What are you grateful to have?

Dude111

I am grateful BEYOND ANYTHING to have these things

VHS - I think VHS is MUCH BETTER than this digital garbage... Picture/Sound is better
CRT TV/MONITOR - Much better Picture and sound -- CRT has always been better/always will.. (Those flat screen TVs are ugly,etc)

Atari 2600/Coleco - Two excellent awesome Consoles (Atari being the better of the two)
Commodore 64 - Excellent unit from the 80s
Cassette Tapes - Good sound (Being analogue and all)

I am VERY grateful to have WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE BETTER TECHNOLOGY!! -- MUCH BETTER

What are you grateful to have from years ago??

kelle

The VHS and cassette tapes lasted much longer than their digital equivalents. I've had tape break or get chewed up but I could always repair it- I used a tiny piece of sticky tape to join the broken tape ribbon and would get years more out of it.
Nowadays the slightest fall can damage a Cd or DVD beyond repair!!

I'd love to get hold of a good VHS player!

uch

My health

kitakyushu

Dude111 wrote: »

VHS - I think VHS is MUCH BETTER than this digital garbage... Picture/Sound is better
CRT TV/MONITOR - Much better Picture and sound -- CRT has always been better/always will.. (Those flat screen TVs are ugly,etc)

Atari 2600/Coleco - Two excellent awesome Consoles (Atari being the better of the two)
Commodore 64 - Excellent unit from the 80s
Cassette Tapes - Good sound (Being analogue and all)

Arcade Machines. Great to have pay 20p a go to stand around in some dingy dive playing the best games of the day. FIFA12 (et al) for free in the comfort of my own home? Rubbish!

Horse and Cart. Much better than a car.

Lawrence1895

I have the first 12 KISS albums, plus all solo albums on vinyl, with the original logo. They are of some value, since the original logo was banned in Germany...or still is

Rubecula

I have a reel to reel tape recorder and a record player. I love my vinyl albums and some wonderful memories recorded on tape.

Bearhunter

My hair.

Skerries

not to be delusional like the OP

Dude111

I am not! (If your referring to me) -- I just value GOOD QUALITY

tedobrien98

Dude111 wrote: »

I am grateful BEYOND ANYTHING to have these things

VHS - I think VHS is MUCH BETTER than this digital garbage... Picture/Sound is better
CRT TV/MONITOR - Much better Picture and sound -- CRT has always been better/always will.. (Those flat screen TVs are ugly,etc)

Atari 2600/Coleco - Two excellent awesome Consoles (Atari being the better of the two)
Commodore 64 - Excellent unit from the 80s
Cassette Tapes - Good sound (Being analogue and all)

I am VERY grateful to have WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE BETTER TECHNOLOGY!! -- MUCH BETTER

What are you grateful to have from years ago??

I think you might have a touch of technology nostalgia. I completely agree with people saying that things break far too easily today. My father still uses tapes for recording things, and I much prefer this method to any ould sky plus box and stuff like that, they're far simpler. (Even though most people my age, and people I go to school with find this almost BARBARIC and many have never seen a tape :eek: ) Also, one thing I found very hard to get used to when the DVD's came out first was the fact that you couldn't just turn it off and come back to the same spot whenever you felt like it. It's a lot harder to find the right place on a DVD.
But to be honest I think that minor things like that are worth it when you think about how compact things are. Thousands of songs on a little mp3 player, thousands of photos on a little bit of plastic the size of your finger nail. And it is so much cheaper to get things like this, they are available to the majority of the population, compared to when a video machine would have cost hundreds, or even thousands of OLD IRISH POUNDS, and now you can easily get a decent dvd player for under €100.
I think records look more appealing than CD's to be honest though. Probably because I'm only into old music. (that's one thing I definitely hate about today is the music... I know you'll think I wont know anything about it, I'm only 14 etc. but I only listen to real good old music, mainly from the early 1960's on. When sound technology improved then, I would have been happy enough if it had stayed like that.) But people always say to me, I bet you wish you were born in a different era, so you could have been around for all the great music etc., but I don't really... I am growing up in an age when I can have the entire back catalogue of The Beatles, or The Stones or any other great band at the tip of my finger in seconds, and when it is so easy to acquire new knowledge via the internet, without hours scouring through encyclopaedia to find what you want. (I admit, I do occasionally like the thrill of being so close to finding something and then nearly ****ting myself when I do , which doesn't happen with google...)

I think I should probably stop typing now.... wow that's a long post... Jaysus, I talk alot for a young fella!!!

DEFTLEFTHAND

My good looks, about the only quality I do have.

Skerries

tedobrien98 wrote: »

But people always say to me, I bet you wish you were born in a different era, so you could have been around for all the great music etc., but I don't really... I am growing up in an age when I can have the entire back catalogue of The Beatles, or The Stones or any other great band at the tip of my finger in seconds, and when it is so easy to acquire new knowledge via the internet, without hours scouring through encyclopaedia to find what you want.

there's a question I could answer with location because even in the last 20 years there has been some great rock music but limited to an area.
So I would have loved to been in Manchester for the Madchester scene or Seattle for the Grunge scene or even just in Britain for the rave scene.
Going back in time you had New York for the Disco scene in places like Studio 54 or Woodstock for the whole summer of love vibe.
Music is tied into a time and a feeling and mood of a generation and count yourself lucky if you are there at the right time

tedobrien98

Skerries wrote: »

there's a question I could answer with location because even in the last 20 years there has been some great rock music but limited to an area.
So I would have loved to been in Manchester for the Madchester scene or Seattle for the Grunge scene or even just in Britain for the rave scene.
Going back in time you had New York for the Disco scene in places like Studio 54 or Woodstock for the whole summer of love vibe.
Music is tied into a time and a feeling and mood of a generation and count yourself lucky if you are there at the right time

Well I do think that it would have been EPIC to be in England or America during Beatlemania, and I know that there was absolutely unreal craic to be had at Woodstock. I also often wish I was around when Britpop was on the go (not that long ago, I know). Oasis in my opinion were the last great rock band, the genre is dead. Music in general has almost definitely peaked and is on the way down since the 80's... Britpop was an attempt at reviving Rock, which didn't work. Now pretty much everything sounds the same... In the 60's, there was so much, possibly too much to choose from... The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Monkees, The Who, The Byrds... And I know that anybody could name hundreds more... All sounding different. They all had their own sound. Now it's all artificial and 'plasticy' and just plain sh!te. There was definitely some sort of a vibe to go with every age of music, except this one... There's no 'vibe' to go with it... Late 60's had Peace, Love, all that stuff... 70's had that disco thing goin on, late 70's had a general sense of fvck the establishment, all that stuff, blaaaaaaahhh blaaaaaaahhh blaaaaaaahhh every generation had some sort of vibe. Not now though.

ALSO, I don't know many people that follow along with music for their whole lives... Usually, you will take to the music from your time, you will stick with that, music will move on, you will become an old person still listening to the same stuff and hate the newer stuff... So if I was around during the time of my 2 favourite bands, the beatles and the stones, the chances are I wouldn't have bothered listening to some great bands that happened between then and now... Queen, Dire Straits, Oasis... (I KNOW, they are 3 completely different bands with little in common, they were just the first 3 bands that came into my head...)

Believe me, I am waiting in hope for some new type of music to show up, something real, where they actually need talent... But until then, I am quite happy with my rather eclectic playlist, of greatest hits from the past 50 years.

P.S. If the 'messiah' doesn't come soon, I fear I might have to jump on the Indie bandwagon... I love some Indie, but some of it is just so whingey and moaney and bleeeuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhhh....