Vinyl Revival
Music, Photographs August 16th. 2007, 3:54pmToday I tripled the size of my vinyl collection. I now have three vinyl albums.
So let’s do the math here. Three albums total. The size tripled. 3/3 = 1. Therefore, the size of the collection increased by…
Two Albums
The Carpenters - The Singles (1969 - 1973): I have fond memories of singing The Carpenters at a karaoke bar in Japan in 2002.
The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane: I never realized how many of their songs I know from oldies radio. Plus “White Rabbit” is a total trip. Like, a trip to Alice In Wonderland. On shrooms. Yup, nothing like a drug-laced tale of psychedelia to set the kids on a good path through life. (Sidenote: If you’ve ever wondered what the deal is with this dog showing up in the art, you should read about the Victor Talking Machine company.) Credit to Lefsetz for mentioning Jefferson Airplane — it gave me a name to look for at the used record store.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 11:13pm
The Carpenters rock… and they’re from CT, too (as in ‘like me’). Some of the finest songcrafting from brilliant pop composers Burt Bacharach (”Close To You”) and Paul Williams (”Rainy Days and Mondays,” “We’ve Only Just Begun”) is on this LP, which almost no one didn’t own in the 70s. These songs are worth listening to closely for the gentle nuances in the arrangements and much, much more. Be sure to seek out the tribute CD, “If I Were A Carpenter” (c. 1995) for some faithful, some innovative takes on some of these same songs. You’ll never listen to “Top Of The World” the same again after you’ve rocked out to Shonen Knife’s rendition. (A news personality I know was going to perform that song at an Asian festival a few years ago. Try as I might to get her to switch to the SK version, she stuck to the original.)