Best 8-track out of this box of 8-tracks

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Check out this line up!!!
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My vote is going to go to Trans-Europe Express, which would be true of just about any poll (unless said poll included Computer World or Man-Machine).

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I'll <3 these dudes until the end of time, I guess

me too - that 8 track is probably one of my most prized possessions or something

trans-europe express, but damned if i'm not voting for the headcleaner

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do not forget that there is an endless loop of tape inside the plastic shell

some are green, or orange, or blue

some are in cardboard boxes

some are on major labels

some were only distributed at truck stops

everything ZS says is truth

trans-europe express, but damned if i'm not voting for the headcleaner

― ooga boogers (electricsound), Monday, 2 August 2010 04:28 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

darn straight.

Anyone who doesn't vote for the head cleaner only gets to listen to the others with muffled sound.

"Great Lost Kinks Album" is tough to find.

Would have voted for 'Cassette -> 8 Track converter cartridge', but surely that Kraftwerk album is worth a bit of money?

For a moment I thought that "8 Track converter cartridge" by Cassette was some rad unknown-to-me 70s electronic noise project or something, and in my head it was the best thing ever

but, either Shaft or Kraftwerk, probably Kraftwerk

i wish the linda perhacs 8-track was in the box

In fact here is a helpful picture of the 3 I could pretty happily listen to on their own forever a week or two:
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Cassette -> 8 Track converter cartridge

^ voting this b/c I believe in the future

nicest 8-track haul i had was at the thrift store on marthas vineyard when i found hell by james brown and cosmic slop along with some other james brown and stax titles. funky 8-track party.

i might have to go with the doors full circle here for some reason. something poetic about having an album nobody ever listens to on a format that nobody ever plays.

its funny that the sex pistols 8-track is one of the big ticket ones to find, because that was one of the first 8-tracks i ever heard. my brother brought it home from his record store job for a friend and we played some of it in my sister's room. she was the only one with a player in her stereo. it sounded like incomprehensible noise to me. i had no reference point for the pistols at the time.

houses of the holy is the one i wanna listen to most on eight-track

something poetic about having an album nobody ever listens to on a format that nobody ever plays.

And that can also be played continuously "full circle". Also I have to say that 'Clair de Lune' on 8 track is some epic stupidity... dundun dundundundnudun CLUNK! dunudn dun duuuuuuuuuun CLUNK! dund undundun...

hahaha

Cassette -> 8 Track converter cartridge

^ voting this b/c I believe in the future

― (e_3) (Edward III), Monday, 2 August 2010 14:37 (1 hour ago)

MP3s downloaded from the internet, burnt onto CD-R, played in an MP3 compatible portable CD player, thru a cassette adaptor plugged into a cassette > 8 track adapter = backwards compatibility...

its funny that the sex pistols 8-track is one of the big ticket ones to find, because that was one of the first 8-tracks i ever heard. my brother brought it home from his record store job for a friend and we played some of it in my sister's room. she was the only one with a player in her stereo. it sounded like incomprehensible noise to me. i had no reference point for the pistols at the time.

love those kinds of memories. I remember hearing bauhaus' "third uncle" in a record store when I was 11 or 12, it sounded like complete insanity.

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I voted for "New Horizon" because I have that and really enjoyed it. I figure if you're going to buy 8-tracks get something that is 8-tracky not My Fair Lady or Led Zeppelin. I used to collect 8-tracks back in the early to mid nineties when I didn't have a lot of money but you could get some super obscure 60s or 70s record for a quarter.

This is a fabulous coincidence because I just scanned some cool 8's of my own and want to post them to this board. I didn't know if 8-tracks would offend vinyl people.

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