Man. I miss the sound of a needle on a record....

[fat_fleet]

Yeah they sucked, but you could record onto them.

But CDs were just as bad. I don't know how many of mine got one tiny scratch and then the whole disc wouldn't play. And CD-Rs.... good luck getting one of those to work for more than 2 weeks unless you make a special fur-lined case for it and store it in a room of pillows.

 

[fat_fleet]

my first car stereo was a hand me down 8 track player with a cassette adapter.you could hit the button that would give you 4 different channels or something to that effect,and each one would sound slightly different.the only 8 track i had was mob rules from sabbath.it got the job done though til i actually threw enough morning papers to buy a cassette player.

Yeah I remember 8 tracks being around but never owned a player.... before my time by like 2-3 years. I remember getting my first car stereo that played cassettes though...what a rush, but CDs were already out by then

We apologize. We'll try and do better nenxt time.

Wax cylinders dude!

 

[moresound]

Lending out albums to friends.

 

[RAMI]

Lending out albums to friends.

....and never seeing them again.

 

[moresound]

Lending out albums to friends.

....and never seeing them again.

Ah the memories.

 

[Greg_L]

My GTO has an 8-track player in it. The awesome thing is that it's not the original radio. Some shmoe put that thing in there back when 8-tracks were the shit. I do have the original 1964 AM radio, but that 8-track player is just too hilarious to take out. I had a cassette adapter for it, but that thing ate tapes like crazy, so I threw it out the window while barreling down I-10 one night. You couldn't really hear the radio in that car anyway. Even when it had the stock 389 it was too loud and with no A/C and the windows always open, it was pointless to run the radio. Once I started putting more serious engines in it and racing, there was no chance of hearing the radio. It was just blub-blub-blub-blub....WWWWWWRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAR. Man that car is awesome. I need to get it running again.

 

[fat_fleet]

blub-blub-blub-blub....WWWWWWRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAR.

My Honda with a bad tailpipe does that too.

 

[Greg_L]

My Honda with a bad tailpipe does that too.

Mine sounded good though.

 

[kip4]

Giving your girlfriends albums and fighting over who got custody of it when you broke up.
I remember 8 tracks in cars and i still have a hifi seperates one in the loft too.
Our home record player had valves and was in a legged wooden cabinet with speakers hinged on the side and a multi disc centre , you loaded the singles up and they dropped the new one when the old one finished.
one of my first lp's was the drifters best of Ah the memorys and my second was mike oldfield Tubular bells (what the heck did i see in that ).
thanks for the trip back in time guys

 

[kip4]

Apparently after doing a google search turns out those old things might have been called radiograms.

 

[aaronmcoleman]

I was too young to really get into records, but my dad had a million (I now have them)!

There is something about that mid to late 70s sound that is just perfect. I listen to a lot of Neil Young, Steely Dan, ELO and that kind of stuff, and it just sounds perfect. The mix, the tones, everything sounds so good. On LP it just "feels" right too. I stole my dads old stuff and listen to records on a nice old amp/player/speakers and I feel like I was meant to be born about 20 years earlier so I could have enjoyed that music when it was new.

Rami, you're right, that pop and skip and hum just sounds so nice. I listen to 95% of my music on mp3, but I really enjoy the records.

 

[Lt. Bob]

the thing I miss about albums is ....... nothing ..... 'cause that's still what i listen to.

I still only buy stuff on vinyl including new releases.

Most things still are available on vinyl although they usually cost more.
I haven't bought a CD in many many years. I ordered some records just last week.

The only time I don't listen to vinyl is for work ..... if I have songs to learn I find them streaming somewhere and burn a CD to listen to in the truck. But I don't buy digital copies ...... a cd of the song streaming, even though it's lofi, is fine for learning.

Otherwise I turn on one of my many 'tables and listen to vinyl. And, BTW, none of my records skip .... ever. And most of my records are pretty quiet ..... some so quiet I've had people say, "I didn't realize a record could be silent."
But then, I've always been fussy about them ...... niether of my wives would touch my records.

 

[Lt. Bob]

Yeah, I agree with both of you. I wouldn't actually go get a turntable and start a record collection. I'm just as happy finding a song that pops into my head out of the blue on Youtube (like this one). But saving up, buying, un-rapping, and listening while reading and checking out the cover art and the inside stuff was an experience in itself.

I think if something happened to my 6000+ albums, I doubt very much I'd do it again although there's an awful lot of good music out there available for a dollar an album at flea markets and such. But since I have such a collection and really good playback gear for it, vinyl will continue to be my primary media for music 'till I die. Then my daughter can inherit them and sell them to buy crack or whatever these kids are doing now.

Yup. I used to carefully cut a slit in my album packaging so the record could come out but the plastic stayed on. I thought it would keep them valuable or something.

Still, on a good system, a record sure sounds good.

lol .... I did too ..... and, it turns out that that was bad. That particular type of plastic shrinks and warps the record.

 

[dreib]

Every christmas my old man drags the Montgomery Ward stereo up from the basement and we listen christmas records, Bing, Elvis and a bunch more. I always look forward to that and now even my kids start asking grandpa at Thanksgiving if its time yet. They think it sounds cool!

