Hi everyone! I'm not exactly new to HIVE, but this is my first time writing in Hive Collectors community, so let me introduce myself real quick. I'm Bojana, almost wrote bibana xD, I got so used to that nickname that it even feels kind of legit to have it in my ID.
Recently I shared my first collectors blog about sugar packets on my page, not even knowing that this community existed for quite some time already, thanks to the lovely mipiano! So now I'm fixing that mistake with a new topic → vinyls. Couldn't be better one for my first post here, perfectoo!
I live in Serbia, a small half hilly country in the center of Balkans full of stubborn people. :) Many of us are nostalgic by nature, from the day we are born, so we tend to hold on to things and keep all kinds of objects, little stuff... Which is actually very nice, if you have enough space and if it doesn't turn into hoarding. Although, that's also something pretty common in our families, so no wonder younger people today want only and exclusively minimalism in their homes. I totally get that. I'm somewhere in between. I try not to have useless mess around, I like to throw away or give away things I don't use and know I probably won't in the future, but I also love having space for meaningful things, something that matters and will always have value → like records and books... Vinyls are actually some kind of books about music. And honestly, the only books I read, hihi.
They have written proof of their creators, the year marked somewhere, sometimes even lyrics, nice covers, photos, everything! All in one, a pure ART!
All these vinyls are now in my great-grandma's old house on our family land, where we often like to go, have some coffee, tide up a bit, enjoy the nature and let our dog Maza happily run around. An old Schneider gramophone is also there. It used to be part of the whole Sneider's music setup in our living room when I was child; now just waiting for one of us to finally remember to make a little vinyl corner and enjoy the magic!
Look at this photo, it's a mix of different genres and languages. Disco, pop, classic rock, RnB, soul, blues, pop-rock, even Serbian folk. Ofra Haza, Spandau Ballet, Queen, Peter Gabriel, The Culture Club, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s, Kate Bush, Europe, Boney M, Ultravox, Falco (I loooove Falco!)... these are just some of the names that randomly comes my mind right now.
Here's an interesting little pinky collection. I mixed the unmixable. Kate Bush and Lepa Brena, so what? xD
Their covers match perfectly, all four of them look like one inseparable set (set of chaos xD).
Speaking of interesting things, I always laugh a lot when I go through the records and after Metallica I suddenly run into Vesna Zmijanac. Although, to be fair, there is a similarity... they all had those same fluffy curly hairstyles back then, ahahah. Right?
Here's one, actually one third of it and me trying to wave at you through it, but of course you can't see me clearly because it's all covered in dust, ooops. That's why I'm jealous of how well all of you take care of yours:
nicely arranged, protected, just the way records deserve to be!
Some examples or ROCK for all the Yugo-nostalgic souls here if there are any :D (I really hope there are!). EKV, Parni Valjak, Bijelo Dugme… and all those songs on them that are true evergreens.
I saved the sweetest part for the end. Of all these records, my favorites are Yazoo and this one by Alvin Lee. I didn’t know or listen to either of them before, until that one day when I was going through these vinyls and the covers caught my eye first (what can I say, I'm a visual type). Back then record player was already gone from the house and the internet and YouTube had completely taken over, so I typed them in to hear what they sounded like and I was instantly hooked on both! The Bluest Blues by Lee and Don't Go by Yazoo completely won my heart. I got obsessed with those two and kept playing them on repeat - a bit of blues, a bit of synth pop, again and again and again...
Ignore my silly face here, pleasee, focus on cool cover(s). 💗
