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...IMAGINE THE SCENE maybe six months after I first acquired "Rare Masters." I'm standing in Newberry's, a drugstore blessed with a hipster buyer who controlled the records section, which in those days were all LPs and 45s. I walk over to the Oldies section, or the Girl Groups section, or maybe just S in the alphabetical listing. I flip through the LPs and suddenly I'm holding "The Phil Spector Wall of Sound Vol. 6 - Rare Masters...
High tech implies progress, while low tech feels outdated. A stone wheel, an arrowhead, a shuttle loom were once high tech; today they are museum pieces. Phonographs, at one time considered high tech, are now collectibles, as are 45s and LPs. (See, for example, the offerings on eBay.) High tech becomes low tech with longevity and familiarity and as old technologies are replaced...
...Lauryn Hill was visiting Detroit to produce a song that she wrote for her childhood hero, Aretha Franklin. On the way to the airport, she stopped at the Motown Museum. The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5--these were the performers she was reared on. She could picture their 45s scattered across her bed. "It was incredible to me and really inspiring," says Hill. Now she was ready to push forward on her own solo album...
There's an artistic payoff too. Today's rockers, as they strive to re-create the glory days of the B side, can squeeze more material onto a CD single than performers could in the era of 45s and 78s--including remixes of hits, extended versions of current songs, and, increasingly, brand-new songs. The new Smashing Pumpkins CD single, Zero, has six previously unreleased tracks; one, Pennies, could have been...
...rangy heroes, whose Postcard releases have been harder to find than true love for the last, oh, ten years. Postcard's head honcho revived his label last year, and two of the results so far are The Heather's on Fire--which collects all of Orange Juice's early 45s--and Ostrich Churchyard, the unreleased-till now first album they recorded...