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Re: Still Moving / (+ LP cancelled)
- To: babel-list
- Subject: Re: Still Moving / (+ LP cancelled)
- From: Bluemuse
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 12:28:04 -0400
- Reply-To: babel-list
- Sender: owner-babel-list
Fiona sez:
> Anthony writes:
> > As a die-hard lover of LP and analog (and digital CD
> > basher), I long for a vinyl version.
>
> I've always liked what Neil Young said about digitized music: something
> to the effect of "Listening to digitized music is like looking at art
> through a screen door." All those little square openings for just one
> spot of color...
Yes, yes! He gave a rather long and well thought-out dissertation in Guitar
Player magazine a few years ago that included that analogy. I've probably
bored Wilson and Glenn at length with my own philosophical and aesthetic
disagreements with digital sound, and so I won't repeat it all here, but I've
only just within the past couple of weeks capitulated and bought a bona fide
CD player. I feel kind of dirty now . . .
--Bob Farace