My old friend posted his newly bought vinyl record player in the WeChat group**, an old guy who has been rock for decades and is now listening to Cai Qin. This is also in line with his age and the identity of his new father, if nirvana is always on the record player at home, the child can listen to it.
* The medium is like a cycle, and now vinyl records are starting to become popular again, which is by no means a step backwards in history, there is always a reason for him. With the popularity of digital technology, in fact, there are very few physical **products** now, like "Rocket Girl 101", which was so popular at the time, only produced a physical EP CD, a physical concert*** If it was placed in the era of the Little Tigers, the tapes would have to be sent twice a year, as well as various MTV tapes. It can be seen that the use of physical media is no longer the mainstream, and there are few record stores, and occasionally I find that a few are basically selling coffee and feelings.
But I'm really not Xi to paying for electronic versions of songs on apps. I always feel that the things I buy with money should still be able to be held in my hands and played. When I think back to the change of popular media I have experienced, I can't help but feel nostalgic for the era of physical records.
Memories of vinyl are blurry and clear. When I was just getting old in the early '80s, it was fun to watch the stylus spin in circles. At that time, I was young, and I didn't have the control to listen to anything, so I guess even if I did, I didn't have much choice. My uncle bought a record player when he got married, and now that I think about it, it's really tall and big, it's like a cabinet. It's all plastic film records, and the red and green ones are very beautiful. I remember what songs at that time were "Please Come to the End of the World" and "Night at the Military Port", which were very beautiful and beautiful. At this time, it should really be called a "record", that is, a "plastic piece that can sing". In particular, later record stores sold cassette tapes and CDs can also be broadly called records.
Tapes are the richest in memories。In the 80s of the last century, anyone who had a 5-lamp dual-card tape recorder would be awesome. With a few boxes of Sony or TDK blank tapes, you can record your favorite songs on the radio and listen to them repeatedly. In the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, I made an audio cable that could pass through the TV's 3The 5mm interface is connected to the tape recorder, and the section catalog of the Spring Festival Gala is down, and then it is ripped and edited into a collection of your favorite listens. I remember recording the cross talk sketches into a cassette tape, and the songs into a cassette tape, and listening to them for a year. Many programs can be memorized, cross talk like Liu Wei, Feng Gong "Qiao to the Film Association", Xiaolin, Li Guosheng "Learning Broadcasting", Jiang Kun, Tang Jiezhong "Reverie in the Tiger's Mouth", Hou Yaowen, Shi Fukuan "Interrupt", Ma Ji and so on's "Five Senses Fight for Merit", etc., songs like Fei Xiang's "Hometown Clouds", "A Fire in Winter", Su Hong's "Little Me", Hu Songhua's "Wine Song", Ye Liyi's "Give You the Sun of Tomorrow", Qu Biawu and others' "National Song Chorus".
The first time I spent money on a genuine tape was in 1988. The pocket money given to me by my aunt was used to buy 2 cassette tapes, a box of Cui Jian's "Rock on the Road of the New Long March" and a box of Alan Tam's "Heart and Hand Connected". The significance of Cui Jian's ** does not need to be elaborated, Alan Tam's is actually a collection only published in the mainland, because he used this name when he covered the theme song of the Seoul Olympics, which contains popular works such as "Love in Late Autumn" and "Flowers in the Water". That is, from '88, almost all of my pocket money became boxes of tapes, and it wasn't until 2000 that I started working and gradually became buying CDs.
In my memory, the most solemn thing to buy a cassette tape is to buy Wang Jie's "A Game, a Dream", because this ** is a pure Taiwanese-made tape imported from Taiwan by the China Book Import and Export Corporation, which is much more expensive than the general imported version (8 yuan) at that time, I remember that it was 14 yuan. I used 1 jiao, 2 jiao, and a large stack of small receipts up to 5 jiao to pay. After happily buying it back, I read the lyrics on the big kang of my grandmother's house, and my brother was only one or two years old at the time, so he grabbed it and crumpled the song for me. Don't mention the distress at that time.
There are also going to Middle Street and Taiyuan Street to buy the so-called Hong Kong version of the belt and the outer version of the belt, as well as all kinds of stories about buying the bayonet belt, those who bought the bayonet belt together, are particularly interesting to think about. The songs I listened to gradually changed from Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, Little Tigers, Wang Jie, and Jiang Yuheng to beatles, guns & roses, poison, and mr big、extreme、bon jovi、stone temple polites。There are also beyond, Tang Dynasty, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, Old Wolf, Faye Wong, and then to No. 43 Baojia Street, Underground Baby, Trojan Horse Band, Sand Band and so on. When you hear a song, you can think of the stories and people associated with those songs.
Disc (CD) memories are more expensive. CDs were only gradually touched in 1996 when I entered university, but because of computers, pirated CDs, and more pocket money, I began to be able to buy CDs. At that time, there were two very large record stores at the junction of Changjiang Street and Ningshan Road, and the upstairs and downstairs were full of cassette tapes and CDs. There are several bookstores in the street that still sell bayonet CDs, and at that time, I saved up a long time to buy a Panasonic CD Walkman, and I held it every day for fear of falling. I still use this machine occasionally, and it still works without failure for more than 20 years, which shows the excellent quality of Japanese products at that time. The CD is in the same era as Jay Chou, Lin Junjie, Han Xue, Phoenix Legend, Xu Wei, Wang Feng, Pain Yang, Matchbox 20, Mariah Carey, and the Hedgehog Band all the way to "Rocket Girls 101". To this day, if you need to drive a long distance, the happiest thing is the feeling of driving while listening to CDs.
The memories are more special. Because *** is a format that compresses sound quality, record companies will not publish it with this thing**, so this memory is not to buy songs, but to buy equipment. Around 1997, the network began to develop greatly, and at the beginning it was a software called winamp to listen to songs on the computer, and later there were thousands of quiet listening software. The song was popular with Napster, Ants, Electric Mule (Verycd), etc., and when it first came out, record companies all over the world went crazy and everyone didn't have to buy CDs. Copyright protection has become a necessity for survival, but now that record companies in the United States and Japan are still surviving, the domestic record industry has fallen to the ground overnight. There are a lot of things that you have to think about.
But listening to songs on the computer is limited after all, and later there are all kinds of *** devices on the market, and ** is not expensive. Due to the high cost and simple technology, many electronics factories made money on *** devices in those years. I was studying in the Department of Electronics at the time, and I also did some electronics-related writing work, and there was an article "** Machine Can also DIY - Analysis of a Self-made ** Machine" published in the magazine "Micro Computer", which earned some manuscript fees. But this is a translation and editing, I don't have the ability to make my own *** device, some of my classmates must have this ability, but we haven't done it seriously. I've used several *** devices before and after, and now I still keep Apple's first-generation shuffle, but there are few opportunities to use it, because the sound quality is not as good as CD, and the convenience is not as good as that of a mobile phone.
Mobile phones are a monster. After the popularity of this monster, it has changed many industries, including the industry. Many of today's singers are released digitally on mobile apps. So far, I have only bought the song "Feelings We Are Ashamed to Express" by Da Zhang Wei and new pants on QQ**.
Why is it so hard for me to accept buying songs on my phone?Why do I miss the physical record era so much?What about the age of LP tape CDs
First of all, the era of records is the era of big **. Big** means that artists have a longer length to create, a wider scope of creation, more places to play, and more experiments. We know that the world's best ** artists basically have their own long-form masterpieces, not that the short and medium stories cannot reflect the level, but the long stories can better reflect the level, and for the creators, the space is larger and easier to play.
