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Growing up, purchased music was on vinyl, and we had record players.. If we wanted to record you needed a reel to reel tape recorder which was expensive and cumbersome and certainly not portable.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in Beat
We Don't Need New Music
We don’t need anything new, there is enough music to keep us going for the rest of our life on streaming services like Spotify and the like. Many years ago , lots of shops sold records but some would only stock the Top 30, and this led to the premise that if the top thirty never changed there would never be any new music.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in Beat
Why Vinyl?
Seems like a fair question. I once said that CDs were the McDonaldisation of music, MP3 and digital music even more so. All of a sudden album content became irrelevant. See this post for more thoughts.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in Beat
They Can Look Good
When CD came along we were persuaded by the pristine sound and their supposed longevity, but this was what I called the MCDonaldisation of music (Check my posts on Vocal for more of my opinions on this subject). You could skip tracks , skim through an album , play it in a different order using remotes and programming. The jewel case was homogenous and meant that if it got damaged then it was easily replaceable. So CDs have become generally homogenised and don't really stand out.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in Beat
Metallica Was Right? - A Personal History of Music Media From The 1950s To Today
My friend Royston posted a link to this blog post from KFMX (Lubbock's Rock Station) about the legacy of illegal downloading. It sums it up in a nutshell. Although I'm in two minds about the grammar , sould it be Metallica Was Right or Metallica Were Right. Anyway this post isn't about grammatical correctness it's about the whole music stealing thing , and where we are at today and why we are here today musically/ It's probably best to do it roughly in temporal order so I'll do it by decades:
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago in Beat
Screw You, Fresh Start, I'm Eating Partridge.
There is a wildly consoling air when one joins the collective affirming the wellness of their souls. And it is my soul that, surely, is well. Despite all the wrecking it has endured, despite its sores worn to open flesh from grief, despite the graves it’s managed to pull itself away from, my soul rests with resiliency.
Nicole GniffkePublished 3 years ago in BeatDripping Inspiration Through Their Fingers
Time marches and with every generational shift, we give ‘it’ a new name. Today we call it ‘The Golden Era’, and twenty years ago we were calling it ‘The Psychedelic Era’.
A Quick Rant about Record Store Day
Usually, the third Saturday of every April brings with it the much-celebrated Record Store Day (from herein referred to as RSD because I'm lazy).
Jamie JacksonPublished 3 years ago in Beat
ABBA: The Studio Albums
The newly released ABBA: The Studio Albums is an 8-LP box set containing all eight of ABBA’s proper albums. This superlative collection includes each of the Swedish pop supergroup's full-length releases on colored vinyl for the first time. This 8-LP assortment of colorful vinyl is the perfect way to revisit one of pop music’s most iconic bodies of work, as well as hearing the progression and growth within each album throughout ABBA's historic career.
Eric AllenPublished 3 years ago in BeatTop Story - June 2020
How to Take Care of Your Vinyl Collection
Whether you're just starting out as a record collector or you already have a collection of your own, you should make sure you're taking proper care of your vinyl. Records are valuable, not only because they contain the music you love, but also because their appeal has made a comeback in recent years which gives them a certain vintage and eclectic edge compared to their more modern competitors like CDs and devices. It is very important to handle, store, and clean records properly in order to keep them in good shape for a long time.
Loretta FlowersPublished 3 years ago in Beat
The Vinyl Myth
Throughout my years of moving through various musical circles consisting of music lovers, musicians, engineers, and audiophiles, one topic seems to be hotly debated among all of them, there is a real fascination among every corner of the musical community in a long antiquated music format: The vinyl record. Some people enjoy the tactility and the ritual, which is a requirement when listening via this medium, others swear by its "superior" audio quality. The latter are the group perpetuating what I'm going to refer to from now on as the "vinyl myth."
Toby WhalenPublished 5 years ago in Beat
Why Vinyl?
I love streaming music. Probably not the first sentence you’d expect to read in an article about the vinyl revival. However, I find it hard to imagine that anyone who considers oneself a music fan could hate having the ability to access any piece of recorded music in history within seconds from any mobile device. That being said, I do often find that the use of music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music can stifle one’s ability to discover new music or dig deeper into the back-catalogue of artists with whom you are already familiar. With a dizzying array of choice (literally every song ever recorded) at your fingertips it can be easy to adopt a sort of ‘pick and mix’ approach to music where you can hear a little of everything but never delve too deep into any one in particular.
Ben ParrishPublished 5 years ago in Beat
