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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 11:02
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had an interesting weekend for musical discovery. Actually got up early on Sunday morning for once so decided to get reacquainted with Edinburgh's famed car boot sale in the Greenside car park. Came away with a bag full of about 20 cassettes (total expenditure: around £5.40) and have been avidly listening to the whole lot since, which included: Kraftwerk - Autobahn. Vertigo cassette, blue motorway sign cover. I've seen this very tape in at least three record shops going for no less than a tenner, so such a rare find for a quid is very good luck indeed. Joni Mitchell - Shadows & Light. late 70s live stuff. The quality of the songs (Mostly Hejira & Summer Lawns material) holds the album together, but the backing band are a bit too wanky jazz-lite for my taste; the very name "Pat Metheny" churns my stomach at the best of times, shame he had to mar a Joni record. Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - 1st album. Great post-punk synth-pop fence-straddling. New Order - Movement. I like "Dreams Never End", but the rest just sounds like a jaded Joy Division yet to hit their new stride. Billy Joel - Piano Man & Streetlife Serenader. One of those great early/mid 80s relics, the two albums on one cassette phenomenon. Great witty songs and astonishing musical diversity, esp. on Piano Man. The Best Of Belinda Carlisle. aw, what the hell, it cost a pound and makes me feel like a happy innocent 10 year old again. The rest were all ancient blank tapes from the 70s and 80s, which I've always loved collecting. I suppose when cassettes were a popular format and getting a viable market share companies could afford to make them look like pieces of art with all these stripy colourful labels, white/black/blue shells and BASF's hilarious "Special Mechanism" (honestly, these two plastic bars will make the tape sound great): you can tell these are the ramblings of a slightly obsessed long-time cassette fetishist, but it's for the reasons above that I love collecting old tapes. These days, all you get is a clear shell with the company brand stamped on it. Bo-ring. Then there's the music that I found on these tapes. One of them (a mid 70s TDK C60, if anyone at all is still remotely interested) had loads of guitar-led easy listening stuff that really started to cook in a lot of places; was that guitar distorted there? Fairly lets rip for a muzak session anyway. No clue as to the artistes, though. On the others, more easy listening, half of the Mikado, and, most interestingly, two people sending a spoken letter to someone. It was utterly fascinating listening to eavesdrop on something like that from years and years ago. I'm currently in the process of archving all of this on to CDRs, as the 20-30 year old oxide on the tapes is disintegrating as they play. Oh well, then there's next Sunday...
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elderford 482 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 11:46
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...i think she's a philips C60. http://cassette.by.ru/
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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 13:23
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ta, looks like a great site...but all of the jpeg pictures seem to come up with 404 errors. shame. nice to see there's actually a website about blank tapes as little pieces of art and I'm not completely alone & insane. I think it says C90 on the tape on the front page; plus its blue, which seemed to be the standard for just about every company during the 70s to represent C90 (red = C60, yellow/ochre/green = C120). mind you, there's a BASF C120 I got on Sunday that's blue, so maybe they took the Walkers' crisps angle of switching around the colours you expect (cheese & onion = green, Walkers is blue, etc). I'm boring myself now with this....I now promise to only start new threads from outside my own geekdom.
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Vybik Jon 7720 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 13:37
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I always thought C-46's were an odd thing. 46 minutes - why?
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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 13:59
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the average length of an album, I suppose; until the CD age bumped this up to 50 - 70 minutes. Which is where the 74 minute tape (generally just TDK and Sony who made it) came in; which itself has been phased out over the last couple of years due to the proliferation of CDRs.
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elderford 482 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 17:02
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just had a look thru a drawer at work, found a lovely Memorex 60, MRX2Oxide (silver label). the one were the case is hinged at one corner, so when opened the cassette has to be lifted out of the case by its bottom rather than the top.
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elderford 482 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 17:07
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Sony c-60hf. great cover. 2 circles side by side. One white on gold, the other white on red. Embossed gold colour. the cassette label is black/white and red. Looks like a luxury constructivist design because of the gold. some funky extended san serif type on the cover, very seventies looking (think Jerry Anderson UFO)
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elderford 482 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 17:13
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found a tiny reel to reel tape 3 1/2 inch. blue and white box. the back of the square box doubles as a posting label (from, to, stamp, etc) made in fort worth texas. great cover has a poor drawing of a young lad singing into a mic whilst two young ladies stare adoringly at him, the drawing next to that looks like a young nuclear family (mum,dad,boy,girl) sat around a tape recorder having a bloody good time, dad is of course operating the tape recorder.
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pebblesfromheaven 853 posts |
Feb 06, 2003, 23:11
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I've got ferking loads of old tapes I can't bring myself to throw out!! .o0O0o.
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Pagan Dawn 65 posts |
Feb 07, 2003, 11:30
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You are one messed up puppy ! Do you get a stiffy looking at old tapes ?? I've got 4 huge boxes of them in the loft,some as old as 1984. You can *cum*(snigger) around and have a look if you want !!! 8o)
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