If a band was playing gigs and/or recording albums in 1977, is it post-punk? That disqualifies The Fall, Joy Division, Wire, and I don't know the history of The Pop Group. But putting that aside, for 1977-1980 Wire is the winner, by a bit over Joy Division. But the Fall really hit its stride with th...

In the running for best band of the 90s.

Live, they had some off nights. But at their best they were incredible. Three nights after the WTC at Maxwells, playing their dark masterpiece was unbelievable. The previous summer before Leaves came out, at Brownies, was probably even better.

I'm not commenting on quality, just on market success. I'm sure there are several thousand new releases on vinyl every year and several thousand represses of old titles--at least--are in print at a given time. Indie labels are releasing more titles on vinyl than they did ten years ago, and stuff tha...

4400 titles? How many years after introduction? I have more albums than that just by my lonesome. That's pitiful. Ridiculous. All the attention for those who want to avoid the degradation of mp3 is on vinyl. Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows what SACD is. I suppose there is still a ghost of a chance ...

The thickness I couldn't tell you but these discs are the same thing as the hybrid Dylan discs on Sony and the hybrid Stones ones in digipaks from 2002, which have since been recently been replaced by regular cds in jewel cases. They should all play fine in cd players for years to come, and you can ...

First, let's clear up a misconception. This Pixies "SACD" is in fact a dual-layer hybrid disk that plays on normal, red book cd players. It will not, like DCC, minidisk, or 8 track, be difficult to play back any time soon. If you have an SACD player, it will recognize the disc as SACD and ...