C90: Juxtaposition

I remember spending an entire day driving around NYC in my friend Dan's car, and all he had was one tape, featuring Labour of Love by UB40 on one side and Lament by Ulravoxx on the other. I think I snapped the tape in half at one point, and we didn't talk for about seven years.

I had a good one with Unknown Pleasures on one side and Darklands on the other.

A: Transformer by Lou Reed
B: New York by Lou Reed

was there a thread with a similiar idea once before? i seem to recall mentioning my favorite tape in high school: Marquee Moon on one side and The Low End Theory on the other.

I know I've seen this thread before. not a similar one, but the SAME one, the next post is going to be...
A: Locust Abortion Technician by the Butthole Surfers
B: Sings Holiday Favorites by Burl Ives

Gosh, and here I was thinkin' I was all original and shit. If you know the thread, post the link!

In high school I had several tapes like this. Key examples:

Side A: Primus, "Frizzle Fry"
Side B: Fugazi, "13 Songs"

Side A: fIREHOSE, "Ragin' Full-On"
Side B: Baldo Rex, "Parengen Cilgen Mas"

I wore these out, man.

One summer when I was a surly post-teen, I went on one last beach vacation with my mom, stepdad, and two stepsisters. To say I was not a beach person then is a comical understatement, trust me. My only salvation was an early Walkman and two C-90s: one R.E.M. (Murmur b/w Reckoning) and one Talking Heads (Speaking in Tongues bw/ Remain in Light). I can't fathom how many times I listened to those two tapes over the course of the week. It's pretty much all I did. Going back I ditched the folks and rode home with one of my stepsisters and her husband (both perfectly nice people, then just out of college) and tried to turn them on to my music. They were very confused, because they "couldn't understand the words."

the first music i ever had was a c90 of synchronicity / toto 4. my best friend's big brother made it for me, and he didn't know to hit pause on the record side while he was flipping the tapes on the play side. the noises and hissings of cassette decks are for me the equivalent to other people's emotional response to the sounds of vinyl pops and the needle dropping noise.

some of my favorites from high school [late 80s]-
peter gabriel [1979] / rumblefish original soundtrack
lyle lovett / some time in new york city
don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers / in search of the lost chord
parade / home of the brave
fear of music / best of roxy music
dust bowl ballads / stories of franz kafka [read by lotte lenya]
disreali gears / black sea
life's too good / candy-o

and a few from college..
baader meinhof / garvey's ghost [burning spear]
458489 a-sides [the fall] / the a-list [wire]
money jungle / best of desmond dekker

Side A: Fishbone's In Your Face
Side B: They Might Be Giants' Lincoln

Side A: Pearl Jam's Vs.
Side B: Janes Addiction's Nothing's Shocking

I listened the fuck out of these tapes.

The only one I can remember (though there were surely dozens):

A: Mingus Ah Um, Mingus
B: Brilliant Corners, Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins

My friend's older brother brought the only tape on a huge roadtrip we took in high school. For the first ten hours we wanted to kill ourselves, but on the eleventh auto-reverse something clicked and it become this messed-up touchstone in all our lives:

SIDE A: The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow
SIDE B: Yes, 90125 (cuts off halfway through the penultimate track)

The first hip-hop in my collection was a C-90 cassette with Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill on the A, and Run DMC's Raising Hell on the B. (This was my freshman year of high school.)

I do remember going on a road trip up to the Berkshires with only two tapes, Public Image Ltd.'s much maligned live album, Live in Tokyo (my contribution) and Tales from the Topographic Oceans by Yes (the driver's contribution). After repeated, excruciating airings of the latter, PiL's otherwise dubious live recording NEVER sounded more vital.

at 17, i had only two tapes, A: Enya- Shepherd Moons / B: Enigma- MCMXC A.D. and A: Suzanne Vega: Suzanne Vega / B: Suzanne Vega: 99.9ºF. the former was a graduation gift from a friend, the other i "borrowed" from my younger brother. those tapes were all i knew of modern music when i arrived at school, and i listened to them incessantly. so much so that most of the songs on the Suzanne Vega tape skipped from tapewear. to this date, those tracks sound strange to me without the anticipated skips.

by the end of that year, i had three tapes. my roommate had turned me onto the Spin Doctors (A: Pocket Full of Kryptonite). i filled the B: with my favorite horror-film themes, recorded through the VCR.

I fondly remember making cassettes for road trips and my walkman. They usually consisted of mix tapes of whatever I was into at that particular time. However, I taped many LP's. Some of my more inspired choices I remember were: Radio Birdman, "Radio Appears"/ the Dictators"Bloodbrothers, the Laughing Hyenas "Life of Crime"/ the Birthday Party "Junkyard", Spaceman 3 "Playing With Fire"/ Galaxie 500 "On Fire" (great for long road trips).

This wasn't taped from vinyl, but the radio.

Side A: New Order Live in the BBC studios. Barney gets all pissed off at the lack of atmosphere and takes it out on Steve Morris, first, then on a microphone. But it's great.

Side B: R.E.M. live from Nottingham's Rock City. At one point, you can hear Stipe mumble (what else?) "we're not proud of our president". Lucky for him they weren't a big selling country act, huh? Wait...

Anyway, both these sides were recorded in 1984, and there's very little radio static. The New Order sounds great, if only for Barney's hissy fits.

for what it's worth:
most implausible tape-cassette pairing

My Terence Trent D'Arby tape had Learning to Crawl on the other side of it. Not very well planned.

Others:

Derek and the Dominoes Live b/w Little Feat Sailin' Shoes
REM Murmur b/w Asleep at the Wheel self-titled
Miles Davis Kind of Blue b/w John Coltrane Blue Train
Stevie Ray Vaughn Couldn't Stand the Weather b/w Jimi Hendrix The Cry of Love

Haha I just had a look at the old thread (which I linked before, but without really reading it).

Leads with the same "you youngsters with your new-fangled contraptions won't remember this, but..."

Plus posters are quick to point out "we've done this thread before".

So apparently there's a THIRD thread like this. But I'm not searching/linking it.

I will

C90 strangeness