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Jul. 18th, 2005 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaI went shopping for singles this morning. However, now I am playing them as I attempt to kick my room into shape and I have run into a problem.
The hole in the middle of my nice new Kooks single is smaller than the record player's spindle. Not just needs-a-bit-of-force, but actually too small. Is there a standard solution to this problem ? I'm a bit reluctant to take a file to it, as I'd probably end up with an elliptic hole and a record that played wonky.
Today's haul was:
Kooks - Eddie's Gun. I've heard this a few times and rather liked it. Can't confirm opinions, because I can't play it. See above.
Maximo Park - Gone Missing. Pleasant listening, but not outstanding - I think it's one of life's album tracks, really. I'll admit it, I'm mostly in it because I like the singer's accent :) Both the A side and the B side are on the same side, with the lyrics etched into the flip side of the record. You can have so much more fun producing vinyl than CDs. Having two tracks on one side means you have to play it at 33 1/3, which they don't bother to tell you - why does no one print speeds on records any more ?
Corl - Outlines. I'd been reading about these guys, and wanted to know what they sounded like. Need a few more listens to form an opinion properly. Two B-sides, a free poster, and white vinyl, though :)
Lemon Jelly - Make Things Right. Lemon Jelly win this week's funky packaging award for the lovely hungry-caterpillar style concentric rings. Even if they did let their artistic integrity have full sway, and didn't sully the record sleeve with anything demeaning like, say, a title. The A side is good old Lemon Jelly style sampling. The B side is twelve concentric rings instead of a spiral. Yup, they're all "looped beats", to allow you to do your own remixing ("two turntables and microphone not included"). If I find the record two of the single, I'll also get a nice beat-free version of the single and some more ambient loops. I'm tempted to hunt it down and beg the use of someone's decks for an hour. Hurrah for people with creatively daft ideas.
Total outlay for all that fun: £3.96.
... and I only went into Virgin to get the picturedisk of the new Bloc Party single.
The hole in the middle of my nice new Kooks single is smaller than the record player's spindle. Not just needs-a-bit-of-force, but actually too small. Is there a standard solution to this problem ? I'm a bit reluctant to take a file to it, as I'd probably end up with an elliptic hole and a record that played wonky.
Today's haul was:
Kooks - Eddie's Gun. I've heard this a few times and rather liked it. Can't confirm opinions, because I can't play it. See above.
Maximo Park - Gone Missing. Pleasant listening, but not outstanding - I think it's one of life's album tracks, really. I'll admit it, I'm mostly in it because I like the singer's accent :) Both the A side and the B side are on the same side, with the lyrics etched into the flip side of the record. You can have so much more fun producing vinyl than CDs. Having two tracks on one side means you have to play it at 33 1/3, which they don't bother to tell you - why does no one print speeds on records any more ?
Corl - Outlines. I'd been reading about these guys, and wanted to know what they sounded like. Need a few more listens to form an opinion properly. Two B-sides, a free poster, and white vinyl, though :)
Lemon Jelly - Make Things Right. Lemon Jelly win this week's funky packaging award for the lovely hungry-caterpillar style concentric rings. Even if they did let their artistic integrity have full sway, and didn't sully the record sleeve with anything demeaning like, say, a title. The A side is good old Lemon Jelly style sampling. The B side is twelve concentric rings instead of a spiral. Yup, they're all "looped beats", to allow you to do your own remixing ("two turntables and microphone not included"). If I find the record two of the single, I'll also get a nice beat-free version of the single and some more ambient loops. I'm tempted to hunt it down and beg the use of someone's decks for an hour. Hurrah for people with creatively daft ideas.
Total outlay for all that fun: £3.96.
... and I only went into Virgin to get the picturedisk of the new Bloc Party single.
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Date: 2005-07-18 09:10 pm (UTC)Circular in cross-section, so you'd really have to work to get the hole wrong. Make sure it covers the right size before you take it home. It usually only takes one or two turns to persuade a recalcitrant disk, so don't go overboard on the first one.
Conceivably you could get one for a pound or two. It very much depends what the local hardware shops are like. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, as vinyl's pretty soft.
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Date: 2005-07-18 09:13 pm (UTC)Have also now remembered that the reason I never played the Doves single I bought was that it didn't fit the spindle, so it seems to be a common enough problem to merit spending a few quid on solving it.