pairs of albums that you had on side A and side B of blank tapes

don't know if we've had a thread on this before, but conversation sparked up on ILE, seemed to need its own thread: hipster interns controlling the media that reaches your eyes and ears

in high school a friend put Television's Marquee Moon and A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory on the same tape for me, which is not a very logical match but those are 2 of my favorite albums of all time so the tape has special meaning for me

A: REM, Reckoning
B: Replacements, Hootenanny + Stink

Pretenders + Pretenders II (half of "Mystery Achievement" cut off)

High school:

Nebraska and Tonight's The Night

Suzanne Vega s/t and Til Tuesday - Welcome Home

i mentioned in the other thread that i had sonic youth's daydream nation on one side of a tape with savage republic's jamahiriya on the other. i was wrong though! thinking about it, i remembered that it was a 60-minute tape and i actually alternated selected songs one after the other. like "teenage riot", "so it is written", "silver rocket", "viva la rock & roll", and so on. weird. think i did it to make myself listen to the savage republic more.

^ facts of limited interest

A couple:

A = Electronic's s/t
B = 808 State's ex:el

A = Bowie/s Tonight
B = Soundgarden's Superunknown

A few I remember:
Joy Division - Closer//Obliveon - Nemesis
Led Zeppelin - s/t //Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits
REM - Out of Time//Doors - Waiting for the Sun

Superunknown > 45 min, isn't it?

that's why I always used C-120s

Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" + Velvet Crush "In the Presence of Greatness"
Pulp "Different Class" + The Verve "Urban Hymns"
Oasis "What's the Story Morning Glory" + Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie..."
Billy Bragg + New Order (some kind of self-made 'best of')
Belle & Sebastian + The Pixies (" ")

and a bunch of tapes that i have lost over the years, def more one that was Sonic Youth + REM or something
oh and Nirvana "Nevermind" + some of Pearl Jam "10"

I forgot about C-120s.

A: Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
B: Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

I remember this one well because I crashed my car turning it over.

had loads of these. Some that spring to mind:
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever b/w The Prisoners - In From the Cold
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom b/w Sly and Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin On

A) gun club - fire of love
B) screamin' jay hawkins - some compilation a friend had

it's pissing me off that I can't actually remember any of the ones I put together; I think I still have most of them in a box next to my computer

A: Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
B: Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

I remember this one well because I crashed my car turning it over.

hopefully the Spacemen 3 side survived while the A was deformed beyond recognition.

A: Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
B: Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

I remember this one well because I crashed my car turning it over.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:51 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK between this and the two tragedies on the other thread I think maybe we're all better off without tapes

Pixies - Death to the Pixies / Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Love - Forever Changes / Big Star - Third

one of my other high school friends that turned me onto late period Dischord taped me:

side a: Fugazi - End Hits
side b: Smart Went Crazy - Now We're Even

side a:Nirvana - Nevermind
side b:Cream - Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream

haha very weird pairing

Two power trios.

that's why I always used C-120s

i'd heard vague rumors (how?) that the tape on these was too thin and would break, so i stuck to 90s and later a few 100s

I didn't do that intentionally though. I was like 12.

the one i played the most :

A) Major Malfu(n)ction - Keith Leblanc
B) It's Tackhead Tape Time - Tackhead

another fave :

A) Microphonies - Cabaret Voltaire
B) Crackdown - Cabaret Voltaire

xpost : yeah, i never got 120's as they were indeed prone to tangled chaos ..

As you can see, i wasn't too into mixing up genres across sides ..

I remember these three given to me at different times in my life:

1992 - Loudest tape I owned at the time: A: Medicine - Short Forth Self Living / B: Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
1994 - Awesome guitars: A: Big Star - mix of tracks from #1 Record and Radio City / B: Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
1996 - Intro to Mingus: A: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus / B: Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

OK between this and the two tragedies on the other thread I think maybe we're all better off without tapes

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:56 AM (4 minutes ago)

lol, i crashed my mom's car digging for a doolittle tape i'd dropped on the floor

I used to enjoy the weird pairings, like recording a late 60s Smokey Robinson album on the back of my tape of the Banshees' Juju

lol, i crashed my mom's car digging for a doolittle tape i'd dropped on the floor

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:02 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

this happened to me at 17, except it was my stepdad's car and the tape playing was Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True.

most implausible tape-cassette pairing

i vaguely remembered there being a thread on this topic before (and i posted on that one!) but props to you for actually figuring out how to search for it

I had a bunch of these. Here are the ones I can remember right now, in rough chronological order...

A. Miles Davis, Doo Bop
B. Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream

A. Philadelphia (soundtrack)
B. In the Name of the Father (soundtrack)

A. Live, Selling the Drama
B. Smashing Pumpkins, Pisces Iscariot

A. Bjork, Post
B. West Side Story (cast recording)

A. Goldie, Timeless
B. A Little Night Music (cast recording)

A. Yo La Tengo, Electr-O-Pura
B. Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time

C90 strangeness

A: Tom Waits - Bone Machine
B: John Zorn - Red Bird

The Goldie/Sondheim one probably belongs in one of those previous threads.

my introduction to tinnitus

A: Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
B: Husker Du - New Day Rising

A: R.E.M. - Reckoning
B: The Velvet Underground and Nico

A: John Mellencamp: Scarecrow
B: Husker Du: Flip Your Wig

A: Jawbreaker - Bivouac
B: Fugazi: Steady Diet of Nothing

A) jim carroll band - catholic boy
B) danielle dax - most of pop eyes and the jesus egg that wept

A) License to Ill
B) Invisible Touch

also:

A) Zeppelin IV
B) Eddie Murhpy's first album

In high school I had a tape with:

A) Another Green World
B) Rain Dogs

that's a good tape

The My Favourite Things from Live in Japan by John Coltrane with Tim Bckley Return of THe Starsailor on the flip. Spent a while where I was listening to that daily.

A) Zeppelin IV
B) Eddie Murhpy's first album

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:30 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

literally laughed out loud at this one

main ones i remember were:

A: ween - pure guava
B: de la soul - three feet high and rising

and

A: butthole surfers - independent worm saloon
B: public enemy - fear of a black planet

A: Tom Waits - Bone Machine
B: John Zorn - Red Bird

haha, nice. calm/storm/calm/storm infinity

Oh, I forgot, from the same trip:

A: Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Sorrow, Tears, and Blood/ITT
B: Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante

A: Guns n' Roses - Lies
B: The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

A: Afghan Whigs - Congregation
B: Melvins - Lysol

A. Wedding Present "Hit Parade"
B. Sebadoh - Bakesale

A. Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills 'n' Bellyaches
B. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

A. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
B. The Jam - All Mod Cons

A: Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
B: Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

A: Pigface - Fook
B: Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey

so far both of the tapes i've posted were made for me by other people and i'm really struggling to remember if i made any tapes like this myself. i think i was so obsessive about making tapes almost as soon as i started that i very quickly started making multi-artist compilations or best-ofs of single artists from different releases.

a. live skull - bringing home the bait
b. throbbing gristle - greatest hits

I still own more of these than I expected. this was the primary way I discovered/consumed music for most of 1994. there was a tape w/ something like Shed Seven on one side and Terrorvision on the other but bumps on the road and all

the last 'significant' one I think I made had Slint's Spiderland on one side and Ass Cobra by Turbonegro on the other - for the first few weeks of being in halls at university there was this dude opposite who was kind of intense in a not-good way and also the first guy ever to hit on me, anyway his older brother visited one day and lent a bunch of stuff for me to copy. both of these were p revelatory age 18 tbh

I got into some of my favorite groups by borrowing tapes from my friends, and loving what was on the other side. I don't actually remember which sides were A or B, but the side B groups were the ones I got into.

