A Short Film About Vinyl - You Need To Hear This 

Playing a record is definitely an event, and I think that's why our collections are so important to us because we are actively choosing to labour to hear the music so the music has to be good. Streaming is lovely for discovering new artists but ultimately when you find something that you like it's made that much more special by committing to the physical format as something you want to own and work to hear. Records, are a tribue, a trophy to the artist, to say you win I've brought you into my home.

the amount of work that goes into making ONE vinyl is sooooo much work as for limited edition printed vinyls is mind boggling i love vinyls and really love printed ones the music sounds amazing its an amazing hobby!! and they're so beautiful to look at :)

vinyl is not just only the sound of it, also the experience of just going to true bins and finding cool stuff for a few euros, not being able to skip tracks as easy so you tend to listen full albums again and sometimes the cover alone can keep you busy. i remember pre internet days as a child i played hours of music and just stare at the ceiling dreaming away (and just let the music play ;) ), with the internet i stopped doing that and just click true the albums, not check out new/other stuff, getting back into vinyl changed that all back again. now i can really listen to music again.

I found Tom's story about still opening certain records from his Dad's collection and finding notes from him really moving. John Peel was so important to me becoming the music fan and collector I am today. I know how much I and many other fans miss him so can't imagine how much his family do.

you can't beat vinyl!

By every measure (distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, etc...), digital audio is superior to analog (as long as it is lossless). But emotionally its weaker. Vinyl rocks

It's an authentic form of music, tactile and interactive. Records will forever be made and sold, at least I hope!

As a kid in the eighties, I preferred cassette over vinyl for convenience as well as CD as I got older " and more affordable" . I really was not familiar with the sound of vinyl being too young listening to my dads records in the late 70's. As I got older, I am really impressed with the sound and cannot help but frequent junk stores and record shops looking for a good deal to add to my collection!

I am proud to have sold vinyl to The USA museum of art and thinking it is now cataloged to be a part of Musics history!! It was a Massive Attack 12" Safe From Harm, they certainly got taste!!

My vinyl, my sole, keep it alive.

2:09 all of those records are now warped...

2:17 Nigerian disco funk is awesome!

There are few better sights than seeing a piece of vinyl rotate on an SL1210.

Yes it is a lot of fun playing with vinyl

The CD killed album artwork, which a big reason I love having a music 'wank' session. Taking the time too just stop and listen too an entire record with the artwork in your hands without out skipping is a true pleasure. Dean

Great Video! Gives me a new appreciation for the vinyl format.

Two words, visceral feel! Peace.

For me vinyl represent's everything good about music large artwork giving the band/artist a chance to give their audience something new and interesting to look at while promoting a unique image for themselves something digital distribution can not achieve.

Vinyl is awesome, baby! Glad it is coming back!

Magic for sure

Vinyl (LP's) are great, no doubt. I grew up in the 60's and 70's, listening to nothing but records (i'm 53). BUT a well recorded and mastered redbook (conventional) CD, SACD, or HDCD sounds amazing, especially if you have a tubed preamp, amp, or both in the playback chain. Of course, your CD player has to have a quality internal DAC, or you can go with an external DAC. I still play vinyl from my vast collection, but I cannot get over the 'crackles' and 'static' sound when I play many of them.

4:08 “PUT IT BACK” DAD.

I actually have The Mexican Revolution record. What a great/lucky find. Bought it for $30

It's very true , the artwork , size , involvement of an LP is very appealing but on a properly set up turntable , the sound quality exceeds anything enjoyed in your home. The only people that criticise it are people that have never heard the format properly

4:05 I picked up that one last week :)

LOVE this video

Great little clip. I myself have about 5,000 records. 98% of them are 12' singles. I literally have 100's of rave 12' singles from the late 80's early 90's. Lots of white label stuff. Mr. Tom Ravenscroft, I'm sure I have a lot of the records you're looking for. I myself used to buy Frankie Bones mix tapes. I would then find the records from the mix tapes and re-do them with my 2 Technics Turntables and Numark mixer. Lots of fun. Brings back the memories.

3:45 - I'm glad it's not just me.. Hi, My name is GMD and i'm a vinyl addict.. :(

I don't want to die, I'm not afraid but I'm going to miss music.

I like turning off the amp and listening to the record directly by the needle vibrations. I always thought that was neat. When I was a kid I had a large collection of kid's records that told a story and had music. But my first real record was Chicago, which I got for Christmas when I was like 8 years old.

