#46

Good idea! I’m going to do exactly that this morning now :slight_smile:

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#47

A Solar Alarm Clock, just what every personal stereo needs!

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#48

Saisho was Dixons own brand, Currys’ was Matsui. (I had a Saturday job in Currys when I was 15!)

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#49

We’re they always the same company behind the scenes?

#50

Looks like it

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#51

When did it become cool on DiS to pretend that Jeff Buckley was bad?

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#52

He’s always been bad

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#53

No idea pal, I’ve never liked him. It is (whisper it) ok for people to not like the things you like.

#54

The only cassette I can find currently is a mixtape an ex-gf made me. Electro-clash was big at the time and I loathed it, so she clearly took great pleasure in superimposing my head onto an outfit that style:

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The track listing is still pretty great tbh:

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The secret track was The Postman Pat Themetune

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#55

I had a tape of the first Masters Of Reality album that cut off before the end of the last track. Bugged me for years that I never knew how the song ended, and then when I finally bought a CD version I discovered that it was actually just a weird abrupt ending and I’d had the whole thing all along.

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#56

I had a Sony mini system in the early 90s which had a fade function when recording from a CD. When it detected the tape was coming to an end it faded out the track, reversed the tape and restarted the track on the CD. It wasn’t the smoothest fade out but it blew my mind at the time!

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#57

Bug, You’re Living All Over Me, Dinosaur
Doolittle, Surfa Rosa, Come On Pilgrim

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#58

couple of classics I can remember:

Pablo Honey and Jagged Little Pill
Lifes Rich Pageant and Automatic For The People
Nevermind and In Utero (beginning of Side B was mangled so was years before I heard the first couple of minutes of Serve The Servants)

wait a minute, did they purposefully make CDs longer so we couldn’t fit them on one side of a C90?!?!?

#59

Too old to remember but generally tried to have albums by the same group on each side, which is a bit dull. Do remember listening to 3 feet high and rising with about 15 seconds of skipping on Potholes in My Lawn for years as I couldn’t be bothered to re-record it.

#60

I so wanted a Sony walkman and especially one of the sports ones. Aiwa bought with paper round money for me.

#61

My mate once did me
Side A: The Cribs, self titled
Side B: Eno, Another Green World

#62

@zanimos If I remember correctly the Sports one didn’t last to long. I feel like I had two after that, the same MEGA BASS one as @LastAstronaut and a Aiwa one

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#63

My brother had the genius idea of recording the first track of ‘The Bends’ and then the first track of ‘everything must go’ and then the second track of each and the third and so on. It filled a C90 nicely and accompanied us all the way around our family’s summer holiday that year. He wrote EVERYTHING MUST BEND on the spine. It was great.

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#64

I eventually got one of these which I still own to this day and use to occasionally listen to the half dozen or so tapes I still own. Amazing walkman as it has been absolutely indestructible.

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#65

Last place my partner I lived in had an old micro hifi in the front room that had a minidisc deck. There was a Lemon Jelly album permanently lodged in it.

This was in 2015.

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