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.

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

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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

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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.