pairs of albums that you had on side A and side B of blank tapes

The My Favourite Things from Live in Japan by John Coltrane with Tim Bckley Return of THe Starsailor on the flip. Spent a while where I was listening to that daily.

A) Zeppelin IV
B) Eddie Murhpy's first album

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:30 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

literally laughed out loud at this one

main ones i remember were:

A: ween - pure guava
B: de la soul - three feet high and rising

and

A: butthole surfers - independent worm saloon
B: public enemy - fear of a black planet

A: Tom Waits - Bone Machine
B: John Zorn - Red Bird

haha, nice. calm/storm/calm/storm infinity

Oh, I forgot, from the same trip:

A: Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Sorrow, Tears, and Blood/ITT
B: Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante

A: Guns n' Roses - Lies
B: The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

A: Afghan Whigs - Congregation
B: Melvins - Lysol

A. Wedding Present "Hit Parade"
B. Sebadoh - Bakesale

A. Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills 'n' Bellyaches
B. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

A. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
B. The Jam - All Mod Cons

A: Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
B: Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

A: Pigface - Fook
B: Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey

so far both of the tapes i've posted were made for me by other people and i'm really struggling to remember if i made any tapes like this myself. i think i was so obsessive about making tapes almost as soon as i started that i very quickly started making multi-artist compilations or best-ofs of single artists from different releases.

a. live skull - bringing home the bait
b. throbbing gristle - greatest hits

I still own more of these than I expected. this was the primary way I discovered/consumed music for most of 1994. there was a tape w/ something like Shed Seven on one side and Terrorvision on the other but bumps on the road and all

the last 'significant' one I think I made had Slint's Spiderland on one side and Ass Cobra by Turbonegro on the other - for the first few weeks of being in halls at university there was this dude opposite who was kind of intense in a not-good way and also the first guy ever to hit on me, anyway his older brother visited one day and lent a bunch of stuff for me to copy. both of these were p revelatory age 18 tbh

I got into some of my favorite groups by borrowing tapes from my friends, and loving what was on the other side. I don't actually remember which sides were A or B, but the side B groups were the ones I got into.

A: Soup Dragons - Lovegod
B: Pixies - Doolittle (this side of the tape was unmarked, my friend didn't know who it was, and I was obsessed for weeks with figuring out who this band was until I finally did)

A: Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park
B: D.R.I. - Dealing With It

A: Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
B: Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa

oh this was a good feature

a. throwing muses - s/t
b. emilio cubeiro - death of an asshole

double feature

so far both of the tapes i've posted were made for me by other people and i'm really struggling to remember if i made any tapes like this myself.

I never made tapes of albums that I already owned on CD. (That might've been a good idea if I'd had a car that could only play cassettes, but the car I drove in high school and college didn't even have that.) Basically, the only albums that made it onto these tapes were ones that I borrowed from friends or from the library.

A) violent femmes - hallowed ground
B) king crimson - three of a perfect pair

this was lent to me by a friend of a friend, his taste in music having impressed several people i knew. he and his brother had a fanzine! when i returned the tape a week or so later, he asked me what i thought. i told him i didn't get it at first, but wound up liking the weird noisy stuff on the first side. didn't like the country music though. he looked at me as though i were a rind.

within a few months, these would be two of my very favorite albums.

I had a lot of tapes with an album on one side and then various songs I'd recorded off the radio on the other

A: Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
B: Husker Du - New Day Rising

so good!!

I had so many of these and I cant remember the details :(

iirc

A: They Might be Giants - They Might be Giants
B: Ministry - Psalm 69

lol tapes very much in character

i found another:

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Radiohead - The Bends

i totally had a tape that a friend made me with
Jawbreaker - Dear You
and something else i can only barely remember (violins, noise, uh) bc i was too obsessed with the jawbreaker at the time

I threw away a cassette case full of tapes this past spring, or I'd be able to list more. Oh well.

Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" + Velvet Crush "In the Presence of Greatness"

haha rrobyn I don't think I had this exact tape but it's a very plausible tape I could have had

I think the other side of my Velvet Crush tape might have been ... Material Issue? whichever album of theirs has "Valerie Loves Me." lol90s

A lot of mine were paired with things I taped off the radio. So there was also:

A: R.E.M. on Rockline, 1985
B: Husker Du, New Day Rising

or

A: The Who: The Final Interview, 1984
B: The Clash (US debut)

cocteaux 'heaven or last vegas' / lush 'gala'. double a-side innit

lol, i crashed my mom's car digging for a doolittle tape i'd dropped on the floor

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:02 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

this happened to me at 17, except it was my stepdad's car and the tape playing was Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True.

― Pollopolicía (some dude), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:04 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

oh god me too, except at 16 (just outta learner's permit) and trying to get a New Order LP off of the floor, don't tell my mom please

Haha! I crashed my car listening to a Lloyd Cole & the Commotions anthology.

I was trying to ffwd when my brakes went out.