A: Soup Dragons - Lovegod
B: Pixies - Doolittle (this side of the tape was unmarked, my friend didn't know who it was, and I was obsessed for weeks with figuring out who this band was until I finally did)

A: Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park
B: D.R.I. - Dealing With It

A: Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
B: Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa

oh this was a good feature

a. throwing muses - s/t
b. emilio cubeiro - death of an asshole

double feature

so far both of the tapes i've posted were made for me by other people and i'm really struggling to remember if i made any tapes like this myself.

I never made tapes of albums that I already owned on CD. (That might've been a good idea if I'd had a car that could only play cassettes, but the car I drove in high school and college didn't even have that.) Basically, the only albums that made it onto these tapes were ones that I borrowed from friends or from the library.

A) violent femmes - hallowed ground
B) king crimson - three of a perfect pair

this was lent to me by a friend of a friend, his taste in music having impressed several people i knew. he and his brother had a fanzine! when i returned the tape a week or so later, he asked me what i thought. i told him i didn't get it at first, but wound up liking the weird noisy stuff on the first side. didn't like the country music though. he looked at me as though i were a rind.

within a few months, these would be two of my very favorite albums.

I had a lot of tapes with an album on one side and then various songs I'd recorded off the radio on the other

A: Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
B: Husker Du - New Day Rising

so good!!

I had so many of these and I cant remember the details :(

iirc

A: They Might be Giants - They Might be Giants
B: Ministry - Psalm 69

lol tapes very much in character

i found another:

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Radiohead - The Bends

i totally had a tape that a friend made me with
Jawbreaker - Dear You
and something else i can only barely remember (violins, noise, uh) bc i was too obsessed with the jawbreaker at the time

I threw away a cassette case full of tapes this past spring, or I'd be able to list more. Oh well.

Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" + Velvet Crush "In the Presence of Greatness"

haha rrobyn I don't think I had this exact tape but it's a very plausible tape I could have had

I think the other side of my Velvet Crush tape might have been ... Material Issue? whichever album of theirs has "Valerie Loves Me." lol90s

A lot of mine were paired with things I taped off the radio. So there was also:

A: R.E.M. on Rockline, 1985
B: Husker Du, New Day Rising

or

A: The Who: The Final Interview, 1984
B: The Clash (US debut)

cocteaux 'heaven or last vegas' / lush 'gala'. double a-side innit

lol, i crashed my mom's car digging for a doolittle tape i'd dropped on the floor

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:02 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark

this happened to me at 17, except it was my stepdad's car and the tape playing was Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True.

― Pollopolicía (some dude), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:04 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

oh god me too, except at 16 (just outta learner's permit) and trying to get a New Order LP off of the floor, don't tell my mom please

Haha! I crashed my car listening to a Lloyd Cole & the Commotions anthology.

I was trying to ffwd when my brakes went out.

Pretty sure I'm not the only one who had this one.

A: NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
B: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

va: Wanna Buy A Bridge?
Chris & Cosey - Techno Primitiv

Test Dept - Unacceptable Face Of Freedom
Swans - Greed

Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits
Patti Smith - Horses

a) yes - big generator
b) fleetwood mac - rumours

A) supertramp - breakfast in America
B) U2 - the unforgettable fire

I crashed my car at age 16/17 (can't remember) taking a left turn in the snow listening to The Way of the Vaselines (commercial tape though, not a blank)

sleeve I am completely feeling your tape collection

fuck fast forward, listen to it all. then flip.

auto-reverse. a good name for a band.

A) neil young - ragged glory
B) Neil young - harvest moon

a. lemonheads - creator / lick
b. crass - feeding of the 5000

pretty certain I had a stone roses / kreator tape around the same time.

That Crass album the length of two Lemonheads ones?

A Neil Young tape i found at a thrift store, which sadly broke recently.

