Record-breaking: The backstory of vinyl’s comeback
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- When it comes to technology, usually people want the latest and greatest. So why are vinyl records making a comeback? For some people, it never went away.
Larry Potash goes deep into the modern revival of wax tracks in this piece for Backstory.
I love maintaining my records. I love the album art. I love reading the liner notes. I love a black disc with an artistic label. And I love splatter vinyl and picture discs. I love appreciating the song order. I love the camaraderie of vinyl enthusiasts. I love the decades long history I have at local record stores. I love that my 1st boyfriend lent me his copy of The Kinks "One for the Road" and let me keep the poster.
Wonderful segment. I started collecting records about 10 years ago and I am so happy about my journey. It forces me to be engaged with the music and I also love how it allows me to share with dear family and friends. It's one of my favorite hobbies.
DAMN STR8 IT NEVER WENT ANYWHERE FOR ME....LET IT GO OUTTA STYLE IN AN HOUR... I'LL STILL BE DIGGIN'....ROCK ON COLLECTORS WORLDWIDE!!!!
TRUE THAT!!!
also they don´t drive so they couldn´t had been gone that far
Great story. Thought it was odd that no one mentioned cleaning the records before playing them. Saw several needles with lint and dust under them. Clean records sound better and your needle lasts longer.
I look at my vinyl collection as another person looks at their books in their library. If you are a music person, vinyl is the only platform worth collecting. Vinyl is the bar, everything else like cassettes and cds were to accommodate people for their travels in their lives. MP3 and streaming is now where we learn about music but what’s worth having is worth having on vinyl
i also have many books as i have records ,in the past i used to read a lot while listening to music never felt that good to me total silence
I love my lps. Nothing like it.
I love my albums there's nothing like it true
Vinyl isn't in the middle of a comeback. It's been back for over a decade now.
exactly. These "is vinyl a fad" stories go back many years now, it's sort of funny.
@@derosa1989 Yep. And of course, RUclips has suggested a bunch more to me since I left this comment LOL
I know right. What are they talking about. Get with the times.
@@derosa1989That’s interesting. Some years back, I was at an indoor flee market and saw about ten or so middle schoolers digging through boxes of LPs.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
we have to thank mp3 and mastering engineers from 1995-2015 timeline for vinyl comeback. they both combined did a great job for any newbee listening to vinyl for the first time to exclaim "wow, I never suspected my favorite song has so many details in it, like another half of the band or additional orchestra section is suddenly appearing".
great point!
It's nearly impossible to buy a digital song of certain genres that isn't brickwalled into oblivion it's awful
all of my 80's era fantasies about a vinyl resurgence have come true...actually it's beyond my wildest fantasies!
Nice to see those black ladies in Chicago carrying on the family business. Those disorderly shelves seem strangely familiar...😉
Bad for the records too. They need to be stored straight up and down pretty tightly together, otherwise the will warp.
for those of us who collect, vinyl never went away. when CD’s were first out, and people were dumping their vinyl, collectors with the smart ones who went in, snatched it all up.
Because vinyl is like hard copy books. It’s just the classic format people think of. It’s not going anywhere. Neither are CDs or tapes, for that matter. Music fanatics will buy this stuff until the end of time.
not fanatics but people who love music ,as it was since early days of men kind, about formats ,only don´t use DCC ,elcaset, 8-track cartridges but in early 70´s i did had them in my car and at home had a 8-track deck to record music , it was a strange thing but piracy at the time was releasing every album on 8-tracks , allthough some songs were cutted and not complete in any of the four programs available and they sounded good, imagine paying like 1€ and arrive at the car and enjoy the sound, there weren´t many hi-fi car systems at the time but they existed at a very high price, Blaupunkt was my go to brand in car audio, one used to have radio and nothing else than if one wanted it could buy separated the player for cartridges,or cassettes but by this times reels were the most used in home recording with a very high quality, at least in 1970 my first open reel deck paid by me is yet to find a format that sounds better, the DAT is close but no cigar
Can we get cd players back in cars please?!
PLease no
actually, I’d rather have a turntable.
@@jeanesingsjazz i had a late 60´s litle turntable in the car for singles only it came with a Hillman i bought
well i have two ,one in my old ford fiesta two seats from 1994 Diesel with original air conditioned, with powerfull sound and at home i have other from a Lancia i had also have to with minidisc player ,with cassette i only have two, that one was expensive but i used it for many years with a high-quality sound from kenwwood , in 1990 i bought a Ford Escort XR3i already with the new body and the last with the XR3i designation after was only GT, it came with power amplifier ,equalizer, and 4 sets of speakers bought it from a friend who is wife went mental ill and had to be institutionalized, and the car with only four monthes when he married he couldn´t drive it as it remind it of his wife
It never went away.....I was and I am one of those few. When CD's came out in the late 80's, gaining popularity in the 90's....I was still preferring vinyl and tape over digital. Though I did purchase a CD player, that was only because, at tymes it was difficult to find certain bands of the tyme on vinyl. I would have much prefer it vinyl, and when any possible moment came to purchase any particular band like Smashing Pumpkins, STP, Charlatans UK, Blur etc....I did. I would search and search record shops in search of vinyl before I had to resort to CD. Sigh.....
I think the main reason CDs quickly became so popular has to do with the late 70s oil crisis. Vinyl is made from oil, which became expensive. Record companies started to use recycled vinyl to keep profits steady. Grinding up unsold records (including the paper label) to re-melt and press into new records created lower quality, noisy and poor sounding albums. They were also made thinner which makes them warp easier. Now many records are much better quality so people are hearing the difference.
@EddieJazzFan: I was informed that CDs are making a comeback also.
And the smaller and seemingly sound better.
I ❤ my albums
Love me love my LP12
That shop is great! What a legacy.
