Vintage Vinyl Revival

Appleton’s work can be described as a highly developed extension of “musique concrete.” He has spent hours getting the squawks of penguins, recording variegated water sounds, and collecting the wide-ranging sounds which human beings make in different situations. Appleton’s musical credo is that all sounds are potentially musical; the composer’s function is to select those which are more musical and to develop them within a musical context.

The Beatles produced so many God-forsaken albums, with so many different versions released at different times on different labels with so many minute details and stories floating around them, that only infinitesimally subtle nuances can keep them apart, and that’s without adding the trouble of the counterfeited copies. It’s not uncommon for literally one little detail to mean the difference between an album that is potentially worth thousands of dollars, and one that belongs in the 50¢ bin.

Here’s a list of Beatles records I have for sale, plus a rant about my love / hate relationship with them.