Vinyl
Preparation
We suggest you do the vocabulary activity below before you listen. Then listen to the audio file and do the task to check your comprehension. You can read the transcript at any time if you want to.
Task
Match the beginnings and endings to make true sentences.
Transcript
OK. Well I wanna talk about vinyl. Hmm…why well I’m sat here which you can’t see, but I’m sat here holding a new record. Everyone just laughed at me because I still buy vinyl records. Not very often but if I can get them I buy them. Everyone laughs because I've got CDs, we got MP3s, we've got this, we've got that, we download, why do you still buy vinyl? Hmm…well one reason is the sound. If you’ve got a good record player, nothing, but nothing sounds as good as vinyl. Hmm…MP3s, they've got this awful tinny, strangulated sound where kind of the bass, the space is missing. So I'm kinda sat here, waving my vinyl record at the microphone. Hmm…I'll have to wait a while to play it 'cause I don’t have a record player. But there you go, when I hear it, it will be worth it.
Hmm….I’ve always bought records, and I really like music. All my early records were in vinyl. And one of the things I like when I get them out of the boxes at home is, there is a thing there. There’s a big picture, you can look at it, you open it out.
You download something it’s just come and gone. I think for a lot of people now music isn’t as special as it was say when I was younger, which was quite a long time ago. So people in the 60s and the 70s and in the 80s. Hmm…music was just really special. You'd go to the shop and you'd have to save up to buy your record because they were quite expensive. So you didn’t download hundreds and hundreds of tracks one after the other. You'd maybe buy... from school with saved dinner money or do little jobs. And then maybe once a month, you could kind of go into town, find a good record shop. One that would let you listen to the records, you listen to two or three records in the shop. Have a think, have a talk with the shop assistant, and then you make your purchase.
Really exciting you'd get this, maybe I need to explain because for younger people, you got this big vinyl record which is about twelve inches across, so you got a big thing to look at. And when you got it home, open up, and bits inside …. pictures to look at, little bits of information on the cover, which were like little messages from another world. Hmm…I was just really special which I got lots of downloads, I’ve got CDs, but, the music’s still great, but they are not special anymore. It’s like they… they just become, it’s just another product I think for most people it’s just another product.
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Comments
I remenber vinyl record had two formats. 33s 45s. The first one has many melodies and the second just two. One on each face. I haven't seen again 45s vinyl record on shops.
When i was young I listened to vinyl record. I rememenber my father liked to buy it. We didn't have many of them because it was expensive. I agree that vinyl record is another kind of product.
I was reading some information about it. As I see, the vinyl has more fidelity than a CD. However, when I used to listen to vinyl records, there was a little sound induced by the needle (as if something is dragged), which is reproduced through the speakers.
I have not listened any vinyl record for a long time!!!
Hello, personally I never listened to a vinyl record, and I don't know the difference between them and the cd's. And I don't know if it sounds better than an MP3. In general I like all kind of music, from any culture or any country. I don't have any favorite record cover, but I have some favorite singer like Celine Dion. I think this listening activity is very interesting because it show us a different refashion ship with music, a different point of view.
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I want to thank you alot for your effort in helping us learn English.
it's great ,i have studied so much,i still continue .What about you?let's try to oneself's hobby.
With a their millennium D.J. I got the chance to listen up to a vinyl record. I can notice the fidelity difference with CDs but also value how it can be manipulated, say, to entertain a party. I also value this exercise because makes one exercise contemporary history. Worldwide civilization is not forward-looking at all; it just enters the future backwards ruling out serious history.
Hi, I had already forgotten vinyl records, and thanks to this class remembered them and will take some of the attic to show them to my children.
greetings and thanks.
Hello,
I have no idea about differences between a vinyl record and other record player types, because i have never listened to it. Maybe it's an experience worth to have.
I think this listening activity is a good one, because it focus on the missing relationship between people, specially younger, and music on these days.