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.
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 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.
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 ?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
I remember seeing an original pressing of Sgt Pepper in a charity shop to buy for "5 records for £1" when everyone was offloading their record collections and you couldn't give them away. I bought it (with 4 other albums) not because I particularly liked the Beatles but because I couldn't let such an iconic album sit in there unsold. I added it to my original record collection, which I still have, from 1970s-80s.
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.
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.
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!
As a collector of nearly 60 years "vinyl" never went away for me, every new album that came out during the "wilderness" years i managed to find a vinyl copy somewhere and still have, today i enjoy collecting remasters and reissues of my favourite albums and compare them with the OGs.
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'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.
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..
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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' :)
In the 90s particularly with the rave scene, record shops were like a social hub, you would spend all day there on a Saturday listening to tunes and meeting other DJs and people from the scene, great days!
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!
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.
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).
I bought my first LP in 1980 when I was a kid and I've never stopped buying them. When CDs were at the height of their popularity in the mid to late 90s. I bought up every obscure 60s & 70s Folk, Metal, Psychedelia, Progressive Rock, Punk/Hardcore, Acid House LPs, as well as a lot of the current Electronic/IDM releases of that era. At the time, I bought most of those records for absolute peanuts and was also given a tonne of stuff for free!
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
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.
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 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
I bought (or begged for) albums and 45s in the 60s. In the 70s I was still buying vinyl but then I started buying eight tracks because I had an 8-track player in my car. What a pain in the ass those were! I got into cassettes quite a few years after that. Unfortunately I sold a lot of my records so that I could move to England. I worked at a record company in Los Angeles so I had a lot of promos. I love that vinyl, still buy it, still play it, always will.
An amazing video - mainly because you're walking down Church Street in Preston and nothing's on fire (one of the buildings you passed at 6:13 has since burned down). I work in one of Preston's many charity shops and can confirm there's still a market for physical media. I'm the one who tests all the electricals that get donated and regularly get cassette players CD players, turntables etc. Means I have to keep a large number of formats, devices and cables on hand so I can see whether things work. I've yet to use my 8-track or MiniDisc yet, though.
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.
As an old bloke this is my memory. As a small kid I listened to my Mum's music. A lot was on 78's. She was a big Elvis fan and I clearly remember an album she had of his from the fifties that said on the sleeve. Revolutionary new 33 1/3 RPM. She had very few 45's. For recording anything we used a tape to tape machine. Huge great box like a small suitcase. Then I started listening to Pirate radio stations. In the seventies the first cassettes appeared. You had a radio cassette player and we all taped the pirate stations to play back later. I bought more cassettes than records. Records I had to play at home and my parents hated my music. Cassettes I could play on a portable player. Later in my car. Just more convenient. The only record player was in the lounge. Only usable if they were out. Never got into records. By the time CD's came out I wasn't buying music. Then I got into computer music and film downloading. Setting up programming to nick it off the internet at snail pace. Still have a vast digital collection. Today I only really listen to the radio. Gone full circle. Vinyl is something of history. It served a purpose until something better came along. A bit like a Model T. Records scratch. They can distort. They don't like the heat. And the sound is iffy at best. Following the trend of what is old is new, they have become collectors items. But I won't buy any. Didn't first time around.
So cool to hear you like 'Hearts and Bones'! It's from a Paul Simon album of the same name that didn't do very well at all and hardly ever gets talked about. The song itself is wonderful. Do yourself a favour and pick up 'One Trick Pony', fantastic record!
Born 1979. First Tape was Kraftwerk. Don't have many tapes left as alot were stolen or destroyed. Same of my CDs. Alot of bad friendships. What I have left i look after. My vinyl player needs repairing but its a cute blue box with a carry handle. My boom box died and at the time couldn't get repairs. I do have a walkman though.
This is great. My crushing social anxiety as a (1980s) teenager meant I always avoided record shops. Downloading was a godsend; you could avoid the judgemental staff behind the counter ;-) You should bring one of those Box Brownies on a photowalk!
I've got a 1981 Sony turntable and some original wharfdale speakers made in 1975 still in great condition. I'm 52 and still love my vinyl today as i did getting my first records given off my uncle "Deep Purple In Rock" and compilation album 'Deepest Purple" and The Beatles' 'Red Album" was an early childhood favourite. Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' and "Master of Reality' were a few of my first. Motorhead, AC/DC, UFO, Rush, Saxon etc etc
Absolutely fantastic video Mr T. I recall the days me and my friends would listen to Pink Floyd together. The montage at the end was a masterpiece piece of editing.
