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⌈ Secret Post #5555 ⌋

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[pantswarrior]

Heh, by the time I was old enough to "buy" anything, we were well into cassette era. But my parents had a collection of old vinyl - Pink Floyd and the Beatles were my faves (and when I was a little kid I remember having a Rainbow Brite album on vinyl) - and I think they skipped right over 8-track. I only ever used one I think a couple times at someone else's house, and by then who knows how old it was and whether it was in decent shape. I don't really remember much except going "Huh, so that's what they look like!"

I guess that sort of unique fading and the sound would be something one could be nostalgic for. Kind of like the nostalgia for the ol' dialup modem sounds. Not necessarily the optimal way to do things, but something that once upon a time meant something really awesome. =)

[tabaqui]

Exactly, yes. It didn't make the music better, but it was drives into town on a summer day, with the windows down, all of us together, listening and singing along. The station wagon came with a couple of 8 tracks, as well, the 'Ford Family of Music' collection, with Henry Mancini and Glen Campbell and the Carpenters.... We listened to that on trips to see my mom's family. :D

My parents had a ton of vinyl, but it was all from the 40s and 50s and 60s, big band and musicals and things like Nat King Cole. Or reel to reel tapes of stuff my dad had made - we had one full of Christmas music that played for like three hours that we always listened to in the season.

Now i'm basically doing a deep mental dive into music and my childhood - it's nice! :D

[pantswarrior]

Oh yeah. My childhood music was mostly different stuff - born in the late 70s, mom was an aerobics instructor in the 80s and had a huge drawer full of pop cassettes which I largely ignored in favor of stuff from the 50s and 60s after a friend brought over the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and I didn't give a crap about any of the new music written for the film but I loved all the older stuff. That... kinda never changed.

So I get that. I mean now I'm thinking of sitting out in the backyard grass with a couple other kids on a hot summer day with the sprinkler going and listening to the Ronettes. Must've been on cassette but ... cassette doesn't exactly have any sort of unique sound quality to it that makes it stand out as "ah yes it was this specific format".

[tabaqui]

I mostly knew about music through my older brother, the radio (mostly top 40, we didn't get a lot of reception out in the country), and my dad always playing 'Remember When' on the radio, which played mostly music and radio shows from the 1920s-1940s.

I really only started looking for and choosing my own music in middle school, around 7th grade.

Nah, cassettes were good, portable, and had those wonderful fold-out inserts with all the lyrics (such tiny print!), but not a particular sound to them, for sure.

[pantswarrior]

I don't think I regularly listened to anything "contemporary" until my first stay at a hospital for the health issues that still plague me, where I was on a pre-teen unit with a dozen girls who were a little older than me and were into "typical teenage girl" pursuits like listening to the radio a lot, including while sleeping. And to my surprise, I liked some of it enough to listen to it later while it wasn't being inflicted on me!

One bonus of cassettes was that I could actually just tape stuff off the radio after that, hahah. There is definitely some nostalgia for that too. =)

[tabaqui]

Oooh, yeah. My sister and i had a little cassette tape player, and we would put it up next to the radio, fingers at the ready, to record our favorite songs off of Casey Kasem's Top 40, HOPING he wouldn't talk over the start of the song.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, god, YES, the whole thing of trying to record songs off the radio. So true about getting annoyed at the DJ talk (and I say this as someone whose dad was a radio DJ :p), and you had to time it just right so you wouldn't miss the beginning of the song. And of course, the whole thing of having to check how much tape was left on your cassette to see if you even had room to record a song.

Good times :D. Kids today, they will never know...

[tabaqui]

YES!! Heeeeeeee. It was fun and also stressful but awesome when you had that 'mix tape' of good songs to listen to.