Mark E. Smith
The Quietus | Features | It’s The Vinyl Countdown: Artists & Their Most Treasured Records
Good feature.
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Vinyl, like studio tape, has a depth that none of this laptop crap can ever capture.
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Mark E. Smith
The Quietus | Features | It’s The Vinyl Countdown: Artists & Their Most Treasured Records
Good feature.
Is today. I hadn’t actually been to one of these before. I am in record stores a lot so the idea of fighting crowds didn’t really appeal to me. But my favorite shop in town, Laurie’s Planet of Sound, asked me to DJ for an hour as part of their festivities, and it was great fun. The store was packed and I really like everyone who works in the shop a lot (I am in there several times a week—it’s a block from my apartment). DJing, esp. when the pressure of getting people to dance is removed, is one of my favorite things in life. At one point my hands were shaking a little because I was so excited and happy. That was weird. Glad they asked me.
I thought of pulling some kind of theme together for my hour, but in the end I just played a bunch of songs that I love. Some I’ve discussed here recently. My guiding principal was, “What would I be excited to hear playing when I walk into a record store?” Here are my answers.
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