i have all mine but my tape player just broke! like just about a month ago ;_;
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think I used to "rap" ice ice baby on the school bus in middle school. Perhaps I was famous for it among my peers.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
I really wish I'd at least have written down the track lists somewhere. My tastes were fairly indiscriminate back then (I was in middle school) -- Europop jams next to power ballads.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_That_Care
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
I only had a couple of tapes of the radio like those, made in the late 80s, one labelled "A" and one labelled "B". I think they may still exist somewhere. If I ever have a house or whatever I'm going to get all the shit out my mother's basement and have a party.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Taped stuff off the radio by pushing one of these against the speakers
http://www.arsenalamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cassette-Player.jpg
waiting for the DJ to play the song I'd called in and requested.
My dad had a fancy stereo set up with components and shit, so the tape deck was connected to the radio and I used to do this thing where'd I'd tape stuff off the radio, bits of songs and ads and DJ patter and then go back and listen to it to see if it sounded like anything interesting. The only two things I remember about the results are taping "She's a brick... house... house... house" and liking that, and the across the highway neighbor swearing that she once managed to splice together the phrase "synchronize your baby in a Hersey's candy bar," but I think she was lying.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
if there was a problem, yo -- carl solved it
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
I taped the radio using something very much like this:
http://www.pennpollyvintage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/yellow-boombox-sony-cfm-104.jpg
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Also I used to make DJ tapes of me playing all of these old 45s (and some 33s) that my parents had from their childhood and teenage years and improvising DJ chatter in between. I was in third grade or so, so I think I'm far enough removed to really want to hear that again.
Also I graduated from high school in 1990 and you are making me feel old.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Oh lord, I just got a memory of walking home from elementary school or maybe junior high? listening to radio tapes on my off-brand Walkman that was the size of a freaking brick. I distinctly remember Robert Plant's solo stuff being on one of these tapes.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
I only had a couple of tapes of the radio like those, made in the late 80s, one labelled "A" and one labelled "B".
My first tape was labelled A/B, after the two sides. Subsequent tapes were C/D, E/F, G/H, and so on. The last one was something like CC/DD.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
BIG LOG
This is not the first time we've talked about Robert Plant's BIG LOG on Chicago ILX, I don't think. I also think I instigated it the last time. SORRY GUYS I just love Robert Plant's BIG LOG.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
As pictured here.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
I was actually unaware that bob plant had a song called "big log". Is it about his wang or his poop?
xp I guess that answers my question
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think it's about either, actually. (it's a pretty good song though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQL22xOmUM
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
My love is in league with the freewayIt's passion will ride, as the cities fly byAnd the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of nightAnd the questions in thousands take flightMy love is the miles and the waitingThe eyes that just stare, and a glance at the clockAnd the secret that burns, and the pain that won't stopAnd it's fuel is the yearsLeading me onLeading me down the roadDriving me on, driving me down the roadMy love is exceeding the limitRed-eyed and fevered with the hum of the milesDistance and longing, my thoughts do collideShould I rest for a while, on the sideYour love is cradled in knowingEyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll comeSensing to well, when the journey is doneThere is no turning back, no There is no turning back, on the run.My love is in league with the freewayOh, the freeway, and the coming of night-time My love,My love, Is in league with the freeway.
Nothing about wangs or poop.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
where's the big log?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
is that robert plant's chat log?
if so, he is v romantic!
I linked it on the word "here" rather than post it in line. It's SFW but maybe not something somebody would want to see real big on their computer.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to try hard to incorporate Vanilla Ice into my long run on Saturday.
― Jeff, Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
A good character would be someone who remembers Vanilla Ice but only for his cover of "Play That Funky Music."
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
haha i thought that was an eazy post til i read it again
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Haha.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
What it's likeHavin' a roni
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 10 August 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
one time it came on and i taped over the tape of songs i taped from the local "modern rock" station, so what i wound up listening to for years whenever i felt like listening to that tape was "stone cold yesterday" (lol) interrupted by about 2/3 of ice ice baby, and then (i think) "beach bump" by baby ford.
