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WMRE Executive Staff ‘Zine Editor Valerie Gaimon General Manager David Ogles Programming Director John Hartung Treasurer Catherine Garofalo Technical Director Joseph Sabado Personnel Director Erica Davis Music Director Leuwam Tesfai Publicity Director Lauren Baker Business Manager Alexander Sachs Social Chair Stacy Komitor Webmaster Joseph Sabado Members At Large Spencer Koch Trish Harris Corey Licht Eric Stein Brian Sholer Rachel Gottschalk Nalini Abirahman Larry Oji Top 10 Week of 04.25.05 Artist Album British Sea Power Open Season Morrissey Live from Earl’s Court Architecture in Helsinki In Case We Die Weezer Beverly Hills single Hot Hot Heat Elevators Des Ark Send Jolly to Raleigh Oasis Lyla single Pale Pacifi c Rules are Unpredictable Garbage Bleed Like Me The Raveonettes Pretty in Black Oh no! It’s Nalini’s farewell letter! We didn’t even have time to haze her! listen-ers, I’m so sad to leave. I’m weeping as we speak; it’s debilitating, but not so powerful that I can’t summarize what it’s meant to me in a limerick. There was once a girl named Nalini Who headed the WMRE ziney When she had to leave She felt bereaved But then made herself a martini. As you can see, I’m prepared to move on. I’ll miss you all so! I wish my comrade Valerie S. Gaimon the very best in taking care of the 12-page faberge egg that is listen. With that, I’m out. Pablo, hold my baby! Keep it typeface, Nalini
Vinyl Fetish Zine Poll If you had to listen to just one band for the rest of your life, what would it be? Miles Davis & The Cool School – Nalini Abhiraman The Beatles – Valerie Gaimon The Roots – Daniel Spivack Reel Big Fish – Lauren Baker Radiohead – Marnie Florin Beat Happening – Chris Daresta Led Zeppelin – David Ogles David Marek – Neutral Milk Hotel The Velvet Underground – Andrea Gunadi Have you noticed a superfluity of vinyl record sections and store openings around Atlanta? I’m all for the retro craze when it comes to music, fashion and design, however, retro technology is something we can all be without. Do we really need to relive a world without microwaves, jet engines or Toaster Strudels? If that’s the case, I’m first in line to return my ringer T-shirts to Urban Outfitters. Purists maintain the sound quality is unbeatable. There is supposed to be a warm, homey quality that gets sucked out by the heartless bastards who digitally re-master music onto CDs. I can imagine my vinylhappy friends in their best Jon Stewart impressions asking, “Dude, have you ever listened to Led Zeppelin IV? Have you listened to it… on vinyl?” Yes, in fact, I have. The only difference I found is that the music “popped” and “hissed” more than on CD (in fact CDs never pop or hiss, that’s why they were invented) and I had to get up, turn over the record and place the needle back on the 12” hunk of obsolescence before I got to hear “Misty Mountain Hop.” Ok, I’ll admit that there is something cool about “roughing it” like the old days. I enjoy camping and hiking as much as the next guy (only if I can bring my portable mist-fan). But is it really practical to buy music on a medium you have to sell off if you move across the country? I’ve heard several horror stories of DJs having to pawn off each of their records for a buck apiece, because it would require an entire moving truck to transport all of them to their new house Maybe it’s not the sound itself that has revitalized interest in the LP. To me, the recent vinyl trend is a backlash against the death of cover art. The digital revolution has effectively destroyed any awareness or appreciation among our generation for album covers. Show me any college student scouring for music through Instant Messenger or iTunes for an album cover, and I’ll show you a college student who won’t recognize the band, album, release date, or record label under which it was released. Some of the most recognizable pieces of art in the last few decades have been on album covers, from Pink Floyd to David Bowie to the naked people on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover. People like to look at pretty things, and perhaps this is a reason for people to buy vinyl. But I think the vinyl trend can be attributed to one more aspect of our conversion to digital music. Frank Zappa once said, “Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.” Using his logic, maybe mp3s won’t totally eliminate record stores in the future. People like to have a sense of ownership when they buy something, and vinyls have become rare enough recently for even the greatest albums to become collector’s items. One can take great pride in a large mp3 collection (my hard drive is bigger than your hard drive) but what is the real financial impact of losing 10,000 songs that you never bought or properly owned to begin with? Lose even 20 vinyl records and your friends will be hearing about it for months, especially if one was a rare import. All right, I admit I jumped on the vinyl bandwagon a few months ago. If you ever stared into the cover of Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model and saw your reflection in his big, goofy glasses, you would understand. In the meantime, I’ll see you crazy retro kids thumbing through the antiques section at the local Value Village.—David Ogles
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