Coloured vinyl. What you got?

[jack8000]

Nigel......got some of the same as you......

Cheap Trick - At The Budokan (yellow vinyl)
Television - Adventure (red vinyl)
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (coke coloured vinyl)
Average White Band - Walk On By (blue vinyl)
The Rolling Stones ‎– Miss You (pink vinyl)
Electric Light Orchestra - Shine A Little Love / Jungle (white vinyl)
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Conquistador (white vinyl)
Donna Summer - The Woman In Me (blue vinyl)
Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman (purple vinyl)
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (green luminous vinyl)

 

[vince rocker]

I like the patterns that seem to appear on clear vinyl as it spins. Appropriately this is really noticeable on my copy of Hillage's "Rainbow Dome Musick".

 

[Tony L]

I like the patterns that seem to appear on clear vinyl as it spins. Appropriately this is really noticeable on my copy of Hillage's "Rainbow Dome Musick".

I absolutely love that album, but my copy (bought new) was really noisy so I let it go decades ago. I’ve got it on the first issue Virgin CD now which sounds superb.

 

[matt j]

Bloody hell I've got loads, I wouldn't mind betting 30-40% of my vinyl is coloured. I wouldn't know where to start listing it all!

 

[kjb]

I like the patterns that seem to appear on clear vinyl as it spins. Appropriately this is really noticeable on my copy of Hillage's "Rainbow Dome Musick".

I bought Solange's "When I Get Home" last week. It is on clear vinyl and, for some reasons when you look at it as it spins it appears to slow down and speed up while going round. Quite trippy!

 

[Seeker_UK]

A few I can think of:

 

[Tony L]

I have serious Kraftwerk 12” envy. I bought that when it was released, but sadly I lost it somewhere over the years. Does it still work, i.e. if you leave it in the light for a while does it still glow in the dark afterwards. When released it glowed really brightly, but you needed to let it see some bright light first. I’ve no idea how, i.e. what chemical is pressed into the vinyl, but it was amazingly effective. I still have strong memories of the silhouette of my Lenco 75 arm over the glowing vinyl!

PS I had that clear TD album too, but didn’t rate it much so moved it on.

 

[Seeker_UK]

I have serious Kraftwerk 12” envy. I bought that when it was released, but sadly I lost it somewhere over the years. Does it still work, i.e. if you leave it in the light for a while does it still glow in the dark afterwards. When released it glowed really brightly, but you needed to let it see some bright light first. I’ve no idea how, i.e. what chemical is pressed into the vinyl, but it was amazingly effective.

D'you know what? I've never tried it. I think it's been out of the sleeve once since I bought it but, as it's no different to the album version, if I want to hear it, I play it side 2 of 'The Man Machine'

 

[zygote23]

I have shed loads of it. Many Denovali pressings are colour and I have many Denovali though it is getting sold at a reasonable rate as I don't play much.

 

[Tony L]

D'you know what? I've never tried it. I think it's been out of the sleeve once since I bought it but, as it's no different to the album version, if I want to hear it, I play it side 2 of 'The Man Machine'

Do try it! Leave it under a good strong light for 5 minutes or so first though, it didn’t work straight out of the dark sleeve.

 

[Seeker_UK]

I just remembered two more:

I never really hunted coloured vinyl as I (probably erroneously) thought they had inferior SQ.

 

[vince rocker]

My copy of "Rainbow Dome Musick" is noisy too, but I put that down to playing it at times when I should not be operating machinery. See also "Solid Air".

 

[julifriend]

I definitely have Sunken Condos by Donald Fagen on clear vinyl, Dub Side Of The Moon by The Easy Star All Stars on clear green vinyl and Dubber Side Of The Moon by the same band on pale blue vinyl. I also have Total Loss by How To Dress Well on pink vinyl and I’m pretty sure there’s one in white vinyl somewhere. I also have a few picture disks, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road by The Beatles and the RSD release, Rated PG, from Peter Gabriel.

 

[Snufkin]

I have serious Kraftwerk 12” envy. I bought that when it was released, but sadly I lost it somewhere over the years. Does it still work, i.e. if you leave it in the light for a while does it still glow in the dark afterwards. When released it glowed really brightly, but you needed to let it see some bright light first. I’ve no idea how, i.e. what chemical is pressed into the vinyl, but it was amazingly effective. I still have strong memories of the silhouette of my Lenco 75 arm over the glowing vinyl!

PS I had that clear TD album too, but didn’t rate it much so moved it on.

I have a copy of the Kraftwerk single and have 'activated' it quite a few times. I recently tried it again having not taken it out of its sleeve for decades and it still works - I wonder if it was made from nuclear waste.

 

[Tony L]

I have a copy of the Kraftwerk single and have 'activated' it quite a few times. I recently tried it again having not taken it out of its sleeve for decades and it still works - I wonder if it was made from nuclear waste.

I’d love to know how it works! I’d have expected it to have failed by now if it did have any radioactive luminescence, e.g. I have an original early ‘70s Trimphone which has the radioactive dial and that is barely visible in a dark room now even after ones eyes gave adjusted for several minutes, it is a fraction of its original strength.

 

[gavreid]

Not much here, I've tended to avoid it (and picture discs) over the years - Pogues Sally MacLennane on green vinyl springs to mind

 

[adamk]

Plenty of coloured vinyl dotted throughout my collection both new and old - that Neon Lights 12" brings back memories of what I regard as the golden age of coloured vinyl releases- late 70's/early 80's.
Cant say i have ever noticed any SQ issues - Only drawback is the difficulty in visually grading secondhand coloured stuff.
Picture discs on the other hand are only good for looking at.

 

[irons1965]

I have serious Kraftwerk 12” envy. I bought that when it was released, but sadly I lost it somewhere over the years. Does it still work, i.e. if you leave it in the light for a while does it still glow in the dark afterwards. When released it glowed really brightly, but you needed to let it see some bright light first. I’ve no idea how, i.e. what chemical is pressed into the vinyl, but it was amazingly effective. I still have strong memories of the silhouette of my Lenco 75 arm over the glowing vinyl!

PS I had that clear TD album too, but didn’t rate it much so moved it on.

Yes it still glows Tony!

 

[irons1965]

This is my most recent coloured vinyl....Kenny Graham 'Wrappers Delight' EP that came with the Jonny Trunk book of the same name;-

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[Paul R]

I think that part of what makes black vinyl black is lubrication, or at least slipperiness. So coloured vinyl can be noisier. Probably less relevant nowadays since all vinyl is specialist.

I have The Motors 'Airport' 12" in blue, Devo 'Q: Are we not men?...' album in (IIRC) yellow or orange. 'The day the world turned day-glo' in the best orangey they seemed able to do. Bunch of others I forget. I think I remember a Mike Oldfield 12" in white that my brother recovered from a tip.