This may sound a bit strange ( or eccentric) but I compare the experience of playing records to making a cup of tea. You mentioned that evrything nowadays is immediate, no effort. A cup of tea has become instant, Dip a bag into a cup, fish the bag out and that's it. Making tea properly with a teapot, letting it infuse, then pouring carefully is a quiet ,soothing ritual amidst the frenetic pace of today's world . Taking a vinyl record from the sleeve and placing it with care on a turntable is equally soothing. Nice video with the unusual and interesting content we have come to expect from you.
I like it. 👍 I liken it very similar, my comparison is a drive through at a fast food chain to dining in a fine restaurant. Both fill your belly. But two very different experiences. One's fast and nasty, one's slow and wholesome.
@bettygraham818 🙏 God bless you 👉♥️ im thinking of visiting england and if i do 👍 im popping in for afternoon tea. i will bring traditional Australian cuisine 😬 lamingtons and that sort of thing.
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 It would be interesting to know what happens to all the time freed up by the fast food, appliances etc .If some thing took an hour to do 50 years ago and now takes 10 minutes, why is life for most so hectic and rushed ?
I am 79 so I remember the old records very well, both the 78 and 45s. My first record was Elvis Presley singing Thats alright, Mama. I nearly drove mum and dad batty with it. Love your channel.
Aloha ,I'm 68 , brought my records from England to California in 1988 , moved here to Hawaii in 2018 since then I have bought & been given record collections & tapes from people going back to the mainland. I now collect & repair 70's HiFi equipment as a hobby , I have way too many turntables , receivers & tape decks but I use them all & play a lot of cassettes & records . This video perfectly captures what it's like to be a music lover . Thanks & keep collecting those albums , your Dad had similar taste to me , looking at that box of records . Best wishes from Kona Hawaii.
Brilliant! The day in 1973 that my elder brother brought home Tubular Bells was (I am not kidding) life-changing for me at all of nine years old - because it set me on a course of loving and making music. For me, Mike Oldfield is probably the most inspiring artist. His work over the years has been a constant companion in my life. To see that album cover again - now I want to get a vinyl turntable!!!! Thank you for this amazing episode.
Tubular Bells made a huge impression on me too. Also MO's next three albums (Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations). I could never get very enthusiastic about anything he did after that though.
Haha. My long dead extremely conservative grandad back in the 1970's refused any popular music. It was all classics especially Wagner for him. His only exception for "pop" music was Tubular Bells.
I was 8 when my uncle played Tubular bells for me in -73. It made the same impact on me. Since then he’s been my favourite artist. For me, his last studio album Return to Ommadawn was a monumental conclusion to a fantastic catalogue. Off course there’s been lesser good releases, but the brilliant ones makes up for them. My toplist in chronological order : Tubular bells Hergest ridge Ommadawn Incantations Platinum Five miles out Discovery Amarok TB II The songs of distant earth Voyager TB III Return to Ommadawn
Greetings from Australia. I’ve been a vinyl collector since the early 80s, and have at least 16 crates! And then I used to DJ as well. So glad I still have my collection. Not forgetting the 7’s and the glorious picture discs 😊 Cheers John. Ps - love your work, keep it up!
My dad had a fabulous record player when I was a kid which sounds great but I wasn’t allowed to use it unsupervised. So I had tapes, then CDs. Most of my listening is streamed now for convenience but now I have my own fabulous record player and we buy the music we love on vinyl to make it an experience. Record shops are the best shops, record store staff are awesome.
Many (most?) "Core music fans" switched to CD quite happily for its convenience, robustness and superior sound. Music lovers that loved records stayed with vinyl. The difficulty was availability - many releases in the 90s and 00s especially were CD only.
In the age of vinyl the cover art used to be a huge thing too. That got lost pretty much with CDs and cassettes. The size of vinyl album covers lent itself to much more extravagance in the design.
Messaged u months ago about this vinyl video you were going to do , at last its here and youve done a great job , im 60 so can relate to all of it , well done.
It makes me smile vinyl is seen as a premium item whilst in the height of CDs they were virtually given away. HMV even cut a section out of the sleeve when they were flogging them for a couple of quid. I’ve got all of my parents vinyl and also a friend of the family died and his wife gave me a crate of it. I used to buy some in the 90’s if it was cheaper than CDs, but the rest of my collection is a crazy, eclectic treasure trove of history from Elvis up to Judas Priest. Make the effort to keep these lovely tactile items that you own. People laugh at me for still buying Blu Rays. But I own them and they won’t be removed from streaming services, plus with Ultra HD I’m getting the best home cinema quality. Plus I’ve got to get off my arse, look through shelves, take it off and physically play it. Vinyl double so as you’ve got to change sides! Wonderful video and well worth the hours to make… just watch out for tapes going mouldy (you can clean them as have had to do with VHS tapes).
When my dad passed I inherited his vinyl collection and when I play one of his albums it's like he's back in the room with me listening along. A Spotify playlist can't do that.
Fantastic video! Growing up in the 80’s going to the local record shop was core to mine & my mates identity. I think it’s an experience kids today are really denied. Later we progressed to going to record fairs in Manchester & Liverpool, we became sellers ourselves in the 90’s and travelled all over the UK most weekends selling our records & CD’s, it was a proper community among both fellow dealers and regular customers. Many happy memories of loading up crates of record boxes into my Fiat Uno! Our most memorable trips being driving to France and selling at the Paris record fair.
What a fantastic video. I have been collecting records for nearly all of my life. I was born in 1961 and was sat down at the side of a record player before I was 2 . My first record player was a wind up gramophone, followed by a auto charger when I was 5 . By then I had over 100 45rpm singles. Now at the age of 63 I have over 4000 45s, 1000 albums and approximately 1000 CDs. I still have a few cassette tapes and I still use a Mini Disc recorder mainly for making mix CDS. I can remember going to STACK OF WAX RECORDS in Portobello Rd back in the early 80s. They specialised in 1950s RnB and Rockabilly, which I got into in the mid 70s. Some great shops to check out if you ever come up north of England. DRUMBEAT in Chorley (so packed with records, you have a job to get through the door) QUICKSILVER in SOUTHPORT RECORDS AND RELICS in BLACKPOOL.
I am 54, Just got a valve type records player from the 50s. it was supposed to be portable as it closes into a bag with handles but boy is it heavy ! restored it to its glamorous days. set it up in a nice spot in my living room. it's feast to the eyes every time I look at it.
Every vinyl record has a handed down history. Also, holding the cover, looking at the sleeve notes, the artwork, the list of musicians, all makes for a moment to be shared with friends and for that moment to be savoured, every pop, every crackle. A physical piece of history, play after play. Nice gesture to play some of your mates music, I for one enjoyed listening, very talented. Great video man.
Vinyl has a rare magic today, the alchemy achievable only through attention. You perform the tea ceremony necessary leading to the drop of the stylus and then, goddamnit, you LISTEN. And actually listening to music is an entirely different and wholly superior experience compared to simply hearing it.
Listening to music on vinyl has that ritualistic element to it, sure, but you should be able to have the same transcendent experience listening to music without the presence of such a - really quite imperfect - physical carrier. Consider music with a large dynamic range (classical being the obvious one although ambient would be another) that is marked / scratched. Personally I find it hard to romanticise that, despite vinyl's undeniable charm...
@@jamesbosha2475 Yes, point taken. As I moved around a lot, I had to sell my vinyl as it wasn't practical. Now when I'm working I listen to LoFi which puts all the impurities back in.
But you can actually listen to music on any format. I only buy vinyl for music that is only released on vinyl, which is mostly older stuff. I will always go for CD or digital when I can. Yes I get why people like vinyl, but I personally prefer to listen to it at its best quality. Not to mention the effort required with it, and the size, and storage required.
Vinyl is a thing of beauty. Used to spend five or six hours in record shops on a weekend. Often travelled to Leeds, spending ages trawling through records then going home. The crackle gives each record its uniqueness. They are very tactile also. Cassettes are fine but easily damaged and they deteriorate over time. I remember when they introduced CDs on Tomorrows World. They demonstrated putting jam on it and it still played. That wasn't my experience of CDs. One faint scratch and they were done for. With vinyl you could balance a penny on the stylus and it would get through it. Album covers were art also. Never used Spotify.
