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Now spinning: Stevie Wonder — Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) ● Now spinning: BoDeans — Black And White (1991) ● Now spinning: Supertramp — Breakfast In America (1979) ● Now spinning: BoDeans — Home (1989) ● Now spinning: Boston — Don't Look Back (1978) ● Now spinning: The Seeds — The Seeds (1966)Now spinning: Stevie Wonder — Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) ● Now spinning: BoDeans — Black And White (1991) ● Now spinning: Supertramp — Breakfast In America (1979) ● Now spinning: BoDeans — Home (1989) ● Now spinning: Boston — Don't Look Back (1978) ● Now spinning: The Seeds — The Seeds (1966)

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The 1966 GNP Crescendo album cover for The Seeds showing the band posed beside a weathered wooden structure

VIMZ-013 · Review

The Seeds' debut still pushes hard

The Seeds' 1966 debut turned a few chords, a stabbing organ, and Sky Saxon's sneer into a garage-rock blueprint that still rattles the shelves.

The album cover for Donna Missal's Lighter showing Missal standing in a black embroidered jacket against a desert landscape

VIMZ-012 · Review

Donna Missal's Lighter deserved a louder room

The 1969 Dunhill album cover for A Group Called Smith showing the band outside a weathered wooden building

VIMZ-011 · Review

Review: Smith's great 1969 debut

Extreme close up of vinyl record grooves

VIMZ-004 · Guide

Deadwax decoder: how to identify a first pressing in 60 seconds

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◉ Vinyl of the day · 1976 · Tamla · T13-340C2 · LP, Album — Superior Pressing

Stevie Wonder — Songs In The Key Of Life

Newest arrival on the platter. Lights down, side one, full attention.

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1976

Stevie Wonder

Songs In The Key Of Life

Tamla · T13-340C2 · LP, Album — Superior Pressing

1991

BoDeans

Black And White

London Records · 828 245-1 · LP, Album, Stereo

1979

Supertramp

Breakfast In America

A&M Records · SP-3708 · LP, Album, Stereo — Santa Maria Press

1989

BoDeans

Home

Slash · W1-25876 · LP, Album, Club Edition

1978

Boston

Don't Look Back

Epic · FE 35050 · LP, Album, Stereo — Terre Haute Pressing, Gatefold

1966

The Seeds

GNP Crescendo · GNP 2023 · LP, Album, Stereo — 1st Pressing

1982

38 Special

Special Forces

A&M Records · SP-4888 · LP, Album, Club Edition

1969

Smith

A Group Called Smith

Dunhill · DS 50056 · LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo — Terre Haute Pressing

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Get the best sound from your records...

Garage-sale rescues, inherited crates, that one album you loved a little too hard in 1987. Getting your records to sound their best isn’t always easy but with these tips from the Vinyl Surgeon you’ll get more enjoyment when listening to your records.

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