What was the last cassette tape you played? Inquiring minds want to know.

They sound a hell-of-a-lot better than 192kbs MP3s

Last tape overall: a mix of stuff I taped off the radio, specifically played for an early (uptempo) demo of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic."

Oh, c'mon!

side 1

sounds of alaska

frost - awaken

frank owens - consider yourself

the turtles - hot little hands

wu tang clan - duck seazon

thompson twins - lies (dub version)

strapping fieldhands - boo hoo hoo

edelweiss - bring me edelweiss (tourist version)

hector lavoe- el todoposeroso

les cooper - wiggle wobble

side 2

tobie lurie - simple logic

the stonemans - hang them all

sham 69 - money

climax blues band - rich man

chiefs of relief - freedom to rock

comateens - the late mistake(club version)/pictures on a string/resist her(dance mix)/deal with it

district of columbia - hail to the teeth

- Neil Young, Decade
- Prince, Around the World...
- V/A, All Disco Dance Mix (featuring MFSB, Grace Jones, and many others)
- Legendary Pink Dots, (forget title... something about children?)
- the tape of the radio show that a few people and i did on lots of acid last May

I remember because I had a borrowed Mazda 626 for four months that only had a tape deck, and I only bought one tape. It was always a pain to rewind or fast forward to the three good songs on it.

I even remember when I got it and why - I had my cap and gown held until the last possible moment because of a bitter AP government teacher, so I had to drive to BFE to pick it up two days before graduation, I stopped and bought the tape at Wherehouse Music on the way.

Last actual commercial cassette listened to was probably, uh...

looking at my tapes I would guess The Embarrassment's Retrospective tape on Fresh Sounds. What a great album.

I bought myself a Minidisc in 1999 and started burning compilation CD's the same year, so it must have been before that.

That's fabulous!! I've never met anyone besides myself who has done the pad "doctor" job on a cassette like that!

It was all I could find by them at the time. I hated cassettes even way back then then though. Which reminds me to search for a cd retrospective. There must be one?

Funny you say that, because I've always felt the same way. I think it might just be that car tape players sometimes tend to very slightly speed things up, so it makes Yes sound even a bit more exuberant than they already were.

a) I'd long since found on CD or MP3

or

b) I had no need to ever hear again.

I played a few things while I was doing the purge:

"Street Moves" - Twenty-Four Seven (awful ESL hip-hop from the days of dance/hip-hop crossover, kinda like Technotronic or C & C Music Factory, only with much worse vocals, and exponentially goofier lyrics)

"Have It All" - Index (long-forgotten Canuck synthpop project that charted for about 15 minutes in 1991)

"Electric Dancefloor" - Various Artists (1992 dance compilation from Quality Records, who at one point appeared to release one of these collections every 15 minutes)

None of them were as good as I remembered. And I'd forgotten how truly bad most prerecorded cassettes sounded.

Actual retail cassette, Da Lench Mob- Guerillas in the Mist

It had been recorded at a gig at The Marquee when they had supported a new but hotly-tipped band who had just come down from Manchester, called The Smiths.

Unfortunately: (a) I didn't get the job; (b) the tape doesn't include their song "Bouncing Heads" which has been bouncing around my head for the last 23 years; (c) the tape doesn't include any of The Smiths' set.

Ah what the hell, now I'm listening again...

A tape of Julian Cope demos, an official one from Island Records.

oh hang on, it'll be 'Rough and Ready' the Freshies.

I scored an Amon Duul II cassette there on the weekend, but it's got that weird cassette rot thing where the volume oscillates up and down.

then the A House tape
On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-
Round and all was well

I recently moved. So this morning I was going through some old boxes from college and found a random cache of cassettes tucked away.
I’m going to listen to all of these today. what order should I play them in?

Ghostface- Ironman
Project Blowed - Project Blowed
Freestyle Fellowship- Innercity Griots
Ras Kass- Soul On Ice
Volume 10- Hip Hopera
Built to Spill- Perfect From Now On
The Sundays- Reading, Writing Arithmetic
Sonic youth- Washing Machine
The Roots- Do You want More?

In the car...
Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full
The INtruders - SUper Hits

As a result of closet excavation, Duke Ellington, Indigos

After listening to the cassette I ordered a CD copy.

I have no idea. . .I don't even own a cassette player anymore.

