gutterball1 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 anyone notice that album releases have really started to be "made for vinyl" over the past few years? and what I mean by this is... after y2k most releases were CD only and everything was designed for the CD and it was either ported to vinyl or not released at all. CDs came with huge booklets and lots of artwork within it but when 2010 rolled around and everything was getting pressed on vinyl for the first time, the vinyl release would either omit the CD booklet and artwork or make a single page with a bunch of squares representing the booklet pages or just a very stripped down version of it with a lot of it missing. but over the past few years it seems like it has reversed and now the releases are being made for vinyl and ported to CD. most releases today have these nice picture sleeves to hold the record instead of a generic white sleeve. and CD versions have a very small booklet that is just a couple a pages that cut up the picture sleeve into a book form. so it seems to be that most releases today are made for vinyl and ported to CD, and sometimes even cassette. bands today are probably also making the tracklist order of songs of their albums to make sure they can fit on a single LP. anyone else notice this recently? I never really see it discussed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I remember y2k gutterball1, mmhmm, Billich0986 and 3 others 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I thought this was gonna be about the time when Arcade Fire mastered each track of the Suburbs for vinyl (cutting each track to an individual lacquer) and then made the cd master from a vinyl ripof those lacquers. Tommy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Or maybe it was Reflektor. Either way I don’t care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I miss the Y2K panic. Makes the shitshow that is nowadays a total slice of heaven. HURevolution4lx, faaip de oiad, poweredbytrust and 3 others 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown pleasures Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Billich0986 and faaip de oiad 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Figured this would be about digital mastering being pressed to vinyl less lately and came in ready to dispute it... but instead this shit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squard Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, jhulud said: I miss the Y2K panic. Makes the shitshow that is nowadays a total slice of heaven. Good news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, jhulud said: I miss the Y2K panic. Makes the shitshow that is nowadays a total slice of heaven. Wait. you think the y2k fearmongering is worse than it is now? Shelby and monsterrod 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I would gladly trade the fear of having all my electronics stop working for less empowered nazis/incels, brown people and women feeling safe, not having to see new versions of Trey Gowdy’s stupid haircuts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) Sorry. anyway, bands make tracklistings so that they can get as many streams as possible. Not for vinyl. But vinyl sells and can make money for bands so that’s why we see more effort put into it. It has nothing to do with recording for the format. Edited October 10, 2019 by timsimmons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 We may need a thread that’s like the Color variant mockup thread, but Trey Gowdy haircuts to the album cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjorn Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 6 hours ago, timsimmons said: Sorry. anyway, bands make tracklistings so that they can get as many streams as possible. Not for vinyl. But vinyl sells and can make money for bands so that’s why we see more effort put into it. It has nothing to do with recording for the format. I think this is closer to reality. I wish more artists who release their music on vinyl would actually write albums with the limitations of the format in mind, but that still seems to be an afterthought 95% of the time. Look no further than all the needless 2xLP releases out there that would have been much better trimmed down to fit a single LP. What's even more fun is when the artwork is pixelated simply because whoever did the layout didn't size the files correctly, which is totally inexcusable, yet I have a nice stack of records where this obviously happened. But I do agree though that it's much more common now to see CD packaging that mimics record sleeves, which is nice since I think we can all agree that jewel cases suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gutterball1 Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 7 hours ago, bjorn said: I think this is closer to reality. I wish more artists who release their music on vinyl would actually write albums with the limitations of the format in mind, but that still seems to be an afterthought 95% of the time. Look no further than all the needless 2xLP releases out there that would have been much better trimmed down to fit a single LP. What's even more fun is when the artwork is pixelated simply because whoever did the layout didn't size the files correctly, which is totally inexcusable, yet I have a nice stack of records where this obviously happened. But I do agree though that it's much more common now to see CD packaging that mimics record sleeves, which is nice since I think we can all agree that jewel cases suck. that's another good point,,,most cds now come in digi packs instead of jewel cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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