tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post5604908378390279360..comments2023-10-19T09:43:38.644-07:00Comments on Brilldream: For the record-debunking the myth of a vinyl revivalshaun brilldreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105406234645321012noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-79203243032310004242014-11-27T07:50:00.142-08:002014-11-27T07:50:00.142-08:00A lot of media coverage of the high sales of vinyl...A lot of media coverage of the high sales of vinyl has used the word 'hipster' which is pretty infuriating. It must be like being a labourer and suddenly seeing all the kids wearing a working mans donkey jacket. <br /><br />I remember going to a junk shop a few months back, and buying a load of old copies of NME, Q, and Select. I found myself reading them cover to cover even (almost especially) the writing on artists I don't know or don't like. The standard of writing was incredible, and I miss that so much. Like you say, the danger is that everyone is reading from various sources and the connection is lost. I stopped reading NME when they had a picture of, I think, the singer out the View with his messy hair and the comment was an advert for a hair gel. I'd rather have 20 people read a good fanzine than 20,000 reading half baked journalism used to sell product. <br /><br />I have no problem discussing music in the pub. Not over a 'craft' beer obviously. Thanks for reading.shaun brilldreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03105406234645321012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-27473809107485270612014-11-27T07:04:36.788-08:002014-11-27T07:04:36.788-08:00"I trust tweeters and bloggers far more than ..."I trust tweeters and bloggers far more than any music magazine" too. What I miss is the consensus of magazine reviews, when the music press was the only source of info, even if it was disagreeing with Tony Parsons, Garry Bushell or Everett True. Of course, following a dozen twitter accounts or blogs can be great for the individual, but it's much more abstract, and deathly for pub conversations.<br /><br />I'd be delighted if the BBC started making 'beer revival' programmes. It doesn't seem that unlikely. Real ale has had a similar lost/found trajectory to vinyl. And "craft beer" rubs me up the same wrong way as "vinyls". Bob Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18148756622365431327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-39472409657162939642014-03-06T18:08:07.668-08:002014-03-06T18:08:07.668-08:00The irony of Yeah Yeah Yeah was I was sent scuttli...The irony of Yeah Yeah Yeah was I was sent scuttling to youtube just to get some sort of reference of the records he was talking about. I apologise for fence sitting here, but I see both sides of the argument and think they are both right. What Stanley was talking about is the dying art of great music journalism. I held (hold) the same view, so as an experiment bought a huge pile of Select/NME's from a local chazzer. And do you you what, the standard of journalism was fantastic. Trust me, this is isn't an old sod getting nostalgic, I found myself absorbed in articles about bands I have absolutely no interest in, just because they were so brilliantly written. But where I agree with you is that standard of journalism has been pushed in to the underground, I trust tweeters and bloggers far more than any music magazine, which is actually quite sad. I've written, on this very blog, about the serendipity of music and how I've discovered music totally by accident, and it's those bands and those records who hold a special place in my heart. Discovering music is an incredibly wonderful thing, it borders in righteous. But I you, as a DJ there's nothing more annoying than finding a brilliant band and not being able to play them because they haven't released anything on vinyl. "Surely you could just play the CD" says the voice. Well, that's a totally different argument. <br />. shaun brilldreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03105406234645321012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-35040239915849452092014-03-06T13:42:50.383-08:002014-03-06T13:42:50.383-08:00I guess with me it was more of a case of technolog...I guess with me it was more of a case of technology triggering behaviour than any development in the music scene. I just happened to buy my first iPod in 2004 and after a while thought, hey this is a great device!<br /><br />Couldn’t agree more about not being able to use the computer for music. I just don’t get Spotify or Last FM, not even Soundcloud. I believe I get the idea behind Bandcamp and find it rather charming but the thing that most turned me back to buying vinyl and feeling the excitement of new music was finding Twitter. It’s just such an inspiration to follow people’s recommendations even though I only use the links posted for a first impression … anything I find great or even interesting I try to get a hold of on vinyl these days. Incidentally, this is where Bob Stanley is definitely wrong in his otherwise excellent book. You know there’s this nostalgic attitute of ‘The internet killed the record dealer and the music magazines’ and how this is so sad because now there’s no-one left to sort the wheat from the chaff and offer guidance in the vast field of music. That’s just rubbish. Finding and following the right 50 accounts on twitter was less hassle and offers me guidance that’s so much more broad and at the same time more specifically tailored to my preferences than any record dealer or magazine 20 years back could ever have done!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434438169412913319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-54422514433082776342014-03-06T09:01:26.087-08:002014-03-06T09:01:26.087-08:00Thanks for your comment. It's really easy to g...Thanks for your comment. It's really easy to get all doe eyed about the LP being an object. For me it always has been and always has been my favourite way of playing music. That said, I (as written above) do own an ipod. What's interesting is that there a certain albums that sound great wandering around on an ipod but not so good sitting down to listen to it in my bedroom and vica versa. The bedroomy stuff sounds OK if youre listening to it on a train, say, but not walking down the street. I'm not sure why that is. I cannot, however, listen to songs from a computer. Call me rockist, but I cannot get on with spotify. There nearest I come to that is hearing something on bandcamp and then buying the release. That works.<br /><br />I'm really glad you got into buying vinyl again. The multi format the download slip brings is close to genius, and has to have some sort of effect on people buying it for the first time. This is great stuff, but only if they keep buying it.<br /><br />What else I find interesting is the time period you stopped buying vinyl. Around the early 2000's the fall out of anthemic britpop turned me off indie for a few years, and instead I got into Northern Soul and old funk, which had me digging around second hand record shops. I'm sure I would have bought vinyl still if I was buying indie records in that period, but a lot less of them I reckon. shaun brilldreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03105406234645321012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4012130314580601066.post-14173273889293794962014-03-06T08:29:40.077-08:002014-03-06T08:29:40.077-08:00This is interesting, right and against the grain ....This is interesting, right and against the grain ... very good. Spot on about the marketing campaign for CDs. Remember the one detail that was at the core of this campaign? - Find some stupid megaband who will take your stupid money and tell their stupid listeners the CD sounds so much better? Dire Straits,so much to answer for.<br /><br />I also generally agree that sales picking up a bit compared to dismal earlier years does not justify speaking of a revival of a format that's never been away. However, for me personally, it is. In the years between 2005 and 2011 I (counting myself firmly among your second type of music fan) bought almost no physical format at all. In those years, having a beautiful object mattered less to me than the option to take the music with me anytime and anywhere I went. It was only towards the end of 2011 that I noticed (I hadn't really been paying attention) that this was no longer a decision I had to make, that I could have both. So being offered the complete service of how I want to listen to music made all the difference to me and I don't care who had the idea first. Ever since then I've been buying about twice as much music as ever before. Because vinyl rocks. Revival, there you go.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434438169412913319noreply@blogger.com