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Trollheart 04-26-2021 08:34 PM
Vinyl Memories
 
Who here is old enough to remember the care we used to have to treat albums with? You remember slipping off the dust cover (always slide it on so that the opening is at the top, though some people preferred either side - never the bottom or you could have a broken album on your hands!) then sliding the actual inner sleeve out, tapping the record gently into your hands, being careful not to touch the surface with the fingers, handling it gently (flat of palms holding the sides carefully) onto the turntable? Lifting the stylus, checking if there was any fluff on it, if so blowing it gently off before lowering the needle?

The annoyance when you accidentally hit into the record player and the album would skip? Turning the album over when side one ended to hear the other side? Flicking through boxes/racks/shelves of albums in your local second-hand record store looking for bargains? Decorating the inner sleeves with your own art? Learning all the lyrics? Admiring the cover art? The smell of the inside cover of a gatefold album?

Share your vinyl memories, from a time when playing an album was more than just selecting a file or pressing play on your ipod, when listening to music was a real pleasure and quite the ritual, when once you'd bought an album you'd listen to it many times as that was the only new one you could afford.

I suppose I'll never go back to vinyl, but it's nice to think of those days.

Tristan_Geoff 04-26-2021 09:54 PM
Um, don't the majority of members here listen to vinyl currently?

DianneW 04-26-2021 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170616)
Who here is old enough to remember the care we used to have to treat albums with? You remember slipping off the dust cover (always slide it on so that the opening is at the top, though some people preferred either side - never the bottom or you could have a broken album on your hands!) then sliding the actual inner sleeve out, tapping the record gently into your hands, being careful not to touch the surface with the fingers, handling it gently (flat of palms holding the sides carefully) onto the turntable? Lifting the stylus, checking if there was any fluff on it, if so blowing it gently off before lowering the needle?

The annoyance when you accidentally hit into the record player and the album would skip? Turning the album over when side one ended to hear the other side? Flicking through boxes/racks/shelves of albums in your local second-hand record store looking for bargains? Decorating the inner sleeves with your own art? Learning all the lyrics? Admiring the cover art? The smell of the inside cover of a gatefold album?

















Share your vinyl memories, from a time when playing an album was more than just selecting a file or pressing play on your ipod, when listening to music was a real pleasure and quite the ritual, when once you'd bought an album you'd listen to it many times as that was the only new one you could afford.

I suppose I'll never go back to vinyl, but it's nice to think of those days.
Yes got just a few Singles a couple of EP's and a Small to Fair Amount of Albums..Most have been played just the once because Husband always copied them on to other Media Forms. I was 16 when we met so plead innocence to his choice of music back then...Hey, how come I yearn for new stuff every day and he is still stuck in time. I did not handle the Vinyls so any scratches is not down to moi. Can remember having one party which we held regularly, some LP's went missing,. We had friends only at the party so that was a learning curve, never to be ever forgotten. That felt like real pain, still does.Trust is something you can't measure. It's earn't over time....
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These have travelled thousands of Kilometres and till almost perfect condition...should not pile really I guess, so will lay them on their sides like the others are....

Trollheart 04-27-2021 05:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Tristan_Geoff (Post 2170620)
Um, don't the majority of members here listen to vinyl currently?
Do they? News to me. I know Rostasi and Innerspaceboy do, but other than that I was not aware. Anyway it's not about listening to vinyl now, it's about how it was back then, when that was your only choice. Now, if you want to, you can choose CD, digital download, YouTube, Spotify, whatever. Back then, you listened to albums on vinyl or you didn't listen to albums (except on cassette tape). They're the kind of memories I'm trying to evoke: a time when vinyl was king, when vinyl was a necessity, not a choice.

