Way back when there was vinyl

[zyzyly]

Back in the old days before CDs, there were vinyl albums--LPs. They had two sides--side one and side two. In order to listen to the whole thing, you had to get up after 20 minutes or so and turn the thing over.

There were some albums where one side was much better than the other, and you might not even bother listening to the other side. Since you had to get up anyway, you might as well change it to something you wanted to listen to.

When I listen to some CD versions of albums I used to have, I am sometimes surprised by a bunch of songs that I never remembered hearing before. It disorients me.

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[purple7luv.livejournal.com]

oh, the days of yore and vinyl.... I LOVED Cheap Trick.... saw them in West Virginia during the "Live In Budakhan" tour... one of my first concerts. I was in love with Robin Zander.

b-sides can be a good thing, albeit disorienting... right there with ya.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I saw Cheap Trick in Germany, lo these many years ago.

[jscottharris.livejournal.com]

Ah, who can forget the "intermission" in Thick As A Brick? I'm surprised that I can remember. All things considered.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Thick as a Brick was always one of my favorite albums. I still have my original vinyl copy where the cover actually folded out into a newspaper.

[jscottharris.livejournal.com]

My copy is somewhere in space-time. Here, there, gone - who knows? At the time I (we) knew not just all of the lyrics but the cues for the background sound effects as well. Scary thought: I probably still do.

Really don't mind if you sit this one out...

Thirty years ago seems like a day. A very long day.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

The thought that it is 30 years old just completely blows my mind.

[rejectomorph]

Since I haven't heard any of my LPs in almost twenty years, if I ever get a new turntable it will be like getting a whole new record collection!

[myasma.livejournal.com]

It will!
When I finally dragged out my old turntable, I started listening to the more obscure stuff--the records I hadn't replaced with CDs. It was like finding a lost treasure.

[ex-muzer409.livejournal.com]

I pretty much always listen to my music on "random shuffle" these days, but there are certain albums I grew up with, and when the songs I expect to follow don't, it IS disorienting.

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

My parents' LP-to-audio-deliverability contraption had a special spindle in the middle where you could stack several of the black discs (I believe up to ten) so that, each time the "needle" (I think it was called) reached the middle, it would retract and then drop another disc.

Years later, I would get a DVD/CD changer, which was far more complicated than that, in my opinion.

Now I don't even use CDs too much. I just have mp3s.

And some of them pop and click because I didn't encode them properly.

They sound just like LPs.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Progress!

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

Preach it, brother! :)

[mrlapage.livejournal.com]

Thems the good ol days.