Great !!! those of us born 30 BCD get it. it's a ritual, an experience. It's enjoyable even with the occasional pop or click. and it does not induce "digital ear"

these people such each others dicks

I just bought a copy of vaudeville villain gold edition, it's so gold.

I had a glow in the dark 12in vinyl single in 1978 by the group Kraftwork!

I want to go there. Looks amazing

so many passionate music lovers.

Did I just see him *slam* that original copy of "Bleach" back into the shelf? That hurt... A LOT.

awesome

It wasn't so long ago that I said to someone at work "oh yes I like that record". He said "record? you mean song". I had a habit of calling songs "records" as I remember them from the 60s & 70s and always referred to them as such but now I just reply " Yes, vinyl record they're coming back, keep up with the times!"

Great video!!!! What a amazing collection. When you have that large of a collection, you don't really know what albums you have and what albums you don't have. But, I agree, There is a magic about vinyl that the other formats don't have.

Strange. I Didn't Need To Hear Any Of This.

Thank you

Perfect 😉👍

Everything relies in our personal reality

Crazy collection I have a two story house full of vinyl but nothing like this !!

A nice find is the FIRST RSD compilation LP. Pearl Jam track is great!!!

Interesting. Thanks for telling me! I might try listening to vinyl sometime. Sounds kinda cool.

Hopefully portable plastic record players will be destroyed on sight before they get anywhere near the British Libraries record collection.

5:12 Sam Shepherd/Floating Points trying to start the turntable?

@ Troy Johnson , I sold everything that I had at the time, but right now I have a double of touché amore latest record as well as some releases from Deathwish inc

Why would you click on this video and leave that useless comment in the first place? Wasting your time and clicking videos on youtube that you don't enjoy and trying to convince people that what they like is stupid is pretty fucking stupid. You couldn't even come up with a valid argument. Many people are super passionate about music and vinyl. Vinyl has a rich history. People romantisize it for various reasons. Holding the LP in your hand, looking at the artwork, reading the liner notes etc.

what part of this did I absolutely need to hear again?

I Have Already Shrunk My Vynal Collection Down Digitaly!!!!!!

vinyl rules, you can debate the sound differences of vinyl and digital till you are blue in the face, but when dj's used vinyl you could be sure that the dj had a passion for music being prepared to spend his hard earned cash and his time spent rooting through the record shops searching for that illusive piece of wax not to mention the buzz when you finally found it, digital has killed off the dj when the whole world and his mother can go download every song in existance if they like for free stick it on an ipod and create a run of the mill this is what the media rams down our throats constantly playlist where a good professional dj can dig out those long forgotten classics and new alternatives to the manufactured crap that is constantly rammed down our throats when songs get airplay when they pay for the air play rather than on the merits of the quality of music, digital has took out the alternative in music and the individualism and enabled any tom dick or harry to become a dj overnight whilst also being able to under cut any true professional with a real passion for music, digital has killed the industry entirely and made it stale and stagnant cheesey crap coming from the likes of simon cowel enabling the rich to make music and the talented to be easily swept aside

You know it will be a good video when the first record you see is a Maiden record.

You speak the truth !

A Short Commercial for Philip's fixed it

BLEACH. Yes. Hope you listen to the Melvins, too. There would be no Bleach if it weren't for the Melvins. ROCK. Great video. Thanks.

Just having a look thorough these comments here. This is the peel collection. Do any of you people know who he is? Google John peel now and learn something today.

WOW U CHANJED EVRY1S MIDN GOOOD JUB

Incredible vid

The 33 1/3 vinyl LP phonograph record was invented by Columbia Records in 1948. RCA invented the 45 rpm disk. Western Electric division of AT&T invented the cutter for making stereo phonic records in 1957. I have no idea what Philips had to do with it.

when I see dj playing with CD's in the club I kinda feel hes newb like a todays milk

That was a pretty good commercial.

Great video

I love Vinyl. Shame that the only shop is around 50 minutes away from me and I can't drive yet : (

Nirvana!!!

