Tag: nostalgia
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The Best Free Compilation From My Youth…Ever! (Plus One)
Although I’m an iPod owner, and an avid iTunes user, until this morning I’d never downloaded a song from the Apple Music Store (or anywhere else for that matter). Call me old-school, but I like having the CDs.  I do have all of my CDs ripped to my iPod, and some I’ve never even heard straight off the plastic, but I still feel happier having the physical backup. A couple of days ago I read a buddy’s ‘blog entry describing how he’d recreated a vinyl-only compilation from yesteryear by purchasing the individual tracks online. Co-oncidentally, at the same time, my service… Read more
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Out Of Control In The Temple Of Love
I recently invested in the Joy Division four-CD boxed set Heart and Soul. Prior to this, the only thing I’d ever heard by Joy Division was the ‘hit’ single Love Will Tear Us Apart – which is OK, but not exactly There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. But Joy Division have been given a lot of good press recently, and have been cited an influence by several bands I’ve been listening to, so I thought I’d give it a go. And on the whole, it’s not too bad at all! Quite different from what I expected – a… Read more
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“But what do I do with my old ’78s?”
I just bought myself a new turntable (that’s a ‘gramophone’ to you, Grandad). My old one (an Ariston Q Deck) had stopped working (actually it never started working again after a 10-year hiatus in storage) and although I haven’t bought any vinyl in years (not that anywhere sells it any more even if I wanted to) I do have a sizeable collection of vinyl albums (also fresh out of storage) that I didn’t want to give up on just yet. Finding a new deck in the first place was hard enough. None of the high-street electrical / home entertainment stores… Read more