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Jun 26, 2011 - 1:14 PM
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Thor
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Pr. the LP thread, I thought I'd create one on the main medium from MY childhood.
When I became seriously interested in music, after I had grown too old for children's records, cassette was THE thing. LP was still around, of course (this is ca. the mid 80s), but cassettes - both blank tapes as well as originals - dominated.
My father had/has a huge LP collection, but he often borrowed LP's from others too (mostly rock/pop) and made HiFi cassette copies. In the early 90's, he donated all of these to me and much of that music shaped MY musical taste as well. I'm guessing there were some 100 cassettes or so.
Eventually, I also started making copies myself of things I borrowed -- especially when CD's were starting to take hold, and even after I got a CD player, ca. 1991/1992.
I think the first ever soundtrack I got was a cassette copy of the CD soundtrack to TWIN PEAKS, ca. 1990.
Cassettes -- love em or hate em -- were a huge part of my childhood and even teenage years, and when I didn't listen to them on my HiFi cassette deck at home I chugged them along with my trusted Akai Super-Bass walkman.
Now they're all stored on my parents' attic somewhere; I don't even know if they're still playable.
What about you? Any memories?
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Jun 26, 2011 - 2:09 PM
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Octoberman
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My first cassette player was a large, toploading portable. I wish I could remember the brand name. For some reason Longines Symphonette comes to mind... but that's probably way off. Anyway, for a portable unit (barely, it was so large), the sound was gorgeous. Nothing sounded bad on it.
Later in my mid-teens I jumped on the merry-go-round of revolving hi-fi equipment and kept making mix tapes on proper cassette decks. (I focused so intensely on every detail that I was certain I was the only freak that did that. What I didn't know then was that such a hobby was wonderful for developing a kid's grasp of diligence and tenacity.)
I would finish tapes and think, "Wow, it can't be made better than this". Then I heard the new chrome-dioxide tapes. Switched to those and thought, "Wow, it can't be made better than this". I would save my allowance like a demon and bring home boxes of TDK SA-90's. Then I heard metal tapes and... 
Actually, some of those metal tapes survived and I pop them in once in a while. The sound quality was really excellent. CDR's? Who'd have thought...?
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Jun 26, 2011 - 2:12 PM
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ToneRow
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No need for memories - I still have my cassettes as we speak!
I defaulted to collected soundtracks on pre-recorded tapes during 1990, the time when just about every record company ceased producing vinyl LP albums.
I bought about 40 cassette tapes between 1990 and 1993 (in my mid-20s); '93 is when I got my first CD player.
These were all purchases of "new" releases. Much of these are soundtracks by Danny Elfman (DARKMAN, DICK TRACY, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, BATMAN RETURNS, ARTICLE 99, etc.)
as well Jerry Goldsmith titles (MEDICINE MAN, MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD, FOREVER YOUNG, LOVE FIELD, MATINEE, DENNIS THE MENACE, RUDY, etc.)
I once owned MR. BASEBALL on cassette, but threw that in the waste bucket years ago!
I've kept most of these cassettes, but whenever I replace one of them with a CD version, I then discard it.
Some I will keep on tape, because the score may not be good enough to upgrade to the CD counterpart!
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I still have my cassettes, both originals and copied ones, soundtracks and pop/rock music. I still play them from time to time on my walk-man/radio at night after I have turned off the light and gone to bed. I don't see why I should stop playing them just because it's 2011. I never play them on my ordinary cassette player during the day though. Don't know why.
The only soundtrack I have on an original tape is A League Of Their Own, with the two Hans Zimmer score tracks. I have several soundtracks on copied tapes though:
FILMMUSIKK/CANYON DREAMS - TANGERINE DREAM 1991
FILMMUSIKK/D.O.A. - CHAZ JANKEL 1988
FILMMUSIKK/DEAD SOLID PERFECT - TANGERINE DREAM 1989
FILMMUSIKK/DESTINATION BERLIN - TANGERINE DREAM 1989
FILMMUSIKK/DREAMSCAPE - MAURICE JARRE 1983
FILMMUSIKK/GRAND CANYON - JAMES NEWTON HOWARD 1991
FILMMUSIKK/HEAT - ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL ++ 1995
FILMMUSIKK/HOT SHOTS! - SYLVESTER LEVAY 1991
FILMMUSIKK/K-2 - HANS ZIMMER 1991
FILMMUSIKK/METRO (PROMO) - STEVE PORCARO 1997
FILMMUSIKK/PAPERHOUSE - HANS ZIMMER 1988
FILMMUSIKK/THE PIANO - MICHAEL NYMAN 1993
FILMMUSIKK/THE POWER OF ONE - HIGHLIGHTS - HANS ZIMMER, LEBO M. 1992
FILMMUSIKK/THE ROCK - NICK GLENNIE-SMITH, HANS ZIMMER, HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS 1996
FILMMUSIKK/RUNNING MAN - HAROLD FALTERMEYER 1987
FILMMUSIKK/TWIN PEAKS - ANGELO BADALAMENTI 1990
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Jun 26, 2011 - 3:29 PM
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MRAUDIO
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Interestingly, I never did that "tape off tv or vhs" thing that many others did.
I got starterd with TV Music with taping on cassettes, music from 60's & 70's shows, such as HAWAII FIVE-0, WILD WILD WEST, MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE - I still remember putting the tiny mic up to the TV speaker and telling my family to keep quiet, which NEVER worked - finally, my Dad came up with the idea to use an audio cable that plugged into our old 21 inch Sears "silvertone" color TV, that just happened to have an audio out speaker jack - pretty cool for its time, considering the TV was purchased in the early 60's and was one of the first color sets at the time from Sears.
Anyway, takes me back as I type this - I think some of those old cassette tapes that I made back then are still around here, somewhere.
I have other fond memories recording LP's to Cassettes through the years - and later, when I started purchasing CD's, I would transfer many of those to cassette, so I could play them in my car and Walkman.
Oh well, here's to the tried and true cassette tape...RIP...:-)
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Jun 26, 2011 - 6:49 PM
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dan the man
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Like so many of you in the old days i used my tape recorder to tape film themes from the TV, full movies as well. When the walkman came around in the late 70's i bought alot of cassette soundtracks of all type, often listening to them on my way to and back from work, on my lunch hour and on off hours, they made my day more enjoyable, indeed,I like the sound, but of course with cassettes unlike Lp's when they go they go and will often take the walkman with them, trying to unravel a crunch up tape in the walkman happened at times, sometimes i was successful, sometimes not.
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I'm right there with a lot of you guys. In the 1970s I did it all with cassettes. I taped theme songs and score music from TV, songs off the radio, and transferred my LPs to cassette to extend their life. It was fun, it was hands-on, and I played the hell out of those tapes.
The TV score music in particular really felt like you were capturing something. It was a private stash, yours alone. No one else was playing that tape.
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I had tons of cassettes as a kid. I still bought LPs, but 90% of my listening was done on cassette dubs of those LPs.
I never bought many prerecorded cassettes though since the quality of my LPs dubs was much higher than most prerecorded tapes.
Perhaps short-sightedly, I abandoned cassettes for MiniDisc in the mid-90s. MD was a great format but rendered obsolete by MP3 and CD-R within a few short years.
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I sure am glad I didn't waste time and money on cassette tapes.
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