Are vinyl records back for good? Watch to find out! Special thanks to BPM Records, Aaron Authers, Shaun Turner, and Nottingham Record Fair for the great help. Filmed on Canon C100 MKII w/ EF 24-70mm f/2,8L II & EF 16-35mm f/4L.
Well said!! I'm sayin this to my nephew whose just gettin into this hobby of collectin vinyl. Buy what interests u do'nt go crazy spendin your hard earned 💰 on music. I've been doin this since i was 16 now 61! He's into this new modern rock music some groups i've never heard of. I do like the seattle sound Pearl Jam/Soundgarden.
I’ve been a club DJ for more then 20 years, when I began, we only used vinyl, I’ve got thousands of records and can assure you touching the surface of vinyl is perfectly ok, bare in mind I played my vinyl live to thousands of people and pushed the format to its limit. Touching the surface is fine.
ab3000x Yeah, you’re right, wtf would a Professional DJ for 20 years know? Nothing about the versatility of Vinyl, which slip matts are best, how to set up and use the Technics 1210 to get the best results (the only Turntable worth owning), which brand of stylus gets the best sound quality, the best counterweight point, how to set the antislip, how to calibrate a turntables pitch.....Shall I go on?
@@stevenmcguinness4751 i figured you would tell me to use rubbing alcohol and a micro-fiber rag to clean my records... no need to go on, you clearly are a record god
A brilliant vinyl documentary, I especially like the very well thought out intro, really effective in the way it was filmed, great talent and a joy to watch :)
Analog is king in my estimation. I love the other aspects of vinyl as well, the feel of handling albums, the artwork, collectability, etc.. but digital media can't even come close to matching the musicality and dynamics.
I've always said the awesome thing about my collection, and others as well, is that a significant part of my life story is just sitting right there. Without me even being around someone can come in my music room and without even knowing it hear about my first love, my lowest moment in life, how I feel about my grandmother, how I gout pumped up for games, my worst heartbreak, etc....just because they happen to listen to the very song/songs that sums up those moments. That is the true beauty of a record store is that it's simply BILLIONS of memories just sitting on the shelf waiting to be relived.
Very good informational vid and really enjoyed watching. I have been buy records for 50 years now and I won’t ever stop, as it brings so much enjoyment to my life.
That is commonly known as a Turntable Plinth. You can get them made of either wood or the more expensive ones of graphite stone etc! Help a lot with reduced vibrations!
Looks like a Mastodon four colour Remission album if I am not wrong? Yeah, return those crappy warped records, it'll only wear your stylus tip out unevenly, and also the vinyl get wrong wear, left or right side gets worn out unevenly. Pressing quality is ridiculous, and they charge high $ too for it. Don't let them get away with it!!!!! RETURN it!
Been collecting records for 35 years, never stopped. While I miss the old days of a smaller group of diehards (in particular the late 80's to early 2000's), it is nice to see so many young people getting on board.
@@lmc3307 it’s impractical, sure, but it’s an incredible format. You get to own that music and art, the emotions and feelings along with it, it’s brilliant. Sure, Vinyl will probably not be that popular in the coming years, but I can assure you that a lot of people will stick to it.
@@thebigslimelive I have a 12,000 record collection but I’d never advise anyone to start. Prices are stupidly high at the moment , 2-3£ records years ago are now £100s. Greed had ruined the vinyl industry. Cd’s are at an all time low however and are a much more convenient format.
What people are missing is there is so much history put on vinyl. Outtakes. Test presding . Small sessions. Boots.Variation from original tracks that has and may never be seen or herd on CD Mp3 or any modern release .
Two things that never cease to amaze me. People that have vinyl collections but play their records through garbage systems and people who man handle their records.
The best thing about vinyl records is the art work, I do miss that but anyone who believes pops, clicks and background noise sounds good is fooling themselves. I do like the guys comment put a cd in a lp folder, best of both worlds.
@@mikeomo3235 Most people don't want pops and clicks. A lot of the time, those are just dirt and dust deep in the grooves. Cleaning is paramount (and also varies a bit depending on who is recommending it)
@@Cthulhu013 You can get flac or wav and cd which is not compressed which I think sounds more how it was meant to sound as vinyl adds a lot of noise. Vinyl was good in it's day as we did not have what we have now.
My beef with most record stores I visit in London at least, is they're all stuffed with re-issue sealed albums for the Instagram and coffee show off crowd, not a whole lot of second hand singles, as someone that spins early 90's HipHop I generally have to find what I want in other countries.
