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I have Time Fades Away on vinyl, the only Neil Young album not to be released on cd. :boff

Same here baby!

 

God I miss working at a used record store.

 

And for what it's worth, I have YHF, BT and AGIB on LP... and I'll preorder SBS on LP as well, but I see no reason to spend sickening amounts of money on Summerteeth or AM or any of the UT stuff just 'cause it's cool to have it on record.

 

If you think LPs sound better than CDs you are either 1)the owner of a pretty serious home stereo 2)high or 3)experiencing psychoacoustic effects.

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If you think LPs sound better than CDs you are either 1)the owner of a pretty serious home stereo 2)high or 3)experiencing psychoacoustic effects.

 

 

or perhaps all three.

 

seriously though, i have become nostalgic for the sound of a needle hitting the record, and even of the dust. It's funny how when I was buying records as a teenager I fretted about keeping the records clean and buying dust-sleeves etc., and how I loved the perfect sound of the CD. Now that I'm older, I miss the scratchiness.

 

Plus, I think some records do sound better on vinyl, somehow warmer. Doobie Brothers' Toulouse Street is a perfect example. But other albums are so much better suited to CD, even classic ones like Dark Side of the Moon, you don't have to get up out of the beanbag to flip it over, etc.

 

Finally, I think the CD has been bad for music in one key way: the fact that it holds 80 mins of music is forcing bands to feel like they have to fill all that time, often with bad songs. Ten songs on two 20 minute sides seems about the right amount of time, thanks

 

enough geezing for now

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