There's some shameless capitalism going on here. How much did you pay for your daughter's turntable?
Until the 80s/ 90s a turntable was the cheapest Hi FI component and I seem to remember that the rule-of-thumb cost was about 15% of your basic Hi Fi. I've been poking about in Hi Fi shops for about a year now (still plucking up the courage to tell the wife it's time to buy a new record player ;) and in both the UK and FR turntables are eye-wateringly expensive, with the 15% going up to roughly 50%! Damian BTW the reason I want to buy a new Hi Fi is 1. to be able to plug an iPod or MP3 player into it, and 2. because I'd like to buy my needles over a counter rather than the hit-and-miss mail order method that is the only option today for my rather old equipement. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Richard Naef < rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk> wrote: > Interestingly this year more vinyl will be sold in the UK than in any year > since 2001 - 700,000, mainly down to David Bowie & Daft Punk. > > > > Of course Vinyl never went away and my 20 yr old Daughter asked for and got > a record player for her last birthday and has gone through my vinyl > collection and "borrowed" a very strange selection of 60/70's so called > classics. mainly down to what the album cover looked like - exactly what I > used to do! OK so Electric Ladyland was a good album, but it was the cover > that sold it for me :) People will definitely be buying Vinyl in 10 > years > time, while CDs 8track, minidisks, cassettes will be just a distant memory. > > > > ttfn > > > > Richard > > > > From: John Lee [mailto:bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: 15 October 2013 11:41 > To: Joe Skinner; Brendan; Richard Naef; leedslist@gn.apc.org > Subject: Re: [LU] Aznavour(*)..... > > > > I don't think it's bizarre - people since the 50s have developed > favourites. > Most people who like Northern Soul that I know are well into lots of other > stuff too. The snobbery around records is the same for all genres - I'm > very > guilty of this re house music! > > > > I know the 3 copies myth re Frank Wilson - wonder if it's true?? I've got a > copy on vinyl (Last night a DJ saved my life - can't verify title but I > think that's what it's called). Sounds great on there. Have a copy on the > i-Pod and sounds way too treble-y! > > > > Just enjoy the music :-) > > > > On Monday, 14 October 2013, 12:42, Joe Skinner > <jacksonpollocks...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I should start by saying I like Northern Soul (Music, not the nights or any > of the stuff that goes with it) > > Brendan, et al. All you need to know is that it's called Northern Soul > becasue out of Town Northerners buying records down south couldn't get the > bog standard Motown/Stax 'commercial' style anymore, because no one was > making it or selling it in any great quantities - most people had moved > onto > Funk & Soul styles > > Some dude in a record shop in London labelled all the old style stuff > Northern Soul because that's who were asking for it, according to him > (Midlanders included) > > So people wanted songs sounding like Sugar Pie Honey Bunch but couldn't get > them. > > For some reason a tiny record buying population with their head stuck in > the > past mutated into all nighters where the more obscure of these tunes (REv's > is a perfect example (and a perfect song, it has to be said) - one song > that > a Producer at Motown made and was pulped because Berry Gordy or someone > decided they'd rather have him producing than making records) are > discovered > (or sometimes made recently and faked as discovered) by DJs crate digging. > > I think there are only 3 or so records that knowingly exist of 'Do I love > you' (2 by Berry Gordy & the dude himself) - which is daft isn't it? One > record floating about going for a quarter of a million. Both digital copies > I have of it are awful, all tinny and one sided (you could say that's the > whole style of music/production!) > > It's a bizarre musical movement. > > > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:07:15 +0100 > > From: bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk > > To: brendan_mcwilli...@hotmail.com; rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk; > leedslist@gn.apc.org > > Subject: Re: [LU] Aznavour(*)..... > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul > > > > Rarity/Exclusivity has often been part of the deal Brendan. Whilst there > are many Motown footstompers, there's a grittiness and often a rougher > production around cracking songs that sees unfamiliar and commercially > unsuccessful songs given cult status. Occasionally these cross over - for > example, Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I do) - no matter how many > times I hear that record I love it! > > > > I understand the 'let's keep this hidden' mentality, but if you like > differing genres of Motown you'll love all the better-known Northern Soul > compilations. I remember DRB 'loaning' me his NS records for a couple of > weeks - I think I loved every one, but had only heard of about 10%! Had I a > bit more cash and a missus who's not obsessed with clearing out my vinyl (a > battle she has yet to realise she will lose) I'd have made him an offer for > the lot! > > > > Anyway, don't get hung up on labels and dip your toe in. Try 'Okeh - A > Northern Soul Obsession' (vol1) for a comp with loads of fantastic tunes > you > probably haven't heard before. > > > > John > > > > > > > > On Thursday, 10 October 2013, 20:08, Brendan > <brendan_mcwilli...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Excuse my ignorance (honest), but what's the difference between Northern > Soul and say listening to Motown, Jackie Wilson etc? > > > > Or rather, what are the emblematic Northern Soul tunes that are not your > regular Motown etc? Anyone have an eclectic playlist at hand...? > > > > Also - and I may get stoned to death by The People's Front of Judea for > this one - but is/was there much overlap with the mod scene? > > > > God bless this list (given that the shower we follow are shit)! > > > > BMW > > > > > > > > --- Original Message --- > > > > From: "John Lee" <bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk> > > Sent: 10 October 2013 14:51 > > To: "Richard Naef" <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk>, "'leedslist'" > <leedslist@gn.apc.org> > > Subject: Re: [LU] Aznavour(*)..... > > _______________________________________________ > > Leedslist mailing list > > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER
