JSngry

Awwww.......dammit. I thought everything was centered around me and the history of my record buying. So,,,maybe you want all my old LPs to do A-Bs with?

Sgt. Rock Sgt. Preston Yukon Jack

I don't know. It just came out that way after I edited the post. Sucks, don't it...

Eric Idle Rev Al Green Injun Joe

Nice pants!

Hey, I was lucky enough to have been born in a time and a place where I could regularly buy decent BN, Prestige, Impulse, etc. vinyl for enough years before CDs were introduced to tell you that if you think that that stuff sounded better on CD than it did on the LPs, well, there's your "bullshit sentiment" right there! I'm not talking the rare first pressing either. I'm talking regular, store-grade LPs available all through the 70s. Pop albums, maybe not so much, especially as the decade wore on, but evn then, if you got a bad copy, you just kept exchanging until you got a good one. You could do that then... There are no absolutes here, but I've held on to my LPs, all of 'em, and have no qualms about doing so. None whatsoever. Of course, once digital recording came to the fore, all bets were off, because a whole lot of the early digital recordings sound like total crap. Nothing sounds real, especially pianos and drums (I've heard early digitally recorded piano and drum sounds that would be impossible to replicate in the natural world!). That's done a complete 180 now, but we're not talking about now. The very first CD I had in my house was an Aretha Franklin Atlantic side of which I also had the LP. I did an A-B and the CD sounded so weak compared to the LP that I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry, that's how jacked-up the CD mastering was. But it was clean! And easy!

Yes! That's what's needed to revive the industry - interactive hardware!

I like the idea of a two-sided download..one that you'd have to flip your iPod over to get it to play....you talk about messing with people's heads...

Dill Johnson Heinz Sauer Sweet Baby Ray

True enough, but...the quality of the pressing and the quality of the recorded playback sound are two different things altogether, although on the casual consumer end it doesn't seem that way. Too many times I'd buy a CD that, sure, was popless & clickless and all that, but still didn't have the presence and depth of the old LP. Clean, but lifeless. I know I'm not the only one who remembers that...

Dana Bash Jumpin' Jack Flash Sir Fredrick Gas

I also suspect that more people are downloading singles instead of albums. Do the math on that one.

You should get a show on CBS Morning show - "The Eye Guy", or something like that. Your logos could merge in a kind of optico-corporo-synergy to beat the band! Seriously, I do believe that the eyes are the windows to the soul, very much so.

Woody Woodpecker Peter Peckerwood Charlie Cracker

Sorry, it remains me of CBS. No offense to you or the patent office, neither of whom I know well enough to believe "just because they say so". But..the eye as an output device? You mean like this? Hey, CBS or not, I'm down with some of that! I might be, but apparently my IP address isn't... </h2> Sorry, I don't click on strange links on sites where my IP address is banned before I even visit there...

Yeah, in the old days, you could take out your hostilities & other anti-social tendencies by killing people's souls as you went through life. But now that most people are already dead of soul by the time they're, what...16?, that option's pretty much off the table. It's Still Morning In America!

They did one album by the New York Jazz Quartet (Frank Wess, Roland Hanna, I forget the other two...) & one, I think, by Airto. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Dude, what's up with the eye thing? Are you from CBS or something?

FWIW (probably little, if anything...) Paul Quinichette always seemed to mirror Post-War Prez a lot more than Pre-War Prez.

You hear through your ears, I hear through mine. Viva la differential.

Mr. Mooney Mrs. Carmichael Stokely-Van Kamp

Never thought of that...pretty cool way to go about it! I've had conversations/bullshitting sessions with friends where we speculate that vinyl will finally resurge as the "format of quality", mp3s or other DL-centric format will stay as the "convenience" format of choice, and everything else will go away. Works for me, unless the vinyls go outrageous in price on new releases. Anything over $20.00 & I'm stepping back to reconsider my options...

Also, just to clarify - a new remastering in no way guarantees a better remastering. All I mean is that in an A-B comparison of an early CD and its analog LP counterpart (again, if a true one exists), the LP is going to sound better far more often than not. I'm talking reissued product here, mind you. People their out their vinyl waaaaaaaay too hastily.

We will agree to differ on the quality of most early CDs, then, even if the crap to goodness ration is 99,000,000-to-0.0000001 I mean, seriously...any early CD that sounds better than its comparable analog counterpart (assuming that there is one, and if we're talking about those horrid early all-digital recordings, then the very best sound is no sound at all...) deserves to be highly collectible, because it is truly a rarity. I know there were some, but overall....it was a bill of goods which we were sold. Inferior product rushed out to save an already declining industry. We bought the product, they bought some time, but the jig (or is it gig?) is finally up.