mezcalhead wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:31 am
The youngest album on there is what, either
Purple Rain or
Brothers In Arms?
I suppose that might be a good thing, if you theorise that after that time there was much more choice in music or that the public were better informed, so there was never again such monolithic agreement as to what was the "best album".
Speaking purely from personal experience and day to day encounters I've found a great deal of conservatism in record buying outside my own personal social bubble. When you look at the vinyl charts they tend to fall very much in line with similar records to what are in that list. It's as if buying vinyl as a new thing is a very conservative activity and folk are mostly buying what they know, what is 'safe' and also novelty versions of such things.
I think there's a mindset that vinyl is somehow different than just getting some music and it's weird to me to see the CD era being near replicated with the so called vinyl revival. I always found it nutty that folk were buying all their old music again during CD, when I was 99% of the time buying what came out that week (on vinyl) and I feel the same now.
I guess a lot of people might chime in with a different experience but when I generally meet 'civilians*' who are buying records again they don't tend to be that interested in things that aren't tried, tested and peer approved up the wazoo or reformats or novelty versions of music they already have. They also don't seem to buy many singles or EP's.
I've had a few other fathers at my kid's school inviting me to the most dreadful sounding 'record club' affairs where they sit about drinking IPA and talking about some old record that's been talked to death and which I doubt they've anything interesting to say on anyway but is somehow of interest because the have it on the 'vinyls', which to me is a total hell mouth.
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*I got called a snob for using this term. To be clear I mean folk who are casual music fans not the sort of folk who buy hundreds of records a year.