Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

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If an abstract painting already captures everything you want to see about a subject, is photo realism an irritating distraction?

There's two main types of painting: bad paintings and good paintings. "what's the point of painting realistically, now we have photographs?" is definitely a TL;DR question. Bad photo realist paintings are definitely irritating. By bad I don't mean technically deficient, but vacant, glib, slick, facile etc. Someone like Chuck Close plays skillfully with the photographic image, he makes it into something else, his pictures embody a process of pulling something apart and trying to understand it.

I love good abstract paintings for the same reasons I love good figurative paintings; they provoke an emotional response: communication with another human being via a physical object.

Appreciation of a work of art can't really be quantified in terms of technical success. Rather, I think we decide if we like a thing for emotional, illogical reasons, then justify that reaction retrospectively by picking out physical characteristics and pretending to explain them.

So, I love a vinyl record because it's physical presence means something, the ritual of cleaning, storing, playing it means something, you could trick me by piping a digital recording into the room and I probably wouldn't notice the difference. Maybe we all all brains in vats etc

PARKLIFE

Slightly different subject but it just fucking works. You put a record on and it plays.

I've got some fucking awful things on vinyl. Don't love them at all. One of them is 'Some Girls' by Racey.
Mind you it would be shit on cd, minidisc and streaming as well.

Yeah comes around about every 1.8 seconds for LPs

man, that really dates you. Shit record.

My first vinyl purchase was this in 1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vANcgolYNds

My first vinyl dates me too...Ride a White Swan!

I was quite young at the time! I think/hope it was in the charts during my birthday. For a while I always got the top 10 singles on that day, till I realised that I was ending up with mostly a load of shite. So what might have been an interesting collection if I had persevered just means I have a box of really bad singles*

*this is like if you bought your Spotify streams one by one from Our Price **

this was a shop on the high street*

***this was etc, etc

My first vinyl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b97JGNKLHpM

First music I owned was a Belle and Sebastian mix tape my sister made me in 1998. The taped recording of someone putting the needle down on a record was better than the real thing in some ways.

First vinyl, Woolworths, Swaffham Norfolk.

https://youtu.be/pIgZ7gMze7A

Mine was this I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag9DfNfkJ14

This was my first record and first vinyl. Bought from the record shop at the top of Prestongate in Hessle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNWeXGZMcU

When I went looking for the video, I found out that Boards of Canada did a remix of it

I remember when this were all fields thread

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For some reason Colonel Abrams had cult status within my group of mates. I even have the rave version of that (trapped in E) which from memory was awful.

I think my first record was Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (hangs head in shame).

Still waiting to make my first vinyl purchase (40/M/UK)

First album was Guns'n'Roses - Use Your Illusion 2 on cassette.
Mate bought UYI 1 and we copied and swapped.
Piracy before piracy was cool*

(*Hi F.A.C.T., this is not true, I would never steal from poor, destitute record labels)

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I remember recording from the top 40 countdown on cassette and trying to chop the track as soon as the DJ started talking.

I thought better of admitting that my first record was this 1981 stonker. I'd been playing it non-stop for about three weeks before my sister informed me that it also had a B-side.

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What should my first record be?

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Just get Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and be done with it.

I actually have a sealed spare one if that helps...