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# The musical record again: literally this time
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/the-musical-record-again-literally-this-time/
- Published: 2008-04-27T21:13:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:25:10.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Research ∕ Learning

From an interview with Billy Bragg, the [Bard of Barking](https://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/68044051?page=frame&url=%2fidentities%2ffind%3furl%5Fver%3dZ39.88-2004%26rft%5Fval%5Ffmt%3dinfo%3aofi%2ffmt%3akev%3amtx%3aidentity%26rft.namelast%3dBragg%26rft.namefirst%3dBilly.%26rft.nameinit%3dB%26rft.nameinit1%3dB%26rft.nameinitm%3d%26rft.namesuffix%3d%26rft.nametitle%3d%26rft.date%3d%26rft.name%3d%26rft.birthdate%3d%26rft.deathdate%3d%26rft.arn%3d3078595%26rft.title%3dBilly%2bBragg.%26rft%5Fid%3dinfo%3aoclcnum%2f68044051&title=&linktype=identitiesLink&ref=lorcandempsey.net), in the current issue of [Mojo](https://www.mojo4music.com/blog/?ref=lorcandempsey.net):

> **Vinyl, CD, or MP3?** Vinyl. In a hundred years time, vinyl will be the only medium that has survived. CDs will fade, like old pictures that have gone a bit orange, and MP3s, well you can just accidentally wipe ’em any time. 

I know. [Another quote](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001604.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) from a music magazine for the middle-aged. I bought this issue for the story about [Portishead](https://worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat%5Forg%5Fcda&q=portishead&fq=fm%3Acda&ref=lorcandempsey.net). We lived in Bristol for many years and enjoyed the occasional trip to the sea at Portishead, the town whose name they took (also the home of a [lido](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001412.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)). This was during a remarkable period for Bristol music, with Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, and others contributing to the Bristol Sound:

> The Bristol sound was the name given to a number of bands from Bristol, England, in the 1990s. These bands spawned the musical genre trip-hop, though many of the bands shunned this name when other British and international bands imitated the style and preferred not to distinguish it from hip-hop. \[[Bristol underground scene – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%5FUrban%5FCulture?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Mind you, for us living in Bristol, the early to mid-nineties was the era of the cassette, which is not even mentioned by Bragg.  
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