Home is Where the Record Player is – a Tom Tom Club Campaign

[Tom Tom Audio]

Let’s face it, despite what we were promised for the 21st century - an automated future with robots fulfilling our every whim, levitating cars and tiny hand held devices containing a lifetime’s collection of music (OK Apple, I’ll give you that last one) the reality is that we find ourselves with less and less time for the important things in life. Music for the majority of people these days is something they get a snippet of as they travel to and from work or it’s used as a distraction from the tedium as they pound the treadmill in the gym. How sad that music, one of man’s greatest achievements and a cultural expression upon which our civilization was founded, finds itself relegated to a merely supporting role in so many people’s lives.

Could it be that our failure to sing folk songs around the fire or in more modern times the demise of making time to sit down and enjoy music with the family has led to the emergence of the crazy frog ringtone as the pinnacle of youthful musical appreciation?

Well my friends as committed music lovers and custodians of the true musical path, who better than our good selves to right this tragic wrong. We who still commit a significant proportion of our lives to the total wonder of pure listening pleasure without the vacuous distractions of modern life.

Rise with me and declare a new dawn, let us take heart and rally the masses with our impassioned cry:-

 ‘Home is where the Record Player is’

If each of us by our efforts can liberate even just one potential music lover from the tyranny of the white earphones and get them sat down for a few hours in front of the time machines that we call our hi-fi systems, and help them reconnect with that part of their soul that MP3 has inevitably rendered numb, then my friends our work here is done.

Our members will be identified by this proudinsignia, not merely a badge of honour but a call to arms for a return to a better, more analogue way of life.

Wear your badge with pride and press it gingerly into the face of any ragged iPod user you should come across and pity their self-imposed compressed musical torture. Show kindness to the poor wretches and lead them back on to the path with the fresh pressing of Thomas Dolby’s ‘The Flat Earth’ that you never leave home without!

The Tom Tom Club – Changing the world one record at a time

(We will be sending a free badge to all club members who supportcause by sharing their musical recommendations with the rest of us)