I started collecting vinyl again around two years ago! Have spent a fortune on Dylan, back in the 80s when I got into him I started buying vinyl then tapes then CDs and now vinyl again. Also was out and about on Wednesday walking around Jumble Hole valley and in the Witches cottage as I like to call it.
This video is fookin' magic, as well as it being an interesting subject excellently researched and presented, it shows the strength of the human spirit over the atomized, mournful digital online "society". I think it says something (what, exactly, I can't quite put my finger on) that none of the protagonists were arseholes and displayed an enthusiasm that encapsulated humanity in its finest form. Bravo Wandering Turnip!
I've seen a few of your videos recently and have enjoyed them and this was another good watch ... Thank you. I watched this to see what the hype was on vinyl, because I personally becer got it. Although I'm a big fan physical media, I only ever bought CDs, for their clarity and ease of use. I can see why people like vinyl however I'm too lazy for the maintenance needed for vinyl and cost of a good stylus is just silly. I will say one thing tho, if you do get into listening to vinyl for a good few hours a week, I'd recommended a getting good amplifier and a good pair of speakers. Listening through a good quality hifi will bring out things you've never heard before and will be less fatiguing.
I moved home a few times and still have all my records. Blue Monday, Toyah and many more. I also have a load of white label records mainly used by DJs back then. here where two great record shops one behind the London empire China town and the other in Soho market.
I couldn’t give a rats backside about Vinyl, I don’t even listen to music, I’m a big book reader myself. But this might be one of your best videos yet, enjoyed every minute, well done Turnip keep it up!.
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.
In 1985, for high school graduation, I got a Fisher rack stereo, with the first CD player of all my friends. I had a pretty good vinyl collection then, but liked CDs so much better. Didn't have to put up with sound deterioration (some vinyl in the 80s was garbage), didn't have to flip it every 20 minutes, could shuffle... I didn't look back, unless something wasn't yet available on CD, which was common still. I still don't really miss vinyl, except for the physical attributes; the smell, the size, the art, liner notes, flipping through bins... I still remember peeling the cellophane off The Kinks "One for the Road" when it came out, and I'm pretty sure the off-gassing gave me brain damage, that day-glo ink was so heavy. I miss that, but I'm not loving that an album $25 USD now. So... no.
One memory of listening to vinyl is from 1973 when my sister got Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album. My parents had a Ultra stereogram (4 band radio and record player) with a speaker at each end. I used to sit with my nose against the middle of the wood cabinet to get the best stereo sound. Now I have the same album on Vinyl and FLAC. I have a turntable, CD player , music streamer, Reel to Reel tape recorder and 4 DAPs. An Apple 160GB classic, a Fiio X1, a Fiio M7 and a Sony Walkman which uses a 1TB microSDcard which has most of my music on it including ripped CDs and a few converted LPs. The first album I bought was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. My mother wasn't very happy about me spending £3.99 on a record but she calmed down a bit after I told her it was 2 LPs and cheaper than buying all the singles that were released from it. I only ever bought about 4 singles,Wings - Live and Let Die,Mungo Jerry - Alright Alright Alright, Eagles - Hotel California and ELO - Roll Over Beethoven. P.S. I recently bought,from ebay, a HMV Gramophone with a horn speaker that is identical to the trophy given to music artists that plays 78s along with about 15 78s of early jazz including Glenn Miller.I play them occasionally but not late at night as there isn't a volume control.
You change the needles they come in a pack of loud, medium or soft ...also you can stuff a rolled up sock in the horn .. literally where the phrase " put a sock in it " originated 👍👍
Great video - brought back a lot of memories. Anyone remember Violet Mays record shop in Sheffield city centre ? We have 2 vinyl shops in Chesterfield now
I sold all my LP's about 5 years ago along with my expensive 80's stereo system. I hadn't used the stereo in 30 years. Now I can watch the artist and hear the music on TH-cam without the faff of a record player. I also got rid of all my cassettes and DVD's.
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. 🔊🤣
WHAY, Astonishing sounds in Burnley, been going there for years and years since I was in my teens and still do now in my 40's there and Electron across the road was my Saturday haunts!
Ive also just recently bought a record player so i can play my aunty's folk band (The Tinkers)again, from the 60's that is not available on CD or the imternet..plugged it in to my speakers and nostalgically transported straight back to happier more creative times, when music was actually music,and not the mindless drivel they churn out to masses on the radio these days.. I think after the last few years we have endured and the depressing development of tech and AI etc alot of people are craving the old familiar things in their lives.
