Comments on: Why I Love Vinyl – Reason #372

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:29:30 +0000

C&B, you and DC have both bought one – good lads, good lads. Now, if you could just find another 288 pals…

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:26:18 +0000

Couldn’t resist that sweet LL/B&B 12.” I promise to bring it out only after bedtime.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:59:32 +0000

Great Post!
I think the vinyl revival is interesting. It’s both nostaligic as well as indicitive of a desire for a more authentic life. I;m glad cds are dying out, I never really liked them. I have always enjoyed getting to know an album one side at a time. My desire for novelty kicks in about every half hour – average length of most lps – so it has always worked for me. I tried to break cds into sides but never got used to it. There are many cds i own in which I don’t know the last few songs as well as the rest.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:52:37 +0000

Dev – kind of like why I prefer a cork in my wine, rather than a screw-top. I think wine buffs have decided that screw-tops actually preserve the wine better, and I am sure they may be right, because I certainly have no idea. But dammit I like the foil-removing, cork-wrenching, back-spasming part of that ritual and screw-tops will never be able to match that.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:51:32 +0000

Matthew

1) I did point out that it was a sin.

2) The last time you make sent me a mix it was right after you heard of a great new band called Broken Records. I’ve been using the podcast for years champ.

By: Cogstar

Cogstar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:57:08 +0000

Cd’s just don’t have the whole other side element either.

By: Dev

Dev — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:51:08 +0000

Matthew, I think you touched on the key element (aside from the reduced ear fatigue you get from vinyl versus assaultive mp3s):

It is about the *ritual* involved with playing a record that makes the whole experience more immersive and special. Rather like a Japanese tea ceremony…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:03:24 +0000

C&B, then why the fuck did you just shell out on the Builders/Loch Lomond Split 12″ then? I’m not sending our fine vinyl to a household where it may be brutalised!

Ed, I don’t think there’s a good answer, really. I reckon for a single vinyl is a good bet. Someone will always be disappointed with the format though, especially these days.

Ben, I am never making you another fucking mix ever again in your life if you do that. You can just listen to the podcasts, dammit.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:17:05 +0000

I know a mix tape is a labour of love but, but frankly I look forward to getting a CD every bit as much as a tape.

Where the mix tape has the biggest advantage for me is that you have to listen to a tape all the way through in order. A CD gets ripped onto your MP3 player and may never be heard in the correct order. Now that this a sin.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:23:18 +0000

“I know some people might challenge that, but they are mental people, like Ed from 17 Seconds, who has a whole room of the stuff.”

heh heh…thanks for the shoutout -much to the long-suffering Mrs. 17 Seconds’ despair the picture above could almost be our front room…It has taken me over twenty years of collecting.

hard to tell on popularity though: last year, when we pressed the Aberfeldy ‘Claire’ single, we took the decision not to do CD singles on the grounds that vinyl seemed to be back, and the CD single was dead in the water. Then at the gigs people asked for a CD single. On the other hand, having pressed the X-Lion tamer EP only on vinyl, the other day I went into Mono in Glasgow who said that they would only take one on Cd but they would have taken more on vinyl! And when you are a tiny label like 17 Secs, it’s generally going to be one or the other! Sigh…