Oddity Archive: Episode 206.5 - Ben’s Junk: (Some of) Ben’s Audiocassette Collection
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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Man, that's one heck of a wuss-rock collection you have there bud.
So nice to see that i'm not the only one that still has and collects Cassette tapes... :-p
I came here to say the same thing! I still have all my cassettes from middle and high school.
@@hobblekitty I know right.....I am a collector of vinyl for the most part. But i do still have my 90's collection of mostly country music. If an album gets a vinyl release i replace the cassette. But i have noticed that the 90's country music artists haven't been re-releasing their 90's stuff on vinyl. So i am always worried that my tape deck will die before my cassettes do.
I was reminded about how our former local classic rock station would also play Alice's Restaurant, usually adding a playing sometime during the day before Thanksgiving for those of us who only listened to them at work.
What an amazing collection you have, Ben!
Makes me miss my own cassette collection. I had to leave it behind on a move. I still have a few, but only a tenth of it, maybe.
I had a storage box just like this that I got rid of. I used to have hundreds of cassettes and for every event, including birthday, Christmas, graduations, etc I got several. In fact Christmas 1989 I got several storage boxes for Christmas. The last few years I've been purging mine, first went those I never listened to or those I had doubles of. A few weeks ago I did something I never thought I would and that is get rid of tapes I used to listen to but replaced on CD. I figured I didn't need the cassettes when I had them on CD and sometimes vinyl too. Now the ones I have left are concerts I taped off the radio, radio shows I taped, and cassettes that I either never replaced or aren't available on CD. Eventually, I will digitalize all of the concerts and radio shows and post them online.
I’m very glad you are still making videos on old technology 👍
About cassettes, I would never say "Moment in the sun", because I thought initially, you would mean, that they were damaged.
I love Alice’s Restaurant! My dad has the CD