| Fat Elvis |
06-18-2010 08:07 PM |
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Originally Posted by Bugeater
(Post 6830900)
Which brings up a point, you fuggin' kids have it too damn easy. If we wanted all the hit songs, we had to buy the crap ones too. There was none of this "oh, I just want these three songs", thanks.
And it was even worse if we just wanted one song. If we were lucky, we might find it on a 45, otherwise we had to buy the whole damn album for it. I can't even count how many times I had to do that.
And there was none of this 'click for the next track' with your remote control bullshit either, we had to get up off our asses and go over to the Hi-fi, pick up the needle, and sometimes we even had to flip the album, and try to drop the needle perfectly into the slot between songs. You maybe got it perfect 1 out of 10 times. And then other times you'd drop it too hard and your dad would start yelling at you.
And don't even get me started on your 'mix CDs'. We had to use cassette tape for compilations, and we didn't just have to throw a playlist together and click on a button to burn a disc. No sir, we had to round up all the albums we wanted to use, and one by one take them out of their sleeves and jackets and manually load them on the turntable and then run the Discwasher over them. Then you'd have to drop the needle at the end of the preceding song and rush over to hit the record button on your tape deck and get it recording before the desired song starts and then hit pause once it's over and then put it back in its sleeve and jacket.
Now get off my lawn before I fill your backside full of buckshot. :grr:
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Back in the days, chicks really appreciated a good mix tape because it was a lot of hard work. Not just recording the music either; you had to make sure the music really set a mood; the songs had to take her on an emotional journey--and you had to really time the length of the songs because the lst thing you wanted to do was have a song get cut off half way at the end of a side of tape--or just as bad, use too little space on one side of the tape. If that happened, once she flipped the tape over, she would start in the middle of the other side of the tape and the whole emotional moment you'd been crafting would be lost in an instance. Making a mix tape was definitely an art form. |