I've heard new vinyl sales are actually slumping because they've become so expensive now. Another factor is that some reissues in the last 10 years or so are mastered/pressed poorly on the cheap or in a rush for some cash grab. It's the case that very few good dedicated vinyl pressing plants still exist around the world now and the expertise / machinery is scarce. They get inundated with abba reissues and artists like Taylor swift to the chagrin of smaller artists who are met with giant backlogs. The quality control seems to lacking in some cases. People will still try and find an original pressing in playable condition for the collectability and to hear the record as it was originally intended. It's also often cheaper unless it's a rare record or pressing. Reissues are justified if the original is prohibitively expensive or supply doesn't meet demand (obviously these are related) and it's not just a cash grab.
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!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing. I bought my first vinyl records in the 1970's and still love it.BTW it's ok to have multiple copies of a record. ~~/)~~
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.
Iv been going to the same vinyl shops in Burnley lancs for the last 36 years . Electron and astonishing sounds .. as as youngster buying heavy metal.then in my twenties as a dj(bouncy house, trance,donk)...and still to this day ,i was in there today
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 :-)
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.
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.
Can’t beat going into a record store and coming home with a record you didn’t expect to find.
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.
It never died for the core music fans
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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
its about taking time, relaxing, reading the sleeve, taking the record out, dusting it, putting it on the player... it's a great time
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 ?
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.
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 :)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
I still have all mine from the '70's.
Me too
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 😂
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!
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.
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!
I remember seeing an original pressing of Sgt Pepper in a charity shop to buy for "5 records for £1" when everyone was offloading their record collections and you couldn't give them away. I bought it (with 4 other albums) not because I particularly liked the Beatles but because I couldn't let such an iconic album sit in there unsold.
I added it to my original record collection, which I still have, from 1970s-80s.
Long Live Vinyl, def. So many wicked good memories came flooding back, remembering my collection. Thanks from Boston, MA.
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.
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.
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 👏
Just been buying second hand 7inch singles for my 1961 Rockola jukebox in the midlands , still working perfect , on its original valve amplifier
As a collector of nearly 60 years "vinyl" never went away for me, every new album that came out during the "wilderness" years i managed to find a vinyl copy somewhere and still have, today i enjoy collecting remasters and reissues of my favourite albums and compare them with the OGs.
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??
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.
I very much enjoyed visiting vinyl and CD shops while I was living in Portsmouth, only good memories from these places ❤
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.
Is there anything better, than a father passing down his record collection to his son..............................
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.
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 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.
Quality video 🫡👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏Also Lewis Oliver tune mate keep em coming.
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!
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.
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.
Nothing beats the inconvenience, expense, frustration and storage problems which all come from collecting vinyl!
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.
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' :)
"Paralysed by completion". What a gem. Epic video WT !
In the 90s particularly with the rave scene, record shops were like a social hub, you would spend all day there on a Saturday listening to tunes and meeting other DJs and people from the scene, great days!
👍 in the '80s it was everyday after school.. and on weekends catch a train to find a bigger record store or music shop 😬 true story ☝️
Perfecto, Grace...not over yet!
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!
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 can see the mini disc format coming back one day
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).
I bought my first LP in 1980 when I was a kid and I've never stopped buying them. When CDs were at the height of their popularity in the mid to late 90s. I bought up every obscure 60s & 70s Folk, Metal, Psychedelia, Progressive Rock, Punk/Hardcore, Acid House LPs, as well as a lot of the current Electronic/IDM releases of that era. At the time, I bought most of those records for absolute peanuts and was also given a tonne of stuff for free!
it put a big smile on my face when you found that LP Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells which I have by the way in mint to near mint condition
Love that you have a Lowry on your wall I always thought you be a fan. Plenty of chimneys 😊
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
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.
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.
Can’t beat em, vinyl records.🫡👌👌👌👌Still got my Technics 1210’s.😂🫡👌👌👌👌
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
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.
Great mini documentary... really enjoyed it!
I bought (or begged for) albums and 45s in the 60s. In the 70s I was still buying vinyl but then I started buying eight tracks because I had an 8-track player in my car. What a pain in the ass those were! I got into cassettes quite a few years after that. Unfortunately I sold a lot of my records so that I could move to England. I worked at a record company in Los Angeles so I had a lot of promos. I love that vinyl, still buy it, still play it, always will.
I sold all my vinyl in 1987 to move from UK to LA.
Like father, like son! Proof you were well brought up (as if we needed to be told that).
An amazing video - mainly because you're walking down Church Street in Preston and nothing's on fire (one of the buildings you passed at 6:13 has since burned down).
