Wow, how things have changed....

[Jim R.]

Me?  Well, I never learned how to make a playlist in any of the music server packages I've used.  Still don't have a clue to use it and generally delete all the playlist categories from iTunes when I setup a new system.  And I really have to seriously dislike a tune to skip it -- but I did that with albums and casettes as well.  And I had one album that I only ever played one song from -- actually listened to the whole thing once through and decided that the one track was all that was worth listening to.  No, not stairway to heaven :-) or free bird.

[Grainger49]

Chris,

Your post, reply #9, could be in my thread about what counts when listening?  Too often we fall into the "audiophile" pit.  We listen to tiny details and miss the music. 

When I realize I'm doing that, and I DO, I have to stop and reassess.

[Aural Robert]

I used to make "mix tapes" back in the day. For parties, camping, listening in the car etc. It was like the "best of" from all my albums. This is before digital audio anything of course.

I am also from the school of listening to the entire album. Skipping cuts on vinyl is a pita, you have to actually get up off your favorite listening perch and move the stylus. Then you miss the blank bit between cuts and have to scramble back to your seat to get back in the sweet spot.

I like digital for the sheer convenience. I can carry half my music library in my pocket. But, like waxxer, I have ~ 1500 albums right now. So digital can give me both worlds. I've actually embarked on digitizing my collection and have positive results. From a sound perspective though, it is definitely NOT analog. However it is great sitting on the skytrain listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra, Savoy Brown, or many of my other classic fav's from vinyl. And my car deck has a usb port so that's also works as another digital advantage.

Aural Robert.
... you can feel the difference ...

[Chris]

Yeah, making mixed tapes for the car was great fun... My friend's older brother had all the cool rock that I was introduced to and recorded for my car... and Yes, Grainger, I will improve my digital listening habits in the future.. To me, a good example comes to mind was Foreigner's first album.. If it was today, and I was a teen, I would have listened to 3 of the tracks only, probably, and never gave the others the time or the chance. But, being vinyl, I let it roll. And the rest really grew on me, and many times for me, the OTHER songs (non hits or title track), I actually liked MORE and to this day still do... So, if cd, I would have missed out on alot of great music by just skipping over them all.. Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors is another one of the many I would have never gave much of a chance to, yet because it was back in the day with vinyl, I grew to LOVE it...

[earwaxxer]

For sure Chris, I am "appreciating" many more songs now than I did when I was a teen. So much from that time... Most of it I understood was "over my head". Thats cool. I can re-experience it as an adult with more patience. Dylan, Lou Reed, The Doors, The Band, Hendrix, Big Brother, The Yardbirds, etc.

[Chris]

Yes, you are absolutely correct... Stuff like King Crimson, early Genesis (basically music from '68 to'76) I am very much ready to get into now, that would have never happened for me back then.. Not mature enough to get it... Funny thing, I just watched a documentary on Pink Floyd, and boy did I like the Syd Barrett Pink Floyd... I, of course, love the post Syd PF, but I am definitely ready now to explore the early Floyd and dig the hell out of it.. Emily will definitely be playing in my house for sure...

[earwaxxer]

Good example Chris! - early Floyd with Syd. What a Prophet! Too bad. Amazing talent! So the best talent form that area goes...

[Chris]

Original vinyl may be hard to get.. But, even with cd, I will just let all that great stuff roll as if it were the black discs.....

[Aural Robert]

From the era of Crimson and Genesis, you have to check out Gentle Giant, Manfred Mann, there was a band from England called Flash that was insanely good, Jade Warrior, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jeff Beck, AIIIIIEEEE there are just sooooo many.

Aural Robert.
... Neuro-surgeons scream for more ...

[Chris]

Ok, thank you for the suggestions. I will check them all out.. ELP will still be a tough digest for me I think. I always thought Keith took a good thing and would go WAY too far with it and ultimately ruin it for me ie. the end of lucky man, wasnt even remotely close to the melody, tempo and vibe of the song and then here comes this "somebody help me, I can't seem to stop" garbage... But that is just me...

[azrockitman]

ok hold on one doggone minute:  You're telling me Flash was a music group?  With a real LP inside this jacket?  After having this stuck to my bedroom ceiling all those years I had no idea!  But you're right;  there's an LP in here!!!   

[Aural Robert]

I thought their second album was better. I wonder if it's the same model.

To those who may not know, the original album is a gatefold and the back half is the right mammary, similarly posed. Very nice.

Aural Robert.
... Frankie says relax ...

[Paul Joppa]

Speaking of old farts ... I remember attending the Engineering Fair (or whatever it was called) at the local university and being - for the first time - exposed to the notion of "Stereo-phonic" sound. Shortly after that the local classical music station (still in business, KING-FM, now also on the web) had a special program broadcasting STEREO music, for one hour per day. Very exotic. Much later I managed two (quite dissimilar) speakers and a stereo amp. Something like 6 years before I actually built an pair of identical speakers to hear the real thing.

[earwaxxer]

Paul.. You ARE the old fart! Thats crazy old. I remember when quadrophonic hit. Now, thats back far enough for most!

[azrockitman]

I had a kenwood kr-7340 quad receiver that I bought new probably in 1974.  Used it until a couple of years after I moved to az in 1992.  Something died on it a few years later....guessing the power supply...I was very proud of that unit for quite sometime.  I spent some hard earned income on that.  Still have a few quad LPs that I don't even know if it would be safe to play them today w a current cartridge.