#41

92/93 ish

Hole - Pretty on the Inside
Th’ Faith Healers - Lido

I decorated the case with loads of the labels you got with blank cassettes.

#42

I had one of these bad boys… I was cool.

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#43

recall having a really cheap Curry’s walkman when I was a maybe as young as 9 or something? Saisho? Anyway, it was poor and once it died I never really found it worthwhile to spend my money on another.

The newt portable player was a mini-disc recorder in 2000ish.

But I did obviously have to copy albums to cassette because CDs were so expensive. I recall you could get those 74 minute cassettes designed for a CD and I remember using them to record most of the Beatles’ early albums one to each side and similar lengthed old albums that came in under 37 minutes. When I got my mini-disc I used the mono mode to let me put four Beatles albums onto one disc.

#44

Hmmm, struggling to remember many more now. I had a lot more with the remainder of Side B stuffed with odds and ends. Only one that comes to mind at the moment:

Side A - Placebo, Without You I’m Nothing
Side B - Super Furries, Fuzzy Logic

…not bad actually

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#45

That’s a great tape! WYIN is a really good album, I should revisit it really.

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#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.