The vinyl revival is a load of cunt…
It appears that technology is going backwards…. Everything now has to be vinyl, picture disc, cassettes (For fuck’s sake)…. What next wax fucking cylinder, 78’s? Why not go the whole hog and release remastered concerts onto VHS or better still Betamax or Super8?… I don’t get this vinyl thing… Most of it is CD remasters pressed to vinyl with inferior shitty covers and charge £40+ for the privilege and it’s lapped up by knobheads… The predators that also go around second hand stores so they can cash in on rare LPs (googling a record on your phone? In the middle of a shop?!) are also cunts… I say enjoy the music whatever format and don’t collect it for the sake of scalping it elsewhere… Coloured vinyl is also a joke (and crap)… Red, white, blue etc etc all the colours of the fucking rainbow in fact, and also just another way for the record companies to successfully drain more money out of the gullible cunts, student knobheads and ebay predators who think vinyl is the best thing since sliced bread…I honestly don’t get it but what should be the most important thing above all is to actually enjoy the music, to hear it and immerse ones self in the delights the music gives out rather than just buying it because it’s another Vinyl re-issue coloured vinyl limited edition 10” poster sleeve, gatefold, picture disc, etched, shaped, numbered, embossed sleeve, marble effect inferior liable to crackle and pop sound from vinyl on to your hi fi system…stick to CDs or FLAC and hear what the artists intended for you to hear it by….
Nominated by norman
I agree entirely with this nomination. Poseurs who like things ‘retro’…pff.
Here’s a joke for you…
https://mikesplace2017.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/joke-of-the-day-7/
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Nice one, CMC… Cheers…
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Well cunted Norman.
These modern reissues are nothing more than cheap imitations, often mastered from compressed digital sources. All my vinyls are original first pressings, proper analogue sound. That said, I hardly ever play them, I have everything on CD anyway so can’t be arsed. Gaze lovingly at the sleeves occasionally though…
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Same here RTC, My vinyl has been mothballed and replaced with CDs.
The artwork and packaging is the reason I don’t pirate music or buy the download. I will pay a bit more if the artist makes the effort.
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I know what you mean Norman, its trendy at moment, never liked the compressed sound with cds, and remember how giddy as a young lad id be getting a new album, the artwork on the sleeves etc. Dunno if these millenials will feel the same buzz we did? Strolling down the road wi Bowies diamond dogs or led zeppelins houses of the holy was of its time, dont know if some topknot vegan I.T workers gonna feel it the same. But fucking loved vinyl and miss mine! My own fault for listening to daft cunts enthusing about c.ds in late 80s!
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Same as RTCP!
And good afternoon squire
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Afternoon Q……… 😎
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My sentiments exactly Ruff Tuff.
I also have a lot of original vinyl, but I tend to play cd’s , much more clarity and no crackles like it was recorded in a fish & chip shop.
I did buy the Beatles vinyl box set though off eBay. Beautiful book that came with it was amazing. And the lp’s do look just like the original’s . As for the sound , can’t really say they sound any better than the cd’s.
Norman is right about these so called vinyl re issues. I saw Jethro Tull’s This Was, the cover looked like it was copied from a cheap printer.
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Precisely Fenton. I guess the cunts who buy these reissues don’t know how the originals look, feel and sound, so aren’t aware they’re a rip-off.
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Can’t wait to get back to wax cylinders and wooden needles, the glooooorious analogue sound, like the lps have been stored in a gravel pit.
As someone who has produced a few CDs, I can say that the only downsize is the small cover on a CD, by comparison with 144 inches sq. on an lp. And that’s before you get to gatefolds… Anne-Sophie Mutter’s first Vivaldi Four Seasons, her on the front in an alluring red dress; turn it over and, on the back, you see maestro Herbert von Hochmeister perving away in the forest.
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Top pick, Norman.
Not so much technology going backwards but fucking hipster shitfuckcunts driving a moronic craze to ‘retrograde’ every form of entertainment and material possession.
The same fuckers however will order all these antiquated forms of technology on their iPhone via Amazon Prime.
A true hipster wouldn’t invite friends around for Netflix and quinoa; he would instead take a can of reel film, arrange to meet via phonebox and travel to his mates’ via his Penny Farthing.
Fuck the re-introduction of vinyl. It was of its time. I’ve nothing against genuine vintage collectors at all, but cunts who buy stuff like Ed Sheeran or Iggy Cuntzolea on vinyl deserve to drowned in septic tanks full of their own bullshit, the cunts.
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If your old skool like me then vinyls are fine.
A deeper, richer sound, and loving artwork and in sleeves when musicians and producers made an effort, before the advent of CDs and the that will do mentality at the cheapest price.
