The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More

Name: The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More | All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and Cds to Lps and Tapes
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All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and Cds to Lps and Tapes

Dave Thompson(Autor*in)

Backbeat Books (Verlag)

Erschienen am 26. März 2024

304 Seiten

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Front Cover
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: COLLECTING AND COLLECTORS
An Informal History of Record Collecting
How to Get Started: My First Turntable
How to Grade Records (and CDs and Tapes)
The World's Most Valuable Records
And the World's Least Valuable Records
The World's Most Valuable Sleeves
Collecting on the Internet
PART TWO: COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTIBLES
Introduction
A Brief History of Recorded Sound
Focusing on Formats: A Quick Case Study
Acetates: The Rock Star's Rough Draft
Autographs
Blu-Ray: Can It Ever Get Better Than This?
Bootlegs: Beauties or the Beast?
Box Sets: All You Ever Needed to Know (Plus a Booklet)
Cassettes: Against All Odds
CDs: The Ultimate Hostile Takeover
CD-3s: Good Things Don't Always Come in Small Packages
Cylinders: Tubular Blues
Digital Compact Cassettes: Oops. Well, That Didn't Work Too Well
DVD-Audio: Sound and, Sometimes, Vision
Edison Discs: The First Format War
8-Tracks: Clunk, Click, Every Trip
Enhanced CDs: All This and Moving Pictures, Too
EPs: Albums on Installment Plans
Explicit Chapter: I Can't Believe You Just Said That
You Can't Show That Here: Collecting "Banned" Record Sleeves
Export Issues: Foreigners Have All the Fun
Flexidiscs: Bend Me, Shape Me
45s: The Greatest Sound on Earth
4-Track Cartridges: Nice Idea, but Not Enough Clunks
Interview Discs: Too Much Chatter
Jukebox Albums: More Bang for Your Buck
Labelology: The Train Now Standing. . .
LPs: Twelve Inches of Pleasure
Mighty Tiny Toy Record Player: Batteries Not Included
MiniDiscs: Tiny Toys Revisited
Mini-8s: Small, but Smart
Mini Pac: Gone and Forgotten
Mp3s: The Invisible Menace
MQS SD: The Latest Physical Music Format (As of Early 2018)
Nipper: The Story of His Master's Voice
PlayTapes: They Were Tapes. You Played Them
Pocket Discs: Music from the Hip
Pocket Rockers: For the Tiniest Tots of the Lot
Polish Postcards: Warsaw Packed
Promos: The Critics' Choice
Quadraphonic LPs: Extra Ears Optional
Quad-8s: Eight Tracks, Four Channels
Reel-to-Reel Tapes: High-End and Hot
Sheet Music: Play It Yourself
Super Audio Compact Discs: They're Compact Discs, and They're Super. Apparently
78s: Fragility as a Way of Life
16 rpm: A Merry-Go-Round for Your Tortoise
Test Pressings, or Factory Samples: Just to Make Sure It Works
Transcription Discs: On Your Radio
12-Inch Singles: They're Like 45s. Only Bigger
UHCD: The Ultimate Sound Experience ... Again
PART THREE: THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDERCASE STUDIES FROM THE FRINGES OF OBSESSION
Introduction
The Album: How Many Copies of That Record Do You Need?
The Myriad Dark Sides of the Moon
The Year: It Was Fifty Years Ago Today (Give or Take): Collecting 1968
The Broadcast: Live at the BBC
The Single: The Best of Punk Rock-The Fifty Most Necessary
The Genre: We All Got High on Bubblegum
The Event: Record Store Day
The Archive: Jimi Hendrix-The Early Years
The Band(s): Two Supergroups Together-The Stones and Beatles Collaborations
The Theme: Every Day Is Halloween
The Fifties: It Wasn't All Rock 'n' Roll
The Soundtrack: Quadrophenia on Disc, on Stage, on Film
The Guilty Pleasure: All I Want for Christmas Is ... Something Different to Collect
78s: A Shellac Superstar
The Label: Mick Jagger Is the A&R Man
And Finally ... The Rebirth of Vinyl-Forgive Me if You've Heard This One Before
PART FOUR: THIRTY COLLECTIBLE RECORD LABELS
Introduction
A&M
Asylum
Atlantic
Bell
Beserkley
Cameo-Parkway
Capricorn
Chess
Del-Fi
Elektra
Factory
Harvest
Homestead
Immediate
Island
King/Federal
Motown
Parlophone
Philles
Polar
Red Bird
Skydog
Stax
Stiff
Sub Pop
Sun
Vanguard
Vertigo
Virgin
ZTT

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