The fact that you can still listen to your favorites even if grid goes out of order is something reassuring. I still have digital mp3 in HDD but I think of vinyl as a backup of my favorites.
I grew up as a teenager in the 90’s and still to this day I have the albums I brought back in the day. I don’t have Spotify or apple etc. I prefer to hold an album in my hand. I also feel like I’ve got something for my money. Am glad records and cds etc have made a comeback. Great video. 👍
the phillips cassette tape recorder , attaching the microphone and holding it front of tv when top of the pops came on and told the rest of family to stay quiet which never worked..
I so enjoyed this video, thank you for taking the time to make it. I started out on my career in radio 40 years ago in hospital radio, where we only played vinyl and maybe a few cassette tapes. As most people will know! the first few grooves on a vinyl record are silence [ which is taboo on the radio ]. Part of our training was to wear headphones and with one finger manually rotate the disc up to the first sound or start of the song, but to start it there would create a whirring sound at the start of the song! so the trick was to then turn the record back [ still with one finger, ] just one rotation, then the song was cued up ready to play. Charity shops are also a good source for buying old vinyl records. thanks again.
I work in a Vintage & Retro shop and look after the music department. Sales of vinyl, tapes and cd's have been consistently rising over the last few years and a lot of that is to younger people which is really great to see.
Such an awesome video,great to see such success at these i dependent shops in the UK. Was thrilled myself to visit Probe Records in Liverpool where none other than the legendary Pete Burns worked...keep the vid's comin', Turnip!
Been following your channel for some time now. I studied in the UK from 1975 to 1981. Brought back home more than 200 LPs. I think this is a turning point and your your channel just hit an inflection point. Best of luck, from MALAYSIA.
If you 'pinch' records while handling them, you may leave greasy patches on the first tracks.. You can hold a record with a thumb by the edge and the middle finger in the middle covering the hole. That's why it's called the 'middle finger' :)
Love this video, thank you so much for making this. I have a soft spot for vinyl, gave it all to my sister to add to her collection when I moved overseas but I still have most of my CDs. I stream for convenience but there’s just something about an actual disc. Thanks again
Your talent as a documentary maker shines through this video! So well researched, curated, entertaining, and knowledgeable! Your time and effort paid off, one of my favourites to date ❤
From a long time record collector since the mid 70s I have to say I think its fantastic your dad saving and giving you some quality records and by the looks of them in the case he was a proper collecter as they look in very good condition what a wonderful gift to pass on to your own kids.
That was a good journey you took us on. I liked the content. The Neil Young album is one of my faves too. Keep on doing blogs like this. Probably DJs kept it in the minds of younger people,also the empty lives need something tangible to hold and listen. Probe Records in Liverpool good independent record shop.Lots of stuff can't get in say HMV.
Vinyl is about nostalgia really.It easily gets damaged and the clarity is not there.My Mum had a Dansette I used to play my Dad's old records on.Love the video.
I've been collecting records since 1997, when I was 14 and I've never stopped, I'm loving this return of vinyl, now we have a lot of new material on internet, access to records that I didn't have, etc.. The negative point is, now I pay a lot more for them 😅
Another brilliant video! Your enthusiasm is infectious! As someone with a vinyl collection running into many hundreds, one thing that completely differentiates records from CDs, tapes and, in particular, digital downloads is that the size of the sleeve gives much more opportunity for the artwork of the cover to shine. 4AD albums were, and still are, an absolute work of art. You could hang the cover of the Cocteau Twins' Sunburst And Snowblind on the wall... of the Louvre!
That was ace. Loved it. Great doc. I’ve made a note of all the shops, hoping to visit them all. Ive had my vinyl since being 6 or 7 (1977), I’m 54 now. When it started to make a come back was the best thing ever. There’s nothing like it. Thanks again for making this film. Enjoy your vinyl 😍
I'm 66...this video made me very happy, nuff love mate...bet your Dad came to our reggae nights in Hebden in the 90,s....keep up the Stirling works, Roy.
What a lovely vlog episode! I’m almost the same age as your dad and I have all the records you pulled out of his black carrying case. As it happens I have a few of those exact same carrying cases full of albums too. Your Portobello Market visit took me back to the 1970s where it was also possible to bump into some well-known musicians. I was in a shop one day when Brian Eno walked in. I saw Prelude sing several times at festivals and in folk clubs and After The Goldrush was always a highlight of their set. If you like them, there were so many other harmony trios on the folk scene.
As far as I can see there's 3 - the one on New Hall Lane next to the Travelodge, the one on Hopwood Street with a load of mobile phone masts on it, and the one at Tulketh Mill. Used to be far more when I was a kid in the 80s.
Buying vinyl has that magic that no other format can compete with. Whether it’s a brand new copy or a an original bargain you can’t beat that warm sound.
Here is a little story for you (true story). My friend is now a millionaire due to sticking with vinyl when everyone else jumped ship in the 90's and early 2000's. All those other record stores have today gone bust, while his is thriving. He can barely keep up with demand. It started with him selling his own hobby DJ record collection in early 90's. He then though, oh this was great, this is what I want to do. Since everyone was basically thropwing out their old vinyl collections, he could get a lot of it for free, just as long as he came and picked it up. People were happy to not have to drive to the dump. He then opened a used record store. Back then no one would buy much, but he also had used movies and tapes. His timing was so spot on, that the vinyl released in mid to late 90's (and early 2000's) are some of the most valuable today. Why? Well, because everyone else was buying either CD's or starting to d/l music from the net. So vinyl from that time was sold in very limited numbers, so now those are some of the most valauble to collect. Like regular George Michael, Madonna, Prince etc vinyl from the mid to late 90's and early 2000's. Another example, if You have the correct Michael Jackson album version of Bad, which was sold here in general gas stations (cheaply), having a sticker from Pepsi on it, is worth a lot these days. He has his physical store (at one poiunt two stores in two cities, but he has since gotten rid of one of them, since it was too much for him top keep up), but also every week put up things online. He now owns 2 Porsche Carerra and in the process of buying a Ferrari. He sees them as investments too that do not sink in value. He buys up used brand guitars and all kinds of stuffs. He also bought some Tesla stocks (with earnings from vinyl) that he recently made another 1.5 million from that. He has some employees these days to even try to keep up. Now others want to open vinyl shops around here too, but his is so established these days. Just yesterday he bought an entire stock of all the inventory from a record store chain, who had been kept alive as well, but in another city, one hrs drive from here. That owner who started that chain is old now and going to retire. It's mostly CD's (some vinyl too), but CD's 💿 are actually now almost starting to become the "new vinyl" as well. People seems to be sick and tired of all the various renting services and want to own and feel physical media in their hands, things that no one can take away from them. Even his used DVD's and Blu-rays are going like hot cakes (although not at such high amounts, but stil large margins). There was a time in the 90's when it was rought for him too. Everyone only sold or gave away, but no one wanted to buy, but that was his fortune in the long run. He built up such a stock for almost nothing, that he has since made his fortune out of. He now have warehouses all opver the pålace filled from top to bottom with vinyl, CD's, DVD's etc. He invited me and another friend on a trip a year ago to Hamburg, where he was doing some business as well. There they even had a 3, or 4 story department house (with escalators inside) dedicated to physical media, vinyl, CD's, DVD's, Blu-rays etc. A whole top floor was only movies and video games. They told me that video games is the only thing that is hard to sell in physical format, since they often have no games in them anyway, just a code to activate online via steam or some service like that. We wenmt to the vapital oin our country last summer 8agian since he is all over the place getting his hands on coillections) and therre werre quite a few rercord stores which was packed with young people flipping through vinyl (like I did in my young yeras) and collecting. That was so nice to see. It warmed my heart. These days he has customers who have record stores all over Europe, some in places like Poland, who come to him to buy and fill up their own inventory in their stores. Fill their vans and go back to theri own stores. My own humble collection of over 3.000 vinyls (mostly 12 inch, or so called maxi-singles, but also albums) from when I was a DJ in the 80's to early 90's and a huge Prince collection, he has also valued to quite a hefty amount. I'm not selling though. I still have my 2 old Technics SL-1210 (black sl-1200's) and my old Meteor Clubman 3.6 mixer from the 80's, so I need to have stuff to play on that. 🔊🤣
I collected alot of records upto the late 80's until I fell into the CD revolution, but still bought tapes because they were cheaper and could be played in the car. Had a iPod for a while but found it a soulless format. Unfortunately my records and tapes have disappeared through life, but did start collecting again and buying new releases, but it's got expensive, so gone back to CD, full circle eh! Interesting film Mr Turnip
Note that in your introductory 'history of recorded music' bit you mentioned that albums came about as a result of the introduction of the vinyl LP. Actually (adopts professorial tone...) albums are called albums because shellac 78rpm discs could only hold a short amount of music hence you needed a set of discs to hold a typical classical work (which is what most music was in those days). These discs were normally issued in a multi-page binder similar to a coin album or photo album. Hence the term 'album' came to be used for recorded music too!
