Life During Wartime-Talking Heads

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This ain't no party
This ain't no disco
This ain't no foolin' around....

In times like this, one just has to pull out all of their old "ALBUMS" and have an absolutely flashback, fabulous...
Record Spin!

Take them out of the wooden crate, handle with care, and plop them onto the turntable. It takes a bit to figure out which ones you MUST listen to first, but once you "get into the groove" you have consumed 5-6 hours of a Friday night and are thinking that those days back in college were the best years of your life!

There is something about the crackling of the vinyl, the steady hand after several drinks that moves the arm back and forth across the album of black to hear that special song...just one more time, and the task it takes to keep turning it over and slipping it back into it's sleeve.

Try to get sidetracked by the album cover art. It has a much greater impact in it's original size than on a tiny cd. And, ahhhh.....the multiple uses of those double albums, the two record sets, that opened up in booklike fashion, to reveal inner secrets, of artistic expression...and, yeah, more!

I don't have to squint my eyes to actually read the lyrics. So I can sing along! (If I so choose?)

So in this day and age of doom and gloom and news that turns depressing...I am gonna have a few more Record Spins....

Thankful to have saved them...sometimes better than a photograph!!