Word: soundes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thornburgh's policy may also deter politically motivated leaks. The Justice Department faced criticism this summer after an offical leaked to CBS News information about an alleged criminal investigation of Rep. William Gray (D-Penn.). The report made it sound as if Gray were under criminal scrutiny, although the FBI was merely investigating an accountant whom Gray knew casually...
...that is quite a different matter. Because music, particularly rock'n roll, is meant to be listened to on records. It's meant to have that slightly distorted sound that you get when 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...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...deep (or, more often, shallow) recesses of your rock star idol's mind. Only L.P.'s are part of that whole experience. Let's face it, Elvis' Sun collection and Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds just had to be playing on records. As it is, music today is getting closer and closer to being embodied in the commodity that can only appear in the forms of gold and platinum. C.D.'s may improve the sound, but they're going to ruin the music...