 

[AtoDeficient]

I miss Side Two. . . There was always something about the song that kicked off side two. . . Did anyone else ever notice that?. . . You just can't get that with a CD. . . At least cassettes preserved that part of the vinyl experience.

 

[grimtraveller]

Looking forward to getting home and un-rapping an album was a thrill. Some albums came with some really cool shit inside.

I loved that process, but I could rarely wait. So I still have memories of actually doing all the unwrapping and reading on long bus journeys home.
Once, I found a purse on the bus with about £45 in it which was a small fortune in 1981. Well, it was for me as I was unemployed. I headed straight to the shopping centre and blew the whole lot on records ! I seem to recall "Kiss-Alive !" and Thin Lizzy's "Live and dangerous" being among the spoils.

The thing I miss about albums is the whole process...the large artwork, the liner notes, the sitting down and playing the entire side at one sitting, and then flipping for th either side...
...it was a ritual.

As much as I loved the process, the one thing I never liked was having to get up from my comfort to flip the record over.

Yeah, I agree with both of you. I wouldn't actually go get a turntable and start a record collection.

Me neither. Having already done it on 3 major occasions. Now I'm not fussy. Everything goes onto tape, anyway. The last turntable I had had a cover that was smaller than the circumference of an album so you couldn't close it when an album was playing !

Dude a quarter was way too heavy. Pennies man.

I generally used a British 2 or 10 pence piece. On a particularly jumpy record, a £1 coin would suffice. I learned an interesting trick from my dad which was to cover the album surface in water, wipe slightly, balance coin, then play. Rarely failed.
That said, sometimes, the scratch appeared at a really great point and it sounded like that was part of the song. When I first heard Deep Purples' "The Mule" on 'Fireball', during Ritchie Blackmore's solo, the record jumped and repeated three times on this particular bit. I was recording it on tape so I didn't realize it was a jump. It was only a couple of years later when I got my own copy that I realized. 30+ years later, it still sounds incomplete without the scratch !

I wouldn't mind a nostalgia thread about cassettes though....fitting 2 albums on an XLII90

It wouldn't be nostalgia for me - I still do that now. I'm afraid the cassette for me is still the perfect medium. Two albums on a C90 or 3 on a 120, bliss ! And conveniently compact.

 

[RAMI]

I got so used to where my records would skip that when I'd hear song I had on the radio, I'd be like "Oh, so that's what happens during those 2 seconds I keep missing".

 

[grimtraveller]

Giving your girlfriends albums and fighting over who got custody of it when you broke up.

Always fortunate that way. Few people share my music tastes ! I always feel that if I gave you something and we fell out, you're welcome to it. I certainly don't want it. I'd never give someone an album that I wanted anyway ! And if I did, I'd make sure I made a copy.

I remember 8 tracks in cars and i still have a hifi seperates one in the loft too.

I never really understood those 8 track thingies. I thought they were a waste of time. People still sell them on ebay though ! Like quadraphonic and minidisc, it just never truly took off. I've always prefered separates too.

Our home record player had valves and was in a legged wooden cabinet with speakers hinged on the side and a multi disc centre , you loaded the singles up and they dropped the new one when the old one finished.

Do you remember how the spindle would suddenly get thinner and then drop the record ? Cool "technology". I still find it fascinating that those turntables of the 60s and 70s could play a record with 6 or 7 stacked underneath. I'm amazed they didn't slip and slide or scratch the record it was on top of. I guess that was the forerunner of the CD changer.

one of my first lp's was the drifters best of Ah the memorys and my second was mike oldfield Tubular bells (what the heck did i see in that ).

There is some confusion as to my first record. My Uncle bought us "Rockin' Robin" by Michael Jackson, but my sisters and I shared it. Then my Mum bought me "Blockbuster" by the Sweet and I appropriated "Maybe tomorrow" by the Jackson 5 even though technically, my cousin gave it to my sister. She only played it once and I was the only one that used it over the next 8 years. Then my Mum bought me the Jackson 5s "Greatest hits" when I was 12. Later that year when I was given a cassette recorder, I bought "Supersonic" {a compilation of pop hits} and "Rollin'" by The Bay city rollers. I didn't know what to buy as I'd never gone out and bought albums before. The first conscious purchase of an album was "A collection of Beatle oldies but goldies". So when someone asks "What was your first record ?", I can't even give a straight answer to that !

I miss Side Two. . . There was always something about the song that kicked off side two. . . Did anyone else ever notice that?. . . You just can't get that with a CD. . . At least cassettes preserved that part of the vinyl experience.

Although I appreciate the sequencing logic of the album, even back as young teen, I would resequence albums to my own specification, starting with least liked song all the way up to most liked. It would be interesting to find out exactly how many albums I have have stayed as sequenced by the band.

 

[Greg_L]

I miss Side Two. . . There was always something about the song that kicked off side two. . . Did anyone else ever notice that?. . . You just can't get that with a CD. . . At least cassettes preserved that part of the vinyl experience.

I'm with ya there. On my last CD album, I paid close attention to how I sequenced the songs, and even came up with a little formula. I made sure that the first song on the virtual side 2 was what I felt was a strong song. Doing the same with this new one.

 

[RAMI]

Yeah, besides the first song on side 2, which I agree with you guys on, side 2 itself always had gems that took about a year to become your favorite songs on the album.

"School's Out" has "Public Animal #9" and "My Stars".