For this generation, leave vinyl alone and fuck off and play with your iPhone. Cunts.
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I took the cunting to be in the spirit of ‘new vinyl’, definitely not collectors etc like yourself.
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Timely riposte there Empire.
Much to the merriment of my children I never stashed my Linn Sondek lp12 in the attic or the garage nor my collection of classic Tamla / Northern Soul. Now my children are men and women and regard my “old shit” like gold. They cut their teeth on stuff Russ Winstanley was rediscovering in old dusty record vaults in the US. Stuff like Linn and Tamla never did die, it just went out of fashion for a bit. The thought of buying “new” vinyl is sacrilege.
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I got rid of all my vinyl recently, which included my beloved Dusty Springfield collection and now I just don’t know what to do with my shelves….
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I’ve collected the records of the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) bands for several years, mostly picture discs that are displayed but also a couple of original pressings and several records that pre-date my birth. I’d often pick them up from boot sales , charity shops and online for a pound or two, play them, display them.
Now the market’s been flooded with edgy hipster type the prices have shot up and I don’t bother. I did consider selling some but they’ll only end up in the bin when the fad is over and they’ll never be appreciated again.
Stick to your Ed Sheeran Spotify playlist or one of Simon Cowell autotuned army yer fecking snowflake, leave the real music to the real men.
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…I did consider selling some but they’ll only end up in the bin when the fad is over and they’ll never be appreciated again.
My vinyl collection is currently sitting in boxes in the next room, haven’t played any of them for decades having either bought the albums on CD or downloaded them over the years. I checked out the current prices for my old Sabbath stuff on Vertigo, with the black and white swirly centres and dust sleeves…then all the old prog stuff..and, fuck me, I’m sitting on a small fortune there, and Lo!, was I was sorely tempted…
But, like you say, it’s a fad, and the thought of parting with something that was so important to my spotty hairy young self so that some fucking hipster cunt could use it as some sort of trophy….
My fucking preciousess you nasty hipster cuntsesss, so fuck ye right off…
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Hipsters – progressive in their politics, utterly regressive in their fashion taste.
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The best thing about new technology is that (hopefully) in the near future the Virtual Reality Holographic Gizmos will be so advanced that virtual concerts featuring all the great dead music legends of the past will be so realistic that it will destroy all the so called New Artists and save everyone from their infernal racket.
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Must admit that I’m no great music buff,but if I had to pick one song that always reminds me of my glory days……
https://youtu.be/EjDTq25XsH8
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Nowadays it’s more like…….
https://youtu.be/pc0mxOXbWIU
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Fuck me I thought that overweight cunt singing was David Lammy
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Always did like Rainbow, think it was the 2nd band I saw live.
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I can’t believe it! Sales of albums on cassette tape have doubled in the last year. It’s got to be fuckin’ millennials driving it. I think it must be the novelty of the player chewing up the tape and having to sort out the resulting bird’s nest. For many of them, it will be their first experience of using a pen or pencil or solving any puzzles since Rubik’s Cube. “It’s used to write with you stupid bastards, not for spending hours winding tape back on to the spool! This is why your older and wiser elders moved on from those days. Fuck off you halfwits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6551109/Cassettes-make-comeback-sales-albums-tape-double.html
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“Millennials retro everything that is fuckin’ useless and ignore that which is good.” Bluntspeakingcunt 9.6.2019. Date to be changed on headstone.
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My son in law buys new vinyl records. He is a bit of a cunt. I have a turntable connected to my pc which converts LPs to MP3. This enables me to record say Revolver and then delete Yellow Submarine. I have all my music on a few sticks. Nearly 60 years of music. Play them on shuffle and you never need to suffer shite or stuff you don’t like, and never need to listen to some gibbering fucking moron on radio.
Did I mention that my son in law is a bit of a cunt?
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I bought the LP ‘Hapshash And The Coloured Coat’ in 1967 which was bright red vinyl. I think that started it all off. Since then we’ve seen all the colours of the rainbow, which may be good to look at but doesn’t make the music sound any better.
My collection of records and cassette tapes, painstakingly put together over the last sixty years, will probably end up in the bin when I stop breathing. Ah well.
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Mine will end up being sold for a small fortune on eBay, if my widowed missus plays her cards right….
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I also have that Hapshash LP btw.
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I had a white vinyl White Album (French Apple reissue from 78, I think)… It actually played very nicely… Fuck knows where it is now, mind….
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Im no hipster but looking forward to the Bakelite rotary phone revival.
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I still have my old Marantz hi-fi stack – turntable, twin-cassette deck, tuner, receiver, amp and CD, along with a couple of Wharfedale speakers and lots of fuck-off cabling!
