A thread for cassettes

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In 2006, Moss did a re-release of their "Tormented" demo tape in a limited run of 50 scary hand-made metal cases. Wish I had got one, they look great.

Here's tape pron:
http://orby.trideja.com/GeneratedItems/cassette/
...the images on this page take a couple of minutes to load.

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I has this EP. Do not be a hater, Alex.

Tapes def best for audiobooks.

I don't think alex is being a hater - that's his favorite band!

I had it on vinyl and stupidly lent it out to someone, never to be seen again.

Releasing stuff on a cassette in 2008 c/d?

classic! I'm planning on putting a cassette out this year.

How is posting an image making me a hater? Next to Killing Joke, Cop Shoot Cop was the best band on the fucking planet. I actually own three copies of this cassette -- one's still wrapped in case I lose/overplay/break the other two.

Oh, and I have it on vinyl as well.

No, I mean don't be a hater because I have the vinyl. But I guessed wrong, eh?

work/death's teenage heavy metal revisionism came in a cassette covered in spikes:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/workdeathtape.jpg

always thought metal and rap sounded better on cassette in the 80s.

and spacemen 3's the perfect prescription!

I used to read the sales pitch on the back of the packaging and get way too excited. 'omg a hyperferric emulsification layer with magnachrome coating!! i NEED this'

i have a big box of cassettes that i sadly have not had room enough in the car to bring back to oberlin with me. but i love cassettes. also, when the old ipod shuffle runs out of batteries in the car, i have over 40 tapes to choose from.

my favorite i've ever found is cassingle of a song by a guy named Joe Bracco. i will up it to this thread soon, it is a barrel of laughs.

thanks, snoball - beautiful!

here it is, folks. "Friend in My Pocket" by Joe Bracco. it gives me the tard tingles every time i listen to it. one of the best tapes i've ever found, hands-down.

Joe Bracco- Friend in My Pocket

and here is a page about him.

i mean, i'm gay and still i can't get over how funny this shit is. sad that he died of the horrid disease, but still.

http://www.queermusicheritage.us/oct2003j.html

(xxpost) Thanks, but I have to say that website isn't mine. Props to whoever made the site as it looks like it was a lot of work to put together. I just found it while searching for info on Memorex dB series tapes. I was lucky enough to score a box of twenty of these in the early 80's basically for free. The quality was only reasonable, but what impressed me was how well made they were and how much re-use they could stand.

I'm glad I'm old enough that my metal band put out a tape in high school. We got it pro duped and everything...it was cool getting the tape master, it seemed so technical and valuable.

For our second tape I had to sit there with a double tape deck and manually record a hundred copies or whatever, that was not as cool.

jordan can i buy a copy of your metal tape pleeze?

i don't think i have copies any more. :( actually i found some tapes the last time i moved, but i haven't had access to a tape player to see what's on them.

here is a review of our second tape that is still online somehow:

Shadowbox - Waiting For Dawn

Waiting For Dawn is Ben Wozak on Lead Vocals and Guitars, Jordan C0hen on Drums, Tom Johnston on Bass and Lew Snyder on Guitar.

Shadowbox is a 2-track demo, tracks are 'Shadowbox' and 'This Day'

The first track 'Shadowbox' is a fairly slow paced metal track reminiscent of early Black Sabbath. There's a good heavy guitar riff. The drums and bass have a good solid sound to them. Ben vocals are good and fit in well with the music. Towards the end of the track the whole thing gather's pace and there's an excellent guitar solo.

The second track is 'This Day', starting with a good heavy riff, good vocals from Ben. There's nice changes in direction and tempo, with some great guitar work and another excellent guitar solo.

After listening to these two tracks, all I can say is I wanted more....

Classic: That be-doo-doo-DOo-YEEP sound before and after most cassette albums released by Capitol in the eighties.

Didn't the first 5-6 seconds of Maxell's tapes start off with a head cleaner?

tapes suck just play cds, they dont get eaten and wont skip if your cat jumps on the table like vinyl

They do get scratched and aren't in analog.

tapes don't skip ever

It takes a lot less damage to make a CD unplayable compared to vinyl.

tapes suck just play cds, they dont get eaten and wont skip if your cat jumps on the table like vinyl.

the complete idiocy of this statement is almost overwhelming.

and yet it's mostly factually accurate

I love tapes. You can touch them.

electric sound, It takes a lot less damage to make a CD unplayable compared to vinyl.

sorry but that's actually right.

i mean, i have records that have scratches all over them and don't skip, don't pop (that much) and sound perfectly fine. i used to have CDs (i gave up on them about two years ago) that wouldn't play if they had a teeny scratch on them. CD players and CDs are fucking stupid, outmoded ways of listening to music, and it will be a fine fine day when they are abolished completely.

