Viva la Vinyl!

You know how they say that food you grow yourself just tastes better? (Just a note: I strongly believe that food you pay a farmer at a farmers' market to grow for you tastes just as good in an objective sense and tastes even better in a subjective sense, because it lacks all the bitter memories of weeding rows of green beans under the scorching sun. And no, I don't resent gardening. Not in the least.)

Anyway, I strongly believe that the same principle applies to music -- it just sounds better when it's played on vinyl. There is just something better.....warmer, fuller, more personal....about music coming from vinyl. And the experience of dropping a needle on the spinning disc and hearing the crackle of static and then hearing music start to flow. You just can't beat it.

As much as I am freaking in love with my iPod, and appreciate CD audio, DVD-Audio, HDCDs, and all the rest of the digital audio formats, vinyl is the ultimate way to truly experience music. On tonight's playlist has been King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King (on original vinyl from 1969) and the Allman Brother's Eat a Peach, featuring the beautiful slide guitar of Duane Allman shortly before his death.

As usual, Pearl Jam said it best: SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE!