrack is ace! I just LOVE that Goldorak cover! The Mad Max still has its poster.




That's all for now, thanks for looking



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Damn, it looks cool, great collection you have

That is fantastic! As something of a vinyl junkie myself those records bring back memories (turn the page when you hear the chime!). I still have the Charles Gerhardt record on vinyl and CD. For the longest time that was the only way to get a number of cues from The Empire Strikes Back that were not included on the original soundtrack.

I need to get another copy of the original Polydor issue of the Star Wars double LP. I had a nice minty copy until one day it fell off the shelf and took a giant chunk out of the cover.

Thanks for sharing the pics

Dave

Awesome Paul. I have the unsealed 7" SW and ESB read along books. Love them. Used to drive my sister crazy with them. Here's an old pic of my collection with them in the backround.



And here's my ROTJ read along album 12".

Wat a cool limelight! Recently my wife has become a vinyl junky, so we fixed up our old turntable with a new cartridge and stylus, and got a new receiver and speakers to put it through. This limelight makes me totally wanna pick up some old SW vinyl!

I especially LOVE the Vader picture disc! I saw one on ebay a couple of days ago, but got outbid last minute.

Anyway, REALLY dig your limelight, Artoo! Thanks for taking the time to put it up!

Tad

There's some amazing art in there!

Havinng owned a jazz record shop myself, and with my interest in Star Wars, I find this little collection totally awesome!!!

I have a few of these including a Turkish LP, you have some really nice stuff!

wow!! marvelous stuff you got there.

Awesome stuff Paul, I had a DJ friend in England that used to do SW remixes, will try to get hold of him for some of them!

Paul, what a great vinyl collection, totally enjoyed watching it. The artwork on most of the covers is freaking cool.

This one is interesting cause it shows where Luke landed his X-Wing before entering Bespin city, a scene which was not shown in the actual movie. Funny, why did he not just park it on a landing platform in the city itself? Did he already suspect there was a trap set for him by the Empire? And why crash landing it? Was he show down by an agressive Cloud City Twin Pod?

Hi Paul!

I hope you are well?

Your vinyl collection is really taking great shape and I love the fact that your enjoying the collection with the Record Player. Like Marco, the artwork for the ESB records caught my eye. Do the records say who produced the artwork?

Thanks for taking a look everyone, and for the nice comments


Dave - I'm tempted to get the CD version of the Charles Gerhardt too. Lol at the sounds of the 'chime'

Paul - that's a nice ROTJ 12" SOSW, and glad you showed the back of the album too, nice photos. I've seen a French version of that knocking around too.

Tad - that's great your wife is getting back into the vinyl experience. Hope you manage to get some SW vinyl soon

ReboJazz - how cool to have had your own jazz record shop! Would've loved to have walked in there one time and take a look Any Horace Silver?

Joe - that'd be good to hear some remixes mate

Marco - I think Luke mistook a huge snowdrift for a nice flat landing strip. Or the Wampa was making a big snowball fight

Craigy - hi mate, all good thanks, and you? The Boris Midney is credited to "Jeff Wack/Gribbitt!" The Symphonic Suite is credited to "WM Stout"


Thanks again everyone

very cool to see them all lined/piled up in here!
but you know you *need* some japanese 45s to add to the lot

...forgot to add what i initially wanted to say:

maybe it's a good idea to set up a thread containing all sw-related audio items we can find? (vinyl, cassette tapes, 8tracks,...)

i'd add mine here but i really don't want to hijack your lime
- i could start a lime of my own of course, but what good would it be to have everything in different threads huh.. well, you get my meaning, i'm just rambling

ramble on! (which artist? )

Nice idea If you make a new thread I'll add some pics from some new stuff I have coming, and I'll cherry pick a few from here. Chris J has some audio stuff too that I'm pretty sure he'll add.

And if you want to PM me your Japanese availables I'd be very interested cheers

Ramble on... (was it Ramblin' Rosie?)

The collection is coming along nice Paul. I love the Spiderman and Pac Man ones. Those are cool as hell.

I'm game if anyone wants to start a thread on audio pieces. I got some records, cassettes, and 8-tracks I could add. I got two new pieces I havent showed off yet.

Paul this is a great limelite mate. You got some cool pices there . Love the ESB with Luke on the front.

Also great to see the Chart Wars got a nice home

I will post some cool stuff in the Vinyl thread you guys have made

Soren

Hi everyone, thought I'd add some of my latest vinyl additions as a small update - hope you like



Star Wars Meco 12 inch Supersingle, Spanish pressing:



Maynard Ferguson 7 inch, Demonstration copy:





Maynard Ferguson album, Japanese pressing:



Ron Carter album Empire Jazz, Japanese pressing:


Cover detail: great jam session on behalf of Vader!



Geoff Love and his Orchestra album:



Disco Stars, Star Wars knockoff album:



Thirtieth Anniversary Collection music flyer - not vintage but nice paperwork celebrating the original trilogy albums:



Some more paperwork - this Teeshirt offer insert was found inside my copy of The Story of Star Wars album:




and some recent additions to my non SW vinyl collection of soundtracks and animated TV series:


ET album:



Barry Lyndon, Grease, Midnight Express, and the number one best-selling soundtrack of all time (15,000,000+ copies sold) Saturday Night Fever!!!!



and lastly, 7 inch versions of Mad Max and The Professional:



thanks for looking

awmazing!