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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 11:27pm on 11/07/2008
I have come late to loving albums; which is not to say that there weren't individual albums I loved in my lifetime, but until this latest computer and its hard drive, I was very much a mix-tape-one-song-only sort of girl. So it's fascinating to me that other people are album people; has it been that way for you always, lady? Tell me more!
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posted by [identity profile] thassalia.livejournal.com at 11:45pm on 11/07/2008
It has indeed always been that way. Records were treated with utter reverence in my house (there was a whole ritual to putting them on my dad's turntable), and my own turn table was stackable so you could put multiple albums on it at once. (Which meant that I listened to the same side for a week, then flipped them over and listened to the other side).

The whole format, I think, is just a different experience if you grew up with records and not CDs because you can't fast forward vinyl without the risk of scratching it (and therefore getting screamed at). So you just listened.

I'd totally recommend getting a cheap turn table, a bunch of vinyl and an afternoon:)

Also, unlike the CD cover, "Sticky Fingers" had a working zipper, and the Velvet Underground banana sticker is in my stuff somewhere, along with my poster from The White Album (and really, The Beatles are where I learned to love albums. Abbey Road is a story. The White Album is a story.) Hell, Eagles or not, Hotel California is a story:)
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