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Haha, was that because you specifically wanted to tape that song or that you decided to tape the Evening Session (Mark Goodier era) one day and that was the first song played?
Canât remember the actual first song but one of my earliest memories of taping off the radio was recording The Final Countdown off the chart rundown and because we had two tape decks I was then able to fill up the entirety of one side of a C90 with that song
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Specifically wanted to! Great song (?) Wasnât Evening Session though - we had a dedicated indie show (Jive Alive) on local radio station Hereward Radio every weeknight 7-9. Listened to it religiously. What a time to be alive!
Jesus Christ, John.
Oh, check you out. The best I got was if there was the right kind of weather I could just about pick up Gary Crowleyâs show on GLR
I was 12 Mr Immaculate-Music-Taste-As-A-Pre-Teen
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Thinking about it, just over a year later I was buying Strangeways Here We Come (on cassette natch). How quickly we grow up
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yes, thatâs what they called me. Had absolutely zero interest in music until I was about 12, then one listen to the Milltown bros: BOOM. Next thing you know iâm making Jesus Jones t-shirts in home economics. Wildly popular.
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Loved tapes. I used to make megamixes by recording snippets of songs off Atlantic 252 and then listen to them back for weeks. I particularly remember getting the saxophone from âBaker Streetâ perfectly lined up with the trumpet part on âDeeply Dippyâ
Also my Dad used to tape the top 40 and weâd listen to them back in the car. Xmas 88 i remember well, âCat amongst the Pigeonsâ by Bros at 2 and Cliff at 1 with âMistletoe and wineâ , interspersed with Bruno Brookesâ dulcet tones.
Taped over them all with Nirvana albums when i was a teenager didnt iâŚ
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Found the last ever mix tape i was given the other week. My mate gave it to me when i moved to Bristol in 2003
My music taste really hasnt moved on much
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2 Radiohead songs together is bad mixtape form, mindâŚ
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Side A stronger than Side B.
Actually, Marilyn Manson on Side A so maybe not.
Still have all my original cassettes and home mixes / compilations / âripsâ (as they would be called now). Donât have anything to play them on mind.
anybody seen this, edited by Thurston Moore? I have a copy. Itâs quite nice to leaf through and look at pictures of tapes, but thereâs not really a lot of substance in it.
First song I ever recorded was âLast Train to Transcentralâ by the KLF. Absolutely loved that song. Banger.
Have very mixed feelings about tapes now⌠Was an essential part of my childhood and a lot of the things that have already been posted on this thread (especially taping stuff from the library etc) really brings back the memories.
Loved making bespoke hand-crafted mix tapes, especially for people I had a massive crush on. Donât think smashing together a spotify playlist in a couple of minutes these days can really compare: how do young people these days show doomed affection without a C90 and agonising about not leaving too much dead space at the end of side one?
That said: Iâm glad they died and I do not buy into the nostalgic revival thing at all (sorry Disintegration state!) As @ttf says, theoretically you could get decent quality sound reproduction out of them but I donât think that was the experience that most home users ever had. By the time I moved on to CD I was totally and utterly fed up with the chewed-up-by-the-machine tapes, the ghost-of-the-last-song-taped-before tapes and, even on the âI paid my own darn money for this tapesâ the warble and hiss that I couldnât ignore. I refused to listen to âLovelessâ for years because that queasy warbling effect slathered on the album reminded me too much of tapes that had been left in the sun too long.
So yeah, loved it, very important, glad its gone.
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tapes are hugely responsible for my music taste, as I still had a walkman when i started secondary school and i knew an older kid from Scouts who I used to go and pester at lunchtime and him and his mates used to give me tapes with copies of albums iâd never heard - Nirvana, Offspring, Green Day etc. those tapes felt like absolute gold dust at the time.
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Going all Peter Kay here but remember cassette players/Walkmans/car stereos that only had rewind on it and not FF so if you wanted to skip anything you had to turn the tape over, rewind an estimated amount, turn it back over and then hope you are somewhere near where you wanted it to be.
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Making a mixtape was an important part of my teenage seduction technique.
Thanks for the two girlfriends Lou.
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I remember feeling so happy and futuristic when I finally got a Walkman which would automatically start playing the other side of the tape once it reached the end of the current side.
âŚunless that is actually a dream of mine and/or a plot of a sci fi book of something that should exist in the future.
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Sandra and Rita?
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