“Look at these 1,414 records and the room starts smelling like stale beer, tour bus grease, and warm amplifier tubes. You've stacked 498 slabs from the 1970s and another 284 from the 1960s, making that era the absolute fucking spine of the house. Grateful Dead leads the artist pack at 26 titles, flanked by 24 Rolling Stones records, 18 Beatles releases, and 14 from Bob Dylan. This is a heavy, road-worn, electric guitar lineage that doesn't mess around with modern commercial gloss. Yet you aren't completely trapped in the past. Having 16 My Morning Jacket titles proves you know when newer bands are carrying that same wild torch. The real story, though, is etched right into the deadwax. Mastering wizards like Bob Ludwig on 37 records, Chris Bellman on 33, and Bernie Grundman on 25 reveal that you gravitate toward massive, punchy lacquer cuts. The behind-the-glass mafia is running the show here, and it makes the entire shelf feel like one giant, uninterrupted studio session.”
Collection at a Glance
- On the shelf
- 1,416 1,383 unique albums
- Format mix
- 1413 vinyl
- Top genres
- Rock · Jazz · Soul & Funk · Country
- Last spin
- 12 Golden Country Greats — Ween · today
- Concerts
- 16 attended
- Wantlist
- 78 records sought
- Badges
- 50 earned
- Member since
- Jun 2026
The Clerk's take
Bob Ludwig has mastered thirty-seven of your motherfucking records.
Thirty-seven. His deadwax scribe is practically squatting in your house, but you've probably never tipped a drink to the bastard. Guy spent five decades making your low end hit like a sledgehammer. Stop pulling records and look at the inner ring for once in your damn life.
Canned Heat tracked mud across the control room.
Living The Blues is swampy, hypnotic grit, and the personnel web runs deep here. Bob Hite is wailing on five other slabs you own, while Frank Cook's un-fucking-believable drum swing holds down four others. That greasy rhythm section didn't mess around; they lived in the pocket.
The Dead from Aoxomoxoa to Reckoning, hot damn.
Fifteen Grateful Dead releases locked between 1969 and 1981, missing only Historic Dead from that stretch. Backed by 498 records from the 1970s and 284 from the 1960s, this collection is an absolute freight train of American road rock that refuses to brake.
Des Ark sitting cold for three fucking months.
Only two people in the entire Gatefold network have WXDU Vol. 3, and you've spun it zero times since bringing it home. Sparse, confessional folk that bleeds raw tone. Stop ignoring it. Kill the bullshit excuses, drop the needle on this damn thing tonight, and wake up.
Top genres
Top artists
Stats for nerds
- 2020s120
- 2010s155
- 2000s97
- 1990s82
- 1980s147
- 1970s499
- 1960s284
- 1950s25
- 1940s1
- 1Columbia110
- 2Capitol Records69
- 3Warner Bros. Records52
- 4Atlantic47
- 5RCA Victor40
Badges 20
Unicorns 6
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