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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
That's too bad -- after one gets tired of the "lead" songs, you discover some of your new best favorites on the rest of the album! But only if you play the whole thing straight through because it's on vinyl and there's no "skip" button, or programmed play.
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I tend to gravitate towards the album tracks on many albums, and some have become my favorites. Some examples:
- "Love Me For What I Am" by the Carpenters. Not a hit song, just the B-Side of the "Solitaire" single but one of my favorite songs.
- "I Wish I Could Cry" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Found it on an album that appears to be a collection of demo tracks that Gilbert O'Sullivan did before he became famous. One of my favorite songs, and one that is quite different from his later, more polished, version.
- "Bermuda Triangle" by Barry Manilow. A great funny song that isn't a hit but one I think I like better than any of the other songs on the album.
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Originally Posted by crich70
There used to be turn tables that you could program to skip to a given song on a record. At least Lt. Columbo saw one once. lol.
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I've heard of those turntables too, but I don't know how well they worked. I do know that they have come out with laser turntables that are supposed to play records via a laser and can go to and skip tracks just like a CD player (but according to a podcast I'd heard they only work with black vinyl records). Unfortunately, I did a Wikipedia check and it costs around $10,000.
I know from experience that some automatic turntables had problems playing non-black vinyl LPs. I had a fully automatic turntable that made playing records almost as easy as playing a CD (put the record on and hit one button to play the side one time). But it could only player black vinyl record automatically. With other records I had manually set the needle since the size sensors (which relied on the record blocking lights to tell the size of the record) could not tell what size the record was.
Now for something completely different: Isn't it interesting how something born out of necessity can become iconic? In
Doctor Who the original reason the TARDIS was stuck in the form of a London Police Call Box is because there wasn't the budget to allow it to change shape (which was the original plan).