One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.