Which Physical Media Gives You the Most Nostalgia?

brianlux

Other Physical Media?

For me, the most nostalgic is reel-to-reel tape. When I was a kid in the mid 50's my father brought home an Ampex ree-to-reel player and played some great tapes for us. Reel-to-reel is still the most superior sound for recorded music. It's amazing.

EBowie

Cassette Tapes

Nostalgia-wise I voted for cassette tapes because of the various mix-tape stories that I can relate to so well.
But vinyl reminds me of my parents. My dad loved to spin Get-Yer-Ya-Ya's Out on what felt like a daily basis. And I remember Born In The USA spinning on the record player throughout the mid-80's.
CD's remind me of high school and when I truly developed an appreciation for great albums.
So I guess I have a fondness for all three formats but since I was born in 1980 I voted cassette.

samjam

Compact Discs

CD's for me, as a music loving child of the 90s. I'm always late to the party, too...wore out my Discman til about 2006/2007, when I finally got an iPod. Still love buying the CD for an album I'm really excited about. Still remember the excitement of buying my first PJ albums (even though that was in 08)!

quarter roy

Other Physical Media?

Wax cylinders. &)

lolobugg

Vinyl

quarter roy said:

Wax cylinders. &)

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great name too

2-feign-reluctance

Vinyl

Sony Walkman! Yes! Temple of the Dog & Ten on tape!

JodyWildman

Cassette tapes. I never listen to them now but I remember sitting between the side of the couch and the stereo listening to our town's only rock station (on AM radio) during the request show waiting to tape the songs I liked. I would sit there with my finger ready to push the record button and my ear up against the speaker trying to discern the first few notes of the song behind the DJ's voice. My brother would sit there waiting too, ready to prompt me if he thought I was going to miss a good song. We'd end up with a mix tape always with the first few bars missing but the beginning of each song after a little squeal of the tape starting and half of the last word of whatever the DJ had just said - excellent!

whispering hands

Vinyl

Wow Brian!! How lucky you were! I've only heard a reel-to-reel
Once in my life.. And yes it was amazing.

brianlux said:

For me, the most nostalgic is reel-to-reel tape. When I was a kid in the mid 50's my father brought home an Ampex ree-to-reel player and played some great tapes for us. Reel-to-reel is still the most superior sound for recorded music. It's amazing.

I actually still have that old Stones record on vinyl!! I was just listening to it as I read this!!

EBowie said:

Nostalgia-wise I voted for cassette tapes because of the various mix-tape stories that I can relate to so well.
But vinyl reminds me of my parents. My dad loved to spin Get-Yer-Ya-Ya's Out on what felt like a daily basis. And I remember Born In The USA spinning on the record player throughout the mid-80's.
CD's remind me of high school and when I truly developed an appreciation for great albums.
So I guess I have a fondness for all three formats but since I was born in 1980 I voted cassette.

brianlux

Other Physical Media?

whispering hands said:

Wow Brian!! How lucky you were! I've only heard a reel-to-reel
Once in my life.. And yes it was amazing.

brianlux said:

For me, the most nostalgic is reel-to-reel tape. When I was a kid in the mid 50's my father brought home an Ampex ree-to-reel player and played some great tapes for us. Reel-to-reel is still the most superior sound for recorded music. It's amazing.

I actually still have that old Stones record on vinyl!! I was just listening to it as I read this!!

EBowie said:

Nostalgia-wise I voted for cassette tapes because of the various mix-tape stories that I can relate to so well.
But vinyl reminds me of my parents. My dad loved to spin Get-Yer-Ya-Ya's Out on what felt like a daily basis. And I remember Born In The USA spinning on the record player throughout the mid-80's.
CD's remind me of high school and when I truly developed an appreciation for great albums.
So I guess I have a fondness for all three formats but since I was born in 1980 I voted cassette.

Despite my nostalgia of reel-to-reel (I also had a room mate in 1970 who had an awesome tape machine), vinyl is still my number one favorite, whispering hands. Everything about is so great- the analog sound, cover art, liner notes and of course, the ritual of turning the record over. :-)

2-feign-reluctance

Vinyl

My Grandpa had a reel to reel in the living room up until I was a teenager. Great sound.

lolobugg

Vinyl

Marsellus Wallace preferred reel to reel

whispering hands

Vinyl

My grandpa had an old Phono graph.. Victorola, in a box stand in the living room. It played 480 gm records, and you had to wind it up to play.. I would sit there for hours winding it and listening to Big Band records, and choirs on record! I loved it. When my Grandma died, and the estate, ( my uncle) started to portion things out, I asked if I could have it.. They said no, cause it was worth too much. It was the only thing my Grandpa would never sell on hard times. ( once he sold the family car to make ends meet, but never that Victorola). I was crushed when months later I saw it sold for 12,000 on EBay. Yes it was historic, came directly from Poland, and was a rare model.. But it was my memory they sold.. None of that other stuff mattered. Ugh..

JWPearl

Oh I really am spewin for you too, when we were kids we had a long turn table made out of wood with carved lions heads face in front of either side of the top turn table but it got old and they threw it out, but we spun heaps of records on it even chip muni style too lol

F Me In The Brain

Cassette Tapes

lolobugg said:

Marsellus Wallace preferred reel to reel

Ledbetterman10

Cassette Tapes

I still listen to CDs in my car so that disqualifies them from being nostalgic. So I gotta go with cassette tapes.

lolobugg

Vinyl

F Me In The Brain said:

lolobugg said:

Marsellus Wallace preferred reel to reel

) nice one

vaggar99

Cassette Tapes

cassette tapes. i was using these things for snowboarding right up until i got an iPod in 2003. before the iPod, the cassette walkman was the only way to go for this type of activity. these days you can't buy anything cassette related thru normal means. they disappeared before anyone even noticed

mfc2006

Vinyl

Vinyl all the way. My dad had a huge record collection & I started collecting them myself when I went to college bc it reminded me of home. The first LPs I ever bought were at an antique mall in Emporia, KS. I still play them regularly.

Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood
The Doors: Morrison Hotel
Led Zeppelin IV

The next week, I went to Wizard's cds & tapes and ordered No Code.

deadendp

Cassette Tapes

Shattered a Faith No More cassette when I dropped it in the driveway when it was -25F. (We had a bit of a cold snap.) My husband (who was my boyfriend at the time) was slightly irritated, but was a good sport about it. It only took me 18 years to own a copy again. This time, it's CD.

pjradio

Vinyl