August 4, 20177 yr My cassette collection consists of: Feeder - Insomnia (1999) Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999) Feeder - Paperfaces (1999) Feeder - Seven Days in the Sun (2001) Feeder - Turn (2001) Feeder - Just a Day (2001) Feeder - Borders (2012) Ash - Cocoon (2015) Feeder - Comfort in Sound (2002) Feeder - All Bright Electric (2016) Feeder - The Best Of (2017 on preorder) I only purchase it from my favourite artists and don't even have a cassette player! Wow! Lots of Feeder. The only physical Feeder release I have so far is the Suffocate purple 7-inch
August 4, 20177 yr Oh, I have a huge Feeder collection. The vast majority of their UK discography and some rarities/Japanese releases too!
August 4, 20177 yr I had so many when I was a child. No longer have them of course but I want this: http://dhgkpqsiufwl2.cloudfront.net/media/ArticleSharedImage/image600/.frQHeUzV/ArticleSharedImage-73528.jpg
August 5, 20177 yr The last time I saw a music cassette outside of charity shops was Christmas 2007, when WHSmith randomly had a few old copies of Now 58 on the format marked down to £3. I bought it for the novelty value and was odd hearing songs so recent on a tape! I think cassette singles were quietly discontinued in about 2003, albums carrying on a bit longer.
August 5, 20177 yr Oh, I have a huge Feeder collection. The vast majority of their UK discography Any vinyl by Feeder you have? Sorry if I go off-topic
August 8, 20177 yr Any vinyl by Feeder you have? Sorry if I go off-topic UK CD Albums Swim ECHCD9 1996 Polythene: Re-Release (V1) ECHCD19 1997 Yesterday Went Too Soon ECHCD28 1999 Yesterday Went Too Soon: Limited Edition ECHDD28 1999 Echo Park ECHCD34 2001 Echo Park (With Slipcase signed by Grant, Taka & Jon) ECHCD34 2001 Swim: Resurfaced ECHCD38 2001 Comfort In Sound ECHCD43 2002 Comfort In Sound (Limited Edition Slipcase) ECHCD43 2002 Comfort In Sound: Special CD & DVD Edition ECHDV43 2003 Pushing the Senses ECHCD60 2005 Pushing the Senses: Limited CD/DVD ECHDV60 2005 The Singles / The Videos ECHDV69 2006 Picture of Perfect Youth: Re-Release ECHCD52 2007 Silent Cry: Deluxe Edition ECHCX79 2008 Renegades: Deluxe Edition (Signed by Grant & Taka) BTMCDX004 2010 Generation Freakshow (Signed by Grant & Taka) BTMCD009 2012 All Bright Electric: Deluxe Edition (Signed by Grant & Taka) COOKCD651X 2016 UK 12" Albums Swim ECHLP9 1996 Polythene ECHLP15 1997 Echo Park ECHLP34 2001 Comfort In Sound ECHLP43 2002 Picture of Perfect Youth ECHLP52 2004 Generation Freakshow BTMLP009 2012 Renegades + Generation Freakshow: Christmas Deluxe Bundle BTMLPX009 2012 All Bright Electric COOKLP651X 2016 UK Cassette Albums Comfort In Sound ECHMC43 2002 All Bright Electric N/A 2016 UK CD Singles Two Colours ECSCD13 1995 Stereo World ECSCD27 1996 Tangerine (CD2 - Signed by Grant, Taka & Jon) ECSCX32 1997 Cement (CD1) ECSCD36 1997 Cement (CD2) ECSCX36 1997 Crash (CD1) ECSCD42 1997 Crash (CD2) ECSCX42 1997 High (CD1) ECSCD44 1997 High (CD2) ECSCX44 1997 Suffocate (CD1) ECSCD52 1998 Suffocate (CD2) ECSCX52 1998 Day In Day Out (CD1) ECSCD75 1999 Day In Day Out (CD2) ECSCX75 1999 Insomnia (CD1) ECSCD77 1999 Insomnia (CD2) ECSCX77 1999 Yesterday Went Too Soon (CD1) ECSCD79 1999 Yesterday Went Too Soon (CD2) ECSCX79 1999 Paperfaces (CD1) ECSCD85 1999 Paperfaces (CD2) ECSCX85 1999 Buck Rogers (CD1) ECSCD106 2001 Buck Rogers (CD2) ECSCX106 2001 Seven Days In the Sun (CD1) ECSCD107 2001 Seven Days In the Sun (CD2) ECSCX107 2001 Turn (CD1) ECSCD116 2001 Turn (CD2) ECSCX116 2001 Just a Day E.P. (CD1) ECSCD121 2001 Just a Day E.P. (CD2) ECSCX121 2001 Come Back Around (CD1) ECSCD130 2002 Come Back Around (CD2) ECSCX130 2002 Just the Way I'm Feeling (CD1) ECSCD133 2003 Just the Way I'm Feeling (CD2) ECSCX133 2003 Forget About Tomorrow (CD1) ECSCD135 2003 Forget About Tomorrow (CD2) ECSCX135 2003 Find the Colour ECSCD145 2003 Comfort In Sound: The Arena Tour Edition ARENA01 2003 Tumble and Fall (CD1) ECSCD157 2005 Tumble and Fall (CD2) ECSCX157 2005 Feeling a Moment (CD1) ECSCD163 2005 Feeling a Moment (CD2) ECSCX163 2005 Pushing the Senses ECSCX173 2005 Shatter / Tender ECSCX180 2005 Lost & Found (Signed by Taka) ECSCX184 2006 Save Us ECSCD186 2006 