Were they really THAT long ago?

Posted by DeezDoughsNyou@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 33 comments

My son found these in my office. I had to open the case and show him the tape to explain how they worked. And the importance of carrying a pencil to rewind so as to preserve your Walkman batteries.

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DeezDoughsNyou@reddit (OP)

Just wait until he finds my parent’s 8-tracks!

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BasketBackground5569@reddit

Reminds me of the time I bought a used CD of Astro Creep, opened it and it was fully autographed.

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Triggered-cupcake@reddit

Someone said they heard Crazy Train in a store today so I pointed out that would be like being in a store in 1980 (when crazy train came out) and hearing a song from 1935 playing. 😭😭😭

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I worked in a restaurant for a while where we played pandora. My boss would bitch me out for putting on the 90s station because it was too "edgy". I had to point out to her that this music came out 30 years ago. If that's edgy, Idk how this woman is walking around the world without a complete meltdown. I don't miss her.

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Habaneroe12@reddit

I heard Joan Jett on a “golden oldies” FM station on Texas lol

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daddyjohns@reddit

I don't understand the nostalgia for tapes.

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LazyOldCat@reddit

I’ve got an old high end deck I plugged into the system to check out some old tapes. Good lord they sounded awful 😅

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DeezDoughsNyou@reddit (OP)

Not sure there is any. I don’t even have a cassette player. Just a few trinkets amongst some surviving keepsakes from yesteryear. But my teenagers do like listening to my records and CDs.

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RCA1968@reddit

The Outfield!!!

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cerealandcorgies@reddit

they originally called themselves "the baseball boys"

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Viperlite@reddit

I still have that Outfield tape in the same cassette case I used to keep in my car, in which I played it to the point of wearing it out.

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RCA1968@reddit

I’ve been through 2 cassettes a CD and now digital of this album.

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practicalm@reddit

A British band with no idea about baseball was what I heard years ago. Still good music though.

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met22land@reddit

Thank you! I was wondering what that one was.

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GandolfMagicFruits@reddit

Say it isn't so!

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Traditional_Crew6617@reddit

I was in Jr High

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piranhamode@reddit

As a young adult I played tapes in my Walkman quite often and was very poor but never considered using a pencil to rewind tapes to conserve battery power

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DeezDoughsNyou@reddit (OP)

Oh that’s too bad. It was a good way to save a few bucks. Not to mention I wasn’t walking around with spare batteries on me as a kid.

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fusionsofwonder@reddit

If they shot Back to the Future today, those tapes would still be old.

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No_Amoeba_9272@reddit

Lies is a great album. Or was it an EP?

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BoboliBurt@reddit

GNR Lies was like 30 minutes, no?

Live Under the Blood Red Sky was short as shit too. I used to think that was the whole concert- I was just a kid- although once I saw rhe VHS from library, I realised they decided to make tape that short for some reaso

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wophi@reddit

2 EPs.

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dustymag@reddit

One In a Million is a bit spicy. Fun production for an acoustic rock EP though.

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Hey-buuuddy@reddit

Lol yes. There’s a few moments on this that would not fly today.

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VastUpset@reddit

I had two of the four….U2 and GnR

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regeya@reddit

Yeah it was that long ago, because while streaming may have killed CDs, CDs killed cassettes and LPs. A cheap portable CD player can and will outperform a midrange turntable and the mass produced cassettes were mostly there because you couldn't take a record on the road with you.

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