What you say is true (for the most part). However, the meaning of the word "album" has also evolved beyond reference to a physical medium to include a new meaning--a meaning much more abstract. The new meaning is a collection of specific recordings of specific songs in a specific running order--regardless of the medium carrying the sound. I'm always appalled when I ask someone if they own a particular album, only to be told, "No, I have it on CD." Boy, do they ever not understand the new meaning of the word "album"! The physical medium has become irrelevant. And this new meaning is not that new--it goes back to whenever competing formats to LP's came on the market--which was some sort of pre-recorded tape back in the 1960's or 1970's. Although that's the basic definition, musicians and producers have something more specific in mind when they create albums. They don't just want a random collection of songs. They want songs which hang together in some sort of artistic unity. This vision of the album can be credited to Frank Sinatra. His album _In the Wee Small Hours_ was the first true album in this sense of the word. One thing I will correct you on is your claim that most music was classical music back in the days of 78's. That's not true at all. Popular music has always been the predominant form of recorded music. However, in the days of 78's, _albums_ were predominantly classical music, that is true.
I remember celebrating that CDs sounded so clear, none of that speaker crackling, when the needle lands on the the vinyl. Turns out, that was what you missed most.
Hi! You came to my lovely town (city) Preston! We still have some cotton mill chimneys around in Preston! One I think u will absolutely love is between Blackburn and Bolton, you will find it on the local route. Top notch chimney.
India Mill chimney, Darwen. My granny and grandpa both worked from school to retirement under that there chimbley. Fred Dibnah climbed it as well (on RUclips)
I remember the feeling as a teenager, handling the hot new release from a favourite artist that I scrimped and saved up to buy, looking at the stunning sleeve artwork, reverentially handling the disc putting it on the record player and sit and really listen to it. You almost feel a connection to the artist. Now I only do streaming, and in many ways it's really great , while my vinyls sit in storage, beside my top-end turntable.
And, as a label, Action released the first Boo Radleys LP (before they moved to Creation and made one of the finest psych/shoegaze/noise/pop LPs of all time).
Brilliant video! I recently got back into vinyl and i strangely realised that as a 41 year old full time guitarist with tinnitus, listening to music on vinyl is so much less stressful on my ears than digital. Theres something about the harsh compression of streamed music that makes it uncomfortable to listen to after a while, but i can happily put the headphones on (wired! 😁) and listen to my favourite and new music for hours. Also, looking at the artwork and reading liner notes and lyrics as you listen is a special thing. Not for everyone and I understand why some younger people would find that odd, but for others it's the only way to experience the music as the artist intended. Pointless info - my fave recent purchase is Counting Crows "Recovering the Satellites". Had it on cassette in the 90s but it's a far deeper experience on vinyl. Happy listening y'all 👍
I find it ironic that the CD what nearly “ Killed” it off. Then vinyl said “ Oh no you don’t” `and to many label bemusement, vinyl was pulled out of hybernation.
Loved this video. There’s a whole vinyl community on RUclips with people all over the world sharing there love of vinyl records. I regularly share videos showing records I’ve picked up from car boot sales etc 👍
Music is art. Album covers are another form of art. If those mean anything to you, spending money towards that art form helps pay the artists, and help them continue to put out new music. People used to have no problem buying albums in all the formats you mentioned (vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd, etc.), the internet helped kill that form of the business for a while. I find it refreshing that vinyl has made such a resurgence, and I have a large collection of both cds and vinyl records (a few thousand of each). Over the last few decades I've been puzzled a bit by the amount of money people have no problem putting toward concert tickets, or following the same artist around the country and seeing 20 shows, but then not buying music albums outside of their Spotify subscriptions. I still very much enjoy the act of seeing an artist live, especially in a more intimate venue/setting, but concert tickets and fees at the larger stadium type shows have gotten a bit crazy. Anyway, if you are a music fan and value art, show it by spending some of your disposable cash on it. The artists deserve it. I'm also a big fan of the album format, I would say 90% of the time I'm listening to different albums from start to finish vs. individual songs. I'd hate to see a day where the full length album ceases to exist.
I grew up in Kirkham, and used to catch the bus to Preston to visit Action Records. I now live in Stoke but still order frequently from the Action records website - as recently as last week in fact! A great record store, and something we should be proud of 🙂 Hearts and Bones by Paul Simon is a stunning track... a love letter to Carrie Fisher, and perhaps his greatest love song. Amazing taste dude :-)
Brilliant video..great to see inside afflecks palace, last time I was there was in 1994, when I lived in Manchester..funnily enough probably the last time I had a walkman..listening to The Bends on repeat. Happy memories..thanks
I have used vinyl from the mid 90’s until now. All through University, I kept buying vinyl and Technics turntables. I think I did 30 sets of Technics in my life as I found a little market for reselling them at school. Sold my early drum and bass collection in 1996, mistake, but went on to continually buy records. I still have about 800 vinyl in flight cases from 1996 to 2002 or so, when I was really into mixing drum and bass, house, trance etc. Sold my last set of technics about 7 years ago, but always get the bug, so started messing with Stanton decks etc and now have settled on Audio Technica LP140 decks for the last two years. These are brilliant, I prefer them to my friends Technics as the motors are so much more responsive; only the arms aren’t as good as technics. I still buy vinyl, probably have amassed another 120 vinyl or so here; there is a brilliant resurgence in 90’s style drum and bass/jungle. I will say though that some of the re-issue vinyl are very poor quality. Can’t beat the originals! Still keep Cd’s as well, much to my brothers amusement. Lol. Never had a MP3/iPhone song in my life. I still buy cars with CD players lol. Also, the best format for dropping vinyl mixes was always Minidisc for me as it was just so easy to wipe out and try again!
Weirdly i was going through all the vinyl in HMV only yesterday! I love vinyl for the art work not just the music, those frames you can get for the wall that you can easily swap in and out your favourite sleeves are awesome too, perfect wall art 👌🏻
I was in hmv today and chuckled seeing all the youngsters clutching their vinyl albums - Talking Heads, Abba, Queen etc. And, it being hmv, paying through the nose for the privilege!
DJ's helped keep vinyl alive. Speaking as one myself, I never stopped using my 1210's and snapping up as much vinyl in charity shops as I could. I think I've got about 2,000 now. 1,500 of which are dance records from 1988 to about 2001/2, and the rest are albums I've snagged from charity shops, boot/jumble sales, Vinted etc for peanuts. Dance labels still released music on 12" even when it was supposedly a defunct thing, as did some bands. It was never obsolete so it didn't ever actually die off like tape/cd/minidisc. I can't see vinyl ever really disappearing as there's so many people around the World still mixing with it - and it's just as popular now as it was 20 years ago, you only have to look at the price of Technics, Pioneer, Vestax etc decks now plus the crazy prices of vinyl on sites like Discogs. The boom in recent years has largely come from Indie bands releasing limited edition vinyl and they sell like hot cakes. Labels and artists have noticed this and started doing it to. It's just a shame the average consumer will be buying absolute junk record players as that's all that's readily available, but it at least gets them into vinyl and maybe they'll eventually upgrade - if not the whole deck than at least a better cart because a crap deck still sounds decent with a quality cartridge. It's just crap decks are belt drive and they can be all over the place when they're cheap so it can ruin the sound of a record. You can't beat physical media, look after it and it'll stay with you for life. Digital just ain't the same.
I was working on the bins near garstang and the wagon hadn’t reached me yet so I lifted the lid of the bin and it was full of tapes and vinyl, so I had about 1 minute to grab as much as I could fit on my person before the wagon came because he wouldn’t wait for me. I got loads of tape packs from the 90s dreamscape and helter skelter and a few LPs.
Vinyl is, by far, the best medium for music and at the age of 57 I've had experience of most of the formats. I started with vinyl and cassettes, graduated to CD and then to MP3 via the original iPod Classic (which I still have). I've fully re-embraced vinyl and have a pretty sizeable collection of albums because I love the interactivity and feeling if anticipation I get when I go through the ritual of playing a record! I've also upgraded my hifi setup, so it's also great for people who enjoy experimenting with electronic equipment like amps and especially turntables!
Back to the days of my childhood, I remember my grandparents having the very old "78" records; and us young people getting the most modern LPs. Back then we had a choice of a "proper" record shop called Ames in Nelson in Lancashire; as well as another one who could get hold of unauthorised imports. The ones we got from Ames were all 100% mint, but often the imports has the corners cut off the cardboard sleeves so they were clearly none-approved versions. Yes, I still have many of my old records - including all the imports with the torn sleeves. Being older and having a bit more money than when I was a teenager; the records are now carefully preserved in protective plastic sleeves. Unlike with a download; when you play them, you cn still get your hands on all the cover art and any of the artists photos or notes. When it's just a download, the best I ever seem to get is the title of the song on a one-line digital display. We used to take great delight putting a record on and propping up the vivid pink and yellow record sleeve of the "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" album. This doesn't really have the same effect on a tiny little one-line display...
Thanks for making this. Clearly a lot of work (and love) went into it and I really enjoyed it. Only bit I thought was a bit confusing was near the beginning when you were talking about albums but all the video was of 7" singles being played.
I’ve dabbled back in this again but I have to be honest it mostly rekindled my interest in CDs again lol. Vinyl has a lot of draw backs that CD over came and you still have the physical media, album art work and so on but better quality sound and less negatives. There’s something lovely about sitting down and listening to a record but once the music is actually playing I think CD is better overall.
It's also a lot easier to rip a CD to mp3 than a vinyl record (though it can be done), then you still have your CD and you have a digital copy you can play on your phone when you're out and about. Any physical media is still open to damage or loss, especially vinyl records and tapes.
After an 15 year hiatus. I got back into vinyl after attending an all night rave party in 2000 with many high end vinyl turntables and mixer. in action. I was amazed. I was not surprised vinyl would make a comeback.
Hi, I'm from the Czech Republic, I have a turntable and records at home, but also a large collection of CDs or cassettes and also VHS tapes and a VCR, DVD and Blu-ray player. I love these physical media. There's a beautiful cover, a booklet on an LP or CD. The smell when you unwrap a new LP or maybe a CD. The ceremony of playing an LP record. Sure, I also pay for Spotify so I can listen to a lot of music, but then I've also bought some albums on physical media based on that. LP record, CD, etc. It was predicted to die out, but as you can see, and your video confirms it, it's all alive and well. Thank you for this video and I will subscribe to this channel based on it. Have a good day.
Its visceral, tactile and sounds warmer. A vinyl collection represents stages and experiences in your life. My journey started out with great grandparents with a gramaphone and "78s and I still have some (they are breakable) and my parents and a teak seventies record player and a scratched record collection. You never know what you might find in a record or chazza shop. Fabulous vid. And good to see you in my home town. Cassette man yes!
Great video. That box of records from your Dad is like a treasure trove for some of us. When you open a record box like that you never know is it going to be Val Doonican, Max Bygraves etc (all good in their own way, if that is your thing) or it going to be the rock classics from the late 60s onwards Bowie, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Beatles and lots of bands - originals, that some consider from the golden age of vinyl. They looked in great condition which is just a joy for 50 year old albums. One idea - if you get a chance to hear any of your favourite albums on a really good hifi system, see if that works for you. For me with a good hifi setup, when the sound of the music is like the artist or band is playing live in my living room, it makes the emotional connection to the music even stronger. You might find yourself saying I never realised that same record could sound so good, that´s the magic of vinyl, the quality level hidden in the grooves of vinyl records is incredible.
Brilliant video capturing the real essence of why collecting vinyl is so loved. I still have everything I bought from the very first single Jimi Hendrix- All along the watchtower from WHSmith You can pull out a album and it takes you back to when you bought it and what you were doing.
Beautiful :) As an 'analogue' DJ for 20yrs (1988-2008) It warms my heart that vinyl is still loved, to be fair, it was always loved. Many many dance labels these days release their stuff as EXCLUSIVE to vinyl which is great but you cant beat modern file formats for ease of use & quality (and storage space) Saying that, my copy of Dark Side Of The Moon does have a glass fronted frame & takes pride of place INFRONT of any family photo... Vinyl is just aspecial thing... always will be
Great story Mr Turnip. I cleaned and digitised my entire record collection. A few years back. But after a good clean, it all sounded so damn good... So I've been buying vinyl ever since
Great video mate. Never thought that way about the second hand market but i’m gonna start using that going forward when buying records, just wait until I find it in a store
The second interview pretty much nailed it for me. I’m a big Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) fan, and I really fell in love with his album The Ecstatic back in 2019. At some point during that year the album got taken off all the streaming services because of a licensing dispute and remains absent to this day. I was furious, but later that same year I saw the record in a shop not far from where I lived at the time. I’d never bought a record in my life, but decided to get it because of the streaming debacle. That pretty much started my fascination with collecting and Hi-Fi, and I’ve been doing it ever since.
This may sound a bit strange ( or eccentric) but I compare the experience of playing records to making a cup of tea.
You mentioned that evrything nowadays is immediate, no effort. A cup of tea has become instant, Dip a bag into a cup, fish the bag out and that's it. Making tea properly with a teapot, letting it infuse, then pouring carefully is a quiet ,soothing ritual amidst the frenetic pace of today's world . Taking a vinyl record from the sleeve and placing it with care on a turntable is equally soothing.
Nice video with the unusual and interesting content we have come to expect from you.
I like it. 👍
I liken it very similar, my comparison is
a drive through at a fast food chain to dining in a fine restaurant.
Both fill your belly.
But two very different experiences.
One's fast and nasty, one's slow and wholesome.
The usual fallacy of cost and value. Fools want to believe that effort makes something valuable.
@bettygraham818 🙏 God bless you 👉♥️ im thinking of visiting england and if i do 👍 im popping in for afternoon tea. i will bring traditional Australian cuisine 😬 lamingtons and that sort of thing.
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Anytime ! You are very welcome and I confess I don't even know what a lamington is ! I shall look it up immediately !
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 It would be interesting to know what happens to all the time freed up by the fast food, appliances etc .If some thing took an hour to do 50 years ago and now takes 10 minutes, why is life for most so hectic and rushed ?
Can’t beat going into a record store and coming home with a record you didn’t expect to find.
Or one you didn't even know existed.
Love that physical media is making a comeback. It's more than just the music thats contained on it.
I get abuzz out of buying and selling vinyl. Nothing like it :) I couldn’t tell you how I got this addiction, I have no idea :)
I am 79 so I remember the old records very well, both the 78 and 45s. My first record was Elvis Presley singing Thats alright, Mama. I nearly drove mum and dad batty with it. Love your channel.
I found an original Elvis - That’s all right Sun 78 at a garage sale in Miami not long ago for a dollar! I’d like to get a Mystery Train 45 next
I'm 68 and my Mum and Dad had "That's Alright Mama" on a 4 track EP. Elvis Gold?
I still have it, one of the earliest pieces of music I really loved.
Aloha ,I'm 68 , brought my records from England to California in 1988 , moved here to Hawaii in 2018 since then I have bought & been given record collections & tapes from people going back to the mainland. I now collect & repair 70's HiFi equipment as a hobby , I have way too many turntables , receivers & tape decks but I use them all & play a lot of cassettes & records . This video perfectly captures what it's like to be a music lover . Thanks & keep collecting those albums , your Dad had similar taste to me , looking at that box of records . Best wishes from Kona Hawaii.
Mine will be going with me when I leave the UK too
The same happened to me as well except I didn't go to Hawaii 😅😅
Brilliant!
The day in 1973 that my elder brother brought home Tubular Bells was (I am not kidding) life-changing for me at all of nine years old - because it set me on a course of loving and making music. For me, Mike Oldfield is probably the most inspiring artist. His work over the years has been a constant companion in my life. To see that album cover again - now I want to get a vinyl turntable!!!! Thank you for this amazing episode.