I work in one of Preston's many charity shops and can confirm there's still a market for physical media. I'm the one who tests all the electricals that get donated and regularly get cassette players CD players, turntables etc. Means I have to keep a large number of formats, devices and cables on hand so I can see whether things work. I've yet to use my 8-track or MiniDisc yet, though.
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.
As an old bloke this is my memory. As a small kid I listened to my Mum's music. A lot was on 78's. She was a big Elvis fan and I clearly remember an album she had of his from the fifties that said on the sleeve. Revolutionary new 33 1/3 RPM. She had very few 45's. For recording anything we used a tape to tape machine. Huge great box like a small suitcase. Then I started listening to Pirate radio stations. In the seventies the first cassettes appeared. You had a radio cassette player and we all taped the pirate stations to play back later. I bought more cassettes than records. Records I had to play at home and my parents hated my music. Cassettes I could play on a portable player. Later in my car. Just more convenient. The only record player was in the lounge. Only usable if they were out. Never got into records. By the time CD's came out I wasn't buying music. Then I got into computer music and film downloading. Setting up programming to nick it off the internet at snail pace. Still have a vast digital collection. Today I only really listen to the radio. Gone full circle. Vinyl is something of history. It served a purpose until something better came along. A bit like a Model T. Records scratch. They can distort. They don't like the heat. And the sound is iffy at best. Following the trend of what is old is new, they have become collectors items. But I won't buy any. Didn't first time around.
So cool to hear you like 'Hearts and Bones'! It's from a Paul Simon album of the same name that didn't do very well at all and hardly ever gets talked about. The song itself is wonderful. Do yourself a favour and pick up 'One Trick Pony', fantastic record!
Born 1979. First Tape was Kraftwerk. Don't have many tapes left as alot were stolen or destroyed. Same of my CDs. Alot of bad friendships. What I have left i look after. My vinyl player needs repairing but its a cute blue box with a carry handle. My boom box died and at the time couldn't get repairs. I do have a walkman though.
This is great. My crushing social anxiety as a (1980s) teenager meant I always avoided record shops. Downloading was a godsend; you could avoid the judgemental staff behind the counter ;-) You should bring one of those Box Brownies on a photowalk!
I've got a 1981 Sony turntable and some original wharfdale speakers made in 1975 still in great condition. I'm 52 and still love my vinyl today as i did getting my first records given off my uncle "Deep Purple In Rock" and compilation album 'Deepest Purple" and The Beatles' 'Red Album" was an early childhood favourite. Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' and "Master of Reality' were a few of my first. Motorhead, AC/DC, UFO, Rush, Saxon etc etc
Absolutely fantastic video Mr T. I recall the days me and my friends would listen to Pink Floyd together.
The montage at the end was a masterpiece piece of editing.
Eastern Block & Aflecks Palace in Manchester was where I bought a lot of my tunes.
I started collecting vinyl again around two years ago! Have spent a fortune on Dylan, back in the 80s when I got into him I started buying vinyl then tapes then CDs and now vinyl again. Also was out and about on Wednesday walking around Jumble Hole valley and in the Witches cottage as I like to call it.
16:25 this is an amazing example of why music is the most beautiful thing that life has to offer ❤️
This video is fookin' magic, as well as it being an interesting subject excellently researched and presented, it shows the strength of the human spirit over the atomized, mournful digital online "society". I think it says something (what, exactly, I can't quite put my finger on) that none of the protagonists were arseholes and displayed an enthusiasm that encapsulated humanity in its finest form. Bravo Wandering Turnip!
I've seen a few of your videos recently and have enjoyed them and this was another good watch ... Thank you.
I watched this to see what the hype was on vinyl, because I personally becer got it. Although I'm a big fan physical media, I only ever bought CDs, for their clarity and ease of use.
I can see why people like vinyl however I'm too lazy for the maintenance needed for vinyl and cost of a good stylus is just silly.
I will say one thing tho, if you do get into listening to vinyl for a good few hours a week, I'd recommended a getting good amplifier and a good pair of speakers.
Listening through a good quality hifi will bring out things you've never heard before and will be less fatiguing.
Has to be one of your best
What a quality video. Seems you and your dad both have great taste in music
I moved home a few times and still have all my records. Blue Monday, Toyah and many more.
I also have a load of white label records mainly used by DJs back then. here where two great record shops one behind the London empire China town and the other in Soho market.
I couldn’t give a rats backside about Vinyl, I don’t even listen to music, I’m a big book reader myself. But this might be one of your best videos yet, enjoyed every minute, well done Turnip keep it up!.
