I am sure that many of us here were avid NME readers back in the 70s and 80s. Who remembers those tapes that they occasionally used to produce?
There is a site dedicated to them here that is an absolute nostalgia mine.
I’ve been looking through them and there are loads of tapes that I actually owned on there. Great memories.
I got em last week (gotta love twitter) & could drop if ppl prefer
I’ve acquired four so far, lots more to peruse and pick.
Memories of a crappy student bedsit in Exeter and tapes getting chewed in a WHSmiths original “portable” cassette player! Probably used bic biros more for winding tapes back onto spools than ever I ever did for writing essays! Fond memories. Thanks for bringing them back Carole. Can’t remember which ones I enjoyed most. Will have to investigate.
My youngest brother is the early adopter of technology in the family, and in 1984 he had a new-fangled Sony Walkman. I was aged 22, back at the family home having been poorly for a month, and one evening in November I was diagnosed with my diabetes. As I left for hospital, he rushed to the door with his precious Walkman and The Chess Checkmate. Those songs have been on dozens of compilations since then, but the pleasure of shutting out the world of hospital for an hour with those tunes fresh and new to me !
I missed all this but used to make mix tapes of my own, some years previously. Still have many of them and still play ‘em. Bought a device that allows you to download / transfer to computer / mp3 which, if I ever get around to, I will do and share some day. Stupidly got a job just when I was beginning o resort to doing that kind of thing …
Got a job? Happy for you Ali. That is good news!
Indeedy. Also recall this, from a certain A B Hooky:
http://thespillblog.co.uk/2010/11/10/low-lights-trick-mirrors/
I’ve still got cassette tapes of “The World At One” , “Sgt Pepper Knew My Father”, “Mixed Peel”, “The Tape With No Name”, “Straight, No Chaser”, “I Dreamt I Was Elvis” and “Tape Worm”.
None of these has been played in years so I shall spend a bit of time revisiting them to see if they’re still playable. Fingers crossed.
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