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"Vinyls"

I remember when some of my colleagues started using "cool" again, I used to cringe. And then, about a year later, I was suddenly single and hanging out with the singles crowd. I now use "cool" all the time and don't find anything strange about it.

My mother still gets amused when she asks me how I'm doing and I say "I'm good".
 
ponderwilu said:
For what's it worth I'm pushing 62. My Dad opened a T.V. repair shop back in the early sixties. Once a month he traveled to Baltimore to a huge retail "record" outlet and picked up the latest and hottest LP'S. The 45's and 33 1/3's were both called, who all were involved, as "records". Period. The only distinction to my memory was the LP which was the 33 1/3 album.
Today ... Vinyl. Whatever floats your boat.
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Nat Barnett's?

I'm a bit older than you and, when I started buying... um... recordings, nobody called them "vinyl". They were just records. If you wanted to be a little more specific, you called them "LPs" (or "33s"), "45s" or "78s". If you wanted to be "hip", you called them "wax" or "platters" (that's where The Platters got their name) or "sides".

I think "vinyl" came into usage around the time that cassettes (or 8-tracks) came along. I guess folks thought they needed to update the terminology for the old media type. :dunno:

So, I guess the point here is, if someone who grew up calling records "vinyl" has a legitimate beef about people calling them "vinyls", am I within my rights to be pissed off at people who call them "vinyl"?

Or is it appropriate for that person to say to me, "get over it, you old fart"? ;)

John
 
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wondergrape said:
I hate to be this guy. But referring to multiple records as "vinyls"? I understand that this is becoming commonplace, but man it's like nails on a chalkboard.
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Is anyone else really irritated by this trope? Man, it really drives me up the wall! :D

John
 
ra7c7er said:
I've been on this site a couple years now and this has come up MANY times before. Who cares what people call them. So long as people buy them and companies keep making them I'm happy.
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I'm in this crowd, call them whatever you want, just keep em coming.
 
boreas said:
Nat Barnett's?

I'm a bit older than you and, when I started buying... um... recordings, nobody called them "vinyl". They were just records. If you wanted to be a little more specific, you called them "LPs" (or "33s"), "45s" or "78s". If you wanted to be "hip", you called them "wax" or "platters" (that's where The Platters got their name) or "sides".

I think "vinyl" came into usage around the time that cassettes (or 8-tracks) came along. I guess folks thought they needed to update the terminology for the old media type. :dunno:

So, I guess the point here is, if someone who grew up calling records "vinyl" has a legitimate beef about people calling them "vinyls", am I within my rights to be pissed off at people who call them "vinyl"?

Or is it appropriate for that person to say to me, "get over it, you old fart"? ;)

John
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Growing up in the 50's and 60's and then into the 70's, records were the generic term. Albums was the term most people used for 12" records.

Don't really know when the term vinyl began, nor do I care. I'm guessing it was some time after the introduction of the CD to differentiate between the two.
 
My record collection is getting quite large as I enjoy listening to records on my turntable. Part of my vinyl playback system consist of nice interconnects, phono head amp and MC cartridge to bring out the best sound in the vinyl. I prefer LPs over 12 singles although the mastering and vinyl quality can be much better on the singles. However some don't mind the difficulty in the vinyl formate but some do and prefer a digital over listening to records. Some times it's just much easier to stream digital opposed to pulling out my vinyl copy of the album.
 
Duane said:
Growing up in the 50's and 60's and then into the 70's, records were the generic term. Albums was the term most people used for 12" records.
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And, of course, "album" as a term for a 12" LP is wrong. The word really refers to the... well... albums that contained multiple 78s, each with one tune per side. The 33 rpm LP replicated this in terms of content but on a single disc.

I wonder how many old farts back i n the '50s got bent out of shape over that one.

"They're not albums, whipper-snapper! They're LPs!"

Don't really know when the term vinyl began, nor do I care. I'm guessing it was some time after the introduction of the CD to differentiate between the two.
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I don't care either but I'm not sure why anyone needed terminology to distinguish an LP from a CD by inventing a new term for it. Maybe because artists and labels used to talk about this or that "new album" at a time when you couldn't be sure whether they meant "LP" or "CD" or both. (Maybe we're back to those days again! :))

Anyway, if you don't like a term, don't use it but, at the same time, don't impose your preference on someone else. It's not as if their meaning isn't clear and, really, that's what language is all about.

John
 
boreas said:
And, of course, "album" as a term for a 12" LP is wrong. The word really refers to the... well... albums that contained multiple 78s, each with one tune per side. The 33 rpm LP replicated this in terms of content but on a single disc.

I wonder how many old farts back i n the '50s got bent out of shape over that one.

"They're not albums, whipper-snapper! They're LPs!"
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Tell that to the folks at the Grammys and their "album of the year" and "record of the year" awards.
 
Sam Cogley said:
Tell that to the folks at the Grammys and their "album of the year" and "record of the year" awards.
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Okay, let's fight over that one now! ;)

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John
 
The Hardingism "normalcy" grates mightily on my ear, "normality" worked just fine before displaced by one of this idiot politician's substitute linguistic bastardizations.
E.E. Cummings wrote that "The only man, woman, or child that ever wrote a simple declaritive sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead" upon hearing of Harding's passing.
Good riddance.

"Vinyls" otoh I can accept if it promotes appreciation of this medium as a conduit of pleasure and cultural reservation.

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This reminds me of my constant attempts as a kid to get other kids to stop calling their portable radios "transistors"...as in "I got a transistor for Christmas!!" I tried & tried to convince them that a transistor was a three-terminal device that made their transistor RADIO operate.

I was relatively unsuccessful.
 
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