I know it is a loooong shot but does anyone know if there is any of this amazing band floating around on vinyl?
The trend of bands releasing things on vinyl seems to come and go quite rapidly and I was hoping that they may have jumped on the band wagon.

Also,
NEW ALBUM SPRING 2010!!!
Can't wait guys,

Ash

I know this is something the band has considered, but so far there hasn't been any vinyl POTF releases (despite some April fools' newsarticles claiming otherwise..).

Nice time to change the situation. Seven months before the spring. It’s not enough to make the child, but pretty enough to release best songs on vynil. Otherwise the fans may become sleeping ghosts while waiting for the spring.

P.S. Just kidding.

Forget about Vinyl, we want compact cassette!

Well, I did find a cassette with RR on it not too long ago (I think it's somewhere around this forum section)

here

Precisely

SIGNS OF LIFE ON VINYL FOR PREORDER AT OFFICIAL SHOP

WOOHOO

A vinyl-preorder as a self Xmas present? hmm.. maybe..

Funny, I had forgotten how short vinyl records are. I was convinced Signs of Life would fit on one LP.
Now if only I had a record player...

I'm surprised to hear that. Someone please explain to me why people are still listening to vinyl-records today ? Do they offer higher audio-quality than CDs ? (can't imagine that). You cannot skip tracks and constantly have to switch discs or at least sides. Why should people choose a vinyl over an audio-cd escept for nostalgic reasons ?

"I could use a multi-core CPU, but Pentium IIs are just so nostalgic, my first PC had one, you know. "



Sorry, I don't get that at all and given Poets financial resources, this step might be contra-productive (Making vinyls is rather expensive, isn't it ? And given their rather small amount of fans, who knows if there are enough vinyl-lovers among them)


On a side-note: Admin, have you or the band ever considered adding a download-service to the webshop that offers buying the albums in a lossless format like FLAC or APE ? That would be cool IMO, given Itunes and Amazon only offer MP3s.

nuhr
It doesn't matter for vinyl-listeners to flip sides and such. Sound may be not as crisp as CD but with good turntable and needle and amplifier it sounds good enough.
Plus it's bigger artwork and a bigger sense of owning the piece of music from artish you respect, you can show it to older people and they will understand the music while not many older people understand how to listen to CDs or, worse, mp3s.
Simply put, vinyls are even stronger now than they were in 19xx because CDs became devaluated with all the piracy and easy to download FLAC and APE files.
More questions?

Heh... can't you for once just assume that maybe the guys _sometimes_ know what they are doing? First of all, you can stop worrying about their money. Pressing vinyls is very inexpensive, and the small risk involved isn't even fully on the band. Only a very limited batch will be manufactured, and it will easily pay itself back.

Believe me or not, but one of _the_ most frequently asked questions during the band's career has been if there will be vinyl versions of their albums. Well, there you have the first one. And of course there's already someone complaining. (j/k)

Many Finnish bands (and probably others too) have lately released vinyl versions of their albums (just look at the first post in this topic). The idea is not to make lots of money with it, but instead to offer something special to the fans. There will be a larger campaign in January where several Finnish shops will have special vinyl booths with vinyls from several artists, and Poets were asked if they want to be a part of it. Why not?

As for why people buy and listen to vinyls... it's a combination of many factors. Some think vinyl has better sound (don't know about that, but it certainly has a different sound). It has some nostalgia in it for some people. Playing it is a certain kind of ritual, very different from playing a CD or MP3. The covers look much cooler since they are much bigger. Many people don't even intend to play them - they just think of them as valuable collector's items.


Yes, we have, and there will be a new webshop at some point in the future that offers lossless downloads!

yep, there were only a few years without vinyl.



I know quite a few people who just buy them to get them autographed. More space - looks a lot better, especially if a band has many members.

Anyway, just wanted to say I like the idea

I'll only pre-order if u add a player with it

I think this idea is freaking amazing. It shows the Poets care about what they do. I think the songs the Poets create are pure music, purer than what other bands do, and pure music started on vinyl firstly so it's only fitting to have their songs available at the huge LPs as well. If I had a player for it, I would definitely be purchasing one!

I think it's a nice idea, although there aren't so many vinyl record listeners today. But it's a great piece to a PotF fan's collection

SoL on vinyl = dreams come true! I've been waiting for five years and here it is

Vinyl has a much warmer(no idea how to describe it better) sound than any CD or MP3 can offer.

Plus it is way cooler.

Will this also be on sale at levykauppaÄX?

Vinyl has a different "warmer" sound. Just by looking at the waveform you can see it's more diverse

CD has very flat waveform compared to vinyl. This is not true for all CDs but sadly it's very common. We have loudness war to thank for that.

but... if someone wants to have the 'loud effect', they can still do it on the version that will go on vinyl, can't they?
Or, on the other hand, if one doesn't want it, they won't do it on CD either... or doesn't it work that way?
Music gets a whole different mastering processing before going on vinyl?

just asking, because I'm curious about this stuff

They can still do it on vinyls but not as much as on CDs because of technical limitations.
If you make the vinyl too loud it isn't playable anymore (the needle jumps out of the groove)

but the loudness thing is about pumping up the less-loud parts, you don't raise the maximum volume.. you just bring all sounds near to that limit instead of having range variations.. I think
but I get it, maybe on vinyl you don't push the thing that far as in CDs anyway

I'm a vinyl nostalgic, so guess that's an awesome idea! Vinyl has a particular fascination...and guess there're many people that still love it..among POTF fans, too...GLAD POTF DID IT!

Just ordered my Copy from Levykauppa Äx, will be out on the 19.01.2011.

Im gonna get the vinyl of Poets i may not have a record player yet i might get one but im also thinking of just putting it in a frame and hanging it up. <3 Poets

^ Me too.
I don't have a record player, so I'll probably listen to it once on my parent's one and then take it back home and have it framed.
Vinyl looks so much cooler than CDs, although I love my CDs.

Can soneone encode a part of vinyl record please? I'd like to know is it just vinyl copy of pretty much compressed and clipped CD or it's a completely new not only mastering, but also track mixing (as remastering will not save from compression and clipping)

To save you and someone else the trouble, it's remastered, but not remixed. And for the record, Signs of Life is _way_ less compressed & limited than pretty much any other CD out today.

Thank you. 'm ordering soon )