The Stoop: The Most Epic Record Collection

There’s no better way to put this, so, I’ll give it to you straight: I found the most epic pile of records on Friday, sitting pretty stoop-side, about 100 of them.

Despite the rain, these records were piled up on the sidewalk in prime condition —not wet at all.

In previous posts, I urged the importance of as soon as you see it. If you don’t, someone else will and that pile of stoop-booty will be gone.

You’ll be bummed out, listening to some record you’ve had for a while and wishing you stopped to take an armful of soul, hip-hop and rock records that were just sitting there, for the taking.   

This was not just an epic collection of vinyl — this was the most epic, epic pile of records I have ever seen.

Whoever these albums belonged to I have to say, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You made my day and you made my record collection bigger, 75 albums bigger.

Here are some highlights of the greatest record find in Park Slope.

• James Brown’s “Black Caesar,” “Greatest Hits,” “Soul Classics” and “In The Jungle Groove.”
• Big Daddy Kane’s “Raw ‘91” and “It’s a Big Daddy Thing”
• RUN-D.M.C.’s “Tougher Than Leather” and “Raising Hell”
• New Edition’s “If It Isn’t Love”
• Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Tough the World,” “Electric Universe” and “That’s The Way of the World”
• Michael Jackson’s single “Black or White” and album from 1984 “Farewell My Summer Love”
• Stevie Wonder’s “Skeletons”
• Kool & The Gang’s “As One”
• Smokey Robinson’s “Touch the Sky”
• Yosef Lateef’s “Reevaluations: The Impulse Years”
• Commodores’ “Natural High”
• Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Band on the Run”
• Freddie Hubbard’s “Keep Your Soul Together”
• Marvin Gaye’s “Dream of a Lifetime”

What’s your favorite on this list? Let us know in the comments section below. Also, if your favorite is not on the list, let us know what the best album on vinyl is of all time.