Great that you've done a part 2 here Dan..but then i guess you could just keep rolling with this subject... Smiths albums, like The Cure and those popular 80s UK cult artists are getting harder to find, and becoming very expensive, particularly The Queen Is Dead. Hatful of Hollow etc...i resigned myself to reissues of both of these artists. I actually see Remain in Light quite a bit at fairs and independent shops here in the UK..Once in A Lifetime was a big hit here. Never see any Blue Cheer albums, would be very happy to find a copy of Vincebus Eruptus in any condition!. I guess the reasoning here is that perhaps some artists sold and were more prevalent in certain markets and regions compared to others...i guess popularity and collectability play a part too. Have a great weekend. Rob.

So true, if I find James Brown in VG condition I’m over the moon. I’ve gotten lucky with Rev Al Green and have a fat stack in VG+ condition, Doors album, LA Woman is a challenge. I would add early Floyd albums: Piper, Clouds, Meddle, very hard to find clean here in Ontario

Hey Dan. I'd say that the hardest Doors lp to find in good condition is L.A. Woman. The copies that I come across are always beat up. Same with the first 4-5 Mothers Of Invention lps. The garage records by Shadows Of The Night and Smokestack Lightning are always chewed, both the cover and vinyl. Also, I find it near impossible to find a clean copy of Pink Floyd The Wall. People wore them out. I'll identify others next time, there are so many more. Peace ✌ ☮ 🕊

Additional: any band where the fans buy and keep their OGs religiously. My fav band The Church being one as I had to track down all pre 1990 when I got into them. Ditto Smiths, Cure, Depeche Mode. If majority settle for reissues that affects too. Morbid to say but as generations age and die more big collections will come back into the marketplace. The Doors got bigger here after the Oliver Stone film that was very noticeable. Cheers Dan.

A really good 70s soul / psych sounding album you don't see very often is Billy Paul's - War of the Gods. The jacket on mine is in rough shape, but thankfully the vinyl is clean.

Snap Dan, I'd probably agree with you on "Morrison Hotel". I don't think it jumps out at when mentioning Doors albums. I think all the others are probably more talked about, even Soft Parade for the horn/brass inclusion. I find it interesting when you talk about original "Canadian" copies. Are they as hard to find as "original" U.S./U.K. copies? I tend to hunt down original 45's/LP's from the country that the band came from. I remember when Sire released the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell debut albums, and I ordered them from an importer, to get hold of U.S. copies. The price's were double the cost to the U.K. releases though!

Here in the northeast US, I feel like all the Doors albums (not including anything post-Jim) are about equally rare/common. If we are going by original pressings, LA Woman is perhaps the hardest to find, but not by much. I base this off how often I see the cover with the yellow window. But if we are getting more specific, the mono pressing of Waiting For The Sun is insanely rare. It was not a promo, but an actual retail edition on the gold Elektra label. I know you are talking about titles and not pressings, though.

Most difficult Doors lp to find here in the UK for me has been Soft Parade. I'll not bore you with the story about how I had one in my hand once then left it behind on a record stall in a senior moment 😢. 1st and 2nd don't turn up here either to be fair but weirdly Morrison Hotel I have seen a number of times. UK presses were very much pressed in limited numbers for the majority of these 60s records so you'd be surprised how rare it is to find such items here. So you can include debut Blue Cheer in that limited number as well....seen 2 or 3 copies in 30 years! The Smiths are about and get bought with a quickness (obviously prices reflect that popularity) but I can't say which one is the lesser seen. Cheers Nige

I've been buying and listening to LPs since I was a kid in the late 60s. I have curated a pretty good collection, so today I'm much more picky about what I buy and especially pressing/condition. My general observation is that here in southern New England, finding clean, close to EX/NM OG copies of your favorite artists/band has become an extremely difficult endeavor, akin to needle-in-a-haystack oftentimes, and even when you do, you have to pay up. I'm OK with that, cause I think it's worth it. I now purchase most of my OGs from online sellers with whom I've developed a relationship. I still get out and go digging, but my expectations to find that sought-after copy are near zero.

90's Indie LP's, some are as rare as hens teeth. Luckily i bought a lot of them when they were first released.

Yeah, In the US Vincebus Eruptum is everywhere in the wild. Those are stereo copies, I've only seen one mono copy. It was back in the late 80's and I'm still kicking myself for not getting it. Doors Waiting for the Sun US mono is super tuff, as is Morrison Hotel on the Gold/Tan label. Most US copies of that are on the red big E label. I had a friend back in the early 80's and he had an authentic wood coat hanger that was from The Morrison Hotel. I used to see OG US Doors albums quite a bit in the wild, it's not that way anymore. Not nice copies anyway.

Chris Isaak ogs are definitely hard to find! I got lucky and found a copy of Forever Blue on blue vinyl from 2015 at my local Barnes & Nobles for $16 median price is now $150 Take care Brian ☮️

i still have a mono doors debut lp. i found 2nd hand in Vancouver. on the gold Electra label, 6 bucks! yippie!!!

I'm glad to have Thrust (and gotten cheap), but I don't see it often. I can't find Dirty Mind, either - and that IS one I would pay money for. I got every Talking Heads album for $3 each in the 90s, so I am lucky/good.

Motorhead did not sell well in the US. They are popular now but they were not that popular when Lemmy was alive. In LA they opened for lots of big acts but they were never headliners.

Everything is relative. Most of the lps you showed although popular didn’t sell that well. Motorhead is a good example of a well known lp that simply didn’t sell all that well. Therefore there weren’t multiple represses at the time. It might be interesting to note here that none of the original Ramones lps sold well at all. Although youd think that with so many great tunes and lps that would be impossible but it’s absolutely true. Sire hung with them as long as they could. Even investing in that terrible Phil Specter debacle but they never sold shit back in the day. A mystery that confused me then and now. In some cases like Prince as he went along he had many ups and downs,so occasionally something might get a repress but again his old lps just didn’t sell. He also pissed off labels which didn’t help. As for the Doors here in the US i wouldn’t say Morrison Hotel is particularly hard to find. It was probably their least seller at the time with no obvious singles but Id have to say LA Woman with the original sleeve is by far the hardest to find as the original sleeve got replaced with a cheaper version as soon as Elektra could do it. No idea why but id say Waiting for the Sun is the hardest to find. You just don’t see them much, why i don’t know but in my experience its the one you see the least in the wild. Now if you want to add mono into the mix,all the original mono Doors lps are hard to find and in excellent shape nearly impossible. James Brown has two strikes. One they didn’t sell well despite being well known. His audience favored singles. Two he was considered party records,which explains itself. As the party wore on the James Brown records would come out but unfortunately that is never the best time to break out any lp!