Originally Posted by snapper
Funnily enough, I'd never heard of this "vinyls" thing until I read this thread.
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Funnily enough, I'd never heard of this "vinyls" thing until I read this thread.
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”
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I always thought a CD was a disc!!
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Yep, and the vinyl was an album!
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”
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The run off area between the end of the record & the label that carries the Maxtrix numbers etc is refered to as Dead Wax.
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Different times, different ways. We called them records or LPs, because that's all there was. Then along came CD, MP3 et al, the world turned and a whole generation forgot. Now a new generation has discovered big black discs. Why worry about what they call them? Just be thankful that because of their growing enthusiasm, a medium once threatened by oblivion is thriving.
On a different note, If I want to catch a train, I go a railway station, which is next to a railway line. My kids go to a train station which is next to a train line. Where did that come from? For once, we can't blame our transatlantic friends; they call it a railroad...
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http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...uzzy-purchases
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"Not a lot of people know that"
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My wife just pointed out that the plural of vinyl is albums!
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Records, LPs, 45s, tape, reel-to-reel, radio, FM, DAB, DAT, SACD, DVD-R, CD and files, easy.
Vinyls, if kids or adults are using these terms, then fine, who cares, they're (hopefully) listening to music! I used to be a music journalist & wow there was always a sub-genre and alternative term for everything. I used such terminology to relate my reviews back, didn't agree with them, didn't care, and people who get emotional about this stuff have issues.
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"Albums" are the books with pockets that the 10 or so individual 78rpm records (shellacs??) go in. Vinyl is for lining shelves.
I don't think it's a uniquely American phenomenon, this "vinyls" thing. I hear and read it enough in the UK.
I don't particularly care anyway, just as I don't care when the apostrophe is mis-used (though the first thing that runs through my head when someone posts something like "look at me new speaker's" is "your new speaker's what?") I still call my "turntable" a "record player" since it also has a pickup arm and a cartridge, as well as a turntable.
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