Comments on: Married to the medium

by: Sharon

Sat, 14 May 2005 06:21:17 +0000

I used to tape songs off the radio when I was a kid, because I had a pathetic allowance and couldn’t afford many albums. So many of my favorite singles from the ’80s just don’t sound right now, because they don’t catch a bit of the weather report at the end, or the Greaseman yelling, or Casey Kasem’s nasally voice saying, “There it is, the No. 1 song of the week.”

by: Stacy

Fri, 13 May 2005 07:07:46 +0000

I think similar sound association is in play when you hear a song you have on CD (or tape, or MP3, or vinyl, or 8-track …) on the radio. Even if you JUST played it in your house, if you get in the car and hear the same damn song, to me it always sounds better on the radio.* Something about the spontaneity, I think.

* DISCLAIMER: This never happens to me anymore, because there ain’t no music on the radio, just shit n’ wind.

by: Crackity

Sat, 07 May 2005 17:22:24 +0000

My first Stevie Ray Vaughan album, “Texas Flood,” will always sound best on vinyl. Fortunately it’s been around long enough that it has been reissued on vinyl. It’s even on 180-gram, a big step up from the thin stuff they were pressing in the mid to late ’80s. It’s a good thing, too, because I played the shit out the the first copy I owned. I’ve never owned the Eagles’ “Hotel California” or Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush” on anything but 8-track.

by: sid

Fri, 06 May 2005 07:04:42 +0000

JK: I missed you! One of the first songs I ever jammed to was “Baby Driver” … though I’m talking about the KISS song. I still have “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on a scratched-up 45 and I can’t imagine hearing it any other way.

Jodi: Nice way to get “Kenny Rogers” and “vagina” in the same thought. Leave that message on his answering machine and I’m sure he’ll spank it for days.

by: JK

Fri, 06 May 2005 06:54:20 +0000

My dad sat me down in front of the console stereo when I got my learner’s permit and played Simon & Garfunkel’s “Baby Driver” for me on vinyl. I’m still afraid to get a CD copy of “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

When I went through my Glam period during high school/college in the late nineties, I found so much on vinyl that couldn’t be found elsewhere that it became my primary medium for a few years. Any of Marc Bolan’s album’s, especially “Dandy in the Underworld” and “Ride a White Swan,” don’t even work in a digital medium.

MAN I wish I had my record player here!