Dianne: quelle belle collection! (or something) - very nice. I think I have about 450 albums in all, none of which have been played in the last ten years, not since the Great Crash of '02 - literally: my shelf containing my CD player, turntable, amp, speakers and CD Recorder came off the wall and everything fell on the floor. Nothing was actually broken (I think the perspex lid on my record player got a crack in it, but nothing more than that) but I never bothered putting the shelf back up, and shortly afterwards I started playing music digitally and that was the end of that. Bought a USB turntable in about, I don't know, 2010 maybe? It's still in its box.

DianneW 04-27-2021 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170639)
Do they? News to me. I know Rostasi and Innerspaceboy do, but other than that I was not aware. Anyway it's not about listening to vinyl now, it's about how it was back then, when that was your only choice. Now, if you want to, you can choose CD, digital download, YouTube, Spotify, whatever. Back then, you listened to albums on vinyl or you didn't listen to albums (except on cassette tape). They're the kind of memories I'm trying to evoke: a time when vinyl was king, when vinyl was a necessity, not a choice.

Dianne: quelle belle collection! (or something) - very nice. I think I have about 450 albums in all, none of which have been played in the last ten years, not since the Great Crash of '02 - literally: my shelf containing my CD player, turntable, amp, speakers and CD Recorder came off the wall and everything fell on the floor. Nothing was actually broken (I think the perspex lid on my record player got a crack in it, but nothing more than that) but I never bothered putting the shelf back up, and shortly afterwards I started playing music digitally and that was the end of that. Bought a USB turntable in about, I don't know, 2010 maybe? It's still in its box.
I have no needle in the record deck...not sure I will ever play them again not really what I want to hear so much any more. I can remember buying cheap old 78's at a trash type sale and we would warm them and then shape them into fruit bowls...weird when I think of that..don't ever remember looking to see what music was on them ..too young at that time to be thinking music..only everything was more a toy..lifetime ago now..but now enjoy new styles of music, finding something different all the time and some I absolutely love, would not have even thought of listening to outside my comfort zone a few years back. Have a mate that is into rock of all sorts and he and I enjoy time together swapping music we come across....Be good if you get some more stories about the Vinyl scene, especially as it is more popular again now than for a long long time...

Psy-Fi 04-27-2021 10:50 AM
I have fond memories of using various gatefold album covers to de-seed cannabis back in the 70's. :pimp:

Exo 04-27-2021 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170639)
Do they? News to me. I know Rostasi and Innerspaceboy do, but other than that I was not aware.
I run/manage a popular tri state area record shop and have 1400 LPs in my collection.

Frownland 04-27-2021 11:32 AM
I remember Haram selling out immediately and unsuccessfully calling a bunch of record stores to see if they had a copy a couple of weeks ago. Good times.

Marie Monday 04-27-2021 11:38 AM
I actually started collecting vinyl a few months ago, one of the consequences of corona restlessness

Trollheart 04-27-2021 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2170689)
I run/manage a popular tri state area record shop and have 1400 LPs in my collection.
I forgot about you. Of course you do. :beer:
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2170691)
I remember Haram selling out immediately and unsuccessfully calling a bunch of record stores to see if they had a copy a couple of weeks ago. Good times.
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2170692)
I actually started collecting vinyl a few months ago, one of the consequences of corona restlessness
As a matter of interest, what does vinyl go for these days? I remember seeing an album I already had being "specially produced (reproduced I guess) on vinyl" and it was something like sixty quid. Do record shops (excluding Exo's of course) take advantage of the sudden resurgence of interest in vinyl and charge mad money for them?

@ Dianne: you remember "cowboy hats" - when a record was so warped it would seem to undulate in waves as it went around the turntable? :laughing:

Marie Monday 04-27-2021 12:40 PM
the price hugely depends on the record and the state it's in

DianneW 04-27-2021 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170697)
I forgot about you. Of course you do. :beer:



As a matter of interest, what does vinyl go for these days? I remember seeing an album I already had being "specially produced (reproduced I guess) on vinyl" and it was something like sixty quid. Do record shops (excluding Exo's of course) take advantage of the sudden resurgence of interest in vinyl and charge mad money for them?

