The Many Sides of Vinyl

Man, this sums up better why I love vinyl more than any video that I've seen! Nice work!

i need to buy a record player now!

I once listened to Radiohead on vinyl at a friend's place. It was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had listening to music.

I loved the motion graphics Pat!

i love this video! great job guys!

thanks for all the responses guys! it was great making a pod over something i'm so passionate about.

One thing no one seems to be mentioning is the smell of vinyl. Intoxicating. I grew up around the stuff and now am buying it for my brother who is a DJ.

Again, great story, man.

P.S. Anyone who considers themselves a real 'DJ' but spins MP3s is sadly mistaken. Its like skateboarding with a board you bought from WalMart.

We just took #1 again!

"5 DOLLARS! get out of here...." -Homer

I remember growing up and listening to records with my Dad. They hold a special place in my heart.

I showed this to my entire class.

It gets better every time...

What is going to be the next step for music? Is vinyl going to make a come back or will the music industry end of discontinuing the making of vinyl?

I love the warm organic feeling you get from vinyl there's a certain kind of rawness to it that you just don't get from digital recordings. Also there's certain feeling about physically hunting and finding solid pieces of music that you can get from downloading something, holding it in your hand knowing how special it realy is

I think this is the finest Current video I have ever seen.

Looks great Pat.

poop

Wth?

I have a poopoo

I am glad vinyl is not just a fashion trend.

when the world seems to shine like youve had too much wine thats amore!

bobby lee is awsome

My friend Thomas loves this video as well. He thinks "i love cheese on a platter and I hope you win one thousand dollars because you could buy lots of stuff like that like a piese of a thousand year old poo."

This is the cadillac of videos.

Loved it! Very interesting and great video production skills mixed with the essence of old times. The vinyl record playing at the begining and end ties everything together! Great Work!

Awesome video. I had no idea record companies had started releasing vinyl with accompanying cds or downloads. Very interesting, keep up the good work!

I cannot stop thinking about this video.

Go vinyl!!

I still love this video. Great production! It made me go listen to records the first day I watched this. And now I think I'm going to buy some for Christmas!

Vinyl is the new black

Vinyl is the perfect give to give this Christmas, it lets someone know you care... about audio quality.

Interesting retro topic

This is a neck and neck battle for first, GO VINYL!!

I keep trying to get away from this video, but it's so good that it just pulls me back in!

And by too good, I mean way too good.

Pat Ball, you are too good.

Pat Ball, you are too good.

Just bought some new vinyl, THANKS CURRENT! "It begins..."

This is pretty interesting. i wasn't aware that vinyl records were making a comeback. I was under the impression that most companies had stopped making them years ago.

I'm a "vinyl newcomer" myself. it's amazing how much warmer the sound is.

That is interesting. I would like to see the statistics to back your claims up.

I like Vinyl, but I am more into the new digital age, but I don't mind the two coexisiting in this world. Nice Video. Also it is very hard to believe that CD sales went down and Vinyl sales went up in 2007.

Great video! its interesting to see how vinyl is coming back.

Cool video. I'm glad to see that vinyl is coming back.

nice video.

Wow, this really revived my interest in vinyl, now I'll have to go find them in my mom's attic.

great video

i love vinyl.

When tapes and cd's came in it seemed as if I was the only one not liking the sound as well as the sound I heard on vinyl. I am thrilled to see it is making a comeback, the sound is so much purer! This is a great video! Barbara Wright

Nice video!

Great video! Makes me want to dig through my parents old vinyl stash and see if they've got anything worthwhile...

Dude, sweet video! You should go pro ;)

I've totally seen ColourMusic :) Yay for local bands and their vinyls!!

made me want to go buy/listen to an old album

Pat, one of the guys who made this, is a TOTAL LOSER. But this is a very interesting video. Although I myself don't get the appeal of the pops and scratches you hear on vinyl, I think I understand the appeal to some people.

That vid was shboingin' yo!

Great vid pat!

This is a great video guys. Well done!

I want a record player in my car. That'd be much smaller and more economical than my CD player! lol jk, but it'd be worth it. Roll thru the hood wit top down and record player in my lap and sheeet

BITCHIN! ... sorry that's a little dated, I meant to say RAD!!!

Man, I need to get me some vinyl

Great piece on an almost-lost art!

i just started purchasing vinyl because one of my favorite bands only released their new album in that format. after taking it to a friends house for a listen (because i didn't even own a record player) i realized how much i was missing in this digital age. since that day, i've started collecting, and i've even stole some of my parents old records in the process. vinyl is where its at.

Incredible. Shows that lo-fi is still a loved medium.

well pat you´ve done it again! amazing angles, continuity, sweet shots...both sides of the story instead of just focusing on how awesome vinyl is. i love the incorporation of both (and the fact that people are including digital downloads with vinyl purchases)!
and i love that vinyl is making a comeback. the popping and cracking sound of vinyl will forever melt my heart.

Nice video. I like this a lot.

I enjoy a good crackle and pop in my music for aesthetics.

this is great; old vinyl records can be reinvented for the times but we can still get that same, great, warm, crackle-y sound. i think most people who love music agree that vinyl is the best recording medium for so many reasons. it's awesome that this subterranean form is re emerging and marrying itself to modern technology.

