October 10, 20177 yr According to Wiki... "Bow Wow Wow's "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go" was the first cassette single, released in the U.K. in 1980"
October 11, 20177 yr ^^ oh my word, 1980 ?? And here was I thinking my '87 finds were one of the first. Not even close :blush: 1980, that's mad. Thanks for looking it up.
October 13, 20177 yr According to Wiki... "Bow Wow Wow's "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go" was the first cassette single, released in the U.K. in 1980" They also have Your Cassette Pet on yellow casette. Might want to order that from Discogs after I equip a card.
October 13, 20177 yr Recent purchases (from Oxfam shops): Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Tom Waits - Mule Variations (European pressing) The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (Rough Trade issue) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1993 reissue) The Smiths - The World Won't Listen (1993 reissue) The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (Rough Trade issue) Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady Pulp - His 'n' Hers UPDATE: I doubled checked the Tom Waits cassette on the Discogs database. It wasn't a Polish pressing after all. Edited November 21, 20177 yr by DalekTurret32
October 22, 20177 yr Used to have about 100-125 cassettes at one point, but now have maybe 20, between both meself and mum...had a wide range, too, including ABBA, Big Country, Cheap Trick, Gordon Lightfoot, Jethro Tull, U2 and ZZ Top...now am down to about 6-7 Enya cassettes and a couple others. I'd have to go look to see what mum has. I also had a bunch of classical music and madrigal singers cassettes as well.... EDIT: I used to have a couple of different cassette players, but over the years sold them off in garage sales/jumbles....ja friend of mine has a contraption at home that he uses to swap vinyl and cassettes to cd and has a lot of those vinyl/cassettes on mp3/mp4 players as well as the cd format... Edited October 22, 20177 yr by bigwiglaf
November 21, 20177 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...in-2017__21025/ Guardians Of The Galaxy - Awesome Mix Volume 2 is the best selling cassette of the year. I had a few chances to get LCD Soundsystem's American Dream on cassette. I kept saving it for later but by the time I was making the ultimate decision of getting it, my record store already sold out :(. I used the £10 I was going to spent on the cassette on a Breeders 7" and a Sugar cassette instead.
December 8, 20177 yr Don't have many cassette's but i remember them. Have this. Seal II and Fly Like An Eagle (Space Jam) Think i have Smiths singles as well ? My brother had Hatful Of Hollow on this format. An old The Damned tape with Eloise on it Edited December 8, 20177 yr by lovejoy
February 25, 20187 yr Added to my cassette collection: The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow (1986 Rough Trade reissue) The Levellers - Zeitgeist Oasis - Be Here Now
April 9, 20187 yr Recently got: The Land Girls - I Hope Somebody Sees Me (orange cassette single) REM - Reckoning (cream cassette, at least that's what I thought it looked like)
April 9, 20187 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 ? They started to get more common around 1986/87. I remember buying things like Frankie's Warriors of The Wasteland, Westworld's Where The Action Is and a couple of Mantronix singles. At that time the track listings tended to mirror the 12" release. By 1989 it was becoming fairly common to find cassette versions of most releases.
April 19, 20187 yr Managed to get four cassettes from a charity shop for 25p each. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads (German pressing) Deep Forest - Deep Forest (Dutch pressing) George Benson - Exclusive Benson Sting With Eric Clapton - It's Probably Me (From 'Lethal Weapon 3') [cassette single]
April 21, 20187 yr Just added AC/DC - Back In Black to my collection thanks to Record Store Day. And waiting for a signed copy of the new Chas & Dave album...
May 20, 20187 yr Bought a special edition cassette of ABBA's Gold Greatest Hits (1999 reissue with the members' signatures embossed in gold to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ABBA winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 for Sweden with "Waterloo") from an Oxfam shop for 99p along with a cassete of The Cranberries' No Need To Argue.
May 20, 20187 yr I bought a fair number of cassettes back in the 80s and early 90s. However, the absolute best things about tapes were that they were so much cheaper for bands to self-produce for sale at gigs and therefore I have a significant collection of releases by obscure/upcoming bands with tracks unavailable elsewhere or eventually released in radically different versions. The 2nd things that was brilliant was going to see a band live and taking your trusty tape recorder with you to record that live show. OK so the quality wasn't perfect but 30 years later and computer software has caught up enough that with the right skills they can at best sound almost like a professional release, and at worst are a historical document of an otherwise forgotten event
June 3, 20187 yr Rick Astley's new album will be available on cassette through the official store. Signed CDs also available.....
June 6, 20187 yr Rick Astley's new album will be available on cassette through the official store. Signed CDs also available..... Lord Rickroll's back! YAY! I remember a 2016 episode of Gogglebox where one of the people payed lots of money for a Rick Astley signed CD
July 14, 20186 yr Got Rick's album in the post this morning! And next week I'll be getting Now 1, To coincide with the CD release of Now 100 they're re-issuing the original album on CD, vinyl and cassette, though the latter only seems to be available through HMV! Edited July 14, 20186 yr by Shaky Fan
July 14, 20186 yr HMV's cassette store... https://store.hmv.com/music/cassette-tapes The ones that interest me the most: Now That's What I Call Music! Both Guardians Of The Galaxy albums The Force Awakens OST Rick And Morty Soundtrack NWA - Straight Outta Compton Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
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