We Are the People (Signed by Mark) ECSCD199 2008 Renegades EP1 BTMEP001 2010 Renegades EP2 BTMEP002 2010 Borders (Signed by Grant & Taka) BTMCD008 2012 UK 7" Singles Two Colours ECS13 1995 Stereo World ECS27 1996 Tangerine ECS32 1997 Cement ECS36 1997 Crash ECS42 1997 Suffocate ECS52 1998 Day In Day Out ECS75 1999 Buck Rogers ECS106 2001 Seven Days In the Sun ECS107 2001 Turn ECS116 2001 Just a Day E.P. ECS121 2001 Find the Colour ECS145 2003 Tumble and Fall ECS157 2005 Feeling a Moment ECS163 2005 Pushing the Senses ECS173 2005 Shatter / Tender ECS180 2005 Lost & Found (Part 1 - Signed by Mark) ECS184 2006 Lost & Found (Part 2 - Signed by Grant) ECX184 2006 Save Us ECS186 2006 We Are the People (Part 1 - Signed by Grant) ECS199 2008 We Are the People (Part 2 - Signed bt Taka) ECX199 2008 Call Out (Signed by Grant, Taka & Karl) BTMVS003 2010 Renegades BTMVS005 2010 This Town / Down to the River BTMVS006 2010 Borders (Signed by Grant & Taka) BTMVS008 2012 Children of the Sun BTMVS011 2012 Idaho BTMVS012 2012 Forget About Tomorrow / Just the Way I'm Feeling BMGCATSV94 2017 UK Cassette Singles Insomnia ECSMC77 1999 Yesterday Went Too Soon ECSMC79 1999 Paperfaces ECSMC85 1999 Seven Days In the Sun ECSMC107 2001 Turn ECSMC116 2001 Just a Day E.P. ECSMC121 2001 Borders (Signed by Grant & Taka) BTMCS008 2012 UK DVD Singles Come Back Around ECSDV130 2002 Just the Way I'm Feeling ECSDV133 2003 Forget About Tomorrow ECSDV135 2003 Shatter / Tender ECSDV180 2005 Save Us ECSDV186 2006 Japan CD Albums Polythene PCCY-01114 1997 Another Yesterday… PCCY-01439 2000 Echo Park PCCY-01498 2001 Japan CD Singles High PCCY-01195 1997 Find the Colour PCCY-01644 2003 Feel It Again PCCY-80012 2005 International Releases Comfort In Sound (Hong Kong) 2003 Piece By Piece 23 203853 2001 My full collection, excluding promo copies!
August 8, 20177 yr I literally have next to nothing commercially released on cassette anymore. But for posterity, I shall list them here: - Busted - You Said No (or Charlie's tape as it was known. Quite rare now due to the fact it contains a B-side not released on CD or download) - All Saints - Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade - All Saints - Bootie Call - All Saints - Pure Shores - Appleton - Don't Worry - Madonna - What It Feels Like for a Girl - The Beautiful South - Blue is the Colour / Quench I do however have a whole box of 'home recorded' cassette tapes dating back to as recently as 2007 when I abandoned the format. Largely consisting of interviews with bands I loved on different radio shows (and also a squeaky voiced 17 year old me talking to a local DJ from about 2006).
August 8, 20177 yr I think cassette singles were quietly discontinued in about 2003, albums carrying on a bit longer. It seems to me that different labels phased out cassette albums & singles at different times (in the UK)! A couple of examples: Virgin released Melanie C's single Here It Comes Again (February 2003) & the Reason album (March 2003) on cassette, but opted against a cassette for the singles On the Horizon (June 2003) and Melt/Yeh Yeh Yeh (November 2003). Whereas Girls Aloud's Polydor label issued cassettes for Sound of the Underground (single), No Good Advice, Life Got Cold and Jump (December 2002 through to November 2003), but didn't release their Sound of the Underground album on cassette (SOTU was released on CD only in May 2003). I'm pretty certain that Jump is the most recently released cassette single I own! I agree that late 2003 seemed to be the final moment for cassette singles. Their phasing out seemed to directly coincide with the widespread introduction of "2-Track & Maxi" CD formats in January 2004? (I say "widespread" because Virgin/EMI seemed responsible for starting this, as early as summer 2003! Other labels such as Universal didn't get on board with this until 2004). In regards to cassette albums, they certainly seemed to become far less widely available or issued in 2003, and possibly not around at all in 2004 (apart from compilations)? I find it intriguing that modern albums are being released on cassette! I wouldn't have guessed they'd hold much retro appeal, but seemingly there is a niche market for them.
