Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 30, 2023

I’m waiting for the 8-track to comeback.

I’d never go back to vinyl after using digital. Had enough of vinyl problems back in the seventies.

Rudy Van Gelder preferred CDs to vinyl. His opinion should be enough for anyone.

Sigh…we’re all getting old.

‘Spew’ Doonesbury producing albums?

I suppose now, a bunch of old stereo sets will be brought down from attics.

Or maybe there will be a run-on on antique Victrolas!!

I love JT’s positive spin on that spin!

Hands up if you knew exactly how many coins of each denomination to stack on your needle to keep it from skipping on each different record.

The years have not been kind to Jimmy. That’s what living on the road can do to you.

I still play records (over 1400 45’s and over a hundred albums). I just wish I had a long spindle to drop them one at a time like a playlist.

Pot and vinyl don’t mix well. Especially if you can stack 8 LPs on the record spindle.

Now there’s more to do / Than watch my sailboat glide / And every day can be my magic carpet ride / And I can play hide and seek with my fears / And live my days instead of counting my years.

Attention Mark and Jimmy: Listen to Dusty, Listen to Carole and Gerry — They’re calling you from 1966!

It looks like vinyl will be the only physical music medium that survives. Digital has a reason to exist. CDs don’t. Vinyl has size, visual appeal, and cover art. And yes, they sometimes skip. CDs sometimes go bad too, but when they go bad, they don’t work AT ALL.

Lame. Real audiophiles know wax and wire are the real deal.

Says Thomas Edison.

I have a friend who was so into the beatles he literally wore out the vinyl.

As a person who grew up listening to operas on well-used 78 RPMs, I can say that this ’tune is accurate.

I still have my copy of JT GH around here someplace. Bought it new. Only played it a couple times. It was pretty decent for a satire album.

Does that intro factoid take into account the progression from CDs to downloads, or is it looking at reality through a toilet-paper tube?

There’s a Sunrise Records store in our local mall that seems to do good business. https://www.sunriserecords.com/

As opposed to music played through a phone where the sound is so compressed you can barely even hear backup vocals anymore.

I’ve ripped my vinyl collection to high resolution FLACs. I just buy CDs now (booooo to MP3s) although I recognize they don’t have the fidelity of vinyl, just a bit more convenient. I stream them through bluetooth to my car’s audio system. Although I did love my live albums back in the day, pops and hisses included.

The things I love most about vinyl are the expense and the inconvenience.

Wonder if he’s trying to say the nostalgia is way overrated. I have more than a few albums, and I have no desire to play them.

I’m firmly with CDS.

I handled my vinyl with care! only by the edges, never touched by fingers, never stacked on top of another. always cleaned before they were played! Not a scratch on them ever! Whoever got them from my ex truly got something special! lol

Maybe if artists and producers didn’t make the CDs so loud, we wouldn’t have had to bring back vinyl that limits dynamic range. Sigh…

From what I read Gen-Zs are getting into CDs, don’t want to follow their previous generation brothers and sisters.As long as the don’t mess up, by screwing with the master recording, CDs are fine.

Love my vinyl.

I have a confession, the whole vinyl thing escapes me.

Still got mine in my El Camino…

I have a 16 yr old granddaughter. Last summer she came for a visit and wanted me to take her to a classic record store. Turns out she likes old blues. I introduced her to Nina Simone.

I’m sort of happy that I really can’t tell the difference between vinal records and mp3 or CD or whatever. Either I like the song or I don’t.

Last frame: Revolver. It all comes back around…

Used to have that very album back in “the day”…

those of us w/synesthesia enjoy things differently.

I’m guessing/hoping that the Beatles are okay with Rubber Soul showing in Mark’s LP rack.

“Vinyl lovers” should really consider Edison wax cylinder recordings. That’s where it’s all happening.

It’s been about 20 years since I last heard a CD skip, even longer for a record, or flipping over a cassette or having a song that’s jamming only to fade out for the track change on a cartridge only to have the rest of the song come fading up for the last 90 seconds of the song. (Boston’s 1st album on 8Track) However I do have some broken Mp3’s

Next up on Marvelous Mark: Solve your health problems with bloodletting, followed by, more anachronisms you too can claim to enjoy unironically.

and this is why i don’t buy vinyl. the only ones i’ve gotten in the last 10 years were because they were bundled with cds in a deluxe box and the only way to get those cds.

the previous 15 years? I only got a picture disk of Tubular Bells.