@ Dianne: you remember "cowboy hats" - when a record was so warped it would seem to undulate in waves as it went around the turntable? :laughing:
haha..Nope...we respected ours...(just made that up).. had to give up our comics when we first got a record player of this type..made a deal with our late Dad..so our comics paid for the instalments of whatever it was weekly...records we wanted to buy we earnt though doing choirs...
https://modculture.typepad.com/.a/6a...1e02970b-800wi

Exo 04-27-2021 01:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170697)
As a matter of interest, what does vinyl go for these days? I remember seeing an album I already had being "specially produced (reproduced I guess) on vinyl" and it was something like sixty quid. Do record shops (excluding Exo's of course) take advantage of the sudden resurgence of interest in vinyl and charge mad money for them?
Most brand new reissues or new releases run about $20-$40 but lots of labels are going the "limited color run" route and releasing a bunch of limited edition stuff, usually on colored vinyl, and charging an arm and a leg. Then the resale after that is insane.

Vintage records vary by rarity and condition. I sell 15 records for $10 in my bargain room and I also sell single LPs for hundreds of dollars.

Trollheart 04-27-2021 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2170700)
the price hugely depends on the record and the state it's in
Quote:
Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2170708)
Most brand new reissues or new releases run about $20-$40 but lots of labels are going the "limited color run" route and releasing a bunch of limited edition stuff, usually on colored vinyl, and charging an arm and a leg. Then the resale after that is insane.

Vintage records vary by rarity and condition. I sell 15 records for $10 in my bargain room and I also sell single LPs for hundreds of dollars.
This is what I mean. Back in my day (yawn I know) you had prices for single albums, double albums and basically that was it. You'd pay more for limited stuff - a Japanese import or a picture or shaped disc - but other than that, all more or less the same price. Now it varies so much it seems a little insane. I bet there are records out there for major money that I could very well have here beside me on my shelf.

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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2170703)
haha..Nope...we respected ours...(just made that up).. had to give up our comics when we first got a record player of this type..made a deal with our late Dad..so our comics paid for the instalments of whatever it was weekly...records we wanted to buy we earnt though doing choirs...
https://modculture.typepad.com/.a/6a...1e02970b-800wi
Ha ha! I had one of those, though the casing was red! :clap:

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea 04-27-2021 05:26 PM
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I have a collection of about 50 LP's, most of which date from my teens (and a few early 20's). Growing up, my house had 2 record players: A crappy one in one of my sister's bedrooms, and a good one in our living room. I was so protective of the quality of my LP's I put the following label on at least half of them.

Picture below is CSN's Daylight Again album with my warning.

I haven't listened to any of these albums since the 90's.

The Batlord 04-27-2021 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2170703)
haha..Nope...we respected ours...(just made that up).. had to give up our comics when we first got a record player of this type..made a deal with our late Dad..so our comics paid for the instalments of whatever it was weekly...records we wanted to buy we earnt though doing choirs...
https://modculture.typepad.com/.a/6a...1e02970b-800wi
Forcing someone to give up their comics to get music is pure evil. I'd have come at him with a butcher knife. You ain't taking my Spider-Man from me.

Trollheart 04-27-2021 07:43 PM
Why do you think she said "our late dad"? :laughing:

Elberreth 09-27-2021 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170616)
Who here is old enough to remember the care we used to have to treat albums with? You remember slipping off the dust cover (always slide it on so that the opening is at the top, though some people preferred either side - never the bottom or you could have a broken album on your hands!) then sliding the actual inner sleeve out, tapping the record gently into your hands, being careful not to touch the surface with the fingers, handling it gently (flat of palms holding the sides carefully) onto the turntable? Lifting the stylus, checking if there was any fluff on it, if so blowing it gently off before lowering the needle?

The annoyance when you accidentally hit into the record player and the album would skip? Turning the album over when side one ended to hear the other side? Flicking through boxes/racks/shelves of albums in your local second-hand record store looking for bargains? Decorating the inner sleeves with your own art? Learning all the lyrics? Admiring the cover art? The smell of the inside cover of a gatefold album?

