{"id":1443,"date":"2008-05-27T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:28:13","slug":"records-that-are-better-on-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/records-that-are-better-on-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Records That Are Better on Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o4JP4q8zg7M?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Be it the lack of an adequate digital remastering, the benefits of vinyl pops and scratches, or simply the satisfaction of watching a record spin around a turntable while magic sounds fill the room, <em>what records are better on vinyl?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with all <strong>Brian Jones-era Stones<\/strong> albums. The typically shoddy sound and pops and scratches present the band in all its tough, rock &#8216;n roll glory. Plus you never get distracted by hearing the acoustic guitar and piano on &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Velvet Underground&#8217;s <em>Loaded<\/em><\/strong> is much better on vinyl because no candy-ass team of engineers did a half-assed restoration of tape that was wisely snipped from &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Roll&#8221; and &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motown&#8217;s entire &#8217;60s catalog<\/strong>, because the digital reissues sap the rhythm section of its punch, separating out individual drums, cymbals, and percussion. You shouldn&#8217;t be able to easily analyze the rhythm track on a Motown track; it&#8217;s for grooving, egghead!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first Clash album.<\/strong> Nothing was lost in the grooves. Those songs sound terrible, in a good way. Hearing them better only makes them sound worse. Beside, it&#8217;s a sign that you were pretty cool if you bought it on vinyl when it came out.<\/p>\n<p>Any one of the classic <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> albums. Who wants to hear Young in new jeans?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1950s rock &#8216;n roll.<\/strong> There&#8217;s nothing more to be heard that the original technology didn&#8217;t offer, and again, the surface noise adds to the toughness of the records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be it the lack of an adequate digital remastering, the benefits of vinyl pops and scratches, or simply the satisfaction of watching a record spin around a turntable while magic sounds fill the room, what records are better on vinyl? I&#8217;ll start with all Brian Jones-era Stones albums. The typically shoddy sound and pops and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/records-that-are-better-on-vinyl\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}