Holy Association, Batman!

[in_the_blue]

Look, I finally found one of those meme things that I can do.

Actually, I stole it from ashavah who... always finds fun things over there on the other side of the planet.

So if you would click on the following link...

THEASSOCIATIONMEME

I've never done one of these your name here, tell me what you think about me memes before but I liked the idea behind this one.

In the meantime, I've been having fun fine-tuning a handful of radio stations on Pandora (I know, just a little late to the party). I kind of love that so much music is so accessible. Who all remembers the olden days when you actually had to listen to the radio and find a station you liked and hope they'd play a song you liked, or get brave and call in a request? And you had to actually save up your allowance to go buy records (CDs count)? I liked the thrill of arguing over whether it was healthier for the vinyl if you left the plastic on or took it off, and replacing needles on the phonograph, and now just try to find a needle for that old phonograph you have: good luck.

Just in case you don't know this about me, I was born in NYC and grew up just outside it so all the music I had in my impressionable formative years was hot off those important NY stations.

So.

Unrelated: anyone want to play?

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oh my god wow! althogu haargh. it's us-only so i cna't play with this. eeeck.
yeah. vinyl records. for some reason and m yparents keep forgettign it, my parents' records are hahaha in my book case behinda closed doro mwahaha and that includes two. original. led. zeppelin elpees. yes .the one with the weird holes. and a deep purple one adn two by fleetwood mac (who wants to play 'rumours adn the ncompletel yforgetthat forthe other tuens yo uhave to flip over and putthe needle back on. but onthe other hand who the hel lwants that on a silver disc with no hissand crack whatsoever?) and i wsa jsut in time to buy some of my own singles too. my old turntable got lost because ithought icould scratch withat needle (and gone was my depeche mode single). but of course I had one for m ybirthday nine years ago. and who knows maybe this winter i'll pull outsomething and play it again? i coudl go o nfor ages...

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I used to have this Monty Python album that had two separate tracks recorded on one side of the vinyl, so depending on where you put the needle down, you'd get one set of skits or the other. It was very sneaky, and very nicely done to traumatize listeners! We'd turn the record over and say "wait, what happened to the other stuff we heard?"

Can't do stuff like that with CDs.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oh hahahahahaaaaa that is one to confuzzle people until it drives them nuts! it's like i hav ethis sgt pepper lp. and you knwo the final groove where turntables used to hiccup and stayed put and jsut had the thign turn roud nand roud nand roudn and... it's where the yput this blather and nonsense and dog-signal. it's jsut not the same on cd where they jsut end witha sample of it. boo.

[h311ybean]

I used to think it was really hard to find good stuff to listen to on the radio, so I listened more to...cassette tapes :-p (no, really). Then, years later when I was working (and listening to CDs), I'd have to listen to the radio while commuting and realize there still wasn't anything good on air!

Odd radio story - I don't know if this is/was ever "done" here, but back home some people would strike up friendships with the DJs and have long phone conversations with them, sometimes while said DJ was working. (In Filipino slang, they became "phone pals.") A friend from school used to do that when we were in the fifth grade or so, and looong after that, I heard an on-air caller (who entered a contest or something) ask a DJ if she could continue talking to him off the air o_O

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Heh, when I was little and grew up on AM radio out of NYC there was no such thing! But later on, with the birth of FM and more relaxed broadcasting/less Top 40, there were definitely DJ whores who would call up all the time and talk to the DJs.

Same thing with talk shows nowadays.

[vivien]

Dude, come to my house. Mr. Viv can hook you up with any record needle you can imagine. The man has six working turntables and a hidden stash of needles and cartridges. It is a sickness. :-P

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Haha.

We have (kind of sadly) moved on to iPods because people keep giving them to my husband, go figure. The turntable is put away -- no more playing records backwards to hear the satanic verses -- but it's still somewhere.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

Man. I used to eat records up. I still have some Bill Cosby records and a bunch of soundtracks because I was a soundtrack geek. We have a workign turntable but the speakers it's hooked up to? Not so much. :(

But yeah, those were something I'd buy after school, going down North Street in Pittsfield MA to Strawberries records. After I'd stopped at JJ Newberry's to pick up costume jewelry and have a snack at the cafe there. *nods*

And there was an actual INDEPENDENT book store that I used to haunt. and a really awesome used bookstore, and Stuart's clothing, and...Oh man. You made me nostalgic for the 80's. *sigh*

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

BILL COSBY RECORDS. "Ice cream? We're gonna have ice cream?" Ring any bells?

Dude, now I'm flashing back to hip huggers and embroidered bell bottoms. I actually used to work at a Strawberries Records in Boston... for a couple weeks.

My home town had this great indie book store called Remarkable Books but it's long gone. There were also indie drug stores and clothing stores. Not any more.