With a little research (ok, not much, really) I came up with my top ten list of best rock and roll quotes. Drum roll, please...
10. A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage. - Connie Francis
(I happen to agree with this; others may refute it, which is why it's at number ten.)
9. I sit and I write automatically. I don’t really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I’m inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song. - Brian Wilson
8. Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit. - Mick Fleetwood
7. It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It's called rock now. - Chuck Berry
6. We never said it was a utopia. Rock & roll is played on enemy ground. - Mick Jones
5. I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. - Aretha Franklin.
(that one just makes me giggle.)
4. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity. - John Lennon
3. Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. - James Brown.
2. Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." - Billy Joel.
(who knew he had anything good to say?)
1. I like rock and roll, and I don't like much else. - John Lennon.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Vinyl vs. Cd's
I was asked by Shawn months and months ago to become a part of this blog and though I've been a "contributor" since about April, this is my first post. So here goes.
As a kid, we had vinyl records. I remember very vividly my father buying me my first record: Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth. I was five or six years old. The record is now proudly affixed to the wall in my bedroom, encased in glass. (Yes, I'm that sentimental about songs like "We Could Be Together" and "Lost In Your Eyes.")
Twenty-something years later, I still collect vinyl, though I think my taste has improved somewhat since 1989. My basement is ridiculously full of records, meticulously arranged in alphabetical order, and in my bedroom next to my beltless drive turntable, I keep all my favorites like Beatles 65, The Minders' Cul-de sacs and Dead Ends, and several Guided By Voices records.
As a teenager, I began buying cd's at Compact Disc World. I limited myself to buying one cd per week, as I had an allowance, and my collection slowly grew. I sort of forgot about records for a few years until my dad let us listen to his band's, Tramp, 45 from 1969, a kind of post-punk teenage angst sort of thing. And I was amazed at the quality of sound, not having heard such a thing in years.
Now the real question is WHY is vinyl so much more amazing than anything else? Well, there IS a simple scientific explanation for this: a cd's analog is digitzed. A digital recording doesn't contain all the sound information a vinyl record does. This causes vinyl to sound much better.
Aside from the scientific reasoning behind this, I think vinyl just reminds us of simpler times. I didn't have bills, car payments, or a mortgage to pay when I first received Electric Youth or listened to Thriller or Hall and Oates' Rich Girl (which was and still is a pretty damn good album.) I played outside until dark, considered skinned knees battle scars, and rode shotgun in my brothers' General Lee.
As a kid, we had vinyl records. I remember very vividly my father buying me my first record: Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth. I was five or six years old. The record is now proudly affixed to the wall in my bedroom, encased in glass. (Yes, I'm that sentimental about songs like "We Could Be Together" and "Lost In Your Eyes.")
Twenty-something years later, I still collect vinyl, though I think my taste has improved somewhat since 1989. My basement is ridiculously full of records, meticulously arranged in alphabetical order, and in my bedroom next to my beltless drive turntable, I keep all my favorites like Beatles 65, The Minders' Cul-de sacs and Dead Ends, and several Guided By Voices records.
As a teenager, I began buying cd's at Compact Disc World. I limited myself to buying one cd per week, as I had an allowance, and my collection slowly grew. I sort of forgot about records for a few years until my dad let us listen to his band's, Tramp, 45 from 1969, a kind of post-punk teenage angst sort of thing. And I was amazed at the quality of sound, not having heard such a thing in years.
Now the real question is WHY is vinyl so much more amazing than anything else? Well, there IS a simple scientific explanation for this: a cd's analog is digitzed. A digital recording doesn't contain all the sound information a vinyl record does. This causes vinyl to sound much better.
Aside from the scientific reasoning behind this, I think vinyl just reminds us of simpler times. I didn't have bills, car payments, or a mortgage to pay when I first received Electric Youth or listened to Thriller or Hall and Oates' Rich Girl (which was and still is a pretty damn good album.) I played outside until dark, considered skinned knees battle scars, and rode shotgun in my brothers' General Lee.
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