The stereo in our kitchen just has radio and tape, so sometimes when I'm washing dishes I'll pull out "Foolish" by Superchunk or "8 AM All Day" by Chisel or tapes of stuff I did on 4-track when I was in high school.

a friend of mine gave me his collection of Neil Young bootlegs on cassette a few years back, so when I'm driving (which I'm doing more of these days), i'm usually listening to those. There's a kickass Farm Aid with crazy horse from 94 that I could listen to over and over. There's also a show from 1976 in Japan that sparkles. Ridiculously good guitar playing/sound.

damn it! washing machine seems to have sustained some damaged. looks like i'm going to have to perform some surgery

it was a cassette I dubbed of the first four AFX "Analord" records

Ratty - Mythology 1992, in a car

I think it was the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack, about 2-3 years ago, to listen to Orbital and all the other classics on it.

UMC's a few months ago.

An answering machine tape from '89 featuring a death threat - unsettling at the time, but now rather amusing.

My own Madonna mixtape

My previous vehicle (which I traded away in June) had a cassette, the last thing I listened to was a mixtape I received in a trade over the indiepop list.

My sister's CD player died earlier this year so I made four cassette comps to hold her over until she got her mp3 player up and running.

Slayer "seasons in the abyss" at work today while cleaning soy oil off of centrifuge parts.

There were a lot of them I threw in at work a few weeks ago.. one that sticks out os Beastie Boys "Check Your Head".. and also "Dr Octagonacologyst."

OMD best of found at a garage sale for 25 cents.

Tim Kaiser's BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT "White City" EP
(it's been in my car for over a year...best album Prince never released)

Ha, I have an untitled tim kaiser mix cd with no tracklist that rulez.

A Jimi Tenor compilation that a friend made me.

xtc - drums and wires.
this was at least a year ago.

Haikunym, that was
the minutemen's My First Bells
80-83

(Haikus are hard)

Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session

Flowered Up - A life with Brian - about a month ago.

seefeel - quique

been listening to a lot of cassettes lately because my wife broke the cassette portion of our boombox and apparently now they are only available for $20 or more than $150. and i'm not in a hurry, really, it's kind of fun digging through boxes of cassettes and listening to them.

Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate to my students. Don't know if that counts.

i listen to tapes all the time. the one in my tapedeck now is: Battle Of The DJ's (80's Jive Records comp.)

"been listening to a lot of cassettes lately because my wife broke the cassette portion of our boombox and apparently now they are only available for $20 or more than $150. and i'm not in a hurry, really, it's kind of fun digging through boxes of cassettes and listening to them."

wait, i'm confused. if she broke the cassette portion how are you listening to cassettes?

I didn't listen to them hardly at all for several years, but since pulling a couple boxes of them out of storage last winter, they're back in my regular rotation along with CDs and vinyl. A few I've listened this month were by Wolfsbane, Smashed Gladys, Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Um Pah Pah, Lax N Busto, and Jean LeLoup. Will probably play 8 Eyed Spy Live today or tomorrow.

haven't listened to any of my tapes since moving to this apartment about a year and half ago, they've been in storage in the basement.

guh, i meant she broke the cd playin' part.

technically, an interview tape on my handheld recorder. before that, some Baltimore noise tape I bought at True Vine. before that, my car that died 3 years ago had no working stereo so I was basically driving around with a boombox and a bunch of cassettes. I wish I could remember what the last tape I played in there was, I'm thinking probably one of my homemade Sonic Youth mixes. man i miss cassettes.

I recently bought Robyn Hitchcock's Globe of Frogs (which I know quite well) and the Sylvian/Fripp collab The First Day (which I didn't know at all) on tape, so those have been getting tons of play during car drives to and from Denver. First Day is especially sweet! Lotsa Fripp guitar heroics.

Oh, a cassette I made of "Kraftwerk 1" and "Organisation", that'll be it.

A truly excellent comp. of Johnny Guitar Watson's early singles + stuff

Sonic Youth Sonic Death Live and a dub of Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter were the tapes I listened to yesterday.

Heavy Metal Vomit Party vol 1

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I ...picked up at a yard sale for $1 on a road trip in rural Vermont (from Montreal) because the car I was in only had a tape deck.

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby

and a tape loop i made from the Mighty Feeble comp

don't think i've played a tape for ten years now

oh dang would love to have sonic death on tape!! i love noisier/droney stuff in the car for some reason.

i have sonic death on tape!! it's the only format i've ever found a copy of it on.

if you have a CD maybe we can trade

i've got nirvana's incesticide on cassette lying around somewhere that i played about a month ago. never got round to buying that one on CD.

I've got Incesticide on cassette.

it's actually probably the last cassette i bought before i switched to CDs.

Played Foreigner 4 this morning.

rollins band - come in and burn

about two weeks ago.

old car.

tape player.

daft punk live dj set in chicago

http://www.discogs.com/Evol-Fart-Synthesis/release/1879148

Ten years ago, mix tape of songs I recorded off the radio when I was living in a flat with only an old boombox for company. As I remember, the tape had Wamdue Project's "King of My Castle" on it, which sounded super shitty on the walkman headphones with the extended cord that I botched together.

