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I rarely bought cassettes, although, Garry, the Bob Marley B side sounds like a great find!

The oldest cassette I could find in my possession was Peter Gabriel's first album. It's a bit chewed up in parts. That's why I never liked cassettes - it only took your player to throw a wobbly and your tunes were trashed!

How many times did you see crinkly tapes strewn across the road where completely peed off people had just thrown them out of the car window?!

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

It was a great find!

I used to see tapes strewn across roads everywhere. I once considered collecting them with the intention of splicing them together just to hear what you could end up with - but you rarely see 'road tapes' these days!

Yeah, it's scratched CD's on the side of the road now, all peeling and looking very sorry for themselves!!

*hehehe*

that's how time & technology changes ! ;-)

anyway ... i've started with tapes / cassettes ( jus' like garry ) in the mid-70s & continued to use them until sometime in the mid-90s , when it was still the best & cheapest way to - erm - copy music & swap it with friends & colleagues ! ;-)
i not only bought blank tapes to record onto , but also cassette albums & even some cassette singles ( by depeche mode - for example ) , as i didn't had my own turntable / record player before the end of 1983 - the year music completely changed my life forever ! :-)
since that time i gave up on buying cassette albums & completely switched to vinyl until the early 90s , when i finally decided to buy my 1st cds !
nowadays i try to get albums on vinyl , if still possible or maybe jus' download them , as i really DON'T like the cd format for many reasons !

btw : my all-time favorite format will always be the 10" vinyl ( ep ) , as it's jus' perfect - imho , of course ! ;-)

this brings me to the question : has john foxx ever officially released anything on 10" vinyl back then ?

Originally posted by RadioBeach:


Extra tracks - Side B:

A Woman on a Stairway

Which means, I think, that this would have been a completely new song, otherwise unavailable at the time ??

All I can tell you is that it sounds, musically, very similar to 'Dance With Me' - perhaps that's why this tracklisting of 'The Golden Section' works for me; because each side is book-ended by songs similar to each other.

'A Woman On A Stairway' was available - it's one of the songs on the double 7 inch 'Your Dress'.

I have the first three albums on cassette. I have a similar "problem" to Garry in that The Golden Section sounds incomplete without the extra tracks.

CD, as a format, was beyond my financial reach at my age so I have quite a few cassettes from the eighties and early nineties. I always found (and still find) vinyl somewhat annoying, it was always a matter of taping compilations of B sides from 7"/12" singles as soon as I acquired them, and it would always be a battle between me and the needle - would it jump and completely ruin the track? Still, there was something to be said for watching vinyl revolve.

I also found the designs of some cassette inlays to be preferable to their CD/vinyl counterparts. There is something aesthetically pleasing to me about the tall rectangle instead of the bland square. Plus, the reduction in size of the image often seemed to focus the colours more.

Or am I just being nostalgic?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fredrik:
'A Woman On A Stairway' was available - it's one of the songs on the double 7 inch 'Your Dress'.

Oops - I thought that came out AFTER the album.
Beggin' your pardon

As an afterthought.

One of my friends runs the Oxfam music shop here in Southampton. She has observed a recent upward trend in cassette-version sales, which has now created a demand for such things.
Apparently Madonna and Kylie material on cassette is highly sought after among young people.

But what do they know?