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 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 2:00 AM   
 By:   Adventures of Jarre Jarre   (Member)

Thankfully, I hadn't reach 40 cassettes before my Anthrax "I'm the Man" EP got shredded in the player, thus assuring my allegiance to CDs, right as my soundtracking started to burgeon. Although I would still love to have Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith on cassette, for completion's sake.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 2:55 AM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

My first cassette was SUPERMAN THE MOVIE soundtrack. I still have it. I have nostalgic value for it therefore.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 4:18 AM   
 By:   MCurry29   (Member)

No, no. They're a crucial part of your past. Don't forget that; whether the sound was inferior or not.

Man, I'll never forget when my boyfriend (well, as much of a boyfriend as you can have as a fourth grader) brought home Stained Class on cassette. I played it until my tape player ate it, then bought the vinyl.
Great Album.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 4:32 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I can recall discussing how quaint open reel had become, now that I'd bought my super-advanced Teac A450 cassette recorder with Cr02 tape capability and gigantic VU meters. Why, I could even record +3db into the red with no distortion! With 58db noise reduction!!! And those cassette cases looked so fine on the shelf compared to cardboard open-reel boxes. Of course, I used the best TDK cassettes, and not rubbish from BASF, Philips or Memorex.
Had a fancy head de-magnetizer too! Wish I still had it, so I could lend it to Thor.


Last year (or was it the year before?) I was trying to get rid of a tape deck, a really good semi-professional one (I'd pinched it from work, it was on a big pile of kit they were getting rid of), I took it to all the charity shops near me & none of them wanted it (no one is buying cassettes & decks). I ended up taking it to the council tip, they had an area for tech stuff, & happily someone who saw me put it down asked if he could have it, so maybe it's still being used.

I still use my minidisc recording deck occasionally, & I use my CD recorder all the time.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 5:56 AM   
 By:   Hercule Platini   (Member)

I chucked a load of them away recently - they'd been in a garage for years and years and the first three or four I tried were warped and slurred. I kept the inlay cards (which I might turn into some kind of art thing) but the boxes and tapes themselves went to the tip. The vast majority of them I have on CD anyway with far better sound quality, and I don't feel any nostalgia for the cassettes at all. Like DVD over VHS, I'm not sorry to see them go.



To be honest I don't feel much nostalgia for vinyl either, though I've probably still got some LPs that don't exist on CD (yet) and it would be nice to get a player at some point to give them another listen (at least they've been kept in proper LP boxes and not a couple of cobweb-encrusted cardboard boxes in a cold damp garage).

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 11:02 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

I once placed a classified ad in my small city seeking the soundtrack to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I received one response, a nice man had it on cassette and offered it to me for free. My mom suggested we pick and bring him some local strawberries as a thank you. I fondly remember getting that cassette and listening to it for years. I never ended up picking up the soundtrack on CD until the Concord box release. To be honest, the cassette received more plays than the CD has.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 3:10 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I chucked a load of them away recently - they'd been in a garage for years and years and the first three or four I tried were warped and slurred. I kept the inlay cards (which I might turn into some kind of art thing) but the boxes and tapes themselves went to the tip.


I thought someone had offered to pay for the shipping costs to take them off your hands.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 3:15 PM   
 By:   dtw   (Member)

I once placed a classified ad in my small city seeking the soundtrack to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I received one response, a nice man had it on cassette and offered it to me for free. My mom suggested we pick and bring him some local strawberries as a thank you. I fondly remember getting that cassette and listening to it for years. I never ended up picking up the soundtrack on CD until the Concord box release. To be honest, the cassette received more plays than the CD has.

Ha, I had Temple of Doom on cassette for years (bought from the sadly missed 58 Dean Street Records, Soho) before finally upgrading to CD.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 3:53 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

No self respecting scores fan would purchase soundtracks on cassette.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 4:17 PM   
 By:   dtw   (Member)

No self respecting scores fan would purchase soundtracks on cassette.

