cred to sport-6449.

what does it mean when you take your vintage, pristine picture-sleeve UK 7″ copy of Nick Lowe’s “Cruel To Be Kind” on Radarscope Records, and you play it on your twenty-five year-old, heavily used turntable and utilising the mechanically-programmed repeat feature?

9 Responses to "cred to sport-6449."

blakeh says:
Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:04:54
You’re Sick!
I’m afraid the vinyl purists would have to stone you to death. Everyone knows you only take an album out of it’s sleeve once to record it to CD (or in the old days, a good ‘ol Maxell MX tape). Then, carefully place it back in it’s slipcase and never touch it again.
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Or, you could actually just enjoy the music ;)
1. Astrid says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:10:31
  Re: You’re Sick!
  does it help your ears to know that i’m playing this record (and *all* records i own) with an Ortofon Super OM10 catrige/needle kit?
  the way i see it, life is short. treat things well, but at least use them now and again.
2. blakeh says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:16:33
  I feel a little better…
  OK, I guess I can accept that ;)
  I still like to pull my vinyl out and play it — there are some tracks that really benefit from the warmness of vinyl.
3. Astrid says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:23:04
  Re: I feel a little better…
  like my Japanese virgin vinyl 12″ of Thompson Twins’ “Doctor! Doctor!”?
  of my German virgin vinyl 12″ pressing of Talk Talk’s “Such a Shame”?
  or even my Japanese virgin vinyl 12″ pressing of The Style Council’s “Shout To The Top!”?
4. blakeh says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:28:56
  Re: I feel a little better…
  Sigh. You have some cool stuff. All of the Thompson Twins mixes sound better on vinyl. I was listening to a remix of “Lay Your Hands On Me” (UK), and it was quite heavenly.
5. Astrid says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:33:49
  Re: I feel a little better…
  see, that’s something i’ve been trying to locate for, like, ever. i only have the US 12″ version, which is arranged differently. but i have the UK “(Don’t Mess With) Doctor Dream” one, which isn’t so bad.
6. blakeh says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:40:04
  Re: I feel a little better…
  Thompson Twins seemed to arrange their UK vs. US remixes differently quite a bit. I never understood that. Shouldn’t the “extended mix” be the “extended mix” on all releases? Very confusing for a collector. They must’ve borrowed some ideas from Trevor Horn…
7. Astrid says:
  Monday, 17 March 2003 at 23:45:35
  Re: I feel a little better…
  well, look at Talk Talk’s “It’s My Life”: the UK and the US mixes are radically different. the same goes for “Living in Another World”. back then, there was so much activity that even remixes were highly provincial to the local remixing engineers trying to get their own street cred.
  FYI: i love the US “It’s My Life” 12″. i love both “Living in Another World” versions for utterly different reasons.
sport6449 says:
Tuesday, 18 March 2003 at 10:35:41
It means you’re like this one friend I had at Penn State. He lived for Vinyl and I actually got some of his old records when he relocated back to Philadelphia. I wish I knew where they were, I’d like to get a turntable and start using them. :-D
I should go get Nick Lowe’s greatest hits. Then again, double points for anyone who can sing more than one line of “I Knew the Bride (When she used to rock ‘n roll.” :-D

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