Its all about that warm lush sound....especially of albums recorded in an analog fashion.
Digitally sourced lps still(when done well) still sound better than the cds.
Vinyl NEVER went away to me i'm just rediscovering the pluses
I never stopped buying records I have over 6000 LPs in a one bedroom apartment I guess you could imagine what it looks like. I started at 10 years old I am now 59. For the comeback as they call it, Google says it was in 2011
that copy of a beautiful day is a Second pressing.
some people are truly fans !
IT USUALLY STARTS OUT AS WHAT YOUR PARENTS WERE LISTENING TO. THE STUFF I OWN, MY PARENTS PLAYED A SMALL PART OF SOME OF IT, THE BULK OF IT CAME FROM HIP HOP. AND THEN IT GREW FROM THERE WITH MY THIRSTY EARS.
I’m not certain that vinyl is a passing fad. I also noticed that 💿 CDs becoming popular again.
I BLAR MY MUSIC. WEATHER ANYONE LIKES WHAT I PLAY OR NOT....I LOVE IT OUT LOUD❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
"Vinyl is the Future."
I enjoy music on all formats. The "revival" has been great as records have become more available. But what does it say that 50% of record buyers don't own a record player?
Presenter sounds like the guy off the White Stripes tune Little Acorns.
warm sound and art value makes music lover wants one.(Btw , it hurt to see overweight tuning cartridges bang the vinyl surface)
We need a high-quality record changer! And new 45s!
For me vinyl records never went away and I giggle as Hi Fi stereo gear nowadays is made with a Dac on board,
to process digital signal into analog and make it well... sounding more like a record LOL!
Does anyone know the online store the woman in this video has who likes the Smashing Pumpkins has. would love to know cheers for any response.
I'm guessing she's selling off a site like Discogs, since they didn't make mention of a personal store.
It may be that there's a certain sophistication to playing a vinyl record, it creates a feeling which harkens back to a time past, a time before social media, streaming movies, smart phones, online dating, digital everything! It seemed to be a less chaotic time, it was a time of personal interactions, Michael Caine's glasses, Connery's Bond, Bridget Bardot's bikini, Grace Kelly becoming a princess, poetry readings, epic movies that played for months in the same theater, women wearing sun dresses with white gloves, independent book stores, 3 TV channels, one hour news broadcasts, a simpler time when we weren't consumed by the myriad forms of contemporary media.
Console stereos, Grundig, Magnavox, Zenith, some with reel to reel players were prevalent. It wasn't unusual to see someone on their way to a friends house with several albums under their arm, everyone had a stereo system with a turntable back then. Adults would have cocktail parties and play Take Five from Dave Brubeck's Time Out album or Miles' Birth of the Cool or Bennett, Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee or Nina Simone.
Perhaps, the act of selecting an album, placing it on a turntable, lowering the stylus and settling in for a listen is a way to recapture a part of the past in which people *_seemed_* to be more urbane, elegant and less troubled?
These “vinyl is back” posts have been going on for the past 15 years. But what then happened was everybody and his brother swearing their Tony Martin and Ethel Merman albums are worth $50 because “vinyl is back”. Meanwhile CDs are being pitched out for next to nothing, even though they’re the exact same artists that everyone is giving up their entire paychecks for in vinyl. So guess which format the smart shoppers are eating up?
In general it was never a comeback just a increase of sales when some years ago the young men were all enjoying the fashion of the day or 70´s equipment , from clothes to furniture passing by cars and 8mm film still in use at the same time there was the video and with superior image quality and sound ,Super 8 as it was called , earlier in time it was without sound but with a set of nice lenses it was great for family videos and you could always record the sound in a portable cassette recorder with good stereo microphones, it was lighter than carrying a VHS recorder and camera at the same time, to not talk about the bad qyuality of VHS
"PBC pellets" lol. PVC!!!
The vinyl may have its positives but the compact disc is far more practical in today’s world.
Agree!
lol - if convenience is your argument, CD’s are only slightly more so. Streaming is the ultimate in convenience. Streaming is the soda pop / fast food version of music listening, whereas vinyl is like a fine glass of scotch or an expertly cooked steak.
Yep. CD sound better. I collect vinyl for a different sound and nostalgia.
I agree
Yep! It's all down to Taylor Swift. She IS the music industry now.
The music industry killed vinyl when CD became popular. Then promised CD prices would come down . Then streaming and downloaded killed their business model . Now before the Biden manufactured inflation prices of new recorded soared . This will eventually kill the popularity of vinyl . The music industry never will learn .
I like how you blamed Biden 😅 dope
There is nothing new in audio technology. Only the electronic instruments many years ago made their revolution. One important difference is that every new produced LP or CD reledition album or file is remastered using new digital capabilities just to reach to modern listener wish of technical perfection
First thing…rebuy all the albums I had growing up.
Vinyl still sells because it all, a physical sound. It's the nearest to the studio sound as you can possible get.its had its hits with other formats and still sells. And it's awful art and it's just well yes, magic :)
8track tapes are better no download fees.
2nd wave vinyl is pretty much already and later will be more valuable. The oldies are only loved by oldies. If and when it comes back the collector’s will be gone.
Maybe try speaking English instead of verbal diarrhea.
Also, try to give you little money when you're selling some records to them.
Ripoff artist.
In Germany CDs outsell LPs by a ratio of 5 to 1
In the UK CDs outsell LPs 2 to 1
USA sales figures are 46.6million CDs to 39.7 million LPs,
So people are confusing value of sales over number of units sold. Overpaying for LPs maybe?
I think your info is old. CD sales continue to fall, Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn. Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483
@@derosa1989 - Correct.
Streaming is easier
Good for you. Not everybody wants LIMITED choices.
That is the problem with people today. LAzy.