First off, I love that you love Aja. I think it is the great music album ever made, analog or digital.
Second, I'm totally in the digital camp. My wife and I used to have literally thousands of vinyl albums, they are gone now. I have 6400 tracks on my iphone and I just love having music so handy. Most of the tracks came from cd's which are also now gone.
Third, I know lots of people, especially the young set, who love vinyl and swear by its superiority. Hey more power to them is what I say. I'll stick with my iphone. I remember the old days with vinyl and sweating over the surface noise and pops, and the warps and all that. Spent a fortune on disk cleaning products and admonishing those who put their fingerprints on my records. Don't miss those days at all. I do miss the days when you'd be invited to come over to somebody's house and bring an album or two and we'd listen to each other's music. Those days are gone and I miss that.
Alan, thanks for reading and glad you enjoyed the post. Hope all is well. Funny thing is that just yesterday I was finally reunited with over a thousand LP's that have been in storage in Oakland since the fall of 2017 when we moved back to NM. I'm playing an album now and like it or not, surface noise is part of the experience. C'est la vie. The good thing is that I have a lot of classical LP's that I don't own in digital. So it's all good. Finally, I agree that Aja is one of the greatest pop/rock records ever made. I've listened to it countless times. Cheers.
That image of the sound blasting over the listener in the chair and some cartoons on the same theme are priceless. Sound is such a powerful sense. It's difficult to comprehend a world of silence, though would prefer that over being sightless. I do remember being awed, in (I think) 1973, attending a Grateful Dead concert at the Cow Palace. They were backed by a towering new sound system in the form of an altar of speakers that made the floor rumble. That experience made quite the impression, for one so young and so very impressionable!
First off, I love that you love Aja. I think it is the great music album ever made, analog or digital.
Second, I'm totally in the digital camp. My wife and I used to have literally thousands of vinyl albums, they are gone now. I have 6400 tracks on my iphone and I just love having music so handy. Most of the tracks came from cd's which are also now gone.
Third, I know lots of people, especially the young set, who love vinyl and swear by its superiority. Hey more power to them is what I say. I'll stick with my iphone. I remember the old days with vinyl and sweating over the surface noise and pops, and the warps and all that. Spent a fortune on disk cleaning products and admonishing those who put their fingerprints on my records. Don't miss those days at all. I do miss the days when you'd be invited to come over to somebody's house and bring an album or two and we'd listen to each other's music. Those days are gone and I miss that.
Alan, thanks for reading and glad you enjoyed the post. Hope all is well. Funny thing is that just yesterday I was finally reunited with over a thousand LP's that have been in storage in Oakland since the fall of 2017 when we moved back to NM. I'm playing an album now and like it or not, surface noise is part of the experience. C'est la vie. The good thing is that I have a lot of classical LP's that I don't own in digital. So it's all good. Finally, I agree that Aja is one of the greatest pop/rock records ever made. I've listened to it countless times. Cheers.
That image of the sound blasting over the listener in the chair and some cartoons on the same theme are priceless. Sound is such a powerful sense. It's difficult to comprehend a world of silence, though would prefer that over being sightless. I do remember being awed, in (I think) 1973, attending a Grateful Dead concert at the Cow Palace. They were backed by a towering new sound system in the form of an altar of speakers that made the floor rumble. That experience made quite the impression, for one so young and so very impressionable!