Share your vinyl memories, from a time when playing an album was more than just selecting a file or pressing play on your ipod, when listening to music was a real pleasure and quite the ritual, when once you'd bought an album you'd listen to it many times as that was the only new one you could afford.

I suppose I'll never go back to vinyl, but it's nice to think of those days.
My first music vinyl was a Slade album, ah the memories!

Screen13 10-02-2021 12:25 AM
Still digging music any way I can - album-wise it has been checking out the Brown Acid collections and grooving on what colored vinyl I have as well as David Bowie's second album and several used finds. I still have plenty of CDs and even stream. More later, I just wanted to say something.

Guybrush 10-02-2021 12:57 AM
My rega record player and vinyl collection has been deemed too ugly for the living room and there's nowhere else to really put it.. besides storage. See you in a few decades, records.

At least it'll be something for the kids to discover when going through the loft after our passing.

That and our old treasure chest of sex toys.

The Batlord 10-02-2021 03:01 AM
Deem her too ugly to sleep in your bed.

Lisnaholic 10-02-2021 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2170703)
Yep, except ours was dark brown.

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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2170679)
I can remember buying cheap old 78's at a trash type sale and we would warm them and then shape them into fruit bowls.
My mum let us buy an old wind-up 78 gramophone that we found in a junk shop, so we started listening to a few 78s, buying them "blind" just based on the title or something. Our favourite? We kept playing a song we found by Al Martino, and when we got bored we would put paper on the turntable and draw spiral patterns with coloured pens.

Is it just me, or is this song a brilliant example of a certain style? Ha! Now you'll have to click it to find out !

rubber soul 10-02-2021 06:45 AM
Sounds like the I Dream of Genie theme

SlyStone63 10-02-2021 07:43 AM
Who remembers the days when we didn't actually call them "vinyl" we actually called them "records" or "45s" back in the 60s and 70s???

jadis 10-02-2021 08:54 AM
I sure remember when my grandpa called them "пластинки". This was one of his faves


https://img.discogs.com/SCJtcfiKdbV6...-3789.jpeg.jpg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVyEoHMoY0

Trollheart 10-02-2021 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by SlyStone63 (Post 2186956)
Who remembers the days when we didn't actually call them "vinyl" we actually called them "records" or "45s" back in the 60s and 70s???
Records, albums or singles. Never called anything a "45" (Guess that was an American thing). Also twelve-inches (ooer), picture discs, shaped discs and coloured vinyl. Ah, it was a great time. Except when you wanted to play them - watch that needle don't skip and scratch the - too late! Anyone remember "cowboy hats"? And weighting down the arm of your stylus to try to get over cracks, pops and skips (not a new kind of cereal, I do assure you!)?

Mindy 10-02-2021 02:59 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOizW98B6jQ

My record player in this video, its old, still working fine but I paid $50 for it with my grandma at a thrift shop in 2014.

DianneW 10-02-2021 03:02 PM
Some of my Husbands collections...these are the calenders but the LP's I need to photo....
https://i.ibb.co/wLdGbSZ/016.jpg

The Batlord 10-02-2021 03:09 PM
Wow. Your husband, uh... really likes looking at Cliff Richard all year.

Norg 10-02-2021 05:03 PM
i semi younger then umm people born in the 70's

so when i got vinyl i only got them to learn about new music my player had a recorder and usb hub so i would rec the vinyl then put them into a digtial music file and put them in my laptop/ipod lol it was quite tedious so much i dont really buy vinyl anymore

SGR 10-02-2021 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2187000)
Wow. Your husband, uh... really likes looking at Cliff Richard all year.
Can you blame him? Just look at Cliff. Be honest, you'd let him ravish you.

