this is the story of how we begin to remember
Had lunch at the Skylight Exchange yesterday with a few coworkers and thumbed through the secondhand records for sale… I found a number of albums I would have gotten if I had let myself, but I settled on two, S&G’s Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. and Simon’s Graceland. I think I have the latter on cd buried somewhere in the apartment, but it’s always different on vinyl, especially an album like that with its atmospheric, ethereal moments. I felt the same way listening to it last night as I did when I found The Joshua Tree all those years ago and put it on the turntable for the first time. Something about that analog arm touching the surface of the plastic disk and the fact that the music exists in terms of physical vibrations before it even begins to make its way to the speakers… it’s more real, more three-dimensional.
this is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
i’ve a nice assortment of vinyl that i love. and no turntable.
you remind me how much i miss it.
New turntables aren’t that expensive. I was pricing new ones for a few minutes this morning and found a nice Sony one for about $100. Of course, you also have to have a receiver to hook it up to…
In an unrelated matter, have you heard the Party Ben remix of “Vertigo?” It’s pretty good. This guy is a recent discovery, and he also has a quite brilliant 30-minute long mix of a bunch of different stuff. The Green Day-Depeche Mode mashup at the very end of the track is particularly noteworthy, I think. Let me know if you want a list of everything that’s in there.
unfortunately, i need a stand-alone. and one with worthwhile sound can’t be had for so little.
thanks muchly for the links!