Have You Recently...

[Patsycat]

I was going through a cupboard in my new flat and undercovered a box of cassettes!

I can tell you, listening to them brought back loads of memories.

Wet Wet Wet, Michael Bôlton, Wham, etc.

Have you any secret cassette hourds?

[tutsiwarrior]

I was going through a cupboard in my new flat and undercovered a box of cassettes!

I can tell you, listening to them brought back loads of memories.

Wet Wet Wet, Michael Bôlton, Wham, etc.

Have you any secret cassette hourds?

wha's the issue?...all the music I got is in cassettes as well as all the videos. I hesitate to get CDs as I figure that when I do that there will be an industry wide change of format rendering my new investment obsolete.

Becoming harder and harder to find audio and video cassette players in Thailand though...my video player I had to import from Bahrain...the sales people at the Suphan tescos never heard of 'em...

by the way, at the expense of sounding naff, I like the Michael Bolton ballad 'said I loved you but I lied'...reminds me of adultery in Indonesia many years ago...

[Rinrada]

All gone in the Bin....apart from one with the Alexander brothers on it..

Hard disc r uz.

[Patsycat]

I am now listening to CAT STEVENS - when he was.... or before he was..

Edited November 26, 2006 by Patsycat

[Patsycat]

It's getting worse - i am now on tape three.

Goodbye My Friend.

[guardian]

I am now listening to CAT STEVENS - when he was.... or before he was..

?

[Mighty Mouse]

I have stacks of cassette tapes. I bought most of them in Thailand, long before CD's were the norm.

I have now transferred many of them to CD, which are better for playing in the car, but whenever I'm doing the ironing at home, I always put on an old tape.

[kayo]

how do you transfer from MC to CD (or better yet, direct to the PC) ??

I've only got two cassettes left from a massive collection as a kid, and they both contain my own music I recorded as a teenager. It'd be good to get them onto another format b4 the tapes give up the ghost!

[Buckwheat]

I am now listening to CAT STEVENS - when he was.... or before he was..

?

He was Cat Stevens....converted to Islam and took the name Yusof(spelling?) Islam.

[kayo]

Cat Islam

[tutsiwarrior]

I am now listening to CAT STEVENS - when he was.... or before he was..

?

He was Cat Stevens....converted to Islam and took the name Yusof(spelling?) Islam.

yusuf...the muslim rendering of joseph, the biblical/koranic significance I'm not sure of...also yusub, yoosob and other incarnations...

sure did like his music OK, and I'm a solid blues type guy...

does anyone agree with me that Karen Carpenter had a magnificent voice that was wasted on saccharine crap?

Edited November 27, 2006 by tutsiwarrior

[guardian]

Oh Thanks for the explainations.

[tutsiwarrior]

Oh Thanks for the explainations.

's OK...just read yer Holy Bible and pray to the baby Jesus to save yer wicked, ignorant soul...

Edited November 27, 2006 by tutsiwarrior

[suegha]

Karen Carpenter did have a wonderful voice and should have sung the blues, she would have been well suited to it.

[suegha]

Cat Islam

Thanks for the link - facinating.

[Old Croc]

The last time I moved, a couple of years back, I threw a large plastic bag containing scores of cassettes into the bin. I didn't go through them before hand because I knew I wouldn't dump them if I did. There were tapes from several eras, collected from places like Bali and Thailand and illegally from radio, etc. They ranged from Beatles and many of the 60's biggest groups through to the 80's and 90's

I dumped them because I no longer had a tape player and was looking to simplify many things in my life, but reading this thread has me thinking maybe I made the wrong decision.

Edited November 28, 2006 by Old Croc

[britmaveric]

Tapes all gone

[kayo]

I was going through a cupboard in my new flat and undercovered a box of cassettes!

I can tell you, listening to them brought back loads of memories.

Wet Wet Wet, Michael Bôlton, Wham, etc.

Have you any secret cassette hourds?

wha's the issue?...all the music I got is in cassettes as well as all the videos. I hesitate to get CDs as I figure that when I do that there will be an industry wide change of format rendering my new investment obsolete.

Becoming harder and harder to find audio and video cassette players in Thailand though...my video player I had to import from Bahrain...the sales people at the Suphan tescos never heard of 'em...

by the way, at the expense of sounding naff, I like the Michael Bolton ballad 'said I loved you but I lied'...reminds me of adultery in Indonesia many years ago...

Bump.

edit: Actually, while I'm here... I used to have everything on MC too. ALL the genesis, all the marillion (and fish solo), all the pink floyd, all the jimi....I honestly cannot place when it was that I dumped (with sadness) my cassette collection. It was before Widespread internet, but we had cd's, and I already thought, "everything I am dumping will be available again... "and this is before I knew about Internet/GNU based music sharing sites.

I did then, however, extensively build up a CD collection, and of course half of what I had was stuff I was SURE was never going to exist again.

Psh.. Utter sodswallop. Codswallop even.

i now have EVERYTHING. Well... nearly. Getting close.

ltd editions, never before heard (god I hate that phrase now), Rare ( hate that more) etc etc...

But, I did recently come across two cassettes that I come accross every few years.

I always have them. I move somewhere, dump them in a corner, and forget about them til I move again.

One of them is full of my own best of. recordings I made when I was about to become a musician at age 19. I should have stuck it. I gave up cos I thought my music wasn't popular enough.. too sad... I gave up and coldplay anddavid gray stepped in to fill the gap I hadn't finished creating.

And the other cassette is a Lee Perry mix an ex left in my caretaking. I've taken care ever since. Wonder where she is?

Edited December 19, 2006 by kayo

[PhilHarries]

Cassettes? When I went back to UK in 2004 I wanted to get some new music cassettes for the player in my pickup. Went round all the music sections of the supermarkets plus Virgin records, none. Told my sister that I can't find cassettes and she pi55ed herself laughing. Told me to try the charity shops. Well duh!

I subsequently recovered my old cassette collection but the ravages of time hadn't been kind to them. They were all home recordings ( ) and about twenty++ years old.

[jayenram]

I've got some 78 rpm vinyl stuff somewhere. Don't think there's any Wet Wet Wet on them though.