Tubular Bells made a huge impression on me too. Also MO's next three albums (Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations). I could never get very enthusiastic about anything he did after that though.
Haha. My long dead extremely conservative grandad back in the 1970's refused any popular music. It was all classics especially Wagner for him. His only exception for "pop" music was Tubular Bells.
the 50th anniversary version with the philharmonic orchestra is really good, if you fancy tubular bells done a bit differently
A great album. Try and find a copy of the album in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND . I have a copy that I picked up from a shop in SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND.
I was 8 when my uncle played Tubular bells for me in -73. It made the same impact on me. Since then he’s been my favourite artist. For me, his last studio album Return to Ommadawn was a monumental conclusion to a fantastic catalogue. Off course there’s been lesser good releases, but the brilliant ones makes up for them. My toplist in chronological order :
Tubular bells
Hergest ridge
Ommadawn
Incantations
Platinum
Five miles out
Discovery
Amarok
TB II
The songs of distant earth
Voyager
TB III
Return to Ommadawn
Greetings from Australia. I’ve been a vinyl collector since the early 80s, and have at least 16 crates! And then I used to DJ as well. So glad I still have my collection. Not forgetting the 7’s and the glorious picture discs 😊 Cheers John.
Ps - love your work, keep it up!
My dad had a fabulous record player when I was a kid which sounds great but I wasn’t allowed to use it unsupervised. So I had tapes, then CDs. Most of my listening is streamed now for convenience but now I have my own fabulous record player and we buy the music we love on vinyl to make it an experience. Record shops are the best shops, record store staff are awesome.
It never died for the core music fans
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It stopped being in the mainstream
Many (most?) "Core music fans" switched to CD quite happily for its convenience, robustness and superior sound. Music lovers that loved records stayed with vinyl. The difficulty was availability - many releases in the 90s and 00s especially were CD only.
@@richardsinger01 Oh, you don't say? 😂
@@richardsinger01 Vinyl sounds better as anyone with good ears knows. But you have to look after it
Another great aspect of vinyl is the album cover art and liner notes: they add a lot to the listening experience, especially on a new acquisition.
In the age of vinyl the cover art used to be a huge thing too. That got lost pretty much with CDs and cassettes. The size of vinyl album covers lent itself to much more extravagance in the design.
Messaged u months ago about this vinyl video you were going to do , at last its here and youve done a great job , im 60 so can relate to all of it , well done.
It makes me smile vinyl is seen as a premium item whilst in the height of CDs they were virtually given away. HMV even cut a section out of the sleeve when they were flogging them for a couple of quid.
I’ve got all of my parents vinyl and also a friend of the family died and his wife gave me a crate of it. I used to buy some in the 90’s if it was cheaper than CDs, but the rest of my collection is a crazy, eclectic treasure trove of history from Elvis up to Judas Priest.
Make the effort to keep these lovely tactile items that you own.
People laugh at me for still buying Blu Rays. But I own them and they won’t be removed from streaming services, plus with Ultra HD I’m getting the best home cinema quality.
Plus I’ve got to get off my arse, look through shelves, take it off and physically play it.
Vinyl double so as you’ve got to change sides!
Wonderful video and well worth the hours to make… just watch out for tapes going mouldy (you can clean them as have had to do with VHS tapes).
Brilliant content and fantastically put together. I really enjoyed this and hope you make more about vinyl.
When my dad passed I inherited his vinyl collection and when I play one of his albums it's like he's back in the room with me listening along. A Spotify playlist can't do that.
Fantastic video!
Growing up in the 80’s going to the local record shop was core to mine & my mates identity. I think it’s an experience kids today are really denied. Later we progressed to going to record fairs in Manchester & Liverpool, we became sellers ourselves in the 90’s and travelled all over the UK most weekends selling our records & CD’s, it was a proper community among both fellow dealers and regular customers. Many happy memories of loading up crates of record boxes into my Fiat Uno! Our most memorable trips being driving to France and selling at the Paris record fair.
What a fantastic video. I have been collecting records for nearly all of my life. I was born in 1961 and was sat down at the side of a record player before I was 2 . My first record player was a wind up gramophone, followed by a auto charger when I was 5 . By then I had over 100 45rpm singles. Now at the age of 63 I have over 4000 45s, 1000 albums and approximately 1000 CDs. I still have a few cassette tapes and I still use a Mini Disc recorder mainly for making mix CDS. I can remember going to STACK OF WAX RECORDS in Portobello Rd back in the early 80s. They specialised in 1950s RnB and Rockabilly, which I got into in the mid 70s.
Some great shops to check out if you ever come up north of England.
DRUMBEAT in Chorley (so packed with records, you have a job to get through the door)
QUICKSILVER in SOUTHPORT
RECORDS AND RELICS in BLACKPOOL.
Loved going to the record shop on a Saturday and looking through the albums. There was something quite magical about it which was lost with CDs.
I am 54, Just got a valve type records player from the 50s. it was supposed to be portable as it closes into a bag with handles but boy is it heavy ! restored it to its glamorous days. set it up in a nice spot in my living room. it's feast to the eyes every time I look at it.
Every vinyl record has a handed down history. Also, holding the cover, looking at the sleeve notes, the artwork, the list of musicians, all makes for a moment to be shared with friends and for that moment to be savoured, every pop, every crackle. A physical piece of history, play after play. Nice gesture to play some of your mates music, I for one enjoyed listening, very talented. Great video man.
No, pops and crackles are unacceptable
Sounds boring to be honest.
a record store is a marvelous place to spend half an hour
Vinyl has a rare magic today, the alchemy achievable only through attention. You perform the tea ceremony necessary leading to the drop of the stylus and then, goddamnit, you LISTEN. And actually listening to music is an entirely different and wholly superior experience compared to simply hearing it.
What a beautiful way to put it 👏👏
Poetry
Listening to music on vinyl has that ritualistic element to it, sure, but you should be able to have the same transcendent experience listening to music without the presence of such a - really quite imperfect - physical carrier. Consider music with a large dynamic range (classical being the obvious one although ambient would be another) that is marked / scratched. Personally I find it hard to romanticise that, despite vinyl's undeniable charm...
@@jamesbosha2475 Yes, point taken. As I moved around a lot, I had to sell my vinyl as it wasn't practical. Now when I'm working I listen to LoFi which puts all the impurities back in.
But you can actually listen to music on any format. I only buy vinyl for music that is only released on vinyl, which is mostly older stuff. I will always go for CD or digital when I can. Yes I get why people like vinyl, but I personally prefer to listen to it at its best quality. Not to mention the effort required with it, and the size, and storage required.
Vinyl is a thing of beauty. Used to spend five or six hours in record shops on a weekend. Often travelled to Leeds, spending ages trawling through records then going home. The crackle gives each record its uniqueness. They are very tactile also. Cassettes are fine but easily damaged and they deteriorate over time. I remember when they introduced CDs on Tomorrows World. They demonstrated putting jam on it and it still played. That wasn't my experience of CDs. One faint scratch and they were done for. With vinyl you could balance a penny on the stylus and it would get through it. Album covers were art also. Never used Spotify.
The fact that you can still listen to your favorites even if grid goes out of order is something reassuring. I still have digital mp3 in HDD but I think of vinyl as a backup of my favorites.
I grew up as a teenager in the 90’s and still to this day I have the albums I brought back in the day. I don’t have Spotify or apple etc. I prefer to hold an album in my hand. I also feel like I’ve got something for my money. Am glad records and cds etc have made a comeback. Great video. 👍
Ohhh! Now you're in my territory! :D I've been DJing vinyl for 32 years, can't beat vinyl! 💜 Thank you for covering the beautiful plastic!
the phillips cassette tape recorder , attaching the microphone and holding it front of tv when top of the pops came on and told the rest of family to stay quiet which never worked..
Been there done that.I could never get rid of the buzz that came with the TV speaker.
