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[Vixen Eyes]

Welcome to The Cassettes Thread!

A general discussion thread for Cassette tapes (or really any other audio tape format)!

 

 

 

 

Popular sites to buy Cassettes online:

Discogs

Ebay

Urban Outfitters

 

 

 

here's the list of Cassettes i have in my posession! (anything in re3d have been ordered online and am waiting for their arrival)

Spoiler

1979-01-01	Pat Benatar	In the Heat of the Night	FR	ZCHR 1236
1981-01-01	Pat Benatar	Precious Time	FR	ZCHR 1346
1983-01-01	Moody Blues, The	The Present	US	TCR4-1-2902
1985-01-01	Eartha Kitt	That Bad Eartha	UK/EU	NK 89439
1985-04-29	Queen (Freddie Mercury)	Mr. Bad Guy	EU	40-86312
1988-01-01	Helloween	Keeper of the Keys Part II	DE	N 0117-2
1989-01-01	Liza Minnelli	Results	US	OET45098
1989-01-01	Stevie Nicks	The Other Side of the Mirror	US	91245-4
1991-01-01	Moody Blues, The	Keys of the Kingdom	US	849 433-4
1991-01-01	Cher	Love Hurts	EU	GEC 24427
1992-01-01	Freddie Mercury	The Great Pretender	US	HR-61402-4
1994-07-26	Rolling Stones, The	Sticky Fingers	US	7243-8-39525-4-0
1998-09-29	Various	Miracle On 34th Street	US, Remastered	4158
2016-07-15	Cane Hill	Smile	US	RISE 324-3
2020-04-01	Kaatayra	Só Quem Viu O Relâmpago À Sua Direita Sabe	BR	n/a
2020-06-05	Mattachine	Isolation As A Form Of Torture	US/CA, Pink Triangle	ZBR 204
2020-12-04	Belted Sweater	I'm ******* Delightful	US	LDA-016
2021-01-01	N.	Exhausted	US	n/a
2021-03-19	Bastard Noise	The Skull Scriptures	US	n/a
2021-07-30	Billie Eilish	Happier Than Ever	WW	B0033922-04
2021-10-01	Altered States	Dark Crossroads	US	n/a
2022-01-01	Terminal Nation	Holocene Extinction	WW	SPIN131
2022-01-01	Jay Randall & Scum	Nails Into The Skull	US	n/a
2022-01-01	Edley ODowd	F[our]-Ward	US	n/a
2022-07-22	Misery Engine / XLV	Misery Engine / XLV	US	n/a
2022-10-07	SKUUL	The Status Of Machines	US	n/a
2023-01-01	Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Ray)	Lana Del Ray	WW	n/a
2023-01-01	Body Plan	Neuroperverse	US	n/a
2023-01-01	Maligna Cerebra	Bloodletting Rituals	US	n/a
2023-02-03	Belted Sweater	Health Goth	US	LDA-025
2023-03-10	Toothpuller	Shoplifting Part II	WW	n/a
2023-08-25	Asking Alexandria	Where Do We Go From Here?	US	BNM-538-4
2023-09-08	Laufey	Bewitched	WW	n/a
2023-10-06	Naraka	Symphony of Hell	WW	n/a
2024-01-01	Chappell Roan	The Midwest Princess Demos	EU	n/a
2024-01-01	Chappell Roan	Live at Lollapalooza	EU	n/a
2024-01-01	Exclusion Zone	Black Rain	US	n/a
2024-03-01	****** Front / Gay Death / Straight Panic	Proud Boys	WW	n/a
2024-09-13	Funeral Portrait, The	Greetings From Suffocate City	WW	BNM-739-4
n/a	Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits	US	JCT 00220
n/a	Lana Del Rey (May Jailer)	Sirens	WW	n/a

 

Edited October 20 by Vixen Eyes

[idkwiam]

It probably has been like 15 years since I last listened to music with cassettes. Maybe I should buy some cassettes to remember the old times

[SoldierofLove]

17 minutes ago, Vixen Eyes said:

bought a few mint sealed Cassettes originally released in 1989 and 1992 and the two 1989 releases look to be in some point of degradation. the tapes are turning white/grey. and the sound comes in and out at parts

That's very interesting. 

[makeawish]

i have a couple of tape players i keep running, a hifi one i got for about 60 quid a couple of years back and a walkman i've had sat about since about 2009 that i got just before they stopped making them.