DianneW 10-03-2021 04:06 AM
Ravish is going a tad too far...even back in the 60's
He delivered some building stuff to his house, when he was living in the UK, and My Husband spoke to him briefly he was chatty and he was dressed like he was about to go on stage...maybe he had some 'do' lined up.
https://i.ibb.co/yFw6RKV/002.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ph8tcQ3/003.jpg
the LP's are all sorts mainly 60's-80's
the Box Collections are mostly
Elvis Cliffy & The Shadows and The Shadows...

rubber soul 10-03-2021 05:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2187004)
i semi younger then umm people born in the 70's

so when i got vinyl i only got them to learn about new music my player had a recorder and usb hub so i would rec the vinyl then put them into a digtial music file and put them in my laptop/ipod lol it was quite tedious so much i dont really buy vinyl anymore
Transferring from vinyl to Mp3 is indeed tedious. I spent several months converting my entire record collection to mp3s knowing I was going to have to sell the collection. It was cool to listen to the entire collection one more time.

I do miss the vinyl though.

Guybrush 10-03-2021 11:03 AM
Imo vinyl to mp3 conversion likely isn't worth the tedium. Aside from everything else, like the time it takes and recording pops and crackles, etc. you're anyways better off with something that is mastered for the digital medium.

jadis 10-03-2021 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Guybrush (Post 2187053)
Imo vinyl to mp3 conversion likely isn't worth the tedium. Aside from everything else, like the time it takes and recording pops and crackles, etc. you're anyways better off with something that is mastered for the digital medium.
Unless it's a rare record that hasn't been digitized. Plenty of those!

Guybrush 10-03-2021 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by jadis (Post 2187056)
Unless it's a rare record that hasn't been digitized. Plenty of those!
Yeah, that's where I've focused my own digitization efforts, all those weird bands (mostly Norwegian) that you won't find anywhere besides old ass LPs and that almost noone remembers.

I don't listen to the mp3s, but I have them. It's a bit like being the curator of some boring museum collection.

bob_32_116 10-03-2021 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2170616)
Who here is old enough to remember the care we used to have to treat albums with? You remember slipping off the dust cover (always slide it on so that the opening is at the top, though some people preferred either side - never the bottom or you could have a broken album on your hands!) then sliding the actual inner sleeve out, tapping the record gently into your hands, being careful not to touch the surface with the fingers, handling it gently (flat of palms holding the sides carefully) onto the turntable? Lifting the stylus, checking if there was any fluff on it, if so blowing it gently off before lowering the needle?

The annoyance when you accidentally hit into the record player and the album would skip? Turning the album over when side one ended to hear the other side? Flicking through boxes/racks/shelves of albums in your local second-hand record store looking for bargains? Decorating the inner sleeves with your own art? Learning all the lyrics? Admiring the cover art? The smell of the inside cover of a gatefold album?

Share your vinyl memories, from a time when playing an album was more than just selecting a file or pressing play on your ipod, when listening to music was a real pleasure and quite the ritual, when once you'd bought an album you'd listen to it many times as that was the only new one you could afford.

I suppose I'll never go back to vinyl, but it's nice to think of those days.
Yeah, I remember all the messing around in an attempt to preserve the vinyls as well as possible. I willingly put in the effort, because I wanted the reward of the music, but I don't miss those days.

Thank heavens for CDs. Listening was a pleasure in the days of vinyl, but even more so with the advent of CDs.

The Batlord 10-03-2021 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Guybrush (Post 2187064)
Yeah, that's where I've focused my own digitization efforts, all those weird bands (mostly Norwegian) that you won't find anywhere besides old ass LPs and that almost noone remembers.

I don't listen to the mp3s, but I have them. It's a bit like being the curator of some boring museum collection.
As are most Norwegian museums not dedicated to Vikings.

Guybrush 10-03-2021 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2187080)
As are most Norwegian museums not dedicated to Vikings.
Possibly, although I quite like museums. I worked at one for a while.

The Batlord 10-03-2021 03:33 PM
Honestly I haven't been to one since I was too young to find them anything but boring. Now that I think of it though getting stoned as a security guard at any museum with a T-Rex skeleton sounds like it would never get old.


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