I so enjoyed this video, thank you for taking the time to make it. I started out on my career in radio 40 years ago in hospital radio, where we only played vinyl and maybe a few cassette tapes. As most people will know! the first few grooves on a vinyl record are silence [ which is taboo on the radio ]. Part of our training was to wear headphones and with one finger manually rotate the disc up to the first sound or start of the song, but to start it there would create a whirring sound at the start of the song! so the trick was to then turn the record back [ still with one finger, ] just one rotation, then the song was cued up ready to play. Charity shops are also a good source for buying old vinyl records. thanks again.
I still have all mine from the '70's.
You never give away your vinyl. It would be like losing a family member.
Brought mine from wales to Australia 🇦🇺 oh the 80’s - what a time to be alive 😂
I work in a Vintage & Retro shop and look after the music department. Sales of vinyl, tapes and cd's have been consistently rising over the last few years and a lot of that is to younger people which is really great to see.
Great to see young people enjoying the feeling of owning physical music
its about taking time, relaxing, reading the sleeve, taking the record out, dusting it, putting it on the player... it's a great time
Such an awesome video,great to see such success at these i dependent shops in the UK. Was thrilled myself to visit Probe Records in Liverpool where none other than the legendary Pete Burns worked...keep the vid's comin', Turnip!
Been following your channel for some time now. I studied in the UK from 1975 to 1981. Brought back home more than 200 LPs.
I think this is a turning point and your your channel just hit an inflection point. Best of luck, from MALAYSIA.
"Paralysed by completion". What a gem. Epic video WT !
If you 'pinch' records while handling them, you may leave greasy patches on the first tracks.. You can hold a record with a thumb by the edge and the middle finger in the middle covering the hole. That's why it's called the 'middle finger' :)
True makes me cringe everytime I see someone do that
Nothing beats the inconvenience, expense, frustration and storage problems which all come from collecting vinyl!
Yes, very true. Like owning classic car or old valve audio equipment. They will perform very well but you have to care for them and coax them to do so
Well done! Enjoyed your take on the vinyl experience as a younger lad.
Was waiting for this one, sounds like you were loving it too! Top deep dive. Just got a vinyl player myself last month as it goes too, timing.
Love this video, thank you so much for making this. I have a soft spot for vinyl, gave it all to my sister to add to her collection when I moved overseas but I still have most of my CDs. I stream for convenience but there’s just something about an actual disc. Thanks again
Your talent as a documentary maker shines through this video! So well researched, curated, entertaining, and knowledgeable! Your time and effort paid off, one of my favourites to date ❤
From a long time record collector since the mid 70s I have to say I think its fantastic your dad saving and giving you some quality records and by the looks of them in the case he was a proper collecter as they look in very good condition what a wonderful gift to pass on to your own kids.
I have much respect for club DJs that actually use vinyl records and can actually mix and scratch without electronic aids.
That was a good journey you took us on. I liked the content. The Neil Young album is one of my faves too. Keep on doing blogs like this.
Probably DJs kept it in the minds of younger people,also the empty lives need something tangible to hold and listen.
Probe Records in Liverpool good independent record shop.Lots of stuff can't get in say HMV.
Vinyl is about nostalgia really.It easily gets damaged and the clarity is not there.My Mum had a Dansette I used to play my Dad's old records on.Love the video.
depends on the equipment??
Long Live Vinyl, def. So many wicked good memories came flooding back, remembering my collection. Thanks from Boston, MA.
I've been collecting records since 1997, when I was 14 and I've never stopped, I'm loving this return of vinyl, now we have a lot of new material on internet, access to records that I didn't have, etc..
The negative point is, now I pay a lot more for them 😅
My favourite turnip video so far. Brilliant job!
Another brilliant video! Your enthusiasm is infectious!
As someone with a vinyl collection running into many hundreds, one thing that completely differentiates records from CDs, tapes and, in particular, digital downloads is that the size of the sleeve gives much more opportunity for the artwork of the cover to shine. 4AD albums were, and still are, an absolute work of art. You could hang the cover of the Cocteau Twins' Sunburst And Snowblind on the wall... of the Louvre!
That was ace. Loved it. Great doc. I’ve made a note of all the shops, hoping to visit them all. Ive had my vinyl since being 6 or 7 (1977), I’m 54 now. When it started to make a come back was the best thing ever. There’s nothing like it. Thanks again for making this film. Enjoy your vinyl 😍
I'm 66...this video made me very happy, nuff love mate...bet your Dad came to our reggae nights in Hebden in the 90,s....keep up the Stirling works, Roy.
Is there anything better, than a father passing down his record collection to his son..............................
Yes, passing my 1000 vinyls to my daughter, and 800 CDs!
@@jamesbrierley5693 my dad passed his records down to me (his daughter) 🥲💙
What a lovely vlog episode! I’m almost the same age as your dad and I have all the records you pulled out of his black carrying case. As it happens I have a few of those exact same carrying cases full of albums too. Your Portobello Market visit took me back to the 1970s where it was also possible to bump into some well-known musicians. I was in a shop one day when Brian Eno walked in. I saw Prelude sing several times at festivals and in folk clubs and After The Goldrush was always a highlight of their set. If you like them, there were so many other harmony trios on the folk scene.
Just been buying second hand 7inch singles for my 1961 Rockola jukebox in the midlands , still working perfect , on its original valve amplifier
thank you for your videos. from Preston. Chimneys here if ever you have been?
As far as I can see there's 3 - the one on New Hall Lane next to the Travelodge, the one on Hopwood Street with a load of mobile phone masts on it, and the one at Tulketh Mill. Used to be far more when I was a kid in the 80s.
Buying vinyl has that magic that no other format can compete with. Whether it’s a brand new copy or a an original bargain you can’t beat that warm sound.
Here is a little story for you (true story). My friend is now a millionaire due to sticking with vinyl when everyone else jumped ship in the 90's and early 2000's. All those other record stores have today gone bust, while his is thriving. He can barely keep up with demand. It started with him selling his own hobby DJ record collection in early 90's. He then though, oh this was great, this is what I want to do. Since everyone was basically thropwing out their old vinyl collections, he could get a lot of it for free, just as long as he came and picked it up. People were happy to not have to drive to the dump. He then opened a used record store. Back then no one would buy much, but he also had used movies and tapes. His timing was so spot on, that the vinyl released in mid to late 90's (and early 2000's) are some of the most valuable today. Why? Well, because everyone else was buying either CD's or starting to d/l music from the net. So vinyl from that time was sold in very limited numbers, so now those are some of the most valauble to collect. Like regular George Michael, Madonna, Prince etc vinyl from the mid to late 90's and early 2000's. Another example, if You have the correct Michael Jackson album version of Bad, which was sold here in general gas stations (cheaply), having a sticker from Pepsi on it, is worth a lot these days.
He has his physical store (at one poiunt two stores in two cities, but he has since gotten rid of one of them, since it was too much for him top keep up), but also every week put up things online. He now owns 2 Porsche Carerra and in the process of buying a Ferrari. He sees them as investments too that do not sink in value. He buys up used brand guitars and all kinds of stuffs. He also bought some Tesla stocks (with earnings from vinyl) that he recently made another 1.5 million from that. He has some employees these days to even try to keep up. Now others want to open vinyl shops around here too, but his is so established these days. Just yesterday he bought an entire stock of all the inventory from a record store chain, who had been kept alive as well, but in another city, one hrs drive from here. That owner who started that chain is old now and going to retire. It's mostly CD's (some vinyl too), but CD's 💿 are actually now almost starting to become the "new vinyl" as well. People seems to be sick and tired of all the various renting services and want to own and feel physical media in their hands, things that no one can take away from them.
Even his used DVD's and Blu-rays are going like hot cakes (although not at such high amounts, but stil large margins). There was a time in the 90's when it was rought for him too. Everyone only sold or gave away, but no one wanted to buy, but that was his fortune in the long run. He built up such a stock for almost nothing, that he has since made his fortune out of. He now have warehouses all opver the pålace filled from top to bottom with vinyl, CD's, DVD's etc. He invited me and another friend on a trip a year ago to Hamburg, where he was doing some business as well. There they even had a 3, or 4 story department house (with escalators inside) dedicated to physical media, vinyl, CD's, DVD's, Blu-rays etc. A whole top floor was only movies and video games. They told me that video games is the only thing that is hard to sell in physical format, since they often have no games in them anyway, just a code to activate online via steam or some service like that. We wenmt to the vapital oin our country last summer 8agian since he is all over the place getting his hands on coillections) and therre werre quite a few rercord stores which was packed with young people flipping through vinyl (like I did in my young yeras) and collecting. That was so nice to see. It warmed my heart. These days he has customers who have record stores all over Europe, some in places like Poland, who come to him to buy and fill up their own inventory in their stores. Fill their vans and go back to theri own stores. My own humble collection of over 3.000 vinyls (mostly 12 inch, or so called maxi-singles, but also albums) from when I was a DJ in the 80's to early 90's and a huge Prince collection, he has also valued to quite a hefty amount. I'm not selling though. I still have my 2 old Technics SL-1210 (black sl-1200's) and my old Meteor Clubman 3.6 mixer from the 80's, so I need to have stuff to play on that. 🔊🤣
Brilliant vlog mate really enjoyed it and it definitely seems like you have caught the turntable and vinyl bug good on ya all the best.