Therefore, on Sept 29th, 1993, I was not a self-respecting scores fan, apparently.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 5:13 PM   
 By:   Creepshow2   (Member)

Dubbing cassettes, buying new cassettes, making mixed tapes for that special someone, are all still very special memories for me. It was also the the only way I could bring my music with me. Me and my Walkman were always together. I couldn’t listen to my records like that, and when CDs came around my very expensive portable CD player skipped like no other. Tapes were the way to go for many years for me. I’ve embraced most of the mediums for music listening that have come along. I guess it’s nice to have 60 billion songs available on a streaming service, but my cassettes and CDs I have mean more to me than any of that. I can still tell you when and where I got most of them too! For me, those memories are just as important as the liner notes and music.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 5:21 PM   
 By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member)

Does anyone remember the Sony Walkman cassette player that, when unloaded, was the same dimensions as a cassette tape case?

The hitch was that you had to slide out the back of the enclosure to extend the rollers, tape head and battery compartment, and then the player was essentially open to the elements.

With the near-flat tape drive in the back of the player, the single AA battery charge didn't last very long.

A neat curiosity from 1984-85. Played the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III, and Dune soundtracks a lot in that player.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 6:45 PM   
 By:   mikecee1   (Member)

Does anyone remember the Sony Walkman cassette player that, when unloaded, was the same dimensions as a cassette tape case?

The hitch was that you had to slide out the back of the enclosure to extend the rollers, tape head and battery compartment, and then the player was essentially open to the elements.

With the near-flat tape drive in the back of the player, the single AA battery charge didn't last very long.

A neat curiosity from 1984-85. Played the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III, and Dune soundtracks a lot in that player.


I got the Conan the Destroyer cassette for Christmas and played it until the tape got warped and unplayable.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 6:54 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

My first cassette was SUPERMAN THE MOVIE soundtrack. I still have it. I have nostalgic value for it therefore.

heh heh heh one of my earliest (at least in memory) was 1776, original cast album. As everyone knows, I hated it.

 
 Posted:   Mar 11, 2019 - 8:27 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

No self respecting scores fan would purchase soundtracks on cassette.

Therefore, on Sept 29th, 1993, I was not a self-respecting scores fan, apparently.


That is correct.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2019 - 8:50 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

I can remember going to a design exhibition devoted to Sony, seventies I think (Victoria & Albert Museum). Sony design has always been fantastic (even if the kit has been unreliable at times, & always a tad too expensive), anyway, the star exhibit was the Walkman, not available in the UK yet, it had its own little window & was packed with people looking at this little marvel. When it came on market the original (black) Walkman was a fantastic classic design & quite expensive (a workmate had one), & then all the cheaper models followed, I went through so many (my favourite was the yellow waterproof one - they had the same thing for the Discman, which I should have bought). I'd love to go to a Walkman exhibition with all the wild & whacky designs from all the various manufacturers.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2019 - 10:52 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I only have vague memories of the walkman being discussed, but I have fond memories of the expensive, yellow Sony Sports Walkman that my dad owned. It was in a whole other class, quality-wise, than my trusted Akai (as mentioned in the first post), and had no 'nonsense' gimmicks like the Akai "Super Bass" -- I often borrowed it when my dad wasn't using it.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 30, 2023 - 8:45 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

OK, so here's the story.

When my parents moved a couple of years ago, they threw a lot of stuff. Among the things were most of my childhood cassettes. I was pissed, but of course they couldn't see the value in them. Fortunately, I managed to save SOME. Now I intend to transform the 'mixed tapes' to playlists on digital platforms, and acquire the albums in digital format, if available. Anyone else attempted such projects?

Some pics of my survivors below. Original cassettes, mixed tapes, tapes with my own custom, handdrawn covers etc. smile







 
 
 Posted:   Sep 30, 2023 - 10:04 AM   
 By:   villagardens553   (Member)

In 1976 I started my record retailing career at a Peaches Record store. Every day we had to go in the back room and build three Peach crates to see--hammer, nails, glue, those gaudy Peaches logos . . .

Anyway, after a year of taking care of the jazz section, I was promoted to pre-recorded cassette buyer and was told that if I did a good job I would be promoted to the next rung--8-Track buyer! Of course, within a year or so cassettes surpassed 8-Tracks and never looked back.

 
 Posted:   Sep 30, 2023 - 10:25 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I had boxes and boxes of cassettes and kept them for decades, then the time came where I simply had no room for them anymore and they all went into the trash.

 
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