Which Physical Media Gives You the Most Nostalgia?

Zod · November 2014

Compact Discs

I have a vinyl collection and always thought they were cool, but it was cd's that were popular when I started to have money to blow on them. It's definitely CDs for me. Cassettes were my first format but I hate those things with a passion.

PJ_Soul · November 2014

Vinyl

I could have just as easily said cassettes since that's what I went with through high school and at least half of university. But then I thought back to my younger childhood, and the hours and hours I spent spinning records in the living room - Michael Jackson, fucking Paula Abdul, Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, WHAM!, Boney M, Madonna, random shit like Rock '83, the Footloose soundtrack, lol, etc etc (a lot of other crap that a 4 - 12 year old liked in the 80s) - singing every word into a skipping rope handle and putting on a lot of "concerts" using my puppets as the band members, and with no audience at all, hahaha. :P

hedonist · November 2014

Compact Discs

PJ_Soul said:
I could have just as easily said cassettes since that's what I went with through high school and at least half of university. But then I thought back to my younger childhood, and the hours and hours I spent spinning records in the living room - Michael Jackson, fucking Paula Abdul, Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, WHAM!, Boney M, random shit like Rock '83, the Footloose soundtrack, lol, etc etc - and putting on a lot of "concerts" using my puppets as the band members, and with no audience at all, hahaha.

I used to do that with vinyls of Cher, Simon & Garfunkel, the Partridge Family and a German singer named Manuela that my dad loved.

Good times!

october22 · November 2014

Compact Discs

Cool, an even 33% split

Nami · November 2014

Compact Discs

PJ_Soul said:
I could have just as easily said cassettes since that's what I went with through high school and at least half of university. But then I thought back to my younger childhood, and the hours and hours I spent spinning records in the living room - Michael Jackson, fucking Paula Abdul, Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, WHAM!, Boney M, Madonna, random shit like Rock '83, the Footloose soundtrack, lol, etc etc (a lot of other crap that a 4 - 12 year old liked in the 80s) - singing every word into a skipping rope handle and putting on a lot of "concerts" using my puppets as the band members, and with no audience at all, hahaha. :P

Never speak ill of katy perry again....hahahahaha

PJ_Soul · November 2014

Vinyl

I have never spoken ill of Katy Perry anyway! She seems like a nice enough person to me.

Nami · November 2014

Compact Discs

PJ_Soul said:
I have never spoken ill of Katy Perry anyway! She seems like a nice enough person to me.

i guess ive been told Straight up hehehe

Suziemay · November 2014

Cassette Tapes

ldent42 said:

Suziemay said:
Cassette tapes. I always had a blank tape in my boom box (which was right by my head on my bed) ready to record anything interesting that came on the radio. I also made mix tapes, lots of mix tapes. If I gave you a mix tape, it meant that I liked you and wanted to be your friend

Oh, and the moment when you realize your favourite tape just got all tangled up (gasp).

Kinda bummed that in one of my decluttering phases, I donated my prized Sony Walkman that I was so proud of at the time :(
I can't pick just one of the options but Suziemay summed up EVERYTHING I would say about Cassettes, right down to the donated Sony Walkman!!! I do still have a couple Christmas cassettes that somehow survived.

One day when I'm rich, I'm going to take all the stuff I did save and put it on display like a museum. I do miss that walkman.

I don't have my first disman either - but I do have it's two successors - one that was the first one to play MP3s written as data on a cd! and one with a radio! I've got a bunch of Atari and Sega Genesis games too. I only kept a handful of CDs, all of them are friends' bands except two - a Sublime cd that must have belonged to someone else that I meant to return it to or else I wouldn't still have it, and the Avocado cd that I was forced to buy to get concert tickets. I sold my cd collection many years ago, and I will admit, I don't miss it.

Eight track and Vinyl all belonged to my parents. And I'm pretty sure they are all still around. Fun Fact: I thought eight track tapes were called a track tapes until like a year ago. :-bd

I still do have some of my favourite cassettes (had the presence of mind not to throw those out), but nothing to play it with. I think I figured I would just buy another but at this point, I think they are in danger of being obsolete!

Very surprised that CDs are ahead right now. I was so sure it would be tight race between cassettes and vinyl.

lolobugg · November 2014

Vinyl

cassettes are the new vinyl.....
I am getting ready to make a killing on Ebay.
anyone looking for a MC Hammer album???

Nami · November 2014

Compact Discs

lolobugg said:
cassettes are the new vinyl.....
I am getting ready to make a killing on Ebay.
anyone looking for a MC Hammer album???

Hammer dont hurt em?

ldent42 · November 2014

I have a big awia stereo with a 3 CD changer and a dual tape deck that I refuse to throw away.

Zod · November 2014

Compact Discs

Suziemay said:

Very surprised that CDs are ahead right now. I was so sure it would be tight race between cassettes and vinyl.

I'm not too surprised. All of us are around that age group that we probably started buying music around the time cd's rocketed to popularity.

If you think about it people abandoned both Cassettes and VHS tapes when the optical disc formats came out. Cassettes have no real advantage. The sound quality gets worse the more time they are played. They get chewed up. You can't easily find and play song (even with records you can count the grooves and drop the needle in the right spot. I like Vinyl because my parents had some vinyl around the house.. so when I was older I thought it was cool and started buying my own, but it's CD's they were huge and prevalent in the early years I had any income to buy music. I would guess that I have over 400 cds. My vinyl Collection is probably under 200. I have one cassette which is the one in the 10c deluxe ten boxset.

coery · November 2014

Cassette Tapes

My first music was vinyl played on my little lady bug record player. I distinctly remember Bob Seger and Steve Martin's King Tut.