I still have perfectly good cassettes from the 80s and LPs that when played on my stack pisses all over CD, mp3 and flac in terms of depth, bass and fuck knows what else.
I only have 30 original LPs left, but they include the likes of UFO, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Roxy Music (purely for the soft-porn cover); Mike Oldfield, Asia, Black Sabbath and one or two others. There is something rather special about removing the black LP from its dust cover, placing it on the turntable, and letting the arm sweep over to the beginning, lowering itself very gently, and then we’re off!
I listen to digital music purely for the convenience; but when it comes to quality give me vinyl every time.
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Dad? I thought you were dead…
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I splashed out on a digital radio for my car.
I will have to read the manual first but I feel a cunting of great magnitude coming on.
ditto the little fucks that have fm relay for there iPhones that hyjack your car radio in traffic jams.
now totally off topic where has all my porn sites disappeared too? did the Mormons take over the internet last night? Kleenex sales will drop that’s for sure.
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Big bands like The Beatles and Zeppelin can supervise their own vinyl reissues…. The 2012 Zep ones were of a very high standard… As are the recent re-releases of New Order’s first three 12” singles… But most of it is crap – both in quality and in content… Who the fuck wants Paul Young or Bananarama on a coloured LP? Instead of finding and promoting new bands (are there any?) these industry cunts are refrying stuff that was crap in the first place… Ebay predators are also cunts… No love for -or knowledge of – the music, but they see a record for how much they can get for it… Tossers who actually google records and their value on their phones in public are millennial shoe scrapings personified….
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‘…Who the fuck wants Paul Young or Bananarama on a coloured LP?’
Oh, I don’t know, if you’re not the one doing the buying and feel like being a right cunt, they do have their uses…
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Always liked a bit of T-Rex… But recently some cunts put out a new best of featuring Bolan’s legacy… The ‘coloured vinyl’ edition is supposed to be gold, but it actually is the colour of an apres-vindaloo turd…. This abomination goes for the price of 25 quid…. The same compilation on CD and with extra tracks is 5.99…. Some cunts really do have more money than sense….
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Slightly OT, much as I like some of Bolan’s work, I refuse to buy any of it, as any money from the sales/royalties disappears into a trust fund black hole somewhere.
Some cunts somewhere are getting very rich from this fund, and it ain’t the surviving family members or any of the surviving musicians…
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Priceless bit of snowflake cuntery I witnessed regarding this subject… At Mrs N’s dad’s place, the old man in law was listening to ‘Close To The Edge’ on LP…. Some millennial knobcheese friend of his daughter (younger sister of Mrs Norman) asked what it was…
‘Yes’ said the man… ‘Errr… Noooo (like these snotty upstarts say)… I asked who it actually was!’ Whined the student type condescendingly… ‘I’m not deaf, you tosser! Yes! Yes as in Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe and Squire you little prick!’ was the blistering response… Snowflake student bottom lip wobbling to much satisfaction…
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Big fan of Yes. My favourite album ‘Relayer’. The’Jazz’ section with Patric Moraz. Really ‘galloping’ movement. I was never really into Led Zep, or Purple. Loved Black Sabbath. But my favourite favourite band from that era ‘The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’. So much so that when Mrs Plastic gets drunk and argumentative I provoke it and she fucks off into the night I can have my drink and watch Alex on YouTube. What a guitarist Zal Cleminson was. And….
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Went to see The Nice in concert in Liverpool circa 1971. Brilliant, banging out ‘America.’ What is it about reaching 3 score and 10 that makes you soppy eyed? I’m afraid I’ve not yet recovered from Ron Knee’s brilliant nom on old age.
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My dad saw ELP countless times… Emerson was arguably the greatest keyboard player (alongside Ricks, Wright and Wakeman) of all time… He also followed Genesis and thought Gabriel was God…
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Vambo, indeed, still Rools….
(and, criminally, there is so little video/film footage of them available..)
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Yes very littlle. There is a wonderful live version of ‘Anthem’ with bagpipes and female singer. There is a great video of the them doing ‘Amos Moses’ sadly mimed though. Unique band.
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HMV are still cunts who still overprice stuff…. Queen’s first Greatest Hits on vinyl in HMV for a ball crunching 30 quid… It’s not even a double album… I am tempted by the first five albums by the late Scott Walker though… If they’ve been mastered properly, that is… Last vinyl I bought was a new copy of New Order’s Temptation because my original 1982 12′ is now fucked….
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Buy the Scott Walker albums now Norman so you’ll have No Regrets.
😊
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I really liked Scott Walker songs. Always thought he was one of the best looking guys on tv – not in a gay way you understand.
