Joe Jackson’s 'Vinyl Record Store' Opens On RTE

Joe Jackson’s Vinyl Record Store will focus on the treasure trove of music that has been lost from the vinyl era.

Joe cites 'The Rock Machine Turns You On' as an example of the first rock LP he ever bought, with which he will kick off the new series.

“It’s one of those ‘sampler albums’ that introduced millions of people to classic songs such as 'I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight', by Bob Dylan, 'Time Of The Season' by The Zombies and 'Sisters Of Mercy' by Leonard Cohen,” he says. “As a cultural artefact it also has hilarious, quasi-hippie sleeve notes and all of this has been lost in time because the LP was never issued on CD.”

The same is true, Jackson believes of the work of artists such as Miles Davis, Christy Moore and Doris Day, among many others. “Too often, they have their Greatest Hits anthologised but we don’t always get the original albums as they were released,” he says.

The series will also feature a “Lost Singles and Lost EPs Show.”

Joe, who started buying records 40 years ago, is a self- professed vinyl junkie. "Mostly because I love hi-fi sound and not compressed CD or MP3 file sound,” he says. “Even though bands like U2 are reissuing their old albums, such as Boy, on vinyl, too much magnificent music in the vinyl format has been lost along the way.

Joe Jackson’s Vinyl Record Store starts July 13th 2008 on RTE Radio One at 11.10pm