The Power of Vinyl
As a child of the 1970s (or at least an adolescent, being born in 1960), being a music geek meant you had many, many vinyl albums, EPs and 45s (I was even a member of the SubPop Singles Club) before cassettes, CDs and eventually digital music changed things. I still have thousands of pieces of vinyl here at our house and at my mother's house. It didn't help that I worked at Cavage's at the Seneca Mall for a while.
Although I ended up replacing a lot of that vinyl music, there are more than enough albums that I never was able to replace and missed hearing as I slowly moved to cassettes and CDs. Not having the physical space to store all of my vinyl for years didn't help in listening to a lot of it, either. But leave it to having a serious and seriously talented DJ, writer, artist and friend such as Mark Wisz for convincing me of the value still existing in my vinyl collection; in the last few months, more and more of it has made its way to the Hosey-Dunne Estates and to my turntable.
I've bragged about some of the music I've been listening to recently, but tonight has been an absolute blast because I have listened to two albums and am currently listening to a third album that I absolutely loved and haven't heard in their entirety in years. I started off with "Album" by Flipper, featuring 7 minutes and 45 seconds of "Sex Bomb," then listened to the Tom Robinson Band's "Power in the Darkness," and playing as I write this is "The Right to Be Italian" by Holly and the Italians.
I'd like to write more, but the music is calling me.
Although I ended up replacing a lot of that vinyl music, there are more than enough albums that I never was able to replace and missed hearing as I slowly moved to cassettes and CDs. Not having the physical space to store all of my vinyl for years didn't help in listening to a lot of it, either. But leave it to having a serious and seriously talented DJ, writer, artist and friend such as Mark Wisz for convincing me of the value still existing in my vinyl collection; in the last few months, more and more of it has made its way to the Hosey-Dunne Estates and to my turntable.
I've bragged about some of the music I've been listening to recently, but tonight has been an absolute blast because I have listened to two albums and am currently listening to a third album that I absolutely loved and haven't heard in their entirety in years. I started off with "Album" by Flipper, featuring 7 minutes and 45 seconds of "Sex Bomb," then listened to the Tom Robinson Band's "Power in the Darkness," and playing as I write this is "The Right to Be Italian" by Holly and the Italians.
I'd like to write more, but the music is calling me.
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 10:29 PM
2 Comments:
Kevin- you are too kind... long live the record!!!
I was able to feed the vinyl habit last night, Mark. My sister Heather and her kids were staying with my Mom for a couple of days from Wayne County, so Val and I went over so they could do her birthday dinner, cake and gifts thing.
I took the opportunity to bring home a few albums, by Martha and the Muffins, the Long Ryders and Roy Loney (ex-Flamin' Groovies) and the Phantom Movers.
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