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I have to confess. I used to fancy myself as Scott Walker, standing in front of a mirror, hairbrush in hand and singing along to “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”. There, got that off my chest. These days it’s not so much Scott Walker
More “Scott Wheeled- Walker”
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Scott was a great singer and writer… Stuff like The Electrician and The Old Man’s Back Again are works of genius… But he refused to play the showbiz and celebrity game… He was offered both My Way and The Air That I Breathe, he turned down both… When one thinks of Walker and now how people revere Ed Sheercunt and Lewis Cuntpaldi, the world has gone very badly wrong…
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Big fan of Walker. Love his stuff and particularly his Jaques Brel covers.
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The ‘Till The Band Comes In’ album is underrated… Any bloke who can write a song about being in love with the speaking clock is OK by me…
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Scott Walker had the best voice I’ve ever heard. And yes he was a handsome devil .
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Everything is so topsy-turvy fucked now that we live in a glamourless world now. ‘stars’ like Adele, Ed Sheeran are part of an ‘Anti Glamour’ movement.
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Apparently for the upcoming 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, Nanny State libffucks have demanded that McCartney’s ciggie be airbrushed out of the album’s cover… Macca has told them to fuck off…. Got to give the old cunt points for that….
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How cuntish is that? Surprised they didn’t demand Yoko Fucking Ono be included on the zebra crossing, in front of pussy-whipped Lennon.
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When it comes to music, I still think ipods/mp3 players are the best thing since sliced bread, and I’m 40 yrs old. I still have a 180GB ipod Classic. When it came out I thought “Awesome. I can literally carry my entire cd collection around with me (732 discs in total bearing in mind that some albums are double or triple discs).” I can also connect it through a cable to play through my car stereo, and when I stick it on the “shuffle” setting, it’s as if I’ve got my own little radio station/jukebox, and as a bonus it saves me cluttering up the car with cds. I’ve never owned anything on vinyl since I never owned a record player, but last time I went into my local record shop I noticed that albums on vinyl were now £20 and that’s the starting price!!
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As soon as I bagged my first CD player the record deck went to the car boot sale.
Nice Technics deck, sold for about 3 quid.
Should have hung on to it, I could have sold it to some topknot twat for an inflated price years later…
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Are cunts listening to cassettes again ?
The worst listening experience ever. Tape hiss and mangled tapes.
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Sondek is a top turntable but my Caledonian spies reliably inform me the worthless wee wank running the company now doesn’t know one end of a hifi system from the other especially the analogue element.
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Fucking hipster cunts, they think they invented everything, craft beer, beards, leather shoes, hair wax, bicycles, ‘real’ coffee, gin, cocktails, barber shops, guitars and now record shops.
Don’t blame the vinyls man, blame those fucking limp wristed cross legged side saddle riding cunts, with their shortly little paddle of home brew.
New 12% craft beer in the pub, can’t sell you a pint, it’s too strong, OK I will have two halves then you dopey cunt.
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I would never buy craft beer in the pub its bad enough bars sell you your normal draft lager or ale at exorbitant prices i can’t imagine how much a craft beer costs in a pub
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I have no desire to buy a limited edition special picture cover vinyl for 60 dollars thats sounds like piss hisses and scratches and i will eventually probably accidentally break or wear it out from merely playing the damn thing, not for me no thanks
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Baby wailing :stray dogs howling a walk in the park and thinking about your holiday
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‘Are cunts listening to cassettes again ?’
Some of us cunts never stopped…though I should explain. Remember the fad way back for bands recording demos on those funky wee Tascam Portastudios, then mastering to cassettes to send out to record companies?
Well, locally, people of a certain age have gone digging through their lofts, and dug out these tapes….and as I had the equipment and software already set up, I foolishly said I’d digitise one such cassette as a favour…you can then figure out what happened next..
I.have.heard.so.much.fucking.shite…
‘..The worst listening experience ever. Tape hiss and mangled tapes.’
In general, correct, they weren’t great to start with, and age isn’t kind to magnetic recordings, but so long as the original tape was high quality (and no fucking C120s by anyone qualify) ran through every so often to minimise ‘print-through’ they will last in a playable way, and it’s amazing what signal processing fun you can get up to with computers to ‘improve’ the sound.
Unfortunately, as I wouldn’t have minded fleecing hipsters for a few quid by getting rid of my old tapes, decades ago my then-defunct cassette collection suffered ‘death by tomcat pee’ – one of the TCs got trapped in the storage room where they were being kept, and when a cat’s gotta go, a cat’s gotta go…the greatest losses were some early live recordings of the duo I was in, a whole pile of John Peel shows and, the greatest loss, a metal tape copy of an alternative mix of Zappa’s ‘Drowning Witch’ album obtained months before the final mix for release from a musician relative who was out there at the time.
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