"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Glenn Booth" wrote


MFP, is that the "Music for Pleasure" stuff? Actually I had a very good
copy of one of Tchaikovsky's Piano concertos on that label, which got
played to death. I wouldn't say it was all rubbish by a long way, I just
happened across a few bad examples.


Oh I don't say you couldn't get some howlers in the MFP range but my
expereience is that there a lot of damn nice albums on that label, not to
mention some truly wacky stuff like Mikki & Griff and 'Dorita y Pepe'
:-))


That takes me back..Mikki & Griff toured with Lonny Donegan.. liked the
Lonny bit :-))


At just under a quid, they were the 'Naxos' of their day and I'm delighted
to have the ones I've got. (Wacky or not!)


Me too, if there was nothing too tasty in the charity shops I'd always go
for MfP's, they used to be about 50p to £1 so ok by me. Now the shops have
got wise & charging daft prices...



Classics For Pleasure (CFP) is a slightly different ballgame - many of
them (I *suspect*) are reissues of more costly albums that were previously
distributed as 'top line, non budget' albums. I have an enormous number of
these and they are mostly quite excellent. Once again, an inexpensive way
for some pore ole soul to build a decent library for a reasonable outlay!!


Yes, its good fun comparing the costly albums with CfP :-)



Let's have some fun - email me with your (classical) Heart's Desire (Nos,
1 and 2) and I'll see how close I can get to it for you and will do you a
nice little silver disk..... ;-)


Now that's just plain daft ;-)


Never mind the quality, missus, feel the width :-)

I've no idea if vinyl weight really makes a difference - these just
didn't feel like quality product. They came complete with lots of 'vinyl
shavings' across the surface, and generally didn't give the impression of
being well produced.


Well, my records are clamped like I say onto an acrylic platter so I don't
reckong to get much 'ringing' but I have to admit a nice thick 180 gm
Columbia or summat similar will put a smile on my chops for a wee while!!
:-)

200 gm even better.....


Swarf, sharp edges? No we don't want them, but I'm not sure the curly
ginger hairs you get on a lot of charity shop vinyl is a much better
alternative!! ;-)


What do you expect if you buy bonking music :-)