Watching BBC Breakfast this morning there was a piece about the revival of vinyl records with a new vinyl album and singles charts. Official Charts Company have launched the UK’s first weekly vinyl chart because sales of vinyl albums and singles continue to soar. It brought back happy memories of my long gone vinyl collection.
I may be of a ripe old age, but today I get most of my music hits via YouTube instant gratification but I would love to go vinyl again. Recently I wrote about my all-time favourite album, which was ‘Signing Off’ by UB40 and listen to the full album for the first time in donkeys’ years. That was thanks to YouTube. At the time, I was thinking about my well-played vinyl album wishing I still had it.
I amassed a collection of just under a hundred albums. Not that big of a collection compared to others but I had other things tugging at my finances. Thinking back I had a diverse musical taste one of the more unusual albums was the ‘Big War Movie Themes’ and I hate punk but somehow ended up with a Sex Pistols album, I think I paid for it as well, I know I did.
There was nothing better than the needle hitting the vinyl with a crackle before the music starts. You then lay or sit back with the album cover or a separate sheet of paper reading the lyrics.
It would be a commitment listening to an album, first side one before turning it over for side two. You didn’t want to mess around picking out the odd track like you can easily do these days as you could damage it. One little scratch could ruin the album so you treated you vinyl with loving care.
I may well go back to vinyl but I would need to find a record player.
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