D.R.I. - 4 of a Kind. Found it in my parents' basement, along with a walkman that had a speaker in it!

playing thinking fellers tapes right now. lovelyville and mother of all saints.

(xpost) I've got a walkman with two speakers on it, and it records! Oh right no one cares about that shit anymore...

I think its cool

Actually what is cool is the boombox I had - a Sharp GF-990G

Invisible Touch, after last week's ILM poll.

Our Daughters Wedding.

http://musicophiliadaily.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/our-daughters-wedding-buildings-1982-v-6.jpg

when I stayed in CT a couple weeks ago, I was driving my mom's car which only has a tape player. So I ended up listening to a lot of old tapes I had stored in her house, it was just like high school.

Mostly listened to a C90 w/ The Sea and Cake on one side and Slant 6 on the other and another c90 w/ the Go-Betweens and the Bilders on it.

I have a house mixtape from 1991 that's got Barry Weaver on one side and Marques Wyatt on the other. It's very DEEP.

last night driving around running errands - Sonic Youth "Experimental Jet Set blah blah" ... a product of not acting fast enough to cancel the Columbia Record and Tape club subscription ...

does anyone else have this problem with their car tapedeck -- when i've tried using those cassette adapter things that you put in the tapedeck and then plug into an ipod or discman, the thing acts as though it's flipping the tape every ten seconds? annoying. that's why i have to listen to tapes in the car.

mine doesn't do this ... but I've had this happen before with car tapedecks.

yeah we've bought several different brands of adapter but it seems like it's the car's fault. :'(

have you tried cleaning it?

yeah we kinda dusted it? i don't know, sort of awkward to clean ...

It's a function of the player. If there's no sound signal coming through normally it thinks it has to fast forward to the end of the tape and turn over. Dunno if there's a solution to this. Maybe it's a function that you can turn off.

some old tony touch mixtape i found in my car

that sounds pretty fancy for a car tapeplayer ... when I had that problem with mine (it did it with particular cassettes, and then a few times afterward) it didn't fast forward, it just flipped to the other side, played a few seconds, then flipped over again.

aaron dilloway - herbst child
i have no idea where or when i got it and it sounds like some dudes setting off fireworks while dilloway messes with a tone generator and tape delay. weird even for amtapes.

before that bone awl - not for our feet.

The new Stephen O'Malley thing that Touch are putting out, earlier this week. I ordered like three or four from a distro this week as well

think it was the Trainspotting soundtrack

Pere Ubu - Cloudland iirc

Wait, it was my friend's tape of Royal Trux - Thank You that was layin around my old place.

Pretty sure it was Livin' Joy's Don't Stop Movin' about three car changes ago.

BTW if anyone wants Swans' Children of God and Pussy Galore's Right Now on tape, gimme a shout.

Heartbeat, an extra cheesy 70s comp from the Ronco-ish I & M Teleproducts label, which cost me $0.00 at the local Scrap & Swap, now in pretty heavy rotation in the car tape deck.

Faith No More's "The Real Thing" on my drive to work a few weeks ago.

death certificate in the car on the way to work.

probably the closest I come to liking "pop music" -- Adam & the Ants "Prince Charming" ... my car got broken into a year ago, and my first concern after covering the smashed window and ensuring the official documents weren't taken, is that the thief had not made off with my Adam & the Ants "Prince Charming" tape.

i listened to hi-c's first tape a couple years ago cos i couldnt find it on p2p. if i was feeling saucy i'd say tape is to rap (or rap from that era) as vinyl is to other genres, i miss the muddy thump of my youth

^^^
this

The last tape I listened to was Enter the Wu-Tang when I was borrowing a friend's car about a year ago. Sounded so great and reminded me of high school. Unfortunately I don't have a tape player of my own, not that I have a ton of tapes to play anyway.

jana winderen's "the noisiest guys on the planet" - a recording of decapods.

Dustdevils "Gutterlight" It's one of like 5 cassettes in my car, and I like it because it sounds better than the vinyl and contains a few tracks that aren't on the album.

i don't have an ipod so i listen to my cassette walkman

when i want music in my headphones

mixtapes!

"Boys Want Sex in the Morning" by Uncle Bonsai.

Been driving around town in a car with a cassette deck, listening to the Velvet Underground live (butt on the cover), Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, and Damon & Naomi More Sad Hits.

Funny how I've only seen that Uncle Bonsai record on cassette, never LP or CD.

mixtapes from high school in the 90s

2112

Found cassette of Screamadelica in Woolies for £2 about ten years ago and had it in the car, almost certainly that.

