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Printablevainandy said: Does anyone remember those discs in the early 1990s that looked like a CD but were the size of a vinyl record album? What were those? They sure didn't last long.
Laserdisc? Wasn't that for just movies? | |
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CinisterCee said: vainandy said: Does anyone remember those discs in the early 1990s that looked like a CD but were the size of a vinyl record album? What were those? They sure didn't last long.
Laserdisc? Wasn't that for just movies? I don't know. I remember seeing a Mariah Carey one in the record store and I asked the clerk "Do y'all still carry vinyl?" because it looked like a record album in the cover. I think he said it was a laserdisc. I don't know, maybe it was a video of a concert. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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vainandy said: I don't know. I remember seeing a Mariah Carey one in the record store and I asked the clerk "Do y'all still carry vinyl?" because it looked like a record album in the cover. I think he said it was a laserdisc. I don't know, maybe it was a video of a concert. Hmm.. maybe it was Unplugged. | |
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CinisterCee said: vainandy said: I don't know. I remember seeing a Mariah Carey one in the record store and I asked the clerk "Do y'all still carry vinyl?" because it looked like a record album in the cover. I think he said it was a laserdisc. I don't know, maybe it was a video of a concert. Hmm.. maybe it was Unplugged. I think it was. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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kdj997 said: luv4all7 said: Okay, it's no secret that most people dig Prince"s "older" stuff. And a previous post got me thinking about how back in the day, it seemed easier to listen to an album all the way through w/out skipping songs. Now when you buy a full CD you barely listen to half of the material.
So could all of this be due to the ease of pressing a button to the next tune rather than having to sit and fast forward? Is it just that maybe FULL albums grew on us cuz we had NO CHOICE but to listen to the whole thing, over and over to get to the GOOD STUFF? Essentially TRICKING us into loving the WHOLE thing. Am I on to something here? Did technology ruin music for us? DID video kill the radio star? You crackhead why did you uyse cassettes? You shouldve said records (vinyl as some posers like to say). I mean if you're talking about listening to music with out the skip button, records are the ultimate format as far as sound is concerned. Why the hell would you use an inferior sounding format like cassettes? What the hell is wrong with you? Ummmmm, cuz I was born in 1978 and have never listened to a record in my life.....   [Edited 11/28/05 9:58am] | |
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Well, if it's a straight cassette vs CD contest then there really is NO contest,
CD's win hands down. The sound quality on cassettes was poor to start with, plus it deteriorates over time whether you play them or not. I have to say that I never bought cassettes unless I really had to (ie. it was otherwise unavailable) even back in the day. Now if we're talking vinyl versus CD that's a different matter. There's definitely something to be said for the limitations placed on album releases by the vinyl format. The usual length of a vinyl album was about 40 minutes, plus you had to get up and change sides halfway through as well. This made the listening experience manageable and in line with the average person's attention span. It also meant that each 20min side of music was sequenced in a logical and considered 'set', almost like a mini concert with it's placement of grabbing opener, rousing numbers and ballads. This natural flow kinda got lost when people started filling the 80min non- stop CD format with music. If there's too much, your concentration and appreciation wears off halfway through, and you're more likely to end up just having it as 'background music' while you're doing something else. I've noticed there's been a definite resurgence in the last few years of artists producing albums to a more 'vinyl-like' formula (shorter 40min albums etc.) and this has definitely been for the better. | |
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