Ha: this is, to me, for all intents and purposes, the cover of every Smiths record apart from Strangeways:

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i don't believe i was commenting on that quote

also 'unplayable' is clearly subjective here

My car only plays tapes, so i still make mixTAPES all the time! Surely I'm not the only one????

i make tapes for friends all the time!
and i buy new tapes, from time to time.

I was quite pleased to find a place still stocking Type II cassettes for 4 track, field recording etc. Nice metal ones are still v. hard to come by.

Next time someone's about to bin their old tapes, please send to me instead.

did i already give you the tapes i had? i think i may have given them to sharr0n when i sold her the 4-track

i was happy when my car only played tapes, i rocked old shit and used the tape adapter for my ipod. then the tape deck broke, and i got a cd player that never doesn't skip. ;_; the direct in for the ipod is sweet, though.

Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes.

snoball, thanks for the awesome link. Haven't seen some of those in 20 years.
This is my personal favorite. My dad had the Talking Heads on one of these in the mid 80s and we used to drive around town listening to it:

http://nickdouglas.googlepages.com/maxell_xl_2_90_c1.jpg

"Epitaxial"

I have a bunch of cassettes of albums/songs I've taped off vinyl and CD along with some store bought cassettes I want to get rid of. Should I make a list here and see if anyone wants it all (I'd sent it to anyone for free) or should I just dump it all at the nearest thrift store?

night-people.org
pretty much everything on there is amazingeriffic.

also, http://www.notnotfun.com/presents/present.html

I will send all of the cassettes below for free to the first person on this thread who says s/he wants them. Preferably someone who lives in North America (I'm in the US).

So just say "I want them"

Original (store bought) -

Best of Macola - Volume One
David Bowie: Lodger
James Brown: I'm Real (NKOTB sleeve)
The Clean: Vehicle
Dennis Criteser/Jim Peterson: The Meaning O' Life
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline...
Diesel Cats and The Jazz Explorers: In Search of Blue Treasure
Eleventh Dream Day: Lived to Tell
Freedom Fire - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 3
Dora Hall - six cassettes from the Solo paper cup heiress (no sleeves)
Jason and the Scorchers: Fervor
Kool Moe Dee: How Ya Like Me Now
Les Rita Mitsouko: Présentent The No Comprendo
Craig Mack: "Flava In Ya Ear - Remix"
M/A/R/R/S: "Pump Up The Volume"/"Anitina"
Paul McCartney: "Figure of Eight"/"Ou Est Le Soleil?"
Mekons: Fun '90
Milli Vanilli: Girl You Know It's True
Monty Python Sings
Overweight Pooch: Female Preacher
Screaming Blue Messiahs: Bikini Red (no sleeve)
Spoonie Gee: The Godfather of Rap
Talking Heads: Naked
10,000 Maniacs: The Wishing Chair
10,000 Maniacs: Blind Man's Zoo
20 Greatest Hits 1967
Wire: Chairs Missing

Advance Cassettes -

The Amps: Pacer
Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher The Beatles
Imperial Teen: What Is Not To Love
Modest Mouse: This Is A Long Drive...
Titanic: music as heard on the fateful voyage Ian Whitcomb & The White Star Orchestra
Victoria Williams: Loose

Taped Off Vinyl or CD -

LiLiPUT/Cult Hero

The Hits of House Are Here/Jackie Wilson

Various Pebbles tracks

hits from 1989-90

Weather Girls/Labelle/Ralphi Rosario/Outhere Brothers/20 Fingers/Hope: "Tree Frog"/Machine/

Tribe Called Quest/Michelle Shocked/Blondie/sly Fox

Shaggs/Pebbles Vol. 3/Throbbing Gristle/Yoko Ono/Butthole Surfers/Big Black/Pussy Galore/Mudhoney/Costes/X-Ray Spex/Jandek/me pretending to be Jandek

ABBA album tracks/acid house/C+C Music Factory/tracks from My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

Throbbing Gristle/Skinny Puppy/Severed heads/Test Dept./Bauhaus/Eno/David Byrne

Tracks from Rhino's Disco Years

Paula Abdul/1980s girl rap

Risqué Rhythm: Nasty 50's R&B

Techno/new beat

Lords of Acid: Lust/some songs from Oklahoma!(!)

