Imagine my surprise when turning on the radio this morning....record crackles!!!

I turned on my car this morning. "Come Together" by The Beatles was on. Sounded good. I kept it on. But this was a little different. After less than a minute, I realized I was hearing surface noise! The song ended, and sure enough, I heard record crackles before "Something" came on.

Turns out that 100.3 FM (The Sound, a relatively new Los Angeles-based station) has some sort of thing where they play a complete album side - on vinyl - uninterrupted for the entire day on Wednesday.

the entire day? lame. they used to save that for 3-6am so teh dj could take a nap

That's awesome. One station in this area did a similar thing...when they started this new classic rock format back in the 90's sometime, they started out playing just Stairway To Heaven. The song. 24 hours a day! :faceplam:

But, soon it was two songs, then three, and then they opened up the vaults and played a typical classic rock format, with a bit more edge and some more obscure selections from classic artists.

Let's hope this is a similar thing, because one album side all day is a bit much.

These damn stations don't want to hire DJs when they can just a computer do the work. The track was probably an album side, but still a digital playback. Listen real close and see if there is any variation on playback. I doubt it's an actual record spinning live...

Either way, it's still great because the record can save the music business. So, yeah for this news! I hope the record keeps chugging away like it's been doing. I think YouTube is helping, because there is a whole culture on their that play back vinyl for each other. And the best ones make sure you get to watch the record spin. Great fun!

I bet these YouTube vids are turning people on to records. And nothing is as cool as a record. They sell themselves.

I'm still worried about Tape.

I think the DJs on our local Pacifica station take pride in the surface noise of the real records that they play on the air. They play CDs, too, but being primarily a jazz station when they're not a commentary and public affairs station, they know where the good stuff that hasn't been released on CD is.

I don't know whose rule it is, or who enforces it (or not) but my radio announcer friend said that they can no longer play more than two songs in a row from the same album on the air. It's an anti-piracy thing. Or maybe it's an artist thing - they want you to buy the album, not hear it all on the air.

Classic CD at Midnight

Anyone have a local station that does that? One of the classic rock stations in Houston does that, plays the whole album --- and it's even part of Clear Channel's evil empire

I really wish radio would play more albums...

Classic CD at Midnight Anyone have a local station that does that? One of the classic rock stations in Houston does that, plays the whole album --- and it's even part of Clear Channel's evil empire

FDU (college station) used to have 5 o clock album sides where they would play a classic album side instead of the entire album. this was cool in 1989 at the start of the cd hegemony.

I think the thing that surprised me is that it is a "regular" commercial station. The college stations and Pacifica stations here all play lots of LPs as they always have.

The LP side I heard on the way home was "American Beauty" by the Dead, a gorgeous studio album from a band that didn't always do stellar studio recordings, as they were better known as a live band.

Ken, I'm not one to tell you how to live your life...but if you're having an acid flashback, DO NOT drive your car.

I'm not sure just where I stand on this analog/digital discussion (implied in this particular topic).

I just bought the digitally remastered version of the 1969 London version of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Very much from the same era and milieu as "Come Together".

The depth and clarity and dimension-- even punchiness and "hotness" of the horns and voices--- on this new CD is infinitely more stunning than any previous vinyl or cassette version I've ever owned. It's fair to say that I'm hearing an entirely new recording, a new "performance".

What is clear to me is that, whoever re-mastered this new CD was intimately familiar with the orchestral score AND original London recording... The improvements are just too canny and deft and well-placed. No way a young kiddo-- who hadn't lived with this piece in their soul for decades-- could've done this task. JMHO.

I believe you can have stellar sound in remastered CDs that exceed the other two formats (sorry, The Stranger).

But no, actually, I started this thread simply with the pleasant surprise that someone was playing whole album sides from an LP on a commercial radio station. Nothing more. I have maybe about 400 LPs and (a LOT of) CDs and like them both.