A collectors dream

THIS COLLECTION IS CRAZY SUMTHIN LIKE MINE

A film about young trend eaters who were not alive for vinyl's first 80 years.

dope

What's so special about the 90's ? Apart from some Drum & Bass where quality music was hoping to break through again, that glimmer was snuffed-out by the mainstream radio stations as usual like Prog that wouldn't get played in the early 70's, very little else was worth listening to. Record collectors like me who started in the mid 70's became so by remembering anything on shellac or the 50's & 60's and how much is noticed by the deterioration of quality music in the charts by 1975 onwards which have probably become regarded as masters of music by the present young who know everything, utter tosh. Loving or admiring the vinyl is something different to actually getting elated by the music on the disc. Anyway the real golden age of music was and still is best before 1977 as before then the world was enjoying the best of, pop, northern soul, psychedelic, jazz, prog, 1930's dance bands, rock & roll etc Just a extra note: The punk explosion was definitely not welcome by the main labels in '76 which were doing fine with their sales of disco /soft rock and so this spawned about 160 new record labels to cater for the new sounds, most tried their luck and went bust, but what this also done was lowered the standards of music a notch but kind of recovered by '81. I think the best bands in the early 80's were The Police & New Musik-far ahead of their time. Rare 45s of non-hits also included, this is where good quality music wasn't getting played as it didn't get promoted cos the "indie" labels could not afford or gamble paying the stations, so the record didn't sell. Big damage was done here as most bands just gave up. Chart music governed by x-factor type rubbish these days has truly hit the fans. My answer to all this is, As music is supposed to be an art-form, lottery funds should be directed offered to fund a special college or classes re-creating top quality song writing studies to anyone interested & enthusiast enough to prove themselves, because it is the songwriter who is the most important often invisible member of the bands.

so, it's okay ?!

Nice video

I am finding that I like the 80s music- especially Madonna- I wouldn't listen to it when I was younger now I cant get enough of it. We were taught it was not good for you- it actually saved Russia from communism- something politicians and Bishops could not accomplish.

good vid

why do people always argue about vinyl its a music formant not a life statement everyone get over it

COMPACT DISCS FOREVER!!!!!

I used vinyl records for about 7 years but once the vinyl record player broke, i leaved those vinyl records down in the dust for aabout 18 years, but anno 2016 once my mother bought me a vinyl record player, i now see high value collecting vinyl records, a kids dream from the past has became reality,modern music and nintendo & sega music are now on finyl,such as pokemon blue & red;streets of rage redbound etc,,, if had this as a kid, i would,ve shit my pants. Also i wish i know backthem that jerry buckner & garcia from 1982 were on vinyl with computer hits like pacman fever and do the donkeykong,because at the time i would,ve jump a gap in the ceiling ,haha lol.

4:30 Residents!

0:05 iron maiden Vinyl :)

RIP Peely

"Even in the digital age, vinyl sales are STILL increasing..." A bit of a propped up line, ya think? Keep in mind when comparing LP to CD, you're always hearing two different mastering jobs (a mystery word for EQ settings, in my book). Yes, playback equipment being no object, vinyl muy mo betta.

Vinyl keep re-surging for a few reason, mostly nostalgia from the consumers point of view, but from the side of the retailers mainly because it makes good marketing sense. Record labels have been loosing lots of money over the last two decades because of digital. Cd's can be copied and shared which is good for consumers but bad for the labels, that's why they have been spending loads in recent years pushing the propaganda that vinyl is better, and it is, for there pockets. Doubt what i am saying, think of all the times you've seen close-ups of the main actors in your favorite movies and series spinning wax, who do you think is putting forward the millions for all that blockbuster and prim-time advertising. nuff said.

& I thought my 3,000 + Lp collection was a lot I need to buy a house, Very nice. wish it was me..

Next week it will be tapes

if only we could accurately describe the main electrical difference between vinyl and digital in one easy to grasp graph... oh wait I can do that

Sometimes I get out my hipster plastic slabs of aphex twin plastic and sniff them, I once licked a merzbow lp pressed on green vynil.

Who were the two people speaking?

Awe-some

Tool basically forced me go start buying vinyl 😂😂 just bought My first players and vinyl albums. Maybe ill get into it

This is a fucking commercial. What the fuck.

I think that John Peel would have been proud of his son.

Wanna know how i organize my music organize those suckers by the year they came out do that and when you want an album just search that section that year and it wont take you long Lol

Is that vinyl place in the British Library off limits?

Honestly when digital format arrives on music scene like Spotify .the music becomes dead.

Could someone tell me a website where most of the classic rock vinyl covers appear in real size?

whats the music in the beginning, it sounds familiar.

imo part of vinyl is also the cover art, its like combining music and art, even if an artist makes good music but the cover art is bad i will probably skip the album,

The black dude works for Boiler Room right?