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These are for anything really. Listening to, charting an RB3 track, discovering new (old) music, whatever.

Edit: Mini-Editorial – Cleaning with glue and next albums in cue.

There’s a lot of ways one can go about getting stuff out of the grooves in your lps. Brushes, expensive devices that vacuum the vinyl, sprays, mats, and all sorts of other stuff. Even the stylus itself cleans out the grooves each play. However, it was the brother of a long time friend that told me he used wood glue on his albums back in the day. I laughed and told him how ludicrous that was. You’d just wreck the record. He told me to try it.

Still being the skeptic, I popped onto youtube, and found videos of other people recommending it, and showing how to do it. Namely the two found Here and

. So I set about finding the most scuzzy, and least valuable album in the collection. I had a scratched up, dusty, fingerprint-laden loaner copy of Alice Cooper’s Killer on hand. So I dumped a blob of wood glue on the first side, and using an old $20 PSN card, spread the glue around evenly to get out any bubbles. Then I took some old printer paper from the recycling, and tore out a few paper tabs, and set them into position around the rim, gently pressing them into the glue.

Then I waited, and waited, and waited. It ended up taking almost 48 hours to dry because I’d put far too much on. It peeled off fairly sloppy, and made a tiny mess on the turntable. A part hadn’t dried underneath. After wiping all that up with distilled water, I put the record on, and was about to play it, until I noticed it was saturated in static. So I let it sit for a few hours to dissipate.

The album actually came out sounding pretty great, despite that it was pretty beat up. So I did the same to the 2nd side, and got the same result. Now I put the glue onto the lp while it sits on a large sheet of glass (that I use for flattening/baking vinyl), to keep from making a mess of the turntable. I also only use it sparingly, since it uses a lot of glue, and I’m hesitant to put it on anything that isn’t far gone.

After all, I don’t think I’d hear the end of it if I did that to Led Zepp, Floyd, or a vintage Beatles lp.

As for the next albums in queue for ripping, more loaners from my friend and his brother’s collection.

Missing Persons – Spring Session M – Ripped

Men at Work – Business as Usual – Ripped

A strange pair of Black Sabbath and Beatles compilations from the USSR, just before the wall came down.

Ohio Players – Honey – Ripped

Autograph – That’s the Stuff

The Headpins – Turn it Loud – Ripped

Police – Synchronicity – Ripped

The Stray Cats – Built for Speed – Ripped

The Stray Cats – Rant ‘n’ Rave – Ripped

Accept – Balls to the Wall

Alice in Chains – Dirt – Half Done

Suicidal Tendencies – Self-titled – Ripped

D.O.A. – Talk-Action=0 – Ripped

Pantera – Official Live: 101 Proof

And an immaculate copy of Led Zeppelin IV!

If you want to, make a request for any of he songs on there, and I’ll try and get it uploaded with the next batch of songs.