25th Anniversary of the Sony Walkman

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:59 am

"No invention in my lifetime has so changed an art and cheapened it as the Sony Walkman, which first infiltrated our culture 25 years ago this month." By Norman Lebrecht / July 26, 2004

Lebrecht's article in below link;

http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/0 ... lkman.html

Can we live without some sort of Walkman device, I have tried but at times I have needed to shut the world out. And I was one of the first to buy one, then a discman, then a discman with speakers which I still use in the bedroom although the my laptop is now the main source.

MarkB

Kar · Post by **Kar** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:00 am

Interesting. Although anyone who plays music (on an instrument) knows that the difference between listening to pre-recorded music and listening to live music is night & day. You really can't even compare the two. I like having my Discman with me, yes....it made the train ride across Ireland (soundtrack from The Royal Tennenbaums) exquisite. But I don't get used it it and equate it with when I see live music.

It's a big world. There's room for just about everything.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:30 am

I never owned one until around eight years ago. It went tits-up after about a year and a half of service, and I just haven't cared to get another. For me it was just more stuff ripe for breakdown to spend batteries on.

25 years, though...shall we bake a cake?

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:22 pm

Oh, man! That makes me feel old!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:28 pm

The leafy lanes of North Lincolnshire in the autumn.
Cycling into the breeze with the sun at your back and Joni Mitchell on the walkman.
Perfect.
Slan,
D.

station · Post by **station** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:15 am

ah we have a Joni fan , nice one .