Amazing Video mate one of your best... thank you
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.
Absolutely excellent video mate!
In 1985, for high school graduation, I got a Fisher rack stereo, with the first CD player of all my friends. I had a pretty good vinyl collection then, but liked CDs so much better. Didn't have to put up with sound deterioration (some vinyl in the 80s was garbage), didn't have to flip it every 20 minutes, could shuffle... I didn't look back, unless something wasn't yet available on CD, which was common still. I still don't really miss vinyl, except for the physical attributes; the smell, the size, the art, liner notes, flipping through bins... I still remember peeling the cellophane off The Kinks "One for the Road" when it came out, and I'm pretty sure the off-gassing gave me brain damage, that day-glo ink was so heavy. I miss that, but I'm not loving that an album $25 USD now. So... no.
One memory of listening to vinyl is from 1973 when my sister got Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album. My parents had a Ultra stereogram (4 band radio and record player) with a speaker at each end.
I used to sit with my nose against the middle of the wood cabinet to get the best stereo sound.
Now I have the same album on Vinyl and FLAC. I have a turntable, CD player , music streamer, Reel to Reel tape recorder and 4 DAPs.
An Apple 160GB classic, a Fiio X1, a Fiio M7 and a Sony Walkman which uses a 1TB microSDcard which has most of my music on it including ripped CDs and a few converted LPs.
The first album I bought was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. My mother wasn't very happy about me spending £3.99 on a record but she calmed down a bit after I told her it was 2 LPs and cheaper than buying all the singles that were released from it.
I only ever bought about 4 singles,Wings - Live and Let Die,Mungo Jerry - Alright Alright Alright, Eagles - Hotel California and ELO - Roll Over Beethoven.
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I recently bought,from ebay, a HMV Gramophone with a horn speaker that is identical to the trophy given to music artists that plays 78s along with about 15 78s of early jazz including Glenn Miller.I play them occasionally but not late at night as there isn't a volume control.
You change the needles they come in a pack of loud, medium or soft ...also you can stuff a rolled up sock in the horn .. literally where the phrase " put a sock in it " originated 👍👍
Great video - brought back a lot of memories. Anyone remember Violet Mays record shop in Sheffield city centre ? We have 2 vinyl shops in Chesterfield now
I know the owner of Tallbird. Worked at Virgin HQ many years ago
I sold all my LP's about 5 years ago along with my expensive 80's stereo system. I hadn't used the stereo in 30 years. Now I can watch the artist and hear the music on TH-cam without the faff of a record player. I also got rid of all my cassettes and DVD's.
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. 🔊🤣
Thanks to the guy on the market stall reminding me about Prelude. I've just added it to my Spotify library at 7.50pm on Wednesday.
WHAY, Astonishing sounds in Burnley, been going there for years and years since I was in my teens and still do now in my 40's there and Electron across the road was my Saturday haunts!
Rough Trade is still going in London, that is nice
Ive also just recently bought a record player so i can play my aunty's folk band (The Tinkers)again, from the 60's that is not available on CD or the imternet..plugged it in to my speakers and nostalgically transported straight back to happier more creative times, when music was actually music,and not the mindless drivel they churn out to masses on the radio these days..
I think after the last few years we have endured and the depressing development of tech and AI etc alot of people are craving the old familiar things in their lives.
I've heard new vinyl sales are actually slumping because they've become so expensive now. Another factor is that some reissues in the last 10 years or so are mastered/pressed poorly on the cheap or in a rush for some cash grab. It's the case that very few good dedicated vinyl pressing plants still exist around the world now and the expertise / machinery is scarce. They get inundated with abba reissues and artists like Taylor swift to the chagrin of smaller artists who are met with giant backlogs. The quality control seems to lacking in some cases.
People will still try and find an original pressing in playable condition for the collectability and to hear the record as it was originally intended. It's also often cheaper unless it's a rare record or pressing.
Reissues are justified if the original is prohibitively expensive or supply doesn't meet demand (obviously these are related) and it's not just a cash grab.
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!
Just bought a turntable on Black Friday.😂
Great video!! Thanks for sharing. I bought my first vinyl records in the 1970's and still love it.BTW it's ok to have multiple copies of a record. ~~/)~~
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.
I only ever buy music on VInyl. Love it's presence and colour.
Iv been going to the same vinyl shops in Burnley lancs for the last 36 years . Electron and astonishing sounds .. as as youngster buying heavy metal.then in my twenties as a dj(bouncy house, trance,donk)...and still to this day ,i was in there today
This is by far your best video 😊
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 :-)