* Records can jump out of the limitations of songs, many records seem to be composed of one song after another, in fact, it may be a complete work, such as Dou Wei's "Black Dream"**Although the song is independent, he uses various sound effects to skillfully connect all the songs to make the whole ** into one, the beginning and the beginning of the development climax can be heard, not only each of the first wonderful, but also the overall arrangement and changes. The listener will follow the author's train of thought and hear a complete change, as if watching a wonderful movie or eating a complete French meal. Such ** like Pink Floyd "Wall", Wang Yong's "Death", Leslie Cheung's "Red", Dou Wei's "Sunny Day", Tang Dynasty Band "Tang Dynasty", Zhang Chu "Lonely People Are Shameful", * A School of "Stone Notes", Beyond Band "Arabian Dancing Girl", Beyond Band "Music and Fury", Overload Band "Overload", recently bought CD "What Do I Use to Keep You" and so on.
The Soda Green Band has done a great thing, and in 6 years, they have completed the four ** records of the "Vevaldi Project", "Spring Daylight", "Summer Mania", "Autumn: Story", and "Winter is Not Over". The intentions of this set of records are simply earth-shattering, and they can be called masterpieces. If it weren't for the physical record, you wouldn't have been able to appreciate all the sophistication and design inside. For example, the titles of all the songs in "Autumn: Story" can be concatenated into a small poem, which is similar to the catalog of Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu". What is especially ingenious is that the last word of each song can be connected into a sentence "I am sad in my heart, you only see the autumn in front of you". Wu Qingfeng's text is so good!
This design is done through painters, art design, and printing design, and you can feel the painstaking work of soda green as long as you rub the songbook of this record. In particular, the three genuine physical records of "Spring Daylight", "Summer Mania" and "Winter is Not Over" are very rare due to copyright issues, and now they are very high, which is staggering. It also reflects the charm of physical records.
Nowadays, app payment is usually paid for one song at a time. Then consumers will have an expectation for each song, and if it is lower than this expectation, I am afraid that the author will be scolded. In the vernacular, "every song that pays for it should be the title song". And ** record can give niche works, experimental works, and works that cannot be established independently to publish, such as the song "Happy**" Have you ever heard it?You don't remember if you heard it, but you probably remember "Tomorrow is Longer", "Oh Good!"., Advanced Animals. But it's the song in the same ** record "Black Dream", which is very good. If it weren't in **, this song might not have a chance to be published, after all, it is not the kind of work that will become popular, or have some depth of thought for people to explore, but it is just a feeling or a small story of **people. Putting this song in** will make the whole ** a little relaxed, leaving a breath between "Tomorrow Longer" and "Advanced Animals", which makes people soothe, which shows that the author Dou Wei is very wise and clever.
Secondly, physical records, whether vinyl, cassette, CDCDs are all comprehensive works of art, selling not only **, but a whole industrial product. They carry various art forms such as literature, fine arts, photography, industrial design, printing technology, etc., and there are many points of taste that can be experienced. Just like the above-mentioned soda green band "Autumn: Story", each song has a picture by a painter, and the lyrics of each song are handwritten, and the picture is combined with handwritten poetry, and that kind of beauty can only be given by the real thing.
Third, physical records can better see the creator's ability, level and degree of dedication. After the test of time, it can reflect the artistic standard. From 1988, when I bought the first cassette tape, Cui Jian's "Rock on the Road of the New Long March"**, to the sound fragments band "I used to be old" in recent years, Liu Donghong's "Love and Freedom", and "Mountain Road" by the Shanren Band**, all of which reflect extraordinary integrity and high quality, I can feel the artist's intentions. Especially in the period of material scarcity, some artists still put the integrity and high quality of art in the first place, instead of giving priority to economic benefits through some clever ways to improve efficiency. That's why I have a lot of respect for mainland rockers. I can also take out a lot of records that I have bought, and after the washing of time, I find that they have no artistic value, fooling, dealing with, and deceiving music fans, and these ** will become evidence to nail them to the pillar of shame. If it weren't for the physical record, some bastards could cheat them for a lifetime with a song.
Vinyl records have become popular again, and some guys who pursue taste have silently put a record under the dim light, swaying with either passionate or smart **. That's my favorite way to listen to **.
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