I collected alot of records upto the late 80's until I fell into the CD revolution, but still bought tapes because they were cheaper and could be played in the car. Had a iPod for a while but found it a soulless format. Unfortunately my records and tapes have disappeared through life, but did start collecting again and buying new releases, but it's got expensive, so gone back to CD, full circle eh!
Interesting film Mr Turnip
Note that in your introductory 'history of recorded music' bit you mentioned that albums came about as a result of the introduction of the vinyl LP. Actually (adopts professorial tone...) albums are called albums because shellac 78rpm discs could only hold a short amount of music hence you needed a set of discs to hold a typical classical work (which is what most music was in those days). These discs were normally issued in a multi-page binder similar to a coin album or photo album. Hence the term 'album' came to be used for recorded music too!
Fascinating thank you for this 👏
What you say is true (for the most part). However, the meaning of the word "album" has also evolved beyond reference to a physical medium to include a new meaning--a meaning much more abstract. The new meaning is a collection of specific recordings of specific songs in a specific running order--regardless of the medium carrying the sound. I'm always appalled when I ask someone if they own a particular album, only to be told, "No, I have it on CD." Boy, do they ever not understand the new meaning of the word "album"! The physical medium has become irrelevant. And this new meaning is not that new--it goes back to whenever competing formats to LP's came on the market--which was some sort of pre-recorded tape back in the 1960's or 1970's.
Although that's the basic definition, musicians and producers have something more specific in mind when they create albums. They don't just want a random collection of songs. They want songs which hang together in some sort of artistic unity. This vision of the album can be credited to Frank Sinatra. His album _In the Wee Small Hours_ was the first true album in this sense of the word.
One thing I will correct you on is your claim that most music was classical music back in the days of 78's. That's not true at all. Popular music has always been the predominant form of recorded music. However, in the days of 78's, _albums_ were predominantly classical music, that is true.
Records also didn't have jackets (covers) in the beginning.
@@rabarebra Cylindrical records came in a cardboard tube. I'm not sure how 78's were packaged--that may very well have changed over time.
Yes I have that collection, spent 46 years to get and takes over a space in my living room, got a lot of gems a lot, best sounds ever 🙏
I remember celebrating that CDs sounded so clear, none of that speaker crackling, when the needle lands on the the vinyl. Turns out, that was what you missed most.
Love that you have a Lowry on your wall I always thought you be a fan. Plenty of chimneys 😊
Hi!
You came to my lovely town (city) Preston!
We still have some cotton mill chimneys around in Preston!
One I think u will absolutely love is between Blackburn and Bolton, you will find it on the local route. Top notch chimney.
India Mill chimney, Darwen. My granny and grandpa both worked from school to retirement under that there chimbley. Fred Dibnah climbed it as well (on RUclips)
@daimonriley
Yes, that is the chimney. Grand structure.
I remember the feeling as a teenager, handling the hot new release from a favourite artist that I scrimped and saved up to buy, looking at the stunning sleeve artwork, reverentially handling the disc putting it on the record player and sit and really listen to it. You almost feel a connection to the artist.
Now I only do streaming, and in many ways it's really great , while my vinyls sit in storage, beside my top-end turntable.
Action Records probably one of the best record shops in the UK. And the owner Gordon ( who you spoke with ) is a legend!
And, as a label, Action released the first Boo Radleys LP (before they moved to Creation and made one of the finest psych/shoegaze/noise/pop LPs of all time).
Brilliant video! I recently got back into vinyl and i strangely realised that as a 41 year old full time guitarist with tinnitus, listening to music on vinyl is so much less stressful on my ears than digital. Theres something about the harsh compression of streamed music that makes it uncomfortable to listen to after a while, but i can happily put the headphones on (wired! 😁) and listen to my favourite and new music for hours.
Also, looking at the artwork and reading liner notes and lyrics as you listen is a special thing. Not for everyone and I understand why some younger people would find that odd, but for others it's the only way to experience the music as the artist intended.
Pointless info - my fave recent purchase is Counting Crows "Recovering the Satellites". Had it on cassette in the 90s but it's a far deeper experience on vinyl. Happy listening y'all 👍
I very much enjoyed visiting vinyl and CD shops while I was living in Portsmouth, only good memories from these places ❤
The frequencies and vibration that the record plate makes is an unseen magical touch to the entire universe.
Vinyl is a package, from the actual record the art designs on the cover and often lyrics for each song on inner sleeves.
vinyl was never dead it was just hybernating
Vibernating ;)
Yeah there was always a vinyl shop in my town
@@Ourjudd 👍
So is your spelling! Ha!
I find it ironic that the CD what nearly “ Killed” it off. Then vinyl said “ Oh no you don’t” `and to many label bemusement, vinyl was pulled out of hybernation.
Nice turntable, it’s a great choice to start with. Your friend advised you well. 👍 Hope you enjoy it.
Loved this video. There’s a whole vinyl community on RUclips with people all over the world sharing there love of vinyl records. I regularly share videos showing records I’ve picked up from car boot sales etc 👍
Music is art. Album covers are another form of art. If those mean anything to you, spending money towards that art form helps pay the artists, and help them continue to put out new music. People used to have no problem buying albums in all the formats you mentioned (vinyl, 8-track, cassette, cd, etc.), the internet helped kill that form of the business for a while. I find it refreshing that vinyl has made such a resurgence, and I have a large collection of both cds and vinyl records (a few thousand of each). Over the last few decades I've been puzzled a bit by the amount of money people have no problem putting toward concert tickets, or following the same artist around the country and seeing 20 shows, but then not buying music albums outside of their Spotify subscriptions. I still very much enjoy the act of seeing an artist live, especially in a more intimate venue/setting, but concert tickets and fees at the larger stadium type shows have gotten a bit crazy. Anyway, if you are a music fan and value art, show it by spending some of your disposable cash on it. The artists deserve it. I'm also a big fan of the album format, I would say 90% of the time I'm listening to different albums from start to finish vs. individual songs. I'd hate to see a day where the full length album ceases to exist.
I grew up in Kirkham, and used to catch the bus to Preston to visit Action Records. I now live in Stoke but still order frequently from the Action records website - as recently as last week in fact! A great record store, and something we should be proud of 🙂
Hearts and Bones by Paul Simon is a stunning track... a love letter to Carrie Fisher, and perhaps his greatest love song. Amazing taste dude :-)
Brilliant video..great to see inside afflecks palace, last time I was there was in 1994, when I lived in Manchester..funnily enough probably the last time I had a walkman..listening to The Bends on repeat. Happy memories..thanks
I have used vinyl from the mid 90’s until now. All through University, I kept buying vinyl and Technics turntables. I think I did 30 sets of Technics in my life as I found a little market for reselling them at school.
Sold my early drum and bass collection in 1996, mistake, but went on to continually buy records. I still have about 800 vinyl in flight cases from 1996 to 2002 or so, when I was really into mixing drum and bass, house, trance etc.
Sold my last set of technics about 7 years ago, but always get the bug, so started messing with Stanton decks etc and now have settled on Audio Technica LP140 decks for the last two years. These are brilliant, I prefer them to my friends Technics as the motors are so much more responsive; only the arms aren’t as good as technics.
I still buy vinyl, probably have amassed another 120 vinyl or so here; there is a brilliant resurgence in 90’s style drum and bass/jungle.
I will say though that some of the re-issue vinyl are very poor quality. Can’t beat the originals!
Still keep Cd’s as well, much to my brothers amusement. Lol.
Never had a MP3/iPhone song in my life. I still buy cars with CD players lol.
Also, the best format for dropping vinyl mixes was always Minidisc for me as it was just so easy to wipe out and try again!
Weirdly i was going through all the vinyl in HMV only yesterday!
I love vinyl for the art work not just the music, those frames you can get for the wall that you can easily swap in and out your favourite sleeves are awesome too, perfect wall art 👌🏻
I was in hmv today and chuckled seeing all the youngsters clutching their vinyl albums - Talking Heads, Abba, Queen etc. And, it being hmv, paying through the nose for the privilege!
DJ's helped keep vinyl alive. Speaking as one myself, I never stopped using my 1210's and snapping up as much vinyl in charity shops as I could. I think I've got about 2,000 now. 1,500 of which are dance records from 1988 to about 2001/2, and the rest are albums I've snagged from charity shops, boot/jumble sales, Vinted etc for peanuts.
Dance labels still released music on 12" even when it was supposedly a defunct thing, as did some bands. It was never obsolete so it didn't ever actually die off like tape/cd/minidisc.
I can't see vinyl ever really disappearing as there's so many people around the World still mixing with it - and it's just as popular now as it was 20 years ago, you only have to look at the price of Technics, Pioneer, Vestax etc decks now plus the crazy prices of vinyl on sites like Discogs.
The boom in recent years has largely come from Indie bands releasing limited edition vinyl and they sell like hot cakes. Labels and artists have noticed this and started doing it to. It's just a shame the average consumer will be buying absolute junk record players as that's all that's readily available, but it at least gets them into vinyl and maybe they'll eventually upgrade - if not the whole deck than at least a better cart because a crap deck still sounds decent with a quality cartridge. It's just crap decks are belt drive and they can be all over the place when they're cheap so it can ruin the sound of a record.
You can't beat physical media, look after it and it'll stay with you for life. Digital just ain't the same.
I was working on the bins near garstang and the wagon hadn’t reached me yet so I lifted the lid of the bin and it was full of tapes and vinyl, so I had about 1 minute to grab as much as I could fit on my person before the wagon came because he wouldn’t wait for me. I got loads of tape packs from the 90s dreamscape and helter skelter and a few LPs.
Vinyl is, by far, the best medium for music and at the age of 57 I've had experience of most of the formats. I started with vinyl and cassettes, graduated to CD and then to MP3 via the original iPod Classic (which I still have). I've fully re-embraced vinyl and have a pretty sizeable collection of albums because I love the interactivity and feeling if anticipation I get when I go through the ritual of playing a record! I've also upgraded my hifi setup, so it's also great for people who enjoy experimenting with electronic equipment like amps and especially turntables!
A walk down memory lane for this person who had albums and owned an original Walkman in the 80s.
Also, love your camera collection!
Quality video 🫡👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏Also Lewis Oliver tune mate keep em coming.
Back to the days of my childhood, I remember my grandparents having the very old "78" records; and us young people getting the most modern LPs. Back then we had a choice of a "proper" record shop called Ames in Nelson in Lancashire; as well as another one who could get hold of unauthorised imports. The ones we got from Ames were all 100% mint, but often the imports has the corners cut off the cardboard sleeves so they were clearly none-approved versions. Yes, I still have many of my old records - including all the imports with the torn sleeves. Being older and having a bit more money than when I was a teenager; the records are now carefully preserved in protective plastic sleeves. Unlike with a download; when you play them, you cn still get your hands on all the cover art and any of the artists photos or notes. When it's just a download, the best I ever seem to get is the title of the song on a one-line digital display. We used to take great delight putting a record on and propping up the vivid pink and yellow record sleeve of the "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" album. This doesn't really have the same effect on a tiny little one-line display...
Thanks for making this. Clearly a lot of work (and love) went into it and I really enjoyed it. Only bit I thought was a bit confusing was near the beginning when you were talking about albums but all the video was of 7" singles being played.
Nice video Sir. Enjoyed this. I’ve subbed. I almost sold my UK Garage collection about a decade ago, but glad I changed my mind.
Amazing Video mate one of your best... thank you
I’ve dabbled back in this again but I have to be honest it mostly rekindled my interest in CDs again lol. Vinyl has a lot of draw backs that CD over came and you still have the physical media, album art work and so on but better quality sound and less negatives. There’s something lovely about sitting down and listening to a record but once the music is actually playing I think CD is better overall.
It's also a lot easier to rip a CD to mp3 than a vinyl record (though it can be done), then you still have your CD and you have a digital copy you can play on your phone when you're out and about.
Any physical media is still open to damage or loss, especially vinyl records and tapes.
After an 15 year hiatus. I got back into vinyl after attending an all night rave party in 2000 with many high end vinyl turntables and mixer. in action. I was amazed. I was not surprised vinyl would make a comeback.
Like father, like son! Proof you were well brought up (as if we needed to be told that).
Hi, I'm from the Czech Republic, I have a turntable and records at home, but also a large collection of CDs or cassettes and also VHS tapes and a VCR, DVD and Blu-ray player. I love these physical media. There's a beautiful cover, a booklet on an LP or CD. The smell when you unwrap a new LP or maybe a CD. The ceremony of playing an LP record. Sure, I also pay for Spotify so I can listen to a lot of music, but then I've also bought some albums on physical media based on that. LP record, CD, etc. It was predicted to die out, but as you can see, and your video confirms it, it's all alive and well. Thank you for this video and I will subscribe to this channel based on it. Have a good day.
Its visceral, tactile and sounds warmer. A vinyl collection represents stages and experiences in your life. My journey started out with great grandparents with a gramaphone and "78s and I still have some (they are breakable) and my parents and a teak seventies record player and a scratched record collection. You never know what you might find in a record or chazza shop. Fabulous vid. And good to see you in my home town. Cassette man yes!
Great video. That box of records from your Dad is like a treasure trove for some of us. When you open a record box like that you never know is it going to be Val Doonican, Max Bygraves etc (all good in their own way, if that is your thing) or it going to be the rock classics from the late 60s onwards Bowie, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Beatles and lots of bands - originals, that some consider from the golden age of vinyl. They looked in great condition which is just a joy for 50 year old albums. One idea - if you get a chance to hear any of your favourite albums on a really good hifi system, see if that works for you. For me with a good hifi setup, when the sound of the music is like the artist or band is playing live in my living room, it makes the emotional connection to the music even stronger. You might find yourself saying I never realised that same record could sound so good, that´s the magic of vinyl, the quality level hidden in the grooves of vinyl records is incredible.
Brilliant video capturing the real essence of why collecting vinyl is so loved. I still have everything I bought from the very first single Jimi Hendrix- All along the watchtower from WHSmith You can pull out a album and it takes you back to when you bought it and what you were doing.
Beautiful :) As an 'analogue' DJ for 20yrs (1988-2008) It warms my heart that vinyl is still loved, to be fair, it was always loved. Many many dance labels these days release their stuff as EXCLUSIVE to vinyl which is great but you cant beat modern file formats for ease of use & quality (and storage space) Saying that, my copy of Dark Side Of The Moon does have a glass fronted frame & takes pride of place INFRONT of any family photo... Vinyl is just aspecial thing... always will be
Great story Mr Turnip. I cleaned and digitised my entire record collection. A few years back. But after a good clean, it all sounded so damn good... So I've been buying vinyl ever since
Great video mate. Never thought that way about the second hand market but i’m gonna start using that going forward when buying records, just wait until I find it in a store
Can’t beat em, vinyl records.🫡👌👌👌👌Still got my Technics 1210’s.😂🫡👌👌👌👌
Me too, the MK2 is hell of a player spins & spins… just wonderful!
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The second interview pretty much nailed it for me. I’m a big Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) fan, and I really fell in love with his album The Ecstatic back in 2019. At some point during that year the album got taken off all the streaming services because of a licensing dispute and remains absent to this day. I was furious, but later that same year I saw the record in a shop not far from where I lived at the time. I’d never bought a record in my life, but decided to get it because of the streaming debacle. That pretty much started my fascination with collecting and Hi-Fi, and I’ve been doing it ever since.
Ive no spotify but that tune at the end was excellent.so please pass on a manual thumbs up, and a Merry Christmas to you young Turnip