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Tapes and B-sides.
Sep. 18th, 2001 08:28 amI just posted this to the Wildhearts mailing list, and I thought it was personal enough to post it here too.
I'm young enough that I've been buying albums on CD for as long as I've been buying albums. What I used to do when I was younger was to make tape copies of everything to play on my walkman. These days, I have a CD walkman, and my old tape walkman is buried in a desk somewhere.
Recently, I've been going through a lot of my old tapes, wiping all the ones I don't want to keep. (Most of them are copies of things I have on CD, so there's no point keeping them). I've been re-recording over the old tapes, making up tape compilations, or things to play in other people's cars.
I've had a tape of "the Wildhearts' singles" since 1995. However, it occured to me today that there were quite a few songs missing. I didn't have anything after the "I Wanna Go Where the People Go" single on there. So today I got a new 100-minute tape, and just about squeezed all of the East/West-era B-sides onto it.
I tend to stick CDs on and listen to them whilst doing something else, often only getting up to change them when my CD player has gone through the 3 CDs in its stack. I don't listen to singles at all, really. I had the various Wildhearts albums that I listen to, my tape of the singles, and another tape called "The Best of the Wildhearts" which I made up myself. So I hadn't realised before now that there were several Wildhearts songs that I really like but have barely listened to. It's a really weird feeling suddenly discovering these songs after all this time. ( Wildhearts geeking follows, for fans only )
I'm young enough that I've been buying albums on CD for as long as I've been buying albums. What I used to do when I was younger was to make tape copies of everything to play on my walkman. These days, I have a CD walkman, and my old tape walkman is buried in a desk somewhere.
Recently, I've been going through a lot of my old tapes, wiping all the ones I don't want to keep. (Most of them are copies of things I have on CD, so there's no point keeping them). I've been re-recording over the old tapes, making up tape compilations, or things to play in other people's cars.
I've had a tape of "the Wildhearts' singles" since 1995. However, it occured to me today that there were quite a few songs missing. I didn't have anything after the "I Wanna Go Where the People Go" single on there. So today I got a new 100-minute tape, and just about squeezed all of the East/West-era B-sides onto it.
I tend to stick CDs on and listen to them whilst doing something else, often only getting up to change them when my CD player has gone through the 3 CDs in its stack. I don't listen to singles at all, really. I had the various Wildhearts albums that I listen to, my tape of the singles, and another tape called "The Best of the Wildhearts" which I made up myself. So I hadn't realised before now that there were several Wildhearts songs that I really like but have barely listened to. It's a really weird feeling suddenly discovering these songs after all this time. ( Wildhearts geeking follows, for fans only )