So, many of you have heard me blather on about my records room. I do love it, but there’s one records room that I’d rather be in just about any time of day — my good friend Jon’s. Many of you have also heard me talk incessantly about his records room, and now you can see why.
And, drum roll, please …
Interestingly, Jon tells me he’s about ready to slow down on record purchases. Still, “slow down” for Jon is equal to a pace about twice as frantic as me.
I visited him two days ago, and within the first hour I had recorded a mix after scanning just the few hundred records he had hanging around the stereo. The mix included former Action frontman Reg King, a Peruvian beat band called New Juggler Sound, the Kashmere Stage Band, The Delfonics, the Langley Schools Music Project, Curtis Mayfield, Francoise Hardy, Detroit soul-funk rockers Mer-da, and Peruvian hard rock band Tarkus.
Filed under: music, stupid stuff | Tags: album artwork, ORGANS!, STRINGS!, vinyl
Boing Boing oddly linked to a site I’ve enjoyed called LP Cover Lover. The site serves as an online warehouse for curious record covers, most of them several decades old. The stranger the subject, the greater the likelihood a record has been recorded in honor of it. Case in point: Music to Help Clean Up Stream Pollution By. Of course, I spend time on sites like this one, in part, because it gives me great cover options for my theme mixes, like ORGANS!. Here’s the cover BB posted about, as well as a few other good ones from the site.
I had the opportunity to pick up the following one at WILL’s Vintage Vinyl sale a few summers ago, but passed because it was $15 and in poor shape. The Makers spoofed this cover for a 7″ of the same name they released many moons ago.
Hmm, maybe I’ve found the cover for STRINGS! … ? How would my face look on this?
M says that records are popular again. I guess I would call records “trendy” before I’d generalize them as “popular.” Fifteen years ago I could walk into two or three new record stores in Peoria and buy 45s pressed by tiny indie labels supporting obscure rock bands. That’s not the case nowadays. But LPs are once again a sign of hipness. Still, this cover to Dell’s recent catalog — which M received in the mail — surprised the hell out of me and got me wondering, “Just who is Dell’s desired demographic?”
This page inside the catalog didn’t exactly clarify things for me.
