No mystery in a modern world?

[Bill]

Remember the old days when ya had no idea of when a new album was coming out? Ya just had to visit the record bins every week until SURPRISE! There's the new album with a new cover and new songs and you couldn't wait to get it home and sit through that magical discovery of new tunes! Carefully placing the needle on the vinyl.

Now we keep track of every move an artist makes, make set lists of concerts, and sample new album tunes months before the CD is released...we even read the liner notes and see the artwork. By the time we get the album there's little left to discover. The tunes are still great but maybe we've lost a little something of the magic.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone -- hungry for news and snatching up everything I can find. I just get sentimental for the old days...realizing I would never give up our modern marvels of information gathering! I'm such a hypocrit!

[Jenney]

quote:Originally posted by Bill:
Remember the old days when ya had no idea of when a new album was coming out? Ya just had to visit the record bins every week until SURPRISE! There's the new album with a new cover and new songs and you couldn't wait to get it home and sit through that magical discovery of new tunes! Carefully placing the needle on the vinyl.



I agree completly Bill. There was magic in the discovery and running back home to slit the cellophane cover with your thumbnail to gaze at that pristine vinyl. While I wouldn't trade the information we now have for anything, I do look back fondly to those times.
When I was out visitin Derek one time, we poured a few glasses of wine and played "name that album". We went through each album, trying to name each song, in order, on each album. The only reason we could even attempt it was from years of gazing at the album covers and devouring every word.

I must say though, it sure is easier to carry around a cd than the old Hi Fi and albums.
Jenney

Was everyone this excited when the other albums came out as they are as this album is coming out?

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Time will not allow you to stand still, no
Silence breaks the heart and bends the will...

[Gaby]

quote:Originally posted by Jenney:
I do look back fondly to those times.

And, do you remember softening your scratched LPs in the oven to make fruit bowls? – not John’s beloved coasters or bird scarers as with cds.
Ironing your hair straight on the ironing board – not with ceramic hair-straighteners.
Sewing huge velvet triangles into your bell-bottoms or loons to make them even wider – instead of buying them ready-made from New Look or Top Shop.
Threading thousands of tiny glass beads onto fishing line to make “love beads”; sewing sequins all over your jeans.
Knowing you’d never be seen dead in ‘drainpipes’. (Which I wear all the time, now!)
Cheesecloth grandad shirts.
Seersucker, wrap-around maxi-skirts and black spider-web silk shawls – which my Goth daughter has reclaimed from the trunks in the attic.
The clothes that shocked my parents are, now, vintage chic!!.
(The poor child tries to shock, but- Tough!! Bin there! Done that!)
The only time she made me cry was when she came home with a tattoo. But, that seems to be par for the course, nowadays – at least, she doesn’t have any piercings. That probably makes her a Conservative. Now, that does SHOCK me.!!

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

There certainly was something to be said for vinyl album covers; often works of art in and of themselves and not something you can really do with CD jewel boxes. However, the main time that I long for the old lp covers is when I try to read anything contained on a CD box or in the microscopic liner notes!

--posted by SUIM at age 48 and something less than 20/20 vision.

[Rob1956]

I'll never forget that I was taken by suprise by two of Gord's albums coming out when I least expected. They happend to be back to back releases. I was in a Record Bar in a mall in Orland Park, Il in March of 1980 looking at the wall of new albums and there was "Dream Street Rose" on display. Of course I grabbed it. Then I was walking thru the Oakbrook shopping center west of Chicago in 1982 and thru a window about 50 feet away, I could see a photograph of Gord. I got closer and it was
"Shadows" in the record store window. Of course I grabbed it.

[Janice]

quote:Originally posted by DMD3:
Was everyone this excited when the other albums came out as they are as this album is coming out?



You bet! We were even this excited when the "Final Four" were released on CD and most of us already had those in other formats