Just got my first vinyl, and I can't wait for the turntable to arrive, so stocked! But it's wrong to say the quality is better on vinyl. To the human ear, there is absolutely no difference in the audio quality between vinyl and digital, and vinyl has its downsides too in this regard (but again, not perceivable to the human ear). For me, i think it will be the physical connection to the music. Knowing that what I'm hearing is coming from that record rotating and the stylus picking it.
Came here because this was a vinyl doc I'd not seen, and left in a worse mood thanks to Aaron and his copy of Grey Britain. Painful reminder that I still need that record in my life, but may have to forgoe paying rent for a month to acquire it. Thanks Aaron.
I miss the sleeve artwork and liner notes on LPs for sure but as for the actual vinyl record sounding better than digital no way! I stopped buying vinyl at the end of the nineties because the sound quality and standard of the pressings had become abysmal. That has still not changed as when the music industry retooled for digital they dropped analogue vinyl record production standards and quality control like a hot rock. Today it is considered just another carrier medium and essentially what you are buying is a fully digitally mastered recording transcribed onto an analogue vinyl record as an afterthought. This just does not make sense at all as it will always sound better in full digital the way it was mastered and intended to be heard. I cannot see why they just cannot issue a CD inside the 12 inch record sleeve with a card adapter mount to hold it and a one time download link to a higher resolution 24 bit flac file to bypass the limitations of the 16 bit red book audio CD standard.
@@JimMorrisonsboots you said it! All that faffing about with stylus defluffing and record clamps to hold warped pressings flat i can happily live without. I think all this vinyl adoration from the Crosley Cruiser set is a hankering for simpler times gone by? Life comes in colour now as well as B&W and nothing can be reduced to simple binary choices anymore. I think Jimmy Page and Neil Young were bang on the nail remastering their entire back catalogues in digital and the legacy of their music lives on and breathes in a new space as a consequence of it. If like me you are progressive in your musical tastes you will also like musical gendres like Rap, Hip Hop and Drum & Bass. You no longer have to have the bass lines lumped dead centre in the mix anymore due to the 'groove flood' limitations of analogue transcription engineering. Suddenly bass lines can sound really deep, detailed and engaging taking full advantage of the extra headroom and stereo seperation digital provides. It is almost like listening afresh with the earmuffs removed such is the marked difference. Clearly the pro analogue camp are living on nostalgia and tinned old hippy farts if they really think there is any life left in the spiral scratch. Wake up FFS! The emporer wears new clothes.
The guy at 3:03, has his turntable that high up on a shelf. I made that mistake years ago, scratched a mint condition Alison Moyet's ALF debut album, because it slid out of my hands of the turntable high up on a shelf and ended up putting a damn big scratch in it, oooh! Gutted!
Help me out here. Why would someone pay $30 for a new copy of "Born To Run" when any decent used record store has a mint condition original for around $7. That's my impression of "Record Day" records.
Records were great until about 12 years ago. Now a re-issue can be upwards of $48 for a regular album cut onto 2 separate Lp's (this is for monetary gain only) and it's a gamble if the pressing is worth a shit or not. Picture disks are another story, cool novelty but horrible audio. With all that said yes I still pay these ridiculous amounts and get all excited when a re-press is released. I just see the future repeating itself, when the cost of a CD was $24-$30 people stopped buying them and it killed the industry. There is plenty of demand, supply will not bring down the cost due to record company greed as we've all witnessed in the past.
~ You must not have any regular record stores in your area. Check Discogs. I got an Aretha Franklin album recently in VG condition for less than it had cost in 1967. Plus, 45s are always cheaper than buying the whole LP. If you are new to this interest, you need to catch up before commenting on a public forum. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
DAVID WOLF I live in one of the biggest cities in the US. Plenty of stores around offering new and used. Discogs... hit or miss but pricing mostly ranges from $30 to “the skies the limit” for mint/new condition + shipping. Yes I’ve picked up some good deals on there but it’s not commonplace. The best resource I’ve found is Craigslist when someone doesn’t know what they’ve got and just want to dump a few hundred albums.
It sucks that vinyl is so popular now I understand that's the way it is but when you spend 20-30 $40 on vinyl you would at least like it to be quiet and tick free when you try to bring it back when it's really bad they give you a hard time!!!!😣
Loved this! And collecting records are so additive, I started a RU-vid channel to share my finds and collection and love the community I’ve discovered because of it, a very unseen bonus of collecting records. I wish to visit all these stores!
They actually did that with a rectangular longbox back when cds first were marketed. The boxes were shaped in this fashion to accommodate the space of former vinyl bins and to prevent theft. There's actually a video where at Tower records, clerks were stripping the boxes and just throwing them all away as some sort of green madness. I think they also wanted to state how ridiculously small the product looked but it set a trend.