These accidental medleys were the best! I had a few that I listened to long after I bought the albums on CD. The one I remember ATM is Japanese Whispers where 'Lovecats" ("ooohhh Lovecats! [glissando on piano]") ended and Swans' droning "Money is Flesh" came on really loud a little before the YOU DESERVE IT, YOU DESERVE IT, YOU DESERVE IT part.
I thought Vanilla Ice was saying A1A Detroit Avenue, but that was incorrect. Beachfront.
― Je55e, Friday, 10 August 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else have the afternoon/day off? i was thinking of going to see killer joe.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
cool - i just logged into chipublib to see if they had the new david eggers book for kindle and they had four copies with no one in line - i guess i searched just when they added them to the system. anyways if anyone else wants to read it there should still be a few "copies" available if you hurry up
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
I have the afternoon off, but I'm using it to drive to Michigan.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Also I never taped anything off the radio, because by the time there was a radio station worth taping I was able to buy my own music.
Now, ripping off BMG et al for dozens of albums, that was my shit.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't do much radio taping either because I LIVED OVERSEAS GUYS but i definitely had at least a couple of radio tapes from when i was back in florida for the summer. i remember one that had "sister" by juliana hatfield and "headache" by frank black. oh when "loser" by beck came out, at first i only had a version taped off the radio and it was missing a verse so when i finally bought the cassingle i was like woah there's another verse.
what i DID used to do a lot was: i had a stereo with two tape decks and i'd do that low-grade multitrack recording where i'd record one guitar part on the stereo, then record that to another tape while playing another guitar part over it, and so on until i'd have a song with multiple parts.
also my granddad would tape MTV and send me the video tapes and i'd watch those a lot. just like two hours of whatever was on MTV for those two hours. i was really into the "falling to pieces" video by faith no more.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
definitely had some mtv videotapes, mostly beavis and butthead, headbangers ball, and 120 minutes
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
I have probably mentioned this before, but you know the song that hooked me on LOL ALT-ROCK? "Plush" by Stone Temple Pilots. I don't know where I heard it, but I found it strangely appealing. It was August 1993, right before my sophomore year of high school. I was already beginning to move away from the rap/R&B that dominated my taste the year before, but I hadn't settled on anything yet. Earlier that summer I was listening a lot to a Blue Note jazz comp and Stereo MCs and Digable Planets and then random adult-contempo stuff like Bruce Hornsby and Tina Turner. I read a couple of Douglas Coupland novels. Anyway, "Plush" came along ... somewhere ... and by the beginning of the school year I'd switched over to Q101. Anyway, I mention this because one of the first Q101 "Top 5 at 5" countdowns that I remember featured "My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield. Also "Soul to Squeeze" by RHCP.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
OK now I really want to listen to Bruce Hornsby's Harbor Lights. I'm sure I haven't heard a single note of that album in more than 15 years.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
So 1993.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Harbor_Hornsby.jpg
omg you guysthis is too much. i will always be 4 years older than you guys, i guess.
i had a vivid dream about bruce hornsby last year that i still haven't shook. we hot tubbed together!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
!
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Also you're only 4 yrs older than me and n/a and Jeff...
bruce hornsby is the no. 1 celebrity who lives in williamsburg, va. people would trade their hornsby sighting stories (i never saw him but also i don't know what he looks like).
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
the no. 2 celebrity who lives in williamsburg, va., is the guy who plays thomas jefferson in colonial williamsburg. one of sarah's friends saw him tooling around town in a red convertible.
You're not 4 years older than me. Are you even older than me at all? (here we go with this again)
I so wish I could take the afternoon off and go to the movies w/ you, n/a. Work is busy with things that I'm afraid will go wrong and I don't want to be here today.
― Je55e, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
But if I can sneak out, I definitely will. What time were you thinking of going?
2 pm
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Oh. Yeh, that's probably not funna happen.
― Je55e, Friday, 10 August 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
it's cool. gonna have some solo nick time. watching an nc-17 movie by myself in the theater.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Just don't pull a Fred Willard. By which I mean don't "pull" your "Fred Willard."
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
i am wearing a hoodie today
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
the highest predicted temperature for the weekend in Michigan is like 68 degrees, I can't wait
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Killer joe was awesome! Have fun!
― courtnoodle, Friday, 10 August 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link