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How the 45 RPM Single Changed Music
- rasjani 8y agoI don’t have any answer but after reading the headine, came to post this: https://youtu.be/HucOdgey9NE https://youtu.be/HucOdgey9NE
- neonate 8y agoThat's great!
- rasjani 8y agoFunny how the author thinks colored vinyls existed then :) my first vinyl release had something like 50 copies in red due some reasons (we ordered all black cuz it was cheaper). Pretty sure one can still order colored vinyls but it’s a “common knowledge” that black ones last longer. Can’t say if that has any merit or not.
- black-tea 8y agoA true coloured vinyl probably lasts just as long as a black one, but I've seen a few that look coloured but are really picture discs. The pictures discs really are crap because the groove is cut into a thin layer of clear material that is layered on top of the printed picture.
- rasjani 8y agoIndeed thats the case. I was just referring to what some people think about colored vinyls due to picture discs. I haven’t really seen 7” picture disks so talking about albums: singles have nicer sound..
- atwebb 8y ago>Funny how the author thinks colored vinyls existed then I'm confused, they did exist and there were shellac/78rpms which were red prior to that. The color was used to denote the genre.
- rasjani 8y agoDidn’t know about genre thing. I just found it funny how author referred to color presses. Maybe I didn’t catch the meaning correctly but it sounded like having those was something obscure
- karmakaze 8y agoIs this an actual phrase? "It’s impossible to underestimate the impact of the 45" Seems like it means impossible to overestimate, easy to underestimate, or just impossible to estimate.
- FPGAhacker 8y agoYou are correct, that phrase as stated would mean no matter how little impact you think 45RPM had, you estimate would not be too low. The author surely meant 'impossible to overestimate.' --- I don't know if this is a common mix up, like, for example: "I could care less." (which means you have not reached a minimum of caring) vs "I couldn't care less." (which means you have reached minimum of caring) --- Or the more pernicious (in my opinion) and pervasive: "Not all X are Y" (some X might be Y, but at least some are not) vs "All X are not Y" (There are no X that are also Y)
- SaberTail 8y agoThe author could also have meant to say "it's impossible to understate".
- mypalmike 8y ago"Remember, you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor."