So, for Christmas I got a turntable. Yeah, that's right. An old-school, with the needle and the belt and the two-sided records, turntable.
As I sit here listening to a copy of Highway 61 Revisited on vinyl that has to be at least 30 years old, I can't help but think that all of you old-timers didn't have it very bad at all. There's something magical (yeah, that's right, magical), about hearing the needle scratch the surface of the record and hearing the music, the actual music, not just data on a disc, come out.
Hell, what's wrong with me? I just turned sixteen and I'm reminiscing about the "good old days". Guess I'm just a child of the sixties at heart, or some sh*t like that.
They sure don't do it like they used to.
Edited, Dec 28th 2006 12:59am by DodoBird
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So you're just now realizing that bands that don't have numbers after their names can actually be good?
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Hell, what's wrong with me?
So you're just now realizing that bands that don't have numbers after their names can actually be good?
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about hearing the needle scratch the surface of the record and hearing the music, the actual music, not just data on a disc, come out.
oh nevermind.
Yes. there is nothing like that sound.
Kelvyquayo the Irrelevant wrote:
So you're just now realizing that bands that don't have numbers after their names can actually be good?
Hardly.
Grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Beck, The Grateful Dead... so on. Went through a phase (during the pre-teens) where I listened to "bad" music often, but still mixed it in with a large amount of the "good". About a year or two ago, got back into listening to the classic stuff all the time. Haven't listened to anything else since. However, this is my first opportunity to really do it the "old" way.
And honestly, I can only think of one band that has a number at the end. :p
I've had a half-dozen or so records on me for the past 6-7 years that I haven't gotten a chance to listen to. Billy Joel, 38 Special, George Thoroughgood, Boston, etc.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
I still remember when I would get a new needle for my stereo (omg, a 2 sided diamond needle!!) The music sounded so much clearer, and sometimes the scratches were less noticeable.
Records were fun and all, but I really enjoy the convenience of today's CDs and MP3s.
Records were fun and all, but I really enjoy the convenience of today's CDs and MP3s.
Heh, I was just discussing that the other day with the Mrs. Both of us grew up with parents who used record players, way after tapes were released. I think my parents just bought their first CD player 4 years ago. The "scratch" of a needle on a record is one of my favorite sounds.
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Hell, what's wrong with me? I just turned sixteen and I'm reminiscing about the "good old days". Guess I'm just a child of the sixties at heart, or some sh*t like that.
Nostalgia: a sweet, sentimental longing for someone else's past.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Beck, The Grateful Dead
You are officially awesome to put Beck in with those.
assuming you didn't mean Jeff Beck
The Little River Band?
Friday night it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
Would it turn out right?
How to tell you boy,
I want to build my world around you
Wanna tell you that it's true
I wanna to make you understand
I'm talking about a lifetime plan
That's the way it began
We were hand in hand
Glenn Miller's Band was better than before
We yelled and screamed for more
And the chorus tune
Made us dance across the room
It ended all too soon
And on the way back home
I promised you'd never be alone
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
Friday night it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
(Dreaming of the night)
Would it turn out right?
Now as the years roll on
Each time we hear our favourite song
The memories come along
Older times we're missing
Spending the hours reminiscing
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
- Reminiscing
Friday night it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
Would it turn out right?
How to tell you boy,
I want to build my world around you
Wanna tell you that it's true
I wanna to make you understand
I'm talking about a lifetime plan
That's the way it began
We were hand in hand
Glenn Miller's Band was better than before
We yelled and screamed for more
And the chorus tune
Made us dance across the room
It ended all too soon
And on the way back home
I promised you'd never be alone
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
Friday night it was late
I was walking you home
We got down to the gate
And I was dreaming of the night
(Dreaming of the night)
Would it turn out right?
Now as the years roll on
Each time we hear our favourite song
The memories come along
Older times we're missing
Spending the hours reminiscing
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
Hurry, don't be late
I can hardly wait
I said to myself when we're old
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
We'll go dancing in the dark
We'll go walking through the park
And reminiscing
I grew up listening to my mom's old albums and mix tapes. So I grew up with Supertramp, Alice Cooper, Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, etc.
All the best music was made in the 60s and 70s. There's no doubt about it. And to hear it on something other than a cd or mp3 player is better than anything.
All the best music was made in the 60s and 70s. There's no doubt about it. And to hear it on something other than a cd or mp3 player is better than anything.
10k before the site's inevitable death or bust
The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
Alan Watts wrote:
I am omnipotent insofar as I am the Universe, but I am not an omnipotent in the role of Alan Watts, only cunning
Eske wrote:
I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
I went to buy a needle for mine a few months back and discovered to my horror that it would cost less to buy a brand new record player than to get a new needle for the old one.
/cues Summer Breeze - Makes Me Feel Fine
In return, I bequeath unto thee, a story, of a fart on a bus:
http://www.poopreport.com/stories/farts_on_buses.html
In return, I bequeath unto thee, a story, of a fart on a bus:
http://www.poopreport.com/stories/farts_on_buses.html
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Perhaps due to the Venturi effect, the gas charge quickly entered the Intrabus Air Current and reconfigured itself from a tiny painful pocket of sour acid fume into a broad, miasmic fartstrosity. Riding the summer breeze (makes me feel fine / blowin' through the jasmine in my mind), it snaked its way through the legs and luggage of standees, up the back stairs, and onward until it met and infiltrated the nasal passages of the aforementioned council of prepubescent female philosophers expounding loudly on their experiences at the mall, on the phone, and at school. Then and there, t'was uttered a bold assertion, borne of wisdom beyond their years. Verily I say unto thee, truer words were never heard on that long bus ride: "Ohmygod that's *gross*!"
There are days that I truly miss my fathers HiFi Mono system and the turntable, that I spent hours playing records on. It was a Philip's preamp with tubes that gave the system such a warm sound, that many have commented as better then most high end stereo systems today.
Planning on moving into a retirement village, my father copy most of his albums onto Cd's, so I went though the records and now have some of my favorite classical ones to listen too on Jonwin's' bookshelf system, but they just don't sound the same.
Planning on moving into a retirement village, my father copy most of his albums onto Cd's, so I went though the records and now have some of my favorite classical ones to listen too on Jonwin's' bookshelf system, but they just don't sound the same.
In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! -ElneClare
This Post is written in Elnese, If it was an actual Post, it would make sense.
This Post is written in Elnese, If it was an actual Post, it would make sense.
Yeah, you are discovering something that many musicians have been arguing for a while. Analog is just better. Even though digital sample rates and bitrates are catching up in clarity, nothing can replace the personality of an individual tube, valve, or toroidal transformer reproducing the unique scratches or hisses of your particular analog fruit salad that is music. We can try to make a digital representation, but no matter how many 1's and 0's you string together, you'd be hard pressed to accurately reproduce the nearly random positioning of atoms on your analog piece of candy each time you play it.
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