May 25, 2011
This is a clip from Vinyl, the documentary film about record collectors, hoarders, miscreants, and music lovers in general. In this segment, filmmaker Alan Zweig talks about maybe packing it in, getting a life (huh?) and finding a girlfriend. The most insane moment in the clip is when he intimates that collecting vinyl and having [...]
February 22, 2011
It’s another installment of Other People’s Vinyl, this time featuring some albums in the collection of a YouTuber known as ColoradoSurfrider. This video is full of “gadget” album covers, each of which features a gimmick like the Rolling Stones 3-D album cover for Their Satanic Majesties Request. The most fun is the album cover for [...]
January 7, 2011
We haven’t run an OPV in a LONG time…so we hail the return of Other People’s Vinyl with this awesome, fun YouTube clip.
I LOVE this guy. He has the same obsession for weirdness and oddball stuff on wax and the same physical, MEDICAL NEED to collect. And he even owns the Slim Goodbody record. Fear [...]
October 27, 2010
I’ve been searching high and low for vinyl blogs to review here, but I’ve been coming up dry so I thought I’d pass along a few blogs that do cater to vinyl lovers but not exclusively so.
There is a LOT of vinyl on the always-fun Manchester Morgue, but my all time favorite find there has [...]
July 12, 2010
Another DJ Paisley Babylon mix in a retro vein–this time it’s post-punk, new romantic, early industrial, even some Cramps thrown in for good measure. As varied and all-over-the-map the bands are, the sounds all work very well together. Who needs genres when you’ve got groove? Have a listen to AFTER THE PUNKS HAVE GONE–the DJ [...]