~ The turntables are turning with records on them LIKE FOREVER AND EVERYWHERE. Hipsters be damned L.O.L. Club DJs, country music enthusiasts. jazz purists, music-lovers that never acquiesced to CDs or digital sound, disco/funk/r&b/soul/house/techno fans, diehard record lovers: this is all so not about Caucasian men that love "rock" groups that look like them, you'd scarcely know it from the videos like this all over the internet. Beats Per Minute indeed. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Not back for good. I have hundreds of vinyl recordings and I love them but it really is a very bad waste of plastic. Even CDs are beginning to disappear.
Not particularly. In terms of condition Discogs is very "hit and miss" while in stores you can at least check it out before buying. But both have their pros and cons.
I buy records because in a weird way it demands me to listen. Everybody can own an mp3 that’s replicated thousands of times. There is no pride in owning a digital file. That limited splattered release that you’ve searched for is something to be proud of.
Looking this video in 2022 the guy at 6:08 and looking at the record stores that popped up again in my country and see more than 100+ releases a month on vinyl is just amazing!
Now that my nephew is new to this record collecting, i'm tryin to get into what i listened to in the 70's BTO Aerosmith Grand Funk RR Peter Frampton & so on.
Personally, I prefer CD’s over vinyl including sound but I think that is subjective to the listener. I respect people who collect vinyl including specific pressings. I owned vinyl from the 50’s-70’s but got into collecting CD’s. This is a great documentary I never thought vinyl would make a comeback like it has but I’m glad it did and hope that will continue. I hope it helps the artists financially and in getting their music out. I look at people who collect vinyl like people who collect art, or first editions/rare books - people who have a great love for creative works. If I ever collect vinyl I’d like to own the best pressings of the Beatles catalogue along with many jazz classics. I may prefer CD’s but a mint pressing of Sgt. Peppers on vinyl is far more impressive than a plastic jewel box. I would like to see a documentary about the newer HiFi gear and if that has improved since the vinyl comeback. I loved the old components/speakers/turntables.
They blame the death of cds on streaming due to "convenience", yet to most inconvenient way to listen to music suddenly becomes the thing. I call bullshit. The whole truth is that the music industry doesn't want you to own cds. If you own a cd, you can rip it and make your own personal streaming platform. Ever hear of Plex? The bottom line is the powers that be want that monthly fee.
When CDs came along Vinyl junkies just went Wow another music source and added them to their reel to reel, cassettes 8 tracks and 78rpm sounds. Never trust a man who isn’t ruled by Sound The Fugs!
Look up ...NOBLE RECORDS (USA) on You Tube for a complete guide to record collecting,what to look for ,advice, types of music to collect etc... I got loads of good info from there !
The records are cleaned with a vacuum pump cleaner along with special fluids so it removes all of the lose dirt from them. Trust me, the guy looks after them well.
@@BigStoreyProductions what are the record turntables used in these parts of the video? 1:00-1:15 and 3:45. Any information would be greatly appreciated! if you can please shed some light and give me some information on those turntables. It would be greatly appreciated. Also, what is the official name of the BPM store? To be able to look it up. Any information would be greatly appreciated
@@johncomley1098 Hi John, thanks for the comment. The first turntable is a 'Nottingham Analogue Anna' and the 2nd one you mention is a Project Essential 2. The shop is literally called BPM Derby. Hope this helps!
So what, is the stylus and the equipment yours? Get over it, I've played dirty records plenty of times and played a brand new or almost new record right after the dirty record without cleaning my stylus and guess what? I never had a single issue.
I've probably purchased over 100 vinyl LPs, 33 rpm and 45 rpm within the last 5 years. Zero CDs have been purchased in that same time frame. Nothing is better than vinyl.
trpjet999 : I agree i hate these problems vinyl records always have but i have to admit they sound great . For me CDs it is what best to collect music albums i love the crystal clear pure noiseless sound : - ) Look guys : What it pleases us what it gives us happiness is what it matters
I was on holiday and my cellar flooded. We have a rooms down their with sofa, tv etc.... but my record collection lives down there too. The sofa, carpet, furniture was ruined and I was worried my record collection sitting in a few boxes on the floor was gone too....lucky the boxes were waterproof. lol.. didnt care about any of the other stuff only that my collection was safe..
That Aborted record was the first vinyl record I ever bought too, though I've never played it as I don't own a record player, and truthfully, I don't actually enjoy that music any more, so I should probably sell it haha.
