Author Archives

Every Record Tells A Story, a music blog written by Steve Carr. I have written for Classic Rock, The Guardian and Record Collector Magazine. Appearances on BBC4 documentary & Radio 4. Every Record Tells A Story is my blog
https://everyrecordtellsastory.com/

• Should You Buy Nineties Vinyl?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 29, 2022 • ( 32 )

  

  …and a discussion of Record Collector’s Logic. Also: The Great R.E.M. CD / Vinyl Hunt… Have we reached peak vinyl? Should we all pile in to CDs now the price is a tiny fraction of the cost of vinyl?  Is… Read More ›

• Format Wars: CDs Versus Vinyl – Which Is The Least Rubbish?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 29, 2022 • ( 25 )

  

  The Great R.E.M. CD Hunt (Part 2) In the last article we asked some of the fundamental questions of the universe. For example:  With the re-release of Paul Weller’s Stanley Road for no less than £32.99, have we reached Peak… Read More ›

• Peak Vinyl? Is It Time To Start Buying CDs Again? 

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 29, 2022 • ( 28 )

  

  The Great R.E.M. CD Hunt (Part 1)  As with many bad ideas, this one started in a pub. History is littered with Bad Ideas That Started In Pubs. The Pet Rock was an idea that began in a pub, naturally…. Read More ›

• Records to buy on Record Store Day (that aren’t RSD releases)

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  April 23rd 2022 marks the UK’s fifteenth Record Store Day, a day set aside to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store, and to hopefully keep them in business. It is still the busiest day of the year… Read More ›

• The Search for Kraftwerk’s Ralf and Florian

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s 1971, and Kraftwerk are playing on German TV show The Beatclub following the release of their debut album, Kraftwerk 1. The trio feature the hirsute rock god Michael Rother on gold Les Paul guitar, Klaus Dinger in white, angel-winged… Read More ›

• A Hendrix Discogswhack

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Ever buy an album variant that wasn’t already on Discogs?

• A Farewell to Genesis

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 27, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks – Genesis to you and me – played their last ever concerts at The O2 Arena this weekend. I last saw Genesis play live in 1987, at Wembley Stadium on the Invisible Touch… Read More ›

• WH Lung: Live at the Scala

  By Every Record Tells A Story on November 17, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  With everyone having been stuck indoors for a year and a half, might WH Lung just be the band we need right now as we emerge, blinking, into civilisation once again…? Naming your band after a Chinese supermarket; Featuring a… Read More ›

• World Records: A New Book about Record Collectors

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 6, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  In 2008 New York photographer Eilon Paz was shown a photo of a man, Frank Goessner, a German, who lived around the corner from Paz in Brooklyn. Goessner was wearing combat gear, holding an AK-47, surrounded by a mass of… Read More ›

• Recalled And Censored: The Story of The MC5’s Kick Out The Jams

  By Every Record Tells A Story on September 14, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  The Grande Ballroom in Detroit. The home of the MC5. In front of a rabid sell-out crowd lead singer Rob Tyner is bringing the show to a close when from the wings a man leaps onstage and shoots Tyner at… Read More ›

• The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge: Finale – How To Build Your Own Beach Boys Record Collection

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 8, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  The challenge: The Beach Boys have a legion of fans, but I had precisely two of their albums. What had I overlooked? And was it still possible to build up a concise collection from The Beach Boys twenty-nine studio albums… Read More ›

• The Beach Boys Challenge: Part 4: Which Early Beach Boys Records Are Worth Buying?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 6, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  The challenge: After a chat with a friend revealed neither of us had any Beach Boys albums outside of Pet Sounds and Surf’s Up, could I convince myself and my friend there were other gems in The Beach Boys’ back… Read More ›

• The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge – Part 2: Holland.

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 1, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  The challenge: To find lesser known moments from The Beach Boys catalogue and build up a concise collection of Beach Boys records that a) don’t cost the Earth and b) that are good enough to get regular plays on the… Read More ›

• The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge Part 3: After Pet Sounds

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 29, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  The challenge: The Beach Boys are best known for their Californian surfing-and-cars image. But fans who have dug a little deeper have found many gems in the back catalogue. When a band has produced 29 studio albums and nearly double… Read More ›

• The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 29, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  Can you still unearth great vinyl records without breaking the bank? Finding cheap vinyl records has become harder since Covid turned the world into online shoppers. But maybe it isn’t impossible… In this series we examine the vinyl legacy of… Read More ›