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Do you know what I miss the most about vinyl?


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Everytime I went for a trip to Toronto, I used to shop at SAMS for those deleted records with a notch or cut off corner. I always came back with 20 or 30 records ,many original motion picture soundtracks and unpopular groups like the early Genesis or The Nice.


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I remember The Nice, have Five Bridges Suite on vinyl double album. Emerson etc...:)

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I remember The Nice, have Five Bridges Suite on vinyl double album. Emerson etc...
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Prog Rock was always in Cut-Out bins: thats how I discovered the band Ethos - I found the "Open Up" album for something like .50 many decades ago...... had I known about them beforehand, I wouldve paid the full retail for that album....that was some good Prog

 

Cut Out Bins circa 1980 always had either Prog Rock, guys trying to sound like Firefall, people who missed the Disco boat, solo albums by members of Parliament/Funkadelic, or bands with Nick Lowe's wardrobe :D

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You need to shop garage sales. I picked up 300+ classical, New Orleans Jazz, and a small number of rock records for $20 at a recent sale. Most were in great shape and one of the N.O. Jazz records was signed by a bunch of long deceased players (Jim Robinson, Sweet Emma, and several other not as well known guys).

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I got some of my very favorite records in cut-out and used bins. But the cut-out bin scores were the best, of course. One of my favorite albums of all time, extremely rare, and not even listed for a time on some bios of the artist (it was his first album, short run, on an unheard of label), I got because there was something about the kind of dorky cover that really got me. And it was, like, 19 cents. I just kind of wanted to see who would put out a cover like that in 1969... the music inside was great. Interstingly, the very next album by the artist, Andy Pratt, made it to the hallowed grounds of Al Kooper's greatest rock albums of all time list. But I like the first, small budget recording even better.

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Prog Rock was always in Cut-Out bins: thats how I discovered the band
Ethos
- I found the "Open Up" album for something like .50 many decades ago

 

 

I found out about Triumverate, Can, Camel, Shoes, Nazz, and a bunch of other artists via the cut-out section, at Dog Ear Records, in Libertvyille, IL, when I was a kid/teen.

Later, when I moved to San Jose, I was introduced to the wonder-world of Tower Records, and it's incredible import selection.

Yup...those were great days.

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solo albums by members of Parliament/Funkadelic

 

 

Oh yeah...you just reminded me of one...P-Funk All Stars -Urban Dancefloor Guerillas.

All the usual P-F players are on here, but then you see...whoa {censored}! Sly Stone, Phillipe Wynne, and Bobby Womack!

The whole album was just a bad-assed groove.

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I still DJ twice a month playing all vinyl. I've been djing since 1990 and have close to 5000 records.

 

Why I prefer vinyl to digital:

 

- sound quality is warmer and more comfortable. digital is more abrasive. when you turn up the volume on a record, the sound gets fuller and warmer. turn up the volume on a digital file and the sound gets harsher. Note that you need a halfway decent system to observe this. On the cheapo turntables you hear the surface noise on the vinyl louder than the music.

 

- no screen. we humans spend the majority of our lifes staring at a glowing rectangular screen. normally, we listen to music during times of leisure, and considering how much time I spend in front of a computer, I find it relaxing to just play the vinyl without squinting at a computer monitor

 

- elapsed time is visual instead of binary. if the end of a song or side is coming up, you can see that quickly and easily. with digital you are looking at minutes:seconds until the end of the song.

 

- scratching/mixing/tactile feel. with vinyl, if you want to start the song on the one, you just hold it there and let go on the one. same with speeding it up slowing it down, just give it a little nudge or drag. same thing with scratching, if you like a phrase, play it, close crossfader, rewind, open crossfader, play it again.

 

I have nothing against digital, it's convenient, it's cheap, it's light and it's easy to carry around. I will however say that vinyl holds a special place in my heart, hopefully it will stay around in some way throughout my lifetime...

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