Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People find this surprising. They think that a true stereophile should have the latest, cleanest musical mechanisms. But, as Joan Jett once said, I love rock'n roll, not its machinery. And defects and all, I like everything about L.P.'s. Everything. Scratches, warps, pressing the repeat button and playing the same side of an album all night. Everything...
...glad the eight-track has gone the way of its other inexplicable contemporaries like mood rings, platform shoes, pet rocks and one-night stands. The existence of this stuff makes me wonder what was in the water in the 1970s that created such hideous consumer instincts...
...there's a bit of lint on the needle. It's meant to sound scratchy when you're listening to that Pink Floyd album you last played when you were stoned and accidentally dropped on the floor in trying to flip it over. (If you couldn't have experiences like this, what would be the point in getting stoned and making spastic attempts to function normally...
Music is meant to sound warped when you're listening to that Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Beatles album that's 20 years old and used to belong to your older brother. Music is meant to sound like it's been places...
...lyrics and grasp the full meaning--the full cosmic earth-shaking force that rock 'n roll at its best can be. I know they put all the same information in C.D.'s and cassettes these days, but it's always in the form of some fold-out thingamagig like the pamphlets they hand out on street corners about safe sex or finding Jesus or joining the Hare Krishnas. It just doesn't feel right...