#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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#66

Used to borrow CDs from the library and copy on to tape- Shine compilations etc.

Also used to tape loads of live concerts off the radio. Radio 1 used to do this on a Sunday night. Was a great way to hear a bands back catalogue when CDs were so expensive. There was a Suede one I absolutely rinsed and for years after I was mentally adding Brett’s onstage chat to the songs when I bought the albums.

So my tapes were mostly various cheesy britpop albums on one side and odds and sods from the above to fill the space.

#67

Hope this thread still exists when I get back from holiday. There’s a box of tapes in my living room recently liberated from a mate’s lockup.

Definitely got one with Evol/first Babes in Toyland album/Help Save the Youth of America.

When omitting a song from an album to ensure it fitted onto one side, I’d still write it on the tracklist but in a different colour.

#68

Remember hearing that CDs are 74 minutes because the head of Sony wanted to be able to fit Beethovens 9th on one uninterrupted.

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#70

oh, yeah, that’s why they were that max length. I was just thinking of the trend for albums of the 90s to hit the hour mark rather than the usual 40mins.

#71

Vinyl has 22 minutes per side, so most albums couldn’t be more than 45 minutes, unless you did a double album. When the CD arrives, stands to reason that if you’ve got 74 minutes to play with, you’re going to use them, so that’s why albums got longer in the 90s

#72

Wasn’t it also changes in vinyl pressing? Remember a big deal about Lou Reed’s New York album being over an hour on one LP.

#73

Shudder to Think “Ten Spot”
What an album. I remember falling to sleep listening to John Peel when he played “Vacation Brain”, and I flew across the room to hit the record button. Went out to Rough Trade to buy the album the next day.

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#74

My old cassettes are in a very inaccessible box at the bottom of a pile of other boxes at the back of a cupboard. Can’t be bothered to drag them out, but from memory:

Swervedriver “Raise” / Pale Saints “Comforts of Madness” (that was a good one)
Mega City Four “Tranzaphobia” / Family Cat “Tell 'Em We’re Surfing” + “Tom Verlaine” EP (neither album is on Spotify, and both are 100% bangers)