Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Wednesday 2 October 2013
Vinyl Feature: Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
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| Front of Gatefold Cover |
When it was released under the Motown label in 1967 this signature album of Diana Ross and the Supremes topped the charts worldwide reaching number one in the USA on the U.S. Billboard 200 as well as the U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart and peaked at number one spot on the UK Albums Chart. Ten of the songs on this album were number one hit singles and the album sold a total of about six million copies making it one of the most successful albums by an all female group in history!
Tuesday 1 October 2013
LOVE - Black Beauty - Vinyl Album for sale
Arthur Lee’s legendary band LOVE's first-ever official release of their album Black Beauty is available on vinyl from Amazon. Not cheap, but certainly a worthwhile buy for fans of LOVE or just 70's rock in general.
The link below will take you straight to Amazon's page where you will be able to purchase it for yourself:
I am not sure how long they will have stock of this gem so if you want it you better order it right away. Don't say I didn't warn you...
Neil Young - rare 1985 NZ interview
Interviewer: What do you personally think that people like about your music?
Neil Young: I haven't got the faintest idea…
Monday 30 September 2013
My 7 Simple Tips to improve your Listening Experience
While most of us dream of having the space for a separate listening room just for our music listening pleasure the reality of the matter is normally somewhat less dreamy. The fact is most of our sound systems are located in the lounge areas of our homes and this area normally also serves as a tv watching room, family congregation room, games room, chill out room, reading room, etc.
Few of us will ever have the same high level listening room as this one that was custom built by ModWright Instruments on their premises:
...but we can dream can't we? ;-)
Few of us will ever have the same high level listening room as this one that was custom built by ModWright Instruments on their premises:
...but we can dream can't we? ;-)
Things to do with old Vinyl Records # 3 - Clocks!
In the third post in this series we continue to explore the possibilities of things to do with your old records once they are too scratched and otherwise damaged to be used as a viable source of music listening pleasure. We have all thrown away old damaged LP's, but I am highlighting here that at our vinyl's retirement age we could turn that old friend into something more practical and beautiful, and it is even good for the environment folks! Recycle, recycle, recycle... now we can tell our lefty friends that we have done our bit for the environment!
My personal favourite, clocks!
Sunday 29 September 2013
Vinyl Feature: Readers Digest - Great Original Hits Of The '50s And '60s
I just spent a large part of my Sunday slowly listening my way through the Readers Digest - Great Original Hits Of The '50s And '60s Collectors Edition box set which I picked up a short while ago at Erikshjälpen in Åkarp for the paltry sum of 50 SEK. It offers a great walk down memory lane with a well chosen selection of hits from the 50's and 60's (yes, like it says on the box, stop being picky...) and packaged in a good quality sturdy box containing 9 discs. My copy is in MINT condition and looks as if it may have been played once. Maybe.
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| Front of Box |
Saturday 28 September 2013
Why Analogue Refuses to Go Away
I am currently at home recovering from a hernia operation that I had last Monday, and because of this I have a lot of time on my hands right now to sit and listen to music, read and think on such things as the meaning of life, which is the tastiest breakfast cereal and why the analogue medium refuses to go away. When I say analogue I am not only referring to music, but the whole range of “old” stuff that was set to be replaced by it’s newer, more modern counterparts years ago and despite all odds stubbornly refuse to disappear and in some cases, like vinyl records, are actually staging a measurable comeback.
Over the last 49 years since I was born the world has changed radically and quite beyond belief. In South Africa during the sixties we didn't even have television and had to wait until 1976 before it was finally introduced to an eagerly waiting public. Before my father acquired the large wooden cased floor standing television set that graced our living room we would sit down to dinner every evening as a family, and have conversations about our day, what was happening at school or work or with the ailing neighbour down the street. It was a time that I still cherish to this day and for me those were some of the happiest times of my childhood. However, the day that the new television came into our house I distinctly remember my father sitting down at the table, dishing up a plate of food and then departing, food in hand, for the sitting room. We never ate our dinners at the dining room table again, except on special occasions, and the relationship that we had as a family was never quite the same again. Progress had come, but was it really progress at all?
Friday 27 September 2013
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