Just started playing one of my tapes from the 1980s and saw this thread. :lol: Few singles still in the collection of tapes I have upstairs. Haven't looked at them for a while until this evening.

Mostly pop stuff from 1999-2005 <3 Oh what good time these years were. :wub: No f***ing computers

 

Heh, I think I made my first MP3 in 1998!

I used to love me a good CASSINGLE. It was definitely 1991-1993 for me as I went straight to CDs from there on in. Consequently my cassingles are mostly by the likes of Sybil, 2 Unlimited, Richard Marx, The Shamen, The Beloved and the mighty Terence Trent D'arby. :D

 

 

The total number of singles I ever bought on cassette is zero. I carried on buying singles on vinyl (preferably 12") long after I'd started buying albums on CD.

About the only advantage I ever saw to tapes was the portable nature, you could listen to music "on the move", either on a Walkman or a "Boom Box".. Oh, yeah, I guess the "auto reverse" function was handy too, unless you had sides of unequal length of course....

 

I thought at the time cassettes were great, but over the years, the tape stretches or in some cases snaps, of course vinyl and CDs get scratched (CDs are actually worse than Vinyl or that, "Tomorrow's World" lied to us.. :lol: ) MP3s/FLACs, etc, are still beating all other forms of music delivery system in my eyes, mainly because you can "back them up" to avoid losing music through file corruption without any degredation in the overall sound quality, and also because you can put shedloads of albums onto a memory card the size of your fingernail...

I still have tapes that i used to record songs off the radio. I know how everyone says there's a warmth to vinyl. Well I think there is to tapes as well. It's like hearing your favourite song on the radio even if you just listened to it on your ipod.

I had quite a few cassette singles, mainly of the Spice Girls, B*Witched etc those sort of bands that were popular in the late 1990s (Yes I am a 90s child!) The first album I ever bought "Whigfield" was on casette too - sadly the tape player ate it :(

 

My sister used to record the charts off the radio long before that waste of space Reggie presented it and it focused on the music.

 

MP3s are fun and hi-tech, but really it's just paying around 79p for a computer file!

endlessly fast forwarding and rewinding the casette to find the start of the track you wanted to play :lol: Never thought anything of it til Cd's were born

Edited March 2, 201114 yr by fiesta

Love 'em...though it's so frustrating when the tape snaps or gets caught in the deck! Cassettes over 10 years old can be hard to keep in good condition...whereas 40-year old vinyl can still sound fresh (wonder if those really old 78rpm records still do!)

Love 'em...though it's so frustrating when the tape snaps or gets caught in the deck! Cassettes over 10 years old can be hard to keep in good condition...whereas 40-year old vinyl can still sound fresh (wonder if those really old 78rpm records still do!)

 

I've got loads of old cassette singles and albums I bought in the early 90s alongside blank cassettes which I recorded some of my own music onto in the mid-late 90s. The only thing I don't have is a cassette player but I'm sure if I did, my cassettes would still sound as good as they did at the time.