I also have fond memories of 8-track in our station wagon. My mom and I would sift through the bin at the store to find good ones. The Grease soundtrack was my favorite to sing along with in the car.

But as far was what I have the most nostalgia for, I would say cassettes. I joined the Columbia Record and Tape Club when I was about 9 and used any extra money I had to buy more tapes. Like was said above, making mix tapes was a labor of love. Hanging out by the stereo in order to record a song you loved off the radio. I remember sticking by the radio with my boyfriend (now husband) back in the day and recording some sort of live Pearl Jam broadcast. I'm not even sure what it was anymore. I still hold onto cassettes that are the most important to me and am slowly but surely transferring them to digital to hopefully keep them as long as possible.

Great question, by the way. I'm enjoying reading these responses!

wall232 · November 2014

Cassette Tapes

I still own most of my cassettes, has to be close to 300. My wife has wanted me to throw them away for years now but I just can't bring myself to do it. I still like to throw on my Maiden "Live after Death" tape once in a while and take a walk down memory lane.

hedonist · November 2014

Compact Discs

coery said:
My first music was vinyl played on my little lady bug record player. I distinctly remember Bob Seger and Steve Martin's King Tut.

I also have fond memories of 8-track in our station wagon. My mom and I would sift through the bin at the store to find good ones. The Grease soundtrack was my favorite to sing along with in the car.

But as far was what I have the most nostalgia for, I would say cassettes. I joined the Columbia Record and Tape Club when I was about 9 and used any extra money I had to buy more tapes. Like was said above, making mix tapes was a labor of love. Hanging out by the stereo in order to record a song you loved off the radio. I remember sticking by the radio with my boyfriend (now husband) back in the day and recording some sort of live Pearl Jam broadcast. I'm not even sure what it was anymore. I still hold onto cassettes that are the most important to me and am slowly but surely transferring them to digital to hopefully keep them as long as possible.

Great question, by the way. I'm enjoying reading these responses!

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Columbia! I remember poring over the options in their brochure, filling out the forms, MAILING them. How times have changed.

And I agree with your last point! All of this nostalgia has made me...nostalgic

whispering hands · November 2014

Vinyl

I can remember saving for weeks to buy a record!! And when I would get the one I was saving for, then I'd go to the record store, and daydream about the next one.. Save, but, daydream, save. Until I decided that I wanted a horse more than a record.. Saved for three years for that!! I remember my Dad had decided Cassettes were the in thing and he sold the record player while I was at my Mother's for the weekend.. I got home and she's given me Pink Floyd'sDark Side of the Moon, and The Door's Morison Hotel for some reason, and I got there, and there was no turn table! I was crushed! I had to go to my best friend's house to play all my recorded after that!

bluegrace · November 2014

Cassette Tapes

I agree, it's so fun reading all the answers in here. Good thread.

I do have fond memories of playing vinyl too, and me too saved up to get the record I wanted. I still remember the first album I got with my own money, it was a Swedish band and I never listen to it now, but I was happy about it then.

SD48277 · November 2014

Cassette Tapes

Ten years ago I probably would have said vinyl, but with the vinyl revival I lean more towards cassette tapes these days. I still have a bunch of cassettes--most of them are mix tapes (how fun where they to get and give) and bootlegs. Every once in a while I'll pop one in to listen, careful not to listen too many times or else it will break. I must have gone through 5 copies of Ten when it first came out before I broke down and bought it on CD.

As for other media: these past few days I've had a weird nostalgia for music videos. Anyone else miss them?

lolobugg · November 2014

Vinyl

coery said:
My first music was vinyl played on my little lady bug record player. I distinctly remember Bob Seger and Steve Martin's King Tut.

I also have fond memories of 8-track in our station wagon. My mom and I would sift through the bin at the store to find good ones. The Grease soundtrack was my favorite to sing along with in the car.

But as far was what I have the most nostalgia for, I would say cassettes. I joined the Columbia Record and Tape Club when I was about 9 and used any extra money I had to buy more tapes. Like was said above, making mix tapes was a labor of love. Hanging out by the stereo in order to record a song you loved off the radio. I remember sticking by the radio with my boyfriend (now husband) back in the day and recording some sort of live Pearl Jam broadcast. I'm not even sure what it was anymore. I still hold onto cassettes that are the most important to me and am slowly but surely transferring them to digital to hopefully keep them as long as possible.

Great question, by the way. I'm enjoying reading these responses!

I recorded the Easter Sunday broadcast from the Fox Theater in Atlanta. I remember it was unedited and Ed did a DJ stint afterward. The station that broadcast it was a great radio station based out of Panama City, Florida. Total AOR/ non-singles format. They played "Against the 70's" and all kinds of cool stuff you would NEVER hear on the radio now. unfortunately they went off the air shortly after the PJ broadcast. I can't confirm this but I think the FCC fined the living shit out of them for the PJ broadcast. Ed was cursing like a sailor.

dmaradona10 · November 2014

Compact Discs

SD48277 said:
Ten years ago I probably would have said vinyl, but with the vinyl revival I lean more towards cassette tapes these days. I still have a bunch of cassettes--most of them are mix tapes (how fun where they to get and give) and bootlegs. Every once in a while I'll pop one in to listen, careful not to listen too many times or else it will break. I must have gone through 5 copies of Ten when it first came out before I broke down and bought it on CD.

As for other media: these past few days I've had a weird nostalgia for music videos. Anyone else miss them?

Big time, a while back when videos were popping up on the internet I ran into Nirvana's Sliver with the dancing baby and Cobain wearing the Kruger sweater...just brought back memories of watching Mtv and Vh1 late at night.
Glad that most music videos are available at the click of a button.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QECJ9pCyhns

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