Back in the days before CDs became the standard swapping medium, we all used to swap tapes. Usually C90, C100 or C120. This meant you could fit at least two albums or as many as 5 (short) ones on one tape.
Sometimes with the C90, your swap partner would put a complete album on the A Side and fill the slack with an mix of other tracks by the same artist to fill up the remaining slack. And do the same with B-side (but with a different artist.)
What was especially fun was putting two artist that don't mesh on the tape. As in Slayer's "Reign in Blood" on the A and Al Green greatest hits on the B. or Enya's debut on the A and Judas Priests "Painkiller" album on the B.
Anyhow. Nostalgia over.
For those who have (made|received) C90 tapes with this style of tracklisting, I offer the following questions for the forum to wrangle and debate over:
1) What was the most apt, well chosen set of "slack fillers" tacked onto a copied album
2) What was least apt, most poorly chosen set.
3) Most incongruious/jarring juxtoposition.
You may begin your attack run....nnnnnnnNOW!!
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)
i've always liked homebrew better than raw like sushi. what's a c90?
― dan (dan), Monday, 20 October 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)