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This is a pretty cool piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8605975.stm

Nice. One of the things I miss about vinyl.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

+1 on missing the vinyl album covers . . .

Yeah, that was one of the really nice things about vinyl.
JimK

Vinyl is so cool to look at, and even though the sound quality may not be as good as MP3s or HDCDs, it still has a certain vibe to it. I have all of the Beatles' US albums, The Who's "Who Are You" and an HD remastered copy of TP's "Offical Live Bootleg" on vinyl. I don't have a record player, but they're still fun to look at!

With the right equipment LPs far outshine mp3s, Jake, even CDs.

A true artform. They should make CD cases big just so we can revive this.

(Yea, I know, waste of plastic, not green ,etc. But visually cool!)

Manta

Storm is pretty cool .... turning abstract concepts into visualizations, that really became personifications of the product they were packaged with. A true marketing genius.... even though to him it was art.

One of the guitar magazines had a pretty cool article about him, several years ago....focusing on the several Pink Floyd covers he designed.

ken_j wrote:Nice. One of the things I miss about vinyl.

Big +1

jps wrote:With the right equipment LPs far outshine mp3s, Jake, even CDs.

Agreed, especially with MP3's. The only things I don't miss about vinyl albums are the pops/clicks and having to stop and turn them over midway through. Case in point: the Doors first 2 albums are hard for me to listen to on CD, because I played the heck out of the LPs and remember how good they sounded on vinyl. They had a large, cavernous, mysterious, cathedral quality on vinyl that seems to get shrunk down to a fast food bathroom on CD. It might be due to overtones or multiple reverb reflections that were ignored as noise when they were sampled. Does the forum have any sound engineers that might validate this?

Tom
Disclaimer: memories, like people, are strange.

very cool! I never knew all those great covers came from the same artist. Funny that he mentions something as simple as the prism on the Dark Side of the Moon cover would become so iconic.

Love that Wish You Were Here cover too. Just surreal.

manta wrote:A true artform. They should make CD cases big just so we can revive this.

Funny part is, I remember people complaining for years that the CD wasn't as big a "canvas" for cool album artwork as an LP.......and now MP3's came along and have pretty much undone the entire album artwork altogether.


I do think a great album cover is a work of art. The Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" zipper cover is one of my favorites.

jps wrote:With the right equipment LPs far outshine mp3s, Jake, even CDs.

+1! The vinyl experience can be wonderful. I wish I still had all my records and a decent phonograph system.

kiramdear wrote:

jps wrote:With the right equipment LPs far outshine mp3s, Jake, even CDs.

+1! The vinyl experience can be wonderful. I wish I still had all my records and a decent phonograph system.

I kept about 200 out of the almost 5000 I once owned. Man, what a mistake.

ajish4 wrote:

kiramdear wrote:

jps wrote:With the right equipment LPs far outshine mp3s, Jake, even CDs.

+1! The vinyl experience can be wonderful. I wish I still had all my records and a decent phonograph system.

I kept about 200 out of the almost 5000 I once owned. Man, what a mistake.

What selling the 4800 or keeping the 200?