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I remember watching the credits to Sixteen Candles on VHS - the tiniest font made worse on our small TV - and wrote down "The Revillos," "Oingo Boingo" and "The Specials" and then waiting two weeks to go to a record store to see if they had anything. He seemed to have his ear to the street, both with the way teenagers talked and what they listened to, at least the teenagers who lived in big cities (or cool suburbs, like Shermer, IL) that had access to cool record stores. I did OK given all that, and listened to REM and The Smiths and other more widely known "college rock" groups of the time, with my finger as close to the pulse as I could get it. My very small town didn't have a record store, and my cable company didn't have MTV, so I relied on my SPIN subscription, TBS' Night Track, and occasional trips to the closest city (Roanoke, VA) to hit record stores, to discover new stuff. I was a teenager in the 1980s and, growing up in West Virginia, I didn't have a lot of access to music beyond the radio.
Sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads, rejoice! This John Hughes box set has almost every song you'd want from his many '80s movies. Now you can get back to reading page 112 of all of your favourite books.Various Artists - Life Moves Pretty Fast - The John Hughes Mixtapes (Demon)
The only way to our minds you could improve on so comprehensive a package as this is to up your budget fairly significantly. It’s because, as well as equipping you with the extra technology that for many people will prove extremely useful, Audio-Technica has what matters spot on - this is a turntable that is both a pleasure to use and to listen to. Sonically, the RP1 has the edge you’d expect from a sole-purpose turntable, but when we switch back we are more than pleased to listen for the rest of the day without missing the extra detail or dynamics. Similarly, when compared to the Rega RP1, we hear a step up in most respects, as well as a more general warmth to the sound, but it cannot detract from the AT-LP5’s musicality.
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Yet it is the AT-LP5’s overall character we enjoy so much, something that is unchanging whether using its built-in phono stage or running through a more expensive one, so while the upgrade is an improvement, it is far from a necessity to enjoy such a talented player. Switching to an external phono stage, each aspect is evidently improved, the sound opening up even more and allowing for even more detail to be dug out of those grooves. There is firstly a great sense of the setting of the recording, a combination of spacious soundstage and detail as the natural reverb is exposed.įurther hints as to that amount of detail are present in the ringing synthesized notes and, though there are more rumbling lows than this system is able to produce, there is a really nicely poised, natural balance to the sound that doesn’t want for bass. To begin, though, we play through the one it has already aboard.įrahm names the first track on this record An Aborted Beginning, but it is one-and-a-half minutes in which we can already rest assured we aren’t to be disappointed. Unlike many record players with built-in phono stage, using the AT-LP5’s is not compulsory, which hands you the advantage of being able to upgrade your system without having to upgrade your whole deck. It’s like spying the present shaped exactly like a pirate ship on Christmas morning, promising us the rival to Rega for which we’re so eager (and that apparently inspires us to poetry), so it is with some haste we shake Nils Frahm’s live album Spaces from its sleeve.
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