Thankfully there are too many good sounds for them to make much of an impact on the actual artform - but instead these tedious Victorian policeman-look-alikes have targeted the delivery format. And of course they have had a fair go at messing with music too. They have ruined beer, coffee, tattoos and facial hair. It’s not a book I’ll be taking to a charity shop or passing to a friend as it’s nice to dip into and I probably will in the future, it's also a book I'd be pleased to receive as a gift (with Christmas almost upon us), but as a real good read it falls short. I guess because Vinyl Me Please is an exclusively vinyl club (I assume - I hadn’t heard of it until this book) then yeah they want you to experience it on vinyl but the only statement that really comes close to making me want to grab a slab ‘o’ wax is in the review of Springsteen’s Nebraska where the reviewer says “For a better rendition of that precious recording quality, this album will always sound better on vinyl”, which at least gives an insight and support behind the reasoning of the book title. I like the associated and occasional recommendation of what drink to listen to the music with - it’s fun….and maybe that’ll expand my options as it’s usually wine or a beer for me.īut at the end of the day it fails to convince me why I should get these on vinyl rather than say CD and I have to ask if it would preach to the unconverted effectively. Sometimes things are left hanging, the Beyonce review where it is said that the surprise release of her fifth album “changed the way the industry conceived of major label album releases”, and it goes on to say that other artists attempted to pull off the same feat, but it doesn’t explain what this feat was and as Beyonce doesn’t really come into my sphere of listening I would have liked to have known what her devotees know. The reviews are not quite compelling enough and I know it’s super hard to enthuse to someone about something you love especially when faced with a blank page to fill with words but I feel most reviews need that little extra to push them over the edge. The overviews are pretty good but only a handful have had me thinking “I’ll have to check that out”. There also seems to be a lot of white space, space which could have been filled with slightly more in depth appraisals of the albums. The book itself is okay, it’s a nice size, just the front sleeves are shown which is a pity maybe the inserts or rear sleeves might have made it a bit more engaging and there is a synopsis of each album. Playing it is also more of a ritual getting the record out, holding it reverently by the edges maybe giving it a quick clean … then that pregnant pause between lowering the stylus and it hitting the record after which you immerse yourself in the music and the sleeve, a ritual probably associated closely with people of a certain age but easily addictive to younger folk I’ve found and one that diminishes with presumably “lesser” formats. I love vinyl, I’ve a ton of the stuff along with a ton of CDs and the vinyl vs CD vs download debate could fill all Amazons servers but to keep it simple, vinyl just sounds different. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.ġ00 Albums You Need on Vinyl and Why…well there’s 100 albums here but the persuasion for getting them on vinyl is lacking. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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