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Uhhhh, Party All The Time-Eddie Murphy? "How bad could music be" should have been the motto that year....For all the fans here of some of the cheesiest music ever released, 86' was one of the weakest and whitest for pop music-The UK dished-out some real cheese that year as well-

I recall spinning only ONE pop LP that year over and over, Better to Travel-Swing Out Sister, the only new talent worth the mustard, engineered and recorded wonderfully, with a sound that stood out as original without rehash.....The mid eighties were a goat turd for good music.

I mean come ON!? Graceland?? Lionel Ritchie?! Mr. Mister??!

I remember losing all faith in rock and or roll that year and listening to mostly trad jazz and heavy metal for the next 4 years. Pop music hit an all-time low in 1986.

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One of my favorite band's in the world The Ex found this band in the Congo called Konono N°1. I still have a split LP Konono did with New Zealand noise rockers The Dead C. Anyway, they play those thumb things through handmade amps. It's fucking awesome and psychedelic

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When I was 6 I had an Alvin & the Chipmunks LP with this on it, I thought back then that these were all Chipmunk original songs. Of course I also thought the Chipmunks played their own instruments :-)

Wonder what that was. Looked like the top popped off an LP or gasoline tank - perhaps a gasoline generator? Whatever it was, the arcing stopped when it blew.
Edit: Apparently it was a diesel generator substation.

Anyway, has anyone seen my pet squirrel?

*audio *dead -- "'Karl Pilkington 'Educ...'
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I understand when converting from digital to analog that quality is lost. But I never said anything about converting digital to analog...just analog vs digital.

I was mainly adressing the comment you made that "they were talking about transferring the recording from PC onto the disc" which is not what they said. It's what you assumed...and you could be right and you could be wrong. You also said "would it be stored somewhere first....say....in a digital format?" that is also an assumption...it could be coming from a digital format, it could be coming from an analog format...we don't know...they didn't say.

Believe it or not but it's not unheard of for an artist to provide master analog tapes when they know they will be putting their music to vinyl. It's also very common for reissues of of older recordings to be done using the orginal master analog tapes.>> ^charliem:

Oh dear...
How do you think the artists voice is transferred to the LP in the first place? Do you believe they do it straight from an analogue circuit through the mic to the LP, or would it be stored somewhere first....say....in a digital format?
If the conversion from analogue to digital is what 'ruins' the quality....then how can the quality be possibly restored by putting the digital signal onto an analogue format? Surely the missing information doesn't just appear out of quantum strangeness.....
Think about it for a minute.....and if your argument doesn't change, then perhaps you need to redress the way in which you consider yourself to think critically.
>> ^Grimm:
I missed that bit...the only thing I heard about a computer was when he said "a computer monitors the cuting and adjusts the spacings between the grooves".
Also don't confuse digital audio as being superior sounding to analog audio. It has taken many years for digital audio to compete the the sound quality of analog audio. Some audiophiles argue that it still isn't as good. But just because it's "digital" doesn't automatically make it sound better then analog. The real advantage that digital has over analog is that it does not degrade over time or from copy to copy.
Personally I think if you have a really good system I don't think you can tell the difference between a really good analog recording and a digital one except that over time the analog recording will degrade. I think the reason vinyl is making a comeback is that people who grew up with it miss the ritual, the touch, the smell, of taking a record out and putting it on the turntable and placing the needle on the record.
>> ^charliem:
>> ^schlub:
People "refuse to buy into the digital revolution" by purchasing an analogue medium produced from a digital source. Yeah, good work.

No kidding!!
I got to the bit where they were talking about transferring the recording from PC onto the disc and was thinking....hang on.......your reducing the information by quite a huge amount of the original recording, by going from digital to analogue....what?
WHAT? I dont get it.