Before I opened my blog I had a lot of things going in my head and I thought, "I should write this down now before I forget it." And what do you know, my mind's a blank.
I know I wanted to write something interesting about my record player. I just finished watching the film adaptation of The Perks of Being A Wallflower and looked up the song list when I saw that they used a different song for the tunnel scene. In the movie they used "Heroes" by David Bowie but in the book it was Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide". I remembered that I have a vinyl of Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours. I dusted it off and discovered "Landslide" wasn't in it. I played the record anyway. A quick search on Wikipedia and I find out it's the band's most successful album, and even won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978.
My copy has several scratches so I didn't get to enjoy some of the songs but it's good enough that I listened through the skips. There's one familiar song, "Dreams." You'd know it if you're a 90s kid and watched The Corrs on MTV.
I've always been partial to sad/slow songs so my favorites are "Never Going Back Again", "Songbird", and the last three songs: "I Don't Want to Know", "Oh Daddy", and "Gold Dust Woman."
I plan to listen to its remastered version which was released in 2004. During my morning commute I usually listen to The Morning Rush podcasts, but lately I've been mixing it up with my playlists. It's been a while since I got hooked on an album. I only have two on my phone, Beyonce's self-titled and Sarah Bareilles's The Blessed Unrest. I guess I'll be adding Rumours now.
Four years ago, when I didn't care about how much things cost, I bought this record player in Rockwell from a man who then sold me other stuff, including a stash of vinyls and an antique electric fan. I've gotten a lot of jabs from my family and friends for spending (they used the term wasting) money, but I'll never regret buying my player. They're making a come back and they're more expensive now, but when people ask me, I can tell them I was way ahead of the pack.
That's all. Good night world, hope you had a nice weekend!
P.S. Listen to "Landslide" kids, seriously.