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers album (the one after the famous Modern Lovers album). Found it for free at a garage sale. Surprised to hear that it kicks the Modern Lovers album's ass all over the place. Why isn't this one the famous one?

i still have a bunch of bollywood soundtracks on cassette, and i listen to those. otherwise, not muh.

actually i have a "best of bobby womack" tape in my car that gets play every now and then.

<-- bought at a maryland truck stop!

I listened to Disciples of Power "powertrap" and Hanson Brothers "gross misconduct" yesterday on my garage boombox.

neil campbell/julian bradley - 1st tape (i think)

Bitte Orca. ten mins ago.

Philip Jeck - Spool, this morning.

My car has a tape deck and I bought every Rush album on cassette off ebay for $21. I torment all my passengers. It is sublime.

A tape of live & studio trax by some old friends c. 1989. They called themselves This Ordeal, were based out of Wayne, NJ and were seriously Joy Division influenced. Everything about them was awesome - except for their singer.

Elvis: opening night in Vegas '72. Got it from the Australian chapter of the Elvis fan club 15 years ago, and never got around to seeking it out on CD.

I played Expose's Exposure last week.

Ornette Coleman, 'Twins' until the car tape deck stopped working.

last night around 1:30am on the way to the supermarket: some mixtape of new wave songs I made for myself about 15 years ago ... while the Siouxsie and the Banshees' version of "The Passenger" was playing, my bf spotted two people having sex on a bus bunch.

I'm playing Led Zeppelin I right now. I hadn't listened to this band in 3 years..

i have a handful of OOP rap tapes that aren;t on CD that I play all the time.

Last one was Schoolly D

auspicium - valde atra mare

I am doing an archeology tour of demos I made about 15 years ago in order to see if anything is worth digitizing. The "roundness" of the sound on the cassettes is pretty amazing!

Grapped a few from the new Tapeworm label.

One by Souls on Board. Or maybe the group is called Souls, and the tape is called 'On Board'. whatever. it's good acoustics/tape manipulation, with assistance from Bruce Gilbert and Daniel Menche. Side 1 ends with a long sample of a confused northern bloke talking about falling into a giant hole or summat.

Also got the Philip Jeck tape.

A tape that came with a UK music mag in the 90's containing, amongst other stuff, a Red Dwarf piece, Monty Python's "Yorkshiremen" sketch from the Secret Policeman's Ball and Larry Miller's hilarious "Five Stages of Drinking". Nearly two years ago. In my previous car, a tapeplayer on wheels...

heh! we listened to the same tape two weeks ago.

it also has the arnold brown 'betty boo' bit, I believe.

I still have that tape! It must have come with Select, or maybe Vox. The Larry Miller sketch is indeed a classic.

Funny/great that more people kept that tape! "I don't know anyone named "Ruby""!
Yeah, Select it was. I remember 'betty boo' now too, or at least the way brown pronounced it.

music from big pink - the band
enya s/t

Most recently We Are Frank Chickens. My 15-month old makes a game of pulling cassettes out of shelves in the music room, so I have stacks of things he has "selected" piling up, some of which I'll probably play soon, including a Kendra Smith tape and a 90s Tacoma band called Queer The Pitch.

i lost my ipod last month and am feeling too poor to replace it so i dragged out an old walkman and have been working my way through old mixtapes and now! tapes - sadly i threw out a whole bunch of cassettes a few years ago, so it's a strange sparse selection, a lot of late nineties indie that must have slipped my decluttering eye.

I've actually been going through a slew of cassettes this past week, digitizing old interviews and the like. Last night was a live-in-studio set and interview by Scrawl for KUCI back in 1994 -- really fun to hear again after fifteen years.

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, today.

I grabbed a bunch of old tapes from my parents house over Thanksgiving & listen to cassettes in the car.

Mix-tape of various 19th Century composers: Chopin, Schumann, Chausson, Faure, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and La Falla.

My Life In the Bush of Ghosts, in my car, yesterday. I <3 tapes b/c they are so cheap as to practically be free & you stumble into a lot of random stuff at garage sales & thrift shops that you might not have sought out otherwise, such as, for example, the Fat Boys late-period concept album (a recent find for me).

Ben Webster Soulville on m kid's old boombox. not the original LP but the cassette version of a late 70s 2-LP set of late 50s session. lives up to the title: soulful, bluesy. includes my favorite version of "Makin Whoopee" and while I'm not an Oscar Peterson fan he's pretty great on this. bonus cuts feature Ben ticklin the ivories like I don't know, Fats Waller or somebody. a good morning album that's guaranteed to make yr day

Yesterday! I popped in Peter Murphy's Love Hysteria.