Remember The Days..

[bullet08]

Remember the days when I would buy an album for just a tune. Felt I was cheated. But I wanted that tune. The Police "Ghost in the Machine" comes to my mind. I wanted "Everything She Does Is Magic". But funny thing is, I ended up loving most of the tunes. Then there are the Pogues albums. All the ones with Shane are are Golds.

 

[georged]

 

[bullet08]

I remember the music video. I still have the song as ring tone for my wife. Dumped all the LPs, and now just a box set of CDs. But it sounds good without pop, crackle and snap.

 

[warren]

Shane MacGowan! He did some stuff I loved and he could put out some crap. But, a fascinating man always.

 

[Python 357]

The first album I bought was the Monkees Headquarters,1967 I think

 

[anotherbob]

the other end of that was when the single was the weakest track on an album and it wasn't till 20 years later that we found out how good the rest was.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Up until I was maybe 10 years old, I got a dollar a week for my chores, and as my dad would say, it would burn a hole in my pocket to get me a new Hot Wheels or Matchbox car. Then at 10, I started mowing the yard, and made enough to get one album a week. I still have most of those albums, unless I traded them away. Then in college, as everyone was turning to CD's, I found used record stores, which blew my mind. Most albums sold for $2 back then, but the shop I visited had some that were really hard to find, some going for over $100. I didn't get very many of those, ha ha. But, the guy behind the counter was like an encyclopedia of everything that ever happened in every sound booth across the country... or so he thought.

I still have a favorite used record store, that believe it or not, almost everything recorded today, still gets a limited release in vinyl.

 

[renfield]

I’ve never been a singles guy, I always wanted the full album experience. That said there are several albums in my collection that should have been released as a single and called it good. Definitely enough to turn me off on buying that group’s next release.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

The one nice thing about singles is that on most turn tables you could stack them and listen to a vinyl playlist of sorts. I had an aunt that gave me her collection of single Top 40's from the 1940's up through till 1960. It was probably about 500 singles. I have only bought maybe a dozen singles new. I have no idea where those all went.

 

[augiebd]

I have a box of my Dad’s singles he bought out of jukeboxs in the 50’s. They are still some of my most treasured vinyl. I have my Uncle’s record collection from the 40s through 70s. A lot of country classics there.

 

[AreBee]

We always bought an album for the hit we heard on the radio and fell in love with all the songs on it.

My daughters (20 and 24) grew up in the iPod era, always on shuffle. As much as I used to play album sides in the car it wasn't until I got them both into vinyl that they were impressed by those unknown songs. One example is that Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was everywhere. I would tell them that it was arguably the fifth best song on A Night at the Opera. They get it now!

Everything She Does Is Magic has a special spot in my heart (along with my high school girlfriend ), but today I'd argue it's the third or fourth best song on that album!

 

[rakovsky]

Occasionally years ago they sold "Singles" Albums. I think maybe you just got 1 song on the whole disc.

Remember the days... when PA was standardly sold in Discount shops and Grocery stores in tins. Nowadays it's just in 12 oz (or 14-16 oz?) jars and on 4Noggins for lower quantities.

 

[warren]

Anyone else hear their first music on 78 rpm's?

 

[MartyA]

Anyone else hear their first music on 78 rpm's?

Me. My folks left stacks of 78's. I've still got a few, but have too much of my own stuff to keep many.