been thinking about all the little moments tucked away in my memories that are a world unknowable to those younger than me, so consider this an opportunity to reminisce over old times, but also to ask those about the times you did not live through.
I guess my question for those older than me is: before computers, how did you learn to do something?
Did access to knowledge change your life, was a constraint lifted when you no longer depended on having found the right books or people to learn tips on how to cook a new dish, or how to fix a plumbing problem, or how to plant a garden?
Was life more simple, did you have fewer problems to solve without technology in your life, or did technology make life easier?
What’s your favourite LP?
Big Star Radio City And while you’re at it listen to all their albums (there’s only 3…I don’t count the 90s album) #1 Record is superior in a lot of ways and is phenomenal in it’s own right. Third is an artistic expression that is its own animal. Beautiful and brilliant in the most unconventional ways.
V-3’s “Hit Dead Center With My Disease”, which is actually a trilogy. It was released only 3 years ago, but the music is mostly from the late 80s or so.
On top of that, I have a Live LP by Nirvana, I quite like it, too.
From back then? The Lonesome Jubilee by John Cougar Mellencamp.
These days I just use Apple Music. Costs less than Spotify, pays artists more, and doesn’t finance the alt right. (Well except for that dumb participation trophy Tim Cook gave Trump.) Anyway, I pay for music because I love music, and I neither smoke nor drink, so it’s like, my vice, I suppose. That and coffee.
Anyway, I have access to all the music I had back then and since on the
handheld Macphone I carry in my pocket.For album art (by H.R. Gieger), Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery. An almost monochrome skull folded out to reveal a monochrome woman, it included notes, band pics, and even the LP label had art.
More complete details can be seen in these seller posts:
Not a LP per sé, but
Killer Moses – Unseen EP