I Wanna Talk-vinyl 黑胶唱片

OK.  Well I wanna talk about vinyl.  Hmm…why well I’m sat here which you can’t see, but I’m sat here holding a new record.  Everyone just laughed at me because I still buy vinyl records.  Not very often but if I can get them I buy them.  Everyone laughs because I've got CDs, we got MP3s, we've got this, we've got that, we download¹, why do you still buy vinyl?  Hmm…well one reason is the sound.  If you’ve got a good record player, nothing, but nothing sounds as good as vinyl.  Hmm…MP3s, they've got this awful tinny, strangulated sound where kind of the bass², the space is missing³.   So I'm kinda sat here, waving my vinyl record at the microphone⁴.  Hmm…I'll have to wait a while to play it 'cause I don’t have a record player.  But there you go, when I hear it, it will be worth it. Hmm….I’ve always bought records, and I really like music.  All my early records were in vinyl.  And one of the things I like when I get them out of the boxes at home is, there is a thing there.  There’s a big picture, you can look at it, you open it out.

You download something it’s just come and gone.  I think for a lot of people now music isn’t as special as it was say when I was younger, which was quite a long time ago.  So people in the 60s and the 70s and in the 80s.  Hmm…music was just really special.  You'd go to the shop and you'd have to save up to buy your record because they were quite expensive.  So you didn’t download hundreds and hundreds of tracks⁵ one after the other.  You'd maybe buy... from school with saved dinner money or do little jobs.  And then maybe once a month, you could kind of go into town, find a good record shop.  One that would let you listen to the records, you listen to two or three records in the shop.  Have a think, have a talk with the shop assistant, and then you make your purchase⁶. Really exciting you'd get this, maybe I need to explain because for younger people, you got this big vinyl record which is about twelve inches⁷ across, so you got a big thing to look at.  And when you got it home, open up, and bits inside ….  pictures to look at, little bits of information on the cover, which were like little messages from another world.  Hmm…I was just really special which I got lots of downloads⁸, I’ve got CDs, but, the music’s still great, but they are not special anymore.  It’s like they… they just become, it’s just another product I think for most people it’s just another product.

 

1 download   

n./v.下载（计算机用语）

参考例句：

• I need to download some lessons for class.我需要给班上下载一些课程。
• I want to download some free software from the net.我想从网上下载一些免费软件。

2 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

3 missing   

adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的

参考例句：

• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具，看有无丢失。
• All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了，就短他一个。

4 microphone   

n.扩音器，麦克风，话筒

参考例句：

• He gave a tap at the microphone before speaking.他在讲话前先轻叩了一下扩音器。
• She behaved naturally before the microphone.她在话筒前表现自然。

5 tracks   

n.小路( track的名词复数 )；跑道；路径；轨道v.跟踪( track的第三人称单数 )；跟踪摄影；留下（脏）足迹；追随（潮流等）

参考例句：

• Tracks led up the mountainside. 小径沿着山坡向上延伸。
• All the tracks have been digitally remastered from the original tapes. 所有的曲子都已经从原始录音带转录到了数码母带上。

6 purchase   

n.购买，购买品，价值，紧握，起重装置；vt.购买，赢得，努力取得，举起

参考例句：

• What type of insurance should I purchase?我应该买什么保险？
• Where did you purchase it?你在哪买的？

7 inches   

n.英寸（相当于 2。54 厘米，一英尺有 12 英寸）( inch的名词复数 )；少量；[复数]身材；（数量、距离、程度等）少许

参考例句：

• The water is only a few inches deep. 这水只有几英寸深。
• 1.14 inches of rain fell last night. 昨晚的降雨量为1.14英寸。

8 downloads   

v.将（程序，资料等）从大计算机系统输入小计算机系统，下载( download的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• JMC to provide online and sharing video and audio downloads! 提供J.M.C有关的在线观看的视频以及音频分享下载！ 来自互联网
• Downloads the message body of the selected message from the server. 由服务器上下载所选邮件的邮件正文。 来自互联网