I think the thing with showing the inner sleeves is that he's written on the track playing times on them.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
right, i kinda got that, but its a missed opportunity to have nice pictures of record labels that have never been photographed...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
> ah, okay, works with firefox.
not here. ok in chrome though. odd.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
That website is useless, I keep navigating around it and I never find anything. Suspect it's a browser issue and it bugs me how website developers can't make sure their sites work across browsers.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
Thing is, nine times out of ten I want to hear something I don't go rifling through my collection but find it online. I guess that's the "future" of record collecting in a nutshell.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, and eight years ago too.. Downloading tracks cuz you can't be bothered to look for in your own collection Blues...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
eh -- "this is one of the greatest libraries ever but we haven't digitized all the books so the website is just a catalogue, what were you expecting" -- the curatorial issues don't really work the same way. i wonder what percentage of the 25,000 LPs + 40,000 singles is actually not available in digital form already somewhere.
and yeah, you're right. even without the audio it's a worthwhile project. but as a music lover, I'm just reflexively bitter that copyright law will prevent it from being the resource it could be in my lifetime. sure, you can get most of it online right now... but not all of it, and it certainly isn't curated.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
So basically it's not a resource.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think pop music was ever meant to be a "resource" or be "curated."
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Pop music, no.
Then again, Pop music has currency whereas not all music does.
e.g. the number of people who complained about RedNex' "Cotton Eye Joe" being 'turned into' a dumb ol' dance number from the 'historic' early americana of the original. Forgetting that back then it was a dumb ol' dance number even then!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Neither was pop music ever meant to be a Bureau de Change.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think anything you see in museums was originally "meant" to be a "resource" or be "curated".
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
we are all curators now.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
In truth, museums are wrong.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
burn all the museums down. that's my motto.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
record stores ARE museums.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nN-KME0Tqw
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't go so far as to burn them down, but they have gotten above themselves in the last 150 years or so.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
"record stores ARE museums."
not mine, man. everything is priced to sell. get it on out of there.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
museums are shrines to the rich. you can never have too many of those.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
the defining characteristics of a museum are not its collection being permanent or priceless. a record store, to me, is exactly what a museum of pop music would look like, not some rock n roll hall of fame sort of thing.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
there should be no "museum of pop music," it's a contradiction in terms.
Scott - wish more record shop owners in London subscribed to your way of thinking.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
It's Not A Mus E Um Of Pop Music!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
THIS BELONGS NOT IN A MUSEUM
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
\m/vsev\m/
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
they say damp records the past. if that's so, I've got the biggest library yet. the biggest library yet.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Site is down/broken already.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
don't like the flash aspect of it. plus the index cards are just photos of cards - not searchable. someone needs to do a mashup.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
A Tent is a gem, so the site has already introduced me to one thing. Post-punk chillout, pre-post-rock style.
http://open.spotify.com/artist/4UpplhXmvjfGVEz2wkBYmH
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Site was back, still did not work on IE
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I can't see any Flash content on the site, although perhaps the interface is a little over-egged on the skeuomorphism front.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
you are right, it is html. doesn't work in firefox on linux either and i don't have any other alternative installed.
in fact, this morning it's not even working on chrome, when it was yesterday.
every click is trying to contact twitter.com for some reason, and i think that's failing.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Worked fine on Firefox on Linux yesterday. Check your setup.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
They should check their setup!
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
was adblock...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
was getting "FB not defined" as i've blocked a lot of those horrible facebook button scripts
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Any technical problems I'm going to treat as a tribute to miscued records and botched segues.
― bendy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
fun. and handier than the the peel site. maybe he'll do the whole alphabet.
http://thequietus.com/articles/08697-john-peel-collection-record-review
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
irl lolled at the entry for Active Minds
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, I was thinking that'd be a good blog project, but doing it all in 24 hours seems nuts.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
guessing Stubbs is a bit busy to do this on the reg tbf
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
We might do one or two more letters but, yeah, life and money are both too short to do the whole thing.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like transcribing all the index cards, get them into computer readable form, but 100 a week is probably beyond me.
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fearne-cottons-record-collection-goes.html
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 4 May 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
funny
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
The b's, the bees, the beeze...
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=B
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad the Belching Penguin record was mis-filed or else we would never have heard of them and that would've been a great shame. Belching Penguin!
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
Right, it seems to be working on my browser.
Um, how come each letter seems to only go up to the lower reaches?
i.e. A goes up to Ad for "Adam and the ants", B -> "Ba" = Bailey Brothers ?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
Cos he had lots of records? They're only doing the first 100 from each letter.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
.. and I can see Billy Bragg in the 'far right' on the "B" page...
xpost oh was that the plan? Is there a plan?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago) link