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25 years after the advent of the CD promised “perfect sound forever”, an alternate technology is showing gains while CD sales cave to digital downloads, and music fans boil their bulky hard-media music collections down into I Pod stew. The technology on the rise was the very one displaced by the CD market in the first place.

The “technology” is Vinyl LP playback—back, and arguably better than ever!

Record album sales (including 7 and 12 inch singles) are on the rise, Here at The Vinyl Experience feature page, look for special articles devoted entirely to loving music through LP playback.

As a lifelong enthusiast and collector, I will gather all you need to know about following this fun and rewarding branch of The Rock Experience.

-I’ll summarize new releases and reissues, with details not just about the music, but the packaging and pressing quality.

-I’ll help de-mystify the specifics of playback, and show you tricks and techniques for spinning records on a budget. (See the "Basics" Blog-post articles)

A new generation of music fans crave a more intimate, involving relationship with recorded sound. Most indie and alternative contemporary rock artists insist on vinyl releases, along with standard digital. Big labels are showing new pride in their classic catalogs, offering new vinyl product for the first time in decades, taking greater care than ever before in reissuing treasured titles in deluxe packages, touting better quality mastering and pressing of the record itself, and enhanced detail in artwork reproduction.

Hobbyists are discovering the arcane joys of vintage Hi Fi, while modern manufacturers are meeting that growing market head-on with new turntable, cartridge and preamplifier products that improve on classic designs. E-Bay crackles with high-roller auctions of collectible discs that spin astronomical sums. Yes, some sixty years after Columbia unveiled the first commercial 33 1/3 vinyl long-player, records are hot, sexy and here to stay!


"Singles remind me of kisses, albums remind me of plans"

That line from an old Squeeze song perfectly captures my own Rock Experience, in a life of spinning discs, revolving doors and life chapters bookmarked by music.

My choice to stay in New York to build a radio career was driven as much by the music as the opportunities at hand.

Cities from Memphis to Liverpool can stake their claims, but New York is the greatest Rock City in the world. Whether Joey Ramone or Dion, Lou Reed or Bruce Springsteen, these New Yorkers drew urgency and perpetual motion from the city streets and made rock music of a whole new class.
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Oscar Sunday on The Vinyl Experience....
Posted 3/6/2010 8:17:00 AM

Pushing the envelope, please....some unusual uses of music at the movies, for Oscar Sunday, 9-10AM, on the Vinyl Experience:

Cameron Crowe did it for "Tiny Dancer" in Almost Famous.  As did Dana Carvey and Mike Myers with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World
Paul Thomas Anderson placed  "Sister Christian" in a brilliantly absurd context in Boogie Nights.  And will we ever hear "Stuck In the Middle" with the same "ear" after Quentin Tarentino made ironic use of it in Reservoir Dogs?

Popular songs get recast when creative directors put them to new use in the movies.  The Vinyl Experience spins some of that great music-movies synergy in honor of Oscar Sunday.  And although nominees in the Best Original Song category won't get to perform on this year's telecast, we'll give plenty of great bands the floor as we go to great rock moments in the movies.

Concert films have been acclaimed ...
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Sunday Morning, 9-10AM on The Vinyl Experience WEEKLY PLAYLISTS
Posted 3/4/2010 11:00:00 PM

VE 19  2/28/10 (Classic Edition 1)
Pearl Jam: Alive
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: Further On Up The Road
Plastic Ono Band: Blue Suede Shoes
Allman Brothers Band: Ain't Wastin' Time No More
Coldplay: Yellow
The Who: The Punk Meets The Godfather
John Mellencamp: Rain On The Scarecrow
Alice Cooper: Only Women Bleed
Green Day: Welcome To Paradise
Rolling Stones: Suzie Q
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Suzie Q
U2: MLK

VE18 2/21/10
Modest Mouse: Dashboard
Buggles: Video Killed The Radio Star
Nirvana: Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam
The Dead Weather: You Just Can't Win
Beatles: I'm Only Sleeping
Abbey Road British Invasion Mashup:
 -The Shadows: Kon Tiki
- Manfred Mann: Do Wah Diddy Diddy
 -The Hollies: I Can't Let Go
- Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love
 -Gerry And The Pacemakers: How Do You Do It
- The Zombies: Time Of The Season
- Pink Floyd: The Gnome...
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