August 8, 20177 yr I agree that late 2003 seemed to be the final moment for cassette singles. Their phasing out seemed to directly coincide with the widespread introduction of "2-Track & Maxi" CD formats in January 2004? (I say "widespread" because Virgin/EMI seemed responsible for starting this, as early as summer 2003! Other labels such as Universal didn't get on board with this until 2004). In regards to cassette albums, they certainly seemed to become far less widely available or issued in 2003, and possibly not around at all in 2004 (apart from compilations)? I find it intriguing that modern albums are being released on cassette! I wouldn't have guessed they'd hold much retro appeal, but seemingly there is a niche market for them. Ah yes I forgot GA had their first four singles on cassette. Thank God their label saw sense to have 'Lights Music Camera Action' on the European CD single of 'Life Got Cold'. Just interestingly as well. I was having a look on Busted's Discogs page a few weeks ago now. Whilst history records they were the last band to release a UK number one hit on cassette, it wasn't with 'Crashed the Wedding'. It was with 'Who's David' - only 100 copies were made available for pre-order so it's like the holy grail of rare releases by them! https://www.discogs.com/Busted-Whos-David/release/7871723
August 19, 20177 yr A revival? Only weeks after I got rid of all of them all (apart from Darius of course). Typical!
August 23, 20177 yr I still have hundreds of cassettes which I play in my car regularly, although I find as time goes by they start to break with increasing regularity (latest casualty was yesterday - Aerosmith's "Nine Lives" from 1997 - I was just thinking how it was 20 years old, when SNAAAPPPP) :o
August 23, 20177 yr Didn't Feeder have the number 1 vinyl with "Borders"?. My other half is a huge fan and has everything they have released, bar a few white label pressings that are far too expensive for him!. He's dragging me over to Chepstow for their homecoming gig this weekend, any excuse for a holiday!. It will be my first time seeing them and his 50th. Nice band who also are doing their bit to try and create a niche collectors market for cassettes, like the one we have right now for vinyl. He also likes Mansun and Paul Draper; he bought his album on cassette, vinyl and limited edition 3x CDs
August 26, 20177 yr You can pick up a new cassette player for around £20. Sony Walkmans seem to vary from £30 all the way in to the hundreds! Aldi stocked a Boombox last month for £25 I think it was and I wish I had got hold of one. I hope they have them on Special Buy again soon! Have you seen this boombox? Looks very retro. http://www.t3.com/news/quick-hit-a-company...-player-in-2017
September 2, 20177 yr Recent additions: Elton John - The Very Best Of (double cassette) Some rare Egyptian cassette I found in my parents' collection [it's like this, but with a different cover and possibly different artist (https://www.discogs.com/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83/release/4102393)] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: I managed to find it. It's تليفونك (Your Phone) by Jawaher. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bought from Oxfam: Oasis - Definitely Maybe :heart: Pixies - Surfer Rosa (Fun Fact: Yannis Philippakis of Foals mentioned this album as his 'modern classic' in the Q Magazine 30th Birthday Issue) REM - Automatic For The People [yellow cassette] Sonic Youth - Dirty Wham! - The Final (double cassette with long case) Grace Jones - Nightclubbing Edited September 3, 20177 yr by DalekTurret32
September 12, 20177 yr Didn't Feeder have the number 1 vinyl with "Borders"?. My other half is a huge fan and has everything they have released, bar a few white label pressings that are far too expensive for him!. He's dragging me over to Chepstow for their homecoming gig this weekend, any excuse for a holiday!. It will be my first time seeing them and his 50th. Nice band who also are doing their bit to try and create a niche collectors market for cassettes, like the one we have right now for vinyl. He also likes Mansun and Paul Draper; he bought his album on cassette, vinyl and limited edition 3x CDs Not sure about the vinyl #1, but they definitely got the year end and weekly cassette #1! I didn't make it to Chepstow, though I hear the set list was virtually the same as the ABE tour sets. I'm gonna order tickets for The Best Of tour tomorrow though, hope to hear some different tracks thrown in!
September 16, 20177 yr I haven't played a cassette tape since about 2001. I don't miss the format at all.
October 4, 20177 yr I don't think it'll grow to be a thing. Cassettes were an inferior format to other forms of recording such a vinyl. I really don't know why anyone would want to resurrect them
October 4, 20177 yr I still have 30 cassettes for albums, which don't have on CD. The most interesting are Shampoo - We Are Shampoo and Clea - Identity Crisis.
October 10, 20177 yr I used to have lots, but gave most to charity shops as I replaced them in CD. I've kept some, and quite a few cassette singles that I'd find it harder to part with. I know I should part with them, as they're boxed away...but I've got rid of some before and then regretted it. I had thought that cassette singles were a brand new thing in the 1990s - I'd never seen nor heard of them before, and then in the mid 90s, I bought some cassette singles from a car boot sale, that were from 1987. Just how far back to they go, I wonder ?
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