50 years of the cassette

thathurt

ITunes own your soul you will not be allowed to die.

Jeronimooo · Post edited by Jeronimooo at 2013-11-23 18:38:02

Whickwithy said:
I have only found two artists in sixty years that were consistently worth more than two or three per album.

Again an old thread, Whick. But I am really curious: who are these two artists?
I can only name one...

Whickwithy

Sade is the other. I can listen to just about anything Goldfrapp or Sade play at just about any time. I'm starting to wonder about Bliss, but it's hard to track down much of Bliss in the U.S., so I'm mostly working off of Youtube and I just don't have the patience.

Jeronimooo

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Yeah, Goldfrapp. That wasn´t the artist I meant, to be honest....
Was thinking more of Bowie.

cw37frapp

Eh talking of Cassettes, A few weeks ago i bought a old Shakin Stevens one from the RSPCA shop in Wigan. That and a Taja Sevelle one are the only 2 cassettes i own now.

Pet

I never got into listening to music on cassette. If they're really 50 years old, I must have been 17 when they were invented. At that time, I listened to vinyl. Eventually, I skipped straight from vinyl to CD, missing out cassettes... Mind, I don't remember friends having cassettes in my teens. I knew a couple of people who used reel to reel tape recorders, but those obviously required a delicacy of touch I didn't possess (in order to avoid touching the surface of the tape, and to splice tapes together when they snapped).

Pet

When I was little, my family owned a wind-up gramophone that played 78s. Looking back, the transition from that to vinyl seems a bigger step than any subsequent one. It took us from purely mechanical/acoustic recording and reproduction to reliance on electricity. I'm not sure that was a good thing. Of course, a 78 had room for only a single song on each side. (Something like a symphony required a stack of 78s.) The word 'album', in its musical sense, comes from the fact that people used to have albums (in a similar sense to that of photograph albums) in which a small collection of 78s could be stored. An album was once genuinely an album.

Pet

Vinyl microgroove recordings were first marketed, I believe, in 1948 (when I was 2 years old). But, in those days, stuff was built to last, money was short for most people, and nobody I knew rushed to buy the latest gadgets. I think that I first heard music from a vinyl record player in the late 50s (I'm guessing 1958). It was maybe around 1962 that my brother bought a vinyl record player, bringing the thing into my family's home for the first time.

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