erik1966lutig

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Member Since: 2/15/2003
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  • Submit Date: 11/29/2003
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

45 RPM

Artist Song
Mari Wilson  Just What I Always Wanted 
Tracey Ullman  They Don't Know 
Yazoo  Only You 
The Human League  Don't You Want Me 
Ultravox  Sleepwalk 
Depeche Mode  Just Can't Get Enough 
Mory Kante  Ye Ke Ye Ke 
Donnie Iris  Ah! Leah! 
The Housemartins  Happy Hour 
The Who  You Better You Bet 
The Damned  Eloise 
Madness  Michael Caine 
The Ethiopians  Train to Skaville 
The Maytals  Monkey Man 
The Upsetters  Return of Django 
Roland Alphonso  Phoenix City 
The Specials  Ghost Town 
Peter Gabriel  Games Without Frontiers 
Roxy Music  Oh Yeah (On the Radio) 
Elvis Costello  Accidents Will Happen 
Joy Division  Love Will Tear Us Apart 

Comment:

Remember a thing called a "record?" My two young daughters don't (all they know are CDs), which is why I brought out a bunch of my high school-era and early-college-era 45s (7-inch and the occasional 12-inch)to show the kids what vinyl was all about.
Some of these boasted memorable covers -- remember that white, long-haired lazy cat on "Just Can't Get Enough?" Remember Peter Gabriel's melting face? Tracks 13-16 were on a Trojan Recordings two-sided 7-inch 45. It was once my favorite record. "Ghost Town" still haunts me, even when I look at the cover of that skeleton playing the piano. I miss singles.

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Mixxer
Date: 11/29/2003
Nice work. Your kids would really be floored if you told them why albums got the name albums, back when each record was a 78-RPM holding about 4 minutes of music, and they were held in a little book where you had to flip the pages. By the way Daddy, why is a compact disc called compact when it is almmost 5 inches across?
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p the swede
Date: 11/30/2003
a lot of memories here
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pessimystica
Date: 11/30/2003
cool stuff :) i remember records, but was mostly in the tape / turning into cds revelation, so I never got to experience albums *sigh*
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 11/30/2003
Great stuff. I've always really liked that Tracey Ullman song. The Ethiopians to the end is a really great stretch.
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Girl Take It Easy
Date: 11/30/2003
as a daughter who often steals her father's records, I have to say that your daughters should be thankful. I wish my dad had your records.
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addicted_to_chocolate
Date: 12/1/2003
Mostly I buy CDs but I also bought a turntable 2 years ago and I agree with you: Vinyl is a very romatic thing and I fell in love with Vinyl again.
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G-Sphere
Date: 12/1/2003
Nice mix. My kids love to drag out our old LPs and singles to give them a spin. My daughter says she wants them all someday.
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krautfreak
Date: 12/1/2003
dang, what a fun mix. so much tastiness here, esp. "happy hour" and "eloise"
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valis
Date: 12/1/2003
Viva Vinyl ! Great picks here, too.....I ditto krautfreak.
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Saaf
Date: 12/3/2003
Good selection. They still press 45s, but for obscure electronic music acts. No Britney.
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 12/17/2003
I used to work with Graham Nash. One year, his sister-in-law sent him a birthday card that was a little paper record player that played "Happy Birthday" .. his younger son came up to him and asked him what that was. Graham, having made his life and fortune via records was stunned. He looked around at his beautiful house and told his son that records were responsible for everything in his sight.

I still have all of my vinyl in storage ... and I'll have it with me again, someday ...