BTW, stat posted this week: 50% of those who bought vinyl in the last 5 years don’t own a record player.

I don’t understand the vinyl comeback. We spent thousands of dollars to eliminate hiss, pop and crackle at the time. CDs were supposed to be inferior, but I have pretty good ears and you couldn’t convince me of that. Besides, how do you play an LP in the car?

Tape a penny to the tone arm.

A few thousand albums here. And a few 78s going back to the 30s.

As a child of the 70’s, I grew up with LPs, Audio Cassettes and even 8 Tracks. Later, I switched to CDs and still have a CD Player in my living room. I have Spotify (the ad supported free version) on my Computer and Phone and that’s how I listen to music for the most part (though I still play my CDs on occasion. I’ve been in a few record stores and the albums are cool to look at, but I am not intent on getting a turntable. But that’s just me.

Everybody’s missing that the album and single Mark is holding in the first two panels were actually released in 1977. It wasn’t just unknown session musicians. Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MGs) produced it and played guitar with fellow MG Donald Dunn on bass. One of the drummers was Jeff Porcaro who co-founded Toto. I remember my brother getting the album; where his copy ended up?

CDs are too “clean” sounding for me. My preferred way to listen is playing vinyl. I also prefer live recordings of musical theatre than to formal musical soundtracks, which are too “cleaning” sounding.

Did I sell my vinyl collection too soon?

Had a summer job at the transmitter of a commercial AM radio station [WMEX] in 1973. The on-air programs came from a studio downtown except Saturday mornings when I played “Casey” Kasem’s American Top 40 which was on vinyl LPs.

I‘m old enough to remember shellac 78s. And infinitely variable speed controls for older records made at nonstandard speeds before 78 was settled on. And two-stylus pickups for different groove sizes. And little wells to hold a supply of steel needles because, though they were better than cactus needles, they would still wear out after playing about half a dozen disks. And compensator switches on pre-amps that had to be set depending on what company manufactured the disk. And home disk cutters, too. And I remember all of those from home.

Outside of home, in university libraries, from the 20s, one-sided 78s half an inch thick, and in a museum, an Edison-cylinder jukebox. Really.

You can take a listen to a few of these tracks on YouTube. “So Long” is an underrated gem that’s definitely worth checking out!

My wife has this vinyl, should check to see if we still have the groove noise and skipping experience.

Vinyl is like a vampire. Can’t kill the bloody thing. Die! Die! Die! It was a royal pain.

Haven’t quite figured out the attraction, but it must be there.

I still have this record, came with a comic of his origin story…. It’s a great piece so yea it’s a real thing.

My parents bought me a record player in the late 1970s, a plastic thing from Montgomery Ward. It seems the consumer electronics manufacturers and the record labels were on a race to the bottom, and the new record player could not play new records without skipping. I had to satisfy myself with older records that were made better. When I finally got older and wanted to start collecting real rock ‘n’ roll, I went straight to buying cassettes, starting with Glass Houses by Billy Joel in 1980. Cassettes are very finicky, and maybe that’s the appeal to some people, but when I moved to CDs, and then mp3s, I never looked back.

Jimmy Thudpucker… now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Wow—some unbelievably diligent collectors and remembrances of very early audio tech heard from here. If anyone has or knows of a relic, probably on 78s but perhaps even older and rarer than that, featuring sound effects loosely connected to a story for children, with a Christmas theme, it’s what was burned into my dad’s memory when he was a very young child circa 1920. I’d be very interested to find it.

What I’ve got is Tiny Tim singing the theme song from MR.ED

Cut exclusively for a Dallas radio station,45RPM,available by mail order only.

Also,once sat on and broke a 78 that I’m convinced was Woody Guthrie singing “So Long,It’s Been Good To Know You”

Remember Nixon having a copy of ’Alice’s Restaurant’?