A) On the Beach
B) RE-AC-TOR

A) Nothing's Shocking
B) Doolittle

also

A) Killing Technology
B) Nothingface

and

A) Kill 'Em All
B) Suffer

Oh yeah, another really crucial one was:

A) Confusion is Sex
B) DOA Third And Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill // Bobby Womack - Check It Out
Belly - King // Back - Mellow Gold
Blancmange - Happy Families // Weekend - La Variete
Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With... // Al Green - Greatest Hits
The Breeders - Pod // Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Breeders - Last Splash // Kronos Quartet - Monk Suite
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel // Youssou N'Dour - The Lion
Carter USM - 1992 The Love Album // Mahalia Jackson - When The Saints Go Marching In
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand // Michael Nyman - The Draughtsman's Contract
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man // Prince - Dirty Mind
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme // V/A - Take Cover! Zimbabwe Hits
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas // Black Uhuru - Chill Out
Sam Cooke - The Best Of // Wire - Wire Play Pop
Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate // REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline... // Stetsasonic - In Full Gear
Miles Davis - The Birth Of The Cool // Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Divine - T-Shirts & Tight Blue Jeans // Human League - Hysteria
Echobelly - Everyone's Got One // Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Erasure - I Say I Say I Say // Tongueman - Cop This
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight // Prince - Around The World In A Day
Everything But The Girl - Love Not Money // New Order - Low Life
Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad // Neil Young - Unplugged
Fun Boy 3 - Waiting // Michael Jackson - Thriller
Astrud Gilberto - The Best Of // Julie London - Julie Is Her Name
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me // Frank Black - Frank Black
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs & Stories // Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Indigo Girls - Nomads Indians Saints // Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music Vol 1
INXS - Kick // Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World // Madonna - I'm Breathless
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation // Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh
Michael Jackson - Thriller // Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits // Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Salif Keita - Soro // Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Dagmar Krause - Angebot und Nachfrage // South Pacific (Te Kanewa, Carreras, Vaughan, LSO)
Laibach - Opus Dei // Bhundu Boys - Tsvimbodzemoto
Long Ryders - Native Sons // Jason & the Scorchers - Lost & Found
Bob Marley - Legend // Inner City - Paradise
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration // Sex Pistols - Live In Trondheim 21st July 1977
Syran M'benza - Elisa Dangwa // V/A - Viva! Zimbabwe
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night of a Thousand Candles // Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home // Electronic - Electronic
Van Morrison - Enlightenment // Loose Ends - How Long
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay // Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
Pet Shop Boys - Disco // Luther Vandross - Give Me The Reason
Pet Shop Boys - Actually // Prince - The Black Album
Pixies - Bossanova // Sonic Youth - Goo
Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash // Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite
Pretenders - Last Of The Independents // Hole - Live Through This
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point // Arnold - The Barn Tapes
Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling // The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Revolting Cocks - Big Sexyland // Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction
Sade - Diamond Life // Orange Juice - The Orange Juice
Sade - Promise // Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog
Shalamar - Greatest Hits // Diva - original soundtrack
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On // Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Supergrass - I Should Coco // Sebadoh - Bakesale
Supergrass - In It For The Money // Shirley Brown - Diva of Soul
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque // Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain

damn son

I have a terrible memory so I had to go and look at what tapes I still have. Looks like I mostly had/kept comps, proper cassette albums, and demo tapes, so not too many of these.

Jacob's Mouse - No Fish Shop Parking/Velocity Girl - Copacetic
Joy Division - Peel Sessions/'unreleased stuff'
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything/Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane.../Thingy - Songs About Angels, Evil...
Radiohead - The Bends/Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned
Radiohead - OK Computer/Sukia - Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo

I still have a bunch of tapes in my car, all made years ago but I still listen to them occasionally. These are the only different-artist pairings:

Sun Ra Lanquidity / Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Throbbing Gristle Second Annual Report / Nurse With Wound An Awkward Pause
Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages / Pharaoh Sanders Izipho Zam
Happy Mondays Bummed / Faust The Faust Tapes