Pretty sure I'm not the only one who had this one.

A: NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
B: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

va: Wanna Buy A Bridge?
Chris & Cosey - Techno Primitiv

Test Dept - Unacceptable Face Of Freedom
Swans - Greed

Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits
Patti Smith - Horses

a) yes - big generator
b) fleetwood mac - rumours

A) supertramp - breakfast in America
B) U2 - the unforgettable fire

I crashed my car at age 16/17 (can't remember) taking a left turn in the snow listening to The Way of the Vaselines (commercial tape though, not a blank)

sleeve I am completely feeling your tape collection

fuck fast forward, listen to it all. then flip.

auto-reverse. a good name for a band.

A) neil young - ragged glory
B) Neil young - harvest moon

a. lemonheads - creator / lick
b. crass - feeding of the 5000

pretty certain I had a stone roses / kreator tape around the same time.

That Crass album the length of two Lemonheads ones?

A Neil Young tape i found at a thrift store, which sadly broke recently.

A) On the Beach
B) RE-AC-TOR

A) Nothing's Shocking
B) Doolittle

also

A) Killing Technology
B) Nothingface

and

A) Kill 'Em All
B) Suffer

Oh yeah, another really crucial one was:

A) Confusion is Sex
B) DOA Third And Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill // Bobby Womack - Check It Out
Belly - King // Back - Mellow Gold
Blancmange - Happy Families // Weekend - La Variete
Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With... // Al Green - Greatest Hits
The Breeders - Pod // Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Breeders - Last Splash // Kronos Quartet - Monk Suite
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel // Youssou N'Dour - The Lion
Carter USM - 1992 The Love Album // Mahalia Jackson - When The Saints Go Marching In
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand // Michael Nyman - The Draughtsman's Contract
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man // Prince - Dirty Mind
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme // V/A - Take Cover! Zimbabwe Hits
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas // Black Uhuru - Chill Out
Sam Cooke - The Best Of // Wire - Wire Play Pop
Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate // REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline... // Stetsasonic - In Full Gear
Miles Davis - The Birth Of The Cool // Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Divine - T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans // Human League - Hysteria
Echobelly - Everyone's Got One // Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Erasure - I Say I Say I Say // Tongueman - Cop This
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight // Prince - Around The World In A Day
Everything But The Girl - Love Not Money // New Order - Low Life
Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad // Neil Young - Unplugged
Fun Boy 3 - Waiting // Michael Jackson - Thriller
Astrud Gilberto - The Best Of // Julie London - Julie Is Her Name
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me // Frank Black - Frank Black
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs & Stories // Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Indigo Girls - Nomads Indians Saints // Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music Vol 1
INXS - Kick // Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World // Madonna - I'm Breathless
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation // Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh
Michael Jackson - Thriller // Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits // Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Salif Keita - Soro // Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Dagmar Krause - Angebot und Nachfrage // South Pacific (Te Kanewa, Carreras, Vaughan, LSO)
Laibach - Opus Dei // Bhundu Boys - Tsvimbodzemoto
Long Ryders - Native Sons // Jason & the Scorchers - Lost & Found
Bob Marley - Legend // Inner City - Paradise
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration // Sex Pistols - Live In Trondheim 21st July 1977
Syran M'benza - Elisa Dangwa // V/A - Viva! Zimbabwe
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night of a Thousand Candles // Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home // Electronic - Electronic
Van Morrison - Enlightenment // Loose Ends - How Long
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay // Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
Pet Shop Boys - Disco // Luther Vandross - Give Me The Reason
Pet Shop Boys - Actually // Prince - The Black Album
Pixies - Bossanova // Sonic Youth - Goo
Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash // Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite
Pretenders - Last Of The Independents // Hole - Live Through This
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point // Arnold - The Barn Tapes
Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling // The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Revolting Cocks - Big Sexyland // Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction
Sade - Diamond Life // Orange Juice - The Orange Juice
Sade - Promise // Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog
Shalamar - Greatest Hits // Diva - original soundtrack
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On // Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Supergrass - I Should Coco // Sebadoh - Bakesale
Supergrass - In It For The Money // Shirley Brown - Diva of Soul
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque // Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain

damn son

I have a terrible memory so I had to go and look at what tapes I still have. Looks like I mostly had/kept comps, proper cassette albums, and demo tapes, so not too many of these.

Jacob's Mouse - No Fish Shop Parking/Velocity Girl - Copacetic
Joy Division - Peel Sessions/'unreleased stuff'
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything/Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane.../Thingy - Songs About Angels, Evil...
Radiohead - The Bends/Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned
Radiohead - OK Computer/Sukia - Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo

I still have a bunch of tapes in my car, all made years ago but I still listen to them occasionally. These are the only different-artist pairings:

Sun Ra Lanquidity / Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Throbbing Gristle Second Annual Report / Nurse With Wound An Awkward Pause
Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages / Pharaoh Sanders Izipho Zam
Happy Mondays Bummed / Faust The Faust Tapes