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OT: Vinyl
All my cd’s are digitized and any new additions are from streaming. But I still have all my records from what I think of as Collection 2, from 1981 to about 1998 (Collection 1 ranged from 1972 [first LP was Nilsson, The Point] to 1981; that’s when my brother’s junkie friend broke into my mother’s house and stole the lot).
Listening to a whole side or two of an album is such a different experience from my current practice, which is mostly to just set my Apple Music library to Random and let the stream present it’s AI surprises. Start with the Cover Art—emphasis on Art—read the liner notes and often just sit there actively listening. No surprises but just deep satisfaction.
How do you consume your vinyl if you have?
What are you currently listening to?
(Yes, I realize this should be a Reddit thread.)
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There has to be the mood for it, than the feelings You described are possible. Not to forget the nostalgia, when You know how it was, hearing that same record decades before.
On the one hand, the crackling noises can disturb, let’s be honest. On the other hand, the music more sticks or stands out as on CD or streaming (hopefully we’ll translated).
The last heared records: New Model Army - Ghost of Cain, all of Smiths, all maxi-singles from Newcleus (80s Electro) and some newer German rap.
That’s about right in my experience, Satie. Vinyl often requires intention, a desire for a mood. Nostalgia may be part of it, but not always. I have records that I bought and listened to once back in the 80’s. As for the crackles, you won’t get many if you’ve taken care of (or not played) the LP’s. I was militant about returning records with any kind of crackle or skip, but now...it’s kind of appealing, part of the extra warmth, the humanness of vinyl compared to pristine digital.
Having vinyl for the sake of vinyl is a bit silly to me. The majority of music I get to listen to regularly is on my phone. And most of that is ripped from CDs to MP3 or downloaded from when you could record live streaming stations and it would automatically separate and label the songs.
As the owner of a few hundred records and about 150 45s, I will say that:
The techno I have is delicious. Some of it white label, some really obscure. I was a DJ. Beatmatching records is like floating on air. That's a good reason.
Nothing like the magic of flipping through a warm crate that just arrived at the DJ store. That was like Christmas wrapped in cellophane.
Before vinyl got really expensive, it was really, really cheap to pick up a great set of music by an artist. Or, if you are like me, and liked spending a dollar or two, every Harry Belafonte record, some Hawaiian records, bizarre sound recordings, some trippy 70s chakra records, etc. For example, my two copies of Paul Horn playing solo flute inside the great pyramids came with a booklet inside about the pyramids. 2 bucks. Loved finding the weirdest stuff.
Some great albums need front to back listening. There is intention to the order. Not just Dark Side or Sgnt. Peppers, but listening to those tracks on random without the EXPERIENCE of how the band wanted you to hear the songs in a specific order, seems just... wrong.
The Kinks "You Really Got Me" on 45, tinny and skritchy and loud? Delicious. Or Aretha's "Respect." Damn.
Also, I am a pop & click fan. Listen to Pole's Blue or Red album. Dub made with pops and clicks from records, on 180 gram vinyl.
Also, Ghost Hemiola. Empty locked grooves where you make your own beat with x-acto knives and dust and such. Any locked groove record is kinda fun, actually.
Also, there are three records I have that are better on the unintended speed. Iko Iko on 45 played at 33 1/3? Nice. But there is this techno record I have that is so lame on 45, but on 33 it is just the funkiest, funnest thing.
Record covers. Secrets inside. Stickers, lyrics, booklets. Handwritten notes scratched into the inside circle meant just for you....
Also, magic spinny art. Not just colored vinyl. The stickers too do some funky things.
And also, I love my records. I know some of them would be worth hundreds if I had treated them like gold and my bunny (may she rest in a field of carrots) hadn't nibbled the spines off of most of the album jackets when I wasn't watching. And some of them are worthless to everyone but me. There's that awful skip on one of my best techno records, and that funny loop that happens everytime I listen to Songs in the Key of Life. Still listen though.
Would I buy vinyl now? It's ridiculously expensive and there are no cheap record stores anywhere near me. Last time I bought Electronic Sounds by George Harrison they were a dollar. I bought two, and I ended up stapling the covers to my studio wall. The records are in an old sleeve. It's a bunch of random bloops and bleeps he's making on some crazy modular setup or something. Totally unlistenable, and I LISTEN TO POPS AND CLICKS ON RECORDS. Like, awful.
I saw it for 40 bucks in a shop in VG condition.
So yeah, vinyl. Those are my thoughts.
I have a vintage set-up in my den just fro listening to vinyl. I keep what will fit in the shelves below my receiver and rotate stuff in and out from collection. I’ve got about 6000+ records. I DJ for a living (25+ years), and when I started there was no digital...it was vinyl or nothing. I just love the format...except for moving...yeah...moving the collection sucks!
Got about 8 or 9 thousand records, and buy more every week, they used to be played regularly but now tend to get ripped to MP3 and archived with the rest in my racks.
I grew up collecting records and digital files to me are the 21st century equivalent of cassette tapes, convenient to listen to especially when on the move but without the quality or feel of a vinyl pressing.
Personally I find digital files have an air of unreality and transience, which is why I object to paying for them, this was illustrated to me when a couple of years ago I had an external HD die on me with over a 1TB of music on it I had ripped from my collection and radio shows and mixes I had collected online, now whilst I can re-record the music in my collection I’d say 90% of the things I had downloaded were lost !
Paid my shipping for this today. You can play 12 inch because the faders are underneath vinyl but you cant scratch with 12s.
Lets hope it its good.
Used to have that exact amp from Sansui. Wonderful!!
Still love & buy vinyl - for me the whole experience is so much more than just the sound. Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys is on the turntable today & yesterday it was New Long Leg by Dry Cleaning (yellow vinyl). I don’t tend to buy plain records anymore but if I can get a limited edition coloured vinyl of a record I want I will get it. What does annoy me is when you buy vinyl but don’t get a download option.
If I had a big old house with a room to spare I would fill it up with vinyl and a ventilation system for that musty old vinyl smell.
One summer I went to a bunch of garage sales out in the country, such a neat haul, surprising stuff. But alas, no space these days to even keep a turntable hooked up, so it had to all go.