MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Hi, Kevin!
You can add my name to that “a few things in common” list. I live in central North Carolina and teach physics at a community college. Welcome to the club!
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Averaged over the past week, Any Other Day is at V = 834 and C = 1.59, essentially right where it was a week ago.
For the last hour of March 10th, Vinyl Announcement! is at V = 5712 and C = 19.3. (I’m sure this one isn’t expected to have a long shelf life!)
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You’ve tapped into a rich vein, Jacki!
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I never really thought of myself as a vinyl aficionado until the late 80’s. At that time I was frequently visiting record stores and flipping through the albums in search of cool obscure stuff from the 60’s, and I became distressed that seemingly every month another row of records was replaced by CD’s.
CD’s were born with three strikes against them with regard to in-store browsing: they were too small for the titles to be read easily, they couldn’t be quickly finger-flipped in the way that could be done with a row of vertical LP’s, and almost everything available was new releases from new groups.
It annoyed me that you couldn’t watch a CD go round and round, as you can with an LP. You just inserted an offering to the gods into a slot and prayed for music. You also couldn’t be creative and play it at the wrong speed, or backwards. And for a long time you couldn’t record your own stuff onto one, which was a staple activity for me with a tape recorder and cassette. So I had no use for them.
I didn’t buy my first CD until 2003, when both LP’s and cassettes had gone extinct. I’ve bought a few more of them out of necessity since then, but fortunately I had already collected most of what I wanted before the dark times began.
And now, yes, vinyl is a format to be cherished. It’s a much more tactile experience: removing it from the sleeve, placing it on the turntable, positioning the tone arm, flipping it over, etc.
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A few more daily updates on Any Other Day:
For Feb. 27th, V = 1651 and C = 3.15. For Feb. 28th, V = 1392 and C = 2.66. For Mar. 1st, V = 975 and C = 1.86. For Mar. 2nd, V = 858 and C = 1.64. And for Mar. 3rd, V = 828 and C = 1.58.
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I thought it might be fun to make a graph of how the number of YouTube views of various stalwart MLT videos varies over time. I chose the ten most frequently viewed videos of 2022, and plotted the average number of daily views for each month of that year (1 = January, 2 = February, etc.)
Sorry for the poor quality of the photo. (I had to point my laptop camera at my desktop monitor!) But metaphorically the picture is clear: Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out (the top line) dominates every month! Beyond that, there appears to be a bit of seasonal variation in the number of views of most videos: high in March/April, low in October/November.
The other videos plotted are Drive My Car, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, When I’m Sixty-Four, You Can’t Do That, If I Fell, I’m Looking Through You, Wish You Were Here, I Saw Her Standing There, and Nowhere Man.
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Here are the milestone predictions for the next month or so:
Twist and Shout (w/ Mike Sweeney): 1,000,000 views on March 3rd
Lola: 800,000 views on March 10th
I’m a Believer: 700,000 views on March 15th
Starman: 500,000 views on March 15th
Africa: 1,000,000 views on March 16th
Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: 3,500,000 views on March 17th
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind: 600,000 views on March 22nd
Baby’s in Black: 400,000 views on March 28th
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Here are the viewing stats for February. All data cover the range from February 1st through March 1st, except for If You Raise Your Head, which is for just the last ten days, and Any Other Day, which is for just the last day (and not any other).
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 10.06 (-3.57)
2) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 2.90 (-1.78)
3) Here Comes the Sun: C = 2.16 (+0.17)
4) If You Raise Your Head: C = 2.08 (-0.82)
5) Drive My Car (2012): C = 2.05 (-1.65)
6) Any Other Day: C = 1.86 (new)
7) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.80 (-0.98)
8) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 1.72 (-0.30)
9) You Can’t Do That: C = 1.70 (-0.33)
10) If I Fell: C = 1.66 (-0.03)
11) Twist and Shout (w/ Mike Sweeney): C = 1.59 (+0.16)
12) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.52 (-0.27)
13) Day Tripper: C = 1.49 (-0.07)
14) Reacting to Our First Music Videos: C = 1.43 (-0.59)
15) Nowhere Man: C = 1.37 (-0.16)
16) This Boy: C = 1.30 (-0.06)
17) Africa: C = 1.24 (-0.15)
18) Vincent: C = 1.16 (-0.03)
19) I’m a Believer: C = 1.05 (-0.08)
20) Lola: C = 1.01 (-0.12)
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views per day:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 3548 (-1257)
2) Drive My Car (2012): V = 1058 (-855)
3) Any Other Day: V = 975 (new)
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 916 (-559)
5) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 890 (-483)
6) Here Comes the Sun: V = 887 (+68)
7) You Can’t Do That: V = 780 (-153)
8) If I Fell: V = 751 (-13)
9) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 730 (-132)
10) If You Raise Your Head: V = 692 (-272)
11) Twist and Shout (w/ Mike Sweeney): V = 655 (+68)
12) Day Tripper: V = 649 (-34)
13) Nowhere Man: V = 608 (-74)
14) This Boy: V = 555 (-25)
15) Till There Was You: V = 511 (-54)
16) Please Please Me: V = 505 (-45)
17) Wish You Were Here: V = 449 (-80)
18) Wake Up Little Susie (Live): V = 434 (+191)
19) I’m a Believer: V = 421 (-31)
20) You’re Going to Lose That Girl: V = 419 (-15)
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The numbers were a bit “off” this month, as they say on Wall Street. There were very few changes in the rankings, although Wake Up Little Susie surprisingly shot up into the charts. And the two latest “Why?” releases are holding their own so far.
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Here are the data for Any Other Day for the last few days.
For Feb. 22nd, V = 6504 and C = 12.4. For Feb. 23rd, V = 2614 and C = 4.99. For Feb. 24th, V = 2478 and C = 4.73. For Feb. 25th, V = 2123 and C = 4.05. And For Feb. 26th, V = 2001 and C = 3.82.
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Here’s a more obscure group (21K subs) that I came across a few months ago that also has some good covers. The name of the group is “Shut Up & Kiss Me!”
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Hey, David.
I can only address this question theoretically, as I don’t have a sharp ear and have never been able to tell any difference in sound quality between analog and digital.
https://ledgernote.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/analog-signals-versus-digital-signals.png
The above link shows the difference between analog and digital signals. The greater the digital sampling rate of an analog signal, the closer an approximation you get to the “true” sound. What’s lost at a low sampling rate is the briefer sounds and the higher-frequency overtones of notes. But the human ear only has a finite ability to resolve such details, so the difference would be imperceptible at a high enough sampling rate.
Going from a digital source to an analog product, the same principle would hold: as long as the sampling rate during recording is fast enough, the ear wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s secretly a digital signal being encoded into the vinyl. And I would think that the final product would have to be converted to analog anyway, as the stylus can’t instantaneously jump from one part of the groove to another on a rotating disk.
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And of course Pebbles and Bamm Bamm’s later group was a major influence for Brian Wilson:
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Ah, so THAT’S where the Beau Brummels got their inspiration from!
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Thanks, Chris!
I don’t have a YouTube channel either, but I’ve likewise found out that YouTube provides analytics to channel owners. So I’m sure MLT already has access to much more sophisticated tools and detailed information that what I’m working with. I’m just satisfying my own curiosity about viewing trends, and sharing what I find with anyone else who might be interested. It’s fun to do, and it keeps me off the streets at night.
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Hey, Tim. Good question! But like a good scientist I’ll probably make a similar chart a year from now and see if the seasonality emerges in the same way again before I think too hard about the reason. I don’t really have anything even speculatively right now. The viewing rates should be constantly increasing!