Lovely piece. Vinyl for life.

The way that sound travels by way of vinyl is reason enough to appreciate it's true value. It's the ambient "vibe" that makes this form of analog uniquely different from digital. Some call it warmth. I call it presence.

I remember having an argument with one of my DJ friends several years ago about the ridiculousness of using vinyl records. He insisted the sound from vinyls was better because it was analog and that DJ's would keep spinning vinyl for that reason.

I argued that the music was made digitally on a damn computer in the first place (it was electronic dance music he spun), and that technology would make using the cost and effort of using vinyl just plain stupid.

I was right, 5 years later everyone is spinning CD's if not Mp3's.

Vinyl might be great for collectors or what have you, but, ummm...they're called "advances" in technology for a reason, and technology is one of the most amazing exponential highlights of human existence at this point in time.

I gave my turntables and records away, and have no desire to go back. I'd rather get the same music as quickly, easily, and cheaply as possible. Call me a rebel.

"vinyl's BACK"...? it never left my house...

Vinyl can be hard to come by, but like they say, there's just something about putting something physical down and listening to it - and there is a warmth there that digital audio just doesn't seem to have.

Here's a question, though - isn't music still digitally produced? So it's a digital uncompressed file pressed onto a vinyl? If that's so, did you REALLY gain anything in the first place?

I have always had more respect for people that can listen to vinyls. It is more challenging to find your favorite artist on vinyl than on a CD or iTunes. For all of you hunters out there, I tip my hat to you.

I just finished a class on Digital Signal Processing this semester, and it amazed me to find out how much the conversion to a digital format can change a piece of music.

I was hoping someone would do a pod on vinyl, and it finally happened!

Vinyl truly is the greatest way to listen to music. It was interesting getting different people's views on the subject.

Tom and Pat definitely have a good team going here, I can't wait for their next one...

Nice topic. I like to hear how compressed music is not as good as records.

i enjoyed.

great video. living in the dorms, i lack the space for a vinyl player, but once i move into a house i fully plan to get one. i remember playing them on my little crappy player as a kid, and sometimes you just can't beat that one-on-one feeling of taking the needle yourself and almost creating the music that you're listening to.

I love it when the population begins to wake up and rebel a little bit against the constant forward push of technology. I grew up around vinyl and still find myself drawn to it. Its part nostalgia sure, but like that girl said, there is just something more intimate about it.

Great story.

So much is lost in the digital age, intimacy, and the message in the music.

I just rewatched this and saw the part about them providing free downloads with each sale. Very smart. They've made their money selling the vinyl...giving the download just gives you one more reason to buy!

Cool. Well done. Good production values, especially lower third graphics and soundtrack. If the executives that ran the music industry thought of this, they might be able to sell albums. But then again, they would just jack prices, not pay the artists and buy more expensive shit for themselves.

good job guys! i've been waiting for someone to finally upload a video over vinyl. i love it.

Wonderful piece.

As a dj, I'm obsessed with vinyl, and it's good to see that the format is on the rise. You simply cannot beat a giant slab of music that you can hold in your hand, complete with cues and album art. CDs and digital are both cold and dead compared to vinyl.

I'm getting a record player this winter. Totally got turned onto vinyl after I heard "All You Need is Love". I can't wait to start listening!

Awesome vid...REWIND!!!! Like the juxtaposition of old and new. Vinyl is making a comeback. I love the artwork on the vinyl. It's another way the artist can express himself.

That person should keep his records in plastic sleeves.

Pat Ball, the master, has done it again. This is awesome! I love the intro and outro especially - continuity rocks! I still can't get over the fact that I can see the mic tho...But you know that's always bugged me. I also love the handheld look and the great angles you got like on top of the stack of records. It's a great piece. There's a great story in there and I like how it wasn't just a bash on digital but more of a collaboration between the two. This is definitely going on air!

Great video! Its nice to know that people care about what music should sound like. When you listen to mp3's you miss so much of the intimacy of what music is about. On an ipod the sounds are so compressed and bland, but when you listen to vinyl you hear relaxed tones that hit your ears in waves. Listening to vinyl also urges you to listen to albums as a whole, the way many artists intend. They put time and effort into creating an experience and if you listen to an album in pieces or out of order that ambience is lost.

vinyl is music that a great number of people prefer over other types of music.

Looks great dude. That Vinyl graphic is the pwn, I dig the rack focusing, and the continuity cuts in the beginning that leave room for the 360 degree OUTRO BABY!

Also, I'm afraid the arty chick toward the end is kind of hot. Had to say it.

The more I listen to vinyl, the more I love it. That girl described it perfectly - it just sounds and feels more intimate... not necessarily because of the "crackling" sounds... but whenever I listen to vinyl, I just feel like it engulfs the whole room, rather than just coming out of a set of speakers. I would love to invest in one for the sole purpose of listening to my very FAVORITE albums, and experience them in a new light! Great video. :)

It really is a different experience listening to vinyl. I can't wait to inherit my parents' massive collection!

It's cool to see a combination of old and new, and the fact that records are being sold with downloads says you can have your quality and convenience, too.