Vinyl

[JunkBondTrader]

Does anyone out there still use vinyl as a means of just listening to music as opposed to mixing it and stuff? If so what do you guys like and dislike in your collection?

My uncle gave me a ton of Bob Dylan records and amongst them is an old copy of Bringing it All Back Home which I adore. I also found a copy of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon and Garfunkel in a second hand record shop for a surprisingly low price (~£5) which really is a great record.

I also rebought Nirvana's Nevermind after I leant my CD to someone and never saw it again and I can't stand it. It's not the album I don't like it's just my copy. It's a reissue pressed on bright green vinyl which is funky but it sounds bloody awful.

[optimashprime]

i have a load of vinyl at my house

we stopped using it though because my cant be bothered to set it up agian

[JunkBondTrader]

Argh! Don't give up on vinyl! If there's one thing I've learned from vinyl it's that even if something is delicate, complicated and takes up unnecessary amounts of space it can still be worth having. :D

Come on, I can't be the only one!

[JackOfClubs]

My parents have loads of vinyl in my uncle's attic. But I'm living in a different country and we don't have a player so that could be a problem. I'd love to be able to get a hold of all of them though! :)

[Perseus]

What is a vinyl? Lol, I feel stupid for not knowing.. Is it just like pure cd or something?

[AllThatIsLeft]

I have one, but i cant figure it out >.<
besides it's on a tiny box, and i'm not allowed to take it out. of course.
i been dying to hear a vinyl.

and i also been dying to hear Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme XD

[JunkBondTrader]

What is a vinyl? Lol, I feel stupid for not knowing.. Is it just like pure cd or something?

One of these :P

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/tycho-vinyl.jpg

and i also been dying to hear Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme XD

It's awesome, I'm playing it now :D

[Perseus]

One of these :P

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/tycho-vinyl.jpg



It's awesome, I'm playing it now :D

Whoa, they still make records for sell? That is shocking. :P

[Sugaree]

You know Jake, CDs didn't exist way back then. Artists used to press music onto vinyl LPs, which are now in process of making a comeback of sorts. There were two sides: the A side and B side. Single LPs usually had two songs to each side. The A side would be the main song, the one that would qualify as a single. The B side would just a filler, maybe a song that didn't get to the album or a live recording.

Vinyl was stopped in the mid 90s and replaced by CDs, but by then, every artist was using CDs as a way to get music out.

To answer OP question: Me and my father share a vinyl collection. A few years ago, he named all his vinyl records (sleeves and all) to me after he died. I play them from time to time, but not as much as I want to. My favorite albums are any of the live ones he has. 4 sides of sweet black vinyl and I'm occuppied for half the day.

About your Nirvana album: Green vinyl eh? You may have a bootleg company pressing of the album. Companies (mostly in Japan) would take live recordings, regardless of origins (or "generations), and press them onto vinyl and later to CD. This was a big buissiness and it's pretty much been ended today. I would say that it could possibly be a counterfeit, but I'm unsure. Does it have the record company label and catalogue number on the side? Most albums do.

[JunkBondTrader]

Yep, 424 425-1. I wondered about that myself but apparently there was a reissue in 2008 that was pressed on green vinyl.

EDIT: Double checked and apparently it's some kind of rare European pressing and they all sound awful. :P I couldn't find a reference to it being green though, maybe it is bootleg. :?

[Perseus]

You know Jake, CDs didn't exist way back then. Artists used to press music onto vinyl LPs, which are now in process of making a comeback of sorts. There were two sides: the A side and B side. Single LPs usually had two songs to each side. The A side would be the main song, the one that would qualify as a single. The B side would just a filler, maybe a song that didn't get to the album or a live recording.

Vinyl was stopped in the mid 90s and replaced by CDs, but by then, every artist was using CDs as a way to get music out.

To answer OP question: Me and my father share a vinyl collection. A few years ago, he named all his vinyl records (sleeves and all) to me after he died. I play them from time to time, but not as much as I want to. My favorite albums are any of the live ones he has. 4 sides of sweet black vinyl and I'm occuppied for half the day.

About your Nirvana album: Green vinyl eh? You may have a bootleg company pressing of the album. Companies (mostly in Japan) would take live recordings, regardless of origins (or "generations), and press them onto vinyl and later to CD. This was a big buissiness and it's pretty much been ended today. I would say that it could possibly be a counterfeit, but I'm unsure. Does it have the record company label and catalogue number on the side? Most albums do.

I know CDs haven't existed forever, I just didn't know the term 'vinyl." I know artists still make like platinum records and such, adn my friend otld me that they are starting to produce records more now. But, I prefer CDs since they aren't large and I don't need a record player for one.

[AllThatIsLeft]

It's awesome, I'm playing it now :D

So am I XD..
thanks for reminding me. :D

[BlackenedSilver]

I'd love to listen to the Vinyls my parents have but we dont have a player. =/

[Dagenadriel]

My grandparents living room has over 100 vinyl records on a shelf, and a player right next to it. Every time I go over there I play a few. :D The last one I listened too was either some David Lee Roth album, or the Donny Osmond Album. :P

[Agent]

I have more records than CD´s.

[UnholyConfessions]

My parents have a lot of vinyls put away from back in the day, but now they just use CDs. Me too, I use CDs.

[sebbie]

I don't know anyone personally who still uses vinyl for other than DJ mixing and with the increase in CDJ's this is going down, its a thing of the past since we now have CD's and MP3's.

[JunkBondTrader]

I don't know anyone personally who still uses vinyl for other than DJ mixing and with the increase in CDJ's this is going down, its a thing of the past since we now have CD's and MP3's.

They're saying that vinyl will outlive CDs as a format which is interesting. It outlived cassettes after all.

[Agent]

I don't know anyone personally who still uses vinyl for other than DJ mixing and with the increase in CDJ's this is going down, its a thing of the past since we now have CD's and MP3's.
Yep, but new doesn´t always mean good. Most of the music these days is shitty anyway.

[sebbie]

Yep, but new doesn´t always mean good. Most of the music these days is shitty anyway.

The music on a CD or vinyl will be personal taste so to say it is all "shitty" is irrelevant.

CD's have a lot of advantages over vinyl and vinyl will have some advantages over CD's.

Personally I think that with the increase in digital media, such as MP3 players,CDJ's etc it is a thing of the past.

One of the main advantages of the newer things like CD's is the convenience, you can get over 20 average length songs on a CD and nowhere near as much on a vinyl.

[Patchy]

I do use vinyl for mixing however a lot of time I just have old vinyl records on my decks as a choice of listening more than mixing.

[Hyper]

Meh there is nothing about vinyl I don't like.

I listen to vinyl if I can, can't at home.. Simply put I like the sound much more