 

i have a bunch of old tapes (some i owned, some donated to me by people chucking stuff out.  my take is that 90s tapes either sound great or they go wobbly and unplayable, not much inbetween. 70s/80s tapes are often bad, esp 70s tapes which leave brown gunk all over yr tape heads.

 

new tapes are also not very good, i'll buy one every so often if i see them very cheap but they're mainly just for the collectors market and some are absolutely dire, last one i got was rina 'hold the girl' which if i play it on headphones you can hear a little click in the quiet bits everytime the wheels go around (cost me two quid but is indicative of quality in general)

 

i like to play them tho! i got the first tate mcrae album on tape for £4 earlier this year and it greatly increased my appreciation of the album!

[Vixen Eyes]

15 minutes ago, SoldierofLove said:

That's very interesting. 

turns out, despite the white stuff, its not the tapes. i just had to replace the batteries in my portable player and they play fine.

[Vixen Eyes]

23 minutes ago, makeawish said:

i have a couple of tape players i keep running, a hifi one i got for about 60 quid a couple of years back and a walkman i've had sat about since about 2009 that i got just before they stopped making them.

 

i have a bunch of old tapes (some i owned, some donated to me by people chucking stuff out.  my take is that 90s tapes either sound great or they go wobbly and unplayable, not much inbetween. 70s/80s tapes are often bad, esp 70s tapes which leave brown gunk all over yr tape heads.

 

new tapes are also not very good, i'll buy one every so often if i see them very cheap but they're mainly just for the collectors market and some are absolutely dire, last one i got was rina 'hold the girl' which if i play it on headphones you can hear a little click in the quiet bits everytime the wheels go around (cost me two quid but is indicative of quality in general)

 

i like to play them tho! i got the first tate mcrae album on tape for £4 earlier this year and it greatly increased my appreciation of the album!

i have a 1985 copy of Freddie's solo album and it sounds absolutely fantastic!

https://www.discogs.com/release/8013903-Freddie-Mercury-Mr-Bad-Guy

 

and ive bought a few new albums too, im right now listening to this album and i have to say it sounds amazing too. it sounds just like my CD copy.

https://www.discogs.com/release/9608177-Cane-Hill-Smile-

[RT Air]

What a great idea for a thread

I have to say I haven't listened to music on cassette in about 15 years (I haven't had a player since) but it's the format that made me a fan of physical releases so I'll always have a soft spot for them, and seeing them making a comeback fills me with joy. I usually still pick up cassettes formats of albums I really want to support.

[SoldierofLove]

30 minutes ago, Vixen Eyes said:

turns out, despite the white stuff, its not the tapes. i just had to replace the batteries in my portable player and they play fine.

Sis 
 

So there was no degradation? They're perfectly fine after all these years? 

[makeawish]

18 minutes ago, Vixen Eyes said:

i have a 1985 copy of Freddie's solo album and it sounds absolutely fantastic!

https://www.discogs.com/release/8013903-Freddie-Mercury-Mr-Bad-Guy

 

and ive bought a few new albums too, im right now listening to this album and i have to say it sounds amazing too. it sounds just like my CD copy.

https://www.discogs.com/release/9608177-Cane-Hill-Smile-

it's variable but they definitely get ropier the further you go back. i've got a few really good 90s ones tho, reissues of joni mitchell blue and the beatles revolver, and orbital in sides are really good, haven't deteriorated at all.

 

re new tapes, some are def better than others but the best i've found (the aforementioned tate tape, the last florence and the machine album) were very listenable but weren't really cd quality, they have funny little patches of distortion in them. otoh some have just sucked, i got wednesday "twin plagues" and it sounded genuinely horrible

[Vixen Eyes]

13 minutes ago, SoldierofLove said:

Sis 
 

So there was no degradation? They're perfectly fine after all these years? 

i didnt know whether it was degradation or just mold lol

 

 

another perfect almost true-to-digital sounding cassette is Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (i have the grey version)! Oxytocin is so beautiful in this format.

[nostalgic]

I've been wanting to start a little cassette collection and even make my own customs but I always end up busy with something else  maybe this will motivate me to finally purchase that Indonesian copy of GGGB

[Vixen Eyes]

13 minutes ago, nostalgic said:

I've been wanting to start a little cassette collection and even make my own customs but I always end up busy with something else  maybe this will motivate me to finally purchase that Indonesian copy of GGGB

i didnt know there were any Rih cassettes!! im looking on discogs now