Five albums from Discogs' weekly best-sellers: 10 September 2026
A newly released Cramps archive recording, a Japanese guitar fantasy and two very different sides of Dolly Parton share space with Taylor Swift this week. These are the first five distinct vinyl albums in the order shown in Discogs' weekly best-selling vinyl records and CDs display, checked on 10 September 2026. Duplicate editions, CDs, singles and EPs are excluded from our selection.
The Cramps: Gravest Gravy
Released in 2026, Gravest Gravy returns to October 1977, when the Cramps were at Ardent Studios recording the sessions that also produced Gravest Hits. Gravest Gravy draws from seven quarter-inch tape reels, with tracks selected by Henry Rollins and restoration work involving Brian Kehew, Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara. The band's release notes set out the recording's long route to this album.
That history matters because familiar titles here are early recordings. “Can't Find My Mind”, “Rockin' Bones” and “The Natives Are Restless” would later appear on Psychedelic Jungle, the last with different lyrics. Covers reach back to Roy Orbison and Paul Revere and the Raiders. If you know the later versions, start with a familiar title and follow what changed. That is the pleasure of this particular archive release: a chance to hear songs before the recordings you already carry in your head.
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Masayoshi Takanaka: The Rainbow Goblins
Takanaka's 1981 double album began with a picture book he encountered in Guam. Ul de Rico's The Rainbow Goblins supplied the imagery; Takanaka built a concept album around it. Universal's account traces the idea through the original record, a Budokan concert and a sequel in 1997. An illustrated story became a project he returned to across decades.
Even the track list suggests a journey: “Prologue”, “Seven Goblins”, “The Sunset Valley”, “Thunderstorm” and “Rainbow Was Reborn” make more sense as parts of a sequence than isolated titles. Set aside a full album play for this one. The original album listing also makes a useful distinction for buyers: The Rainbow Goblins is the studio work. The similarly named Rainbow Goblins Story Live at Budokan 1981 documents its stage life. Check which one is in the listing before buying.
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Dolly Parton: Here You Come Again
Released in October 1977, Here You Come Again took Parton further into pop without removing the country audience already listening. Her official album history records a country album chart number one, a place in the pop album chart's top twenty and her first platinum-selling album. The title song also brought her first Grammy.
The songwriting credits add another side to that story. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote “Here You Come Again”, making it one of the major Parton hits she didn't write herself. Kenny Rogers supplied “Sweet Music Man”, while the track list also includes “Me and Little Andy” and “God's Coloring Book”. Keep listening beyond the famous opener to “Me and Little Andy”, then follow the change of mood into “God's Coloring Book”. The album's crossover story includes all of that material, and the voice connecting it.
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris: Trio
Three established careers had to leave room for one shared album. Parton, Ronstadt and Harris wanted to record together in the mid-1970s, but schedules and three record labels helped delay Trio until 1987. Rhino's album history describes a project that took more than a decade to arrive, with eleven songs drawing on traditional and newer material.
The players included Ry Cooder, David Lindley and Bill Payne. “To Know Him Is to Love Him”, originally a Teddy Bears song, became the biggest of the album's four country hits. Begin there if the album is new to you, then let the rest of the collaboration unfold. Listen to the changes between a lead voice and the shared harmonies, and to how the arrangement makes space for both. Coming straight after Here You Come Again, it offers a different perspective on Parton: one recognisable voice choosing how to fit alongside two others.
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Taylor Swift: reputation
The newspaper-style cover and “Look What You Made Me Do” make reputation easy to remember as an argument with public opinion. The fifteen-song album has a broader emotional range than that first impression allows. Released in November 2017, it places the tense opening of “…Ready for It?” and the Ed Sheeran and Future collaboration “End Game” in the same sequence as “Delicate” and the closing piano ballad “New Year's Day”. The album page and track list provide a useful route back through it.
Follow the album from those opening songs to “New Year's Day”. The shift towards the everyday intimacy of a relationship gives you something else to listen for beyond the public arguments surrounding it. For collectors, keep the edition check separate from the album's story. The Discogs link below identifies the vinyl release appearing in the weekly display; another pressing's price or availability is a different question.