Josef K

The Best of American Pop - An Audio History (as chosen by me)

Plexi: Cheer Up and some EPs

Nuggets II tracks

ABBA hits

Naughty by Nature, Housemartins, Jordy, PM Dawn, Big Star

A: Laid Back, "Dirty Cash," MC Luscious, Army of Lovers, Loleatta Holloway, Aztec Camera, Slick Rick
B: Lonnie Gordon, The Weather Girls, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Yazz, Yello, Ofra Haza, Bon Jovi, Tiffany, Men Without Hats

A: Candy Flip, Wee Papa Girls, Beat Masters, Beats Intl., Thrill Kill Kult, PE, Coldcut feat. Mark E. Smith, AWB, Egyptian Lover
B: Waitresses, Frankie Smith, Soft Cell, The Arrows, XTC, T.S. Monk: "Bon Bon Vie," Jackie WIlson

A: James Brown
B: Halo of Flies; Husker Du; Repulse Kava; Stooges; Barbarians; Butthole Surfers

A: Blondie: Parallel Lines
B: disco

A: Atmosphere: Lucy Ford
B; Womack & Womack: Conscience (incomplete)

A: Dionne Warwick: Anthology
B: Sinead O'Connor: The Lion and The Cobra/some long song I can't place

A: New Pornographers: Mass Romantic (with bits of Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
B: Roky Erickson; Mae West doing "Light My Fire" and "Twist and Shout;" The Left Banke; Can

A: Parliament: Osmium
B: Snap, Bow Wow Wow, techno, etc.

A: Stooges: Fun House
B: PiL; Bolshoi

A: Pussy Galore: Right Now!
B: PiL: Second Edition

A: Some Russian stuff (I think)
B: City High

A: Guitar Paradise of East Africa
B: Big Star: Third

A: Phil Spector
B: MC Lyte

a bunch of SAW (or SAW-esque) productions

ABBA

DFX2: Emotion

Dusty Springfield: 24 Hours From Tulsa

DIMTHINGS: DIS-CI-PLINED 2 A SPONTANEOUS WAY OF LIFE

Dance Stuff - Erasure, Loleatta, Army of Lovers, etc.

Donna Summer, Ram Jam, Emotions, Freda Payne, Commodoes, etc.

Prince: Small Club Second Show That Night

Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked

Deep Heat (Telstar 1989)

Kym Sims: Too Blind To See It

Tons of 1970s shit - Andrea True, Taste of Honey, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Buffett, David Geddes, Hot Chocolate, etc.

A really good New Beat comp (if you ever figure out which one, lemme know)

A tape I called Good Songs Someone Can Do Better - Frente/Cher/sounds like Ozzy/some pop punk tune/Satchel/fast, squishy techno track beginning with a female vice saying something abut "time stands still"

Victor Lundberg/bubblegum/Hot Chocolate

Some good mid-1990s house stuff (De'Lacy, remixes of Madonna, Air, Falco, etc.) mixed poorly by me

Horrifyingly mixed Sylvester/New Order/Wild Orchid/etc.

Beck/Carly Simon

Grease 1994 London Cast with Debbie Gibson as Sandy and we'll go from there.

If I don't hear from anyone by Monday, Salvation Army gets them.

That should be:

So just say "I want them" and we'll go from there.

If I don't hear from anyone by Monday, Salvation Army gets them.

um i'll take em?

LOL. Are you being serious?

i still have a book of K-Mart cassettes from a few years later, one is the epic 'Detroit Rock City' w/ me playing all four members of KISS

herb, i need to call you. i might need help with records. picking up a big load on sunday the 27th. how's your back? it IS world theatre day that sunday, so you might have plans... (i can give you many many many records in return for the favor)

no pressure though...

sounds like a total blast, I'll bring the vicodin

mmmm, now yer speaking my language. i'm gonna ask tattooed love boy S.G. if he wants to come too. so it would be me, you, S, and Maria. and we would get some help on the other end. could be close to 8k or more records. and i probably won't need 2 or 3k of those. so you will have plenty to feed on before i call in my local hoarders who will take care of the rest for me.

herb, you don't have a reel to reel do you? got all these cool tapes i kinda wanna hear before i sell them to japan. bitches brew on reel to reel!

may not be timely enough if you need to ship your reels, but there are TONS of reel to reel players on ebay for dirt cheap.

or there were a few years ago anyway

if anybody owns the bonus tape of blank unstaring heirs of doom pls webmail me. peace.

― plax (ico), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:10 PM (Yesterday)

now you have me intrigued. if you know your way around torrent programs (I don't), you may be able to download it via this Russian site.

(it's listed there as "Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom (2006) EP")

ok, never mind the torrent thing: I found it somewhere else. check your webmail :)

i love you

bought my first cassette in prolly 20 years and it arrived today (gonna play it soon)!: Zoom Zoom - the best of Louis Prima.
i enjoy being a Luddite of sorts

http://www.tonepublications.com/old-school/nakamichi-dragon/

A number of non-audiophile friends couldn’t believe I was listening to a lowly cassette, and a pre-recorded one at that. Our resident HMEC (human musical encyclopedia & collector) Tom Casselli sent me a MoFi recording of Dark Side of the Moon. “Dude, if you have a Dragon, you should be the keeper of this tape.” Yeah, it was cool and now the hunt for a few more MoFi cassettes is on.

good read! that's such a cool machine...

Today’s haul:
Toto IV
Pointer Sisters Break Out
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus