08-06-2011, 07:12 PM
I've nothing against professional restoration. I meant that I enjoy listening to the same RECORDS, as opposed to the same SONGS that I grew up listening to, albeit as MP3/WMA files.
If sleeve notes do say anything worth reading then fine, and perhaps they are better in other genres, but often those CD booklets just contain irrelevant photographs, the Arctic Monkey's 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' being a case in point.
As for looking attractive that can work both ways as they can be as off-putting as encouraging. I've got singles in picture sleeves which I turned inside out: Debbie Gibson's 'We Could be Together' and Transvision Vamp's 'Landslide of Love' spring to mind yet both these songs would be in any top ten I were to compile.
There is a lot of music which I find completely life-enhancing but I wouldn't know the artists if I met them. I've never had access to MTV and wasn't even an avid watcher of 'Top of the Pops' so music is usually heard on the radio and about the only time I see contemporary artists is on things like Glastonbury and now I haven't got a television won't be doing that.
I accept that I'm in a minority, especially for people my own age and above, but to me music is aural and paying much attention to the packaging of a record makes as much sense as going to an art galley to listen to the frames.
Each to there own.
- Joe
If sleeve notes do say anything worth reading then fine, and perhaps they are better in other genres, but often those CD booklets just contain irrelevant photographs, the Arctic Monkey's 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' being a case in point.
As for looking attractive that can work both ways as they can be as off-putting as encouraging. I've got singles in picture sleeves which I turned inside out: Debbie Gibson's 'We Could be Together' and Transvision Vamp's 'Landslide of Love' spring to mind yet both these songs would be in any top ten I were to compile.
There is a lot of music which I find completely life-enhancing but I wouldn't know the artists if I met them. I've never had access to MTV and wasn't even an avid watcher of 'Top of the Pops' so music is usually heard on the radio and about the only time I see contemporary artists is on things like Glastonbury and now I haven't got a television won't be doing that.
I accept that I'm in a minority, especially for people my own age and above, but to me music is aural and paying much attention to the packaging of a record makes as much sense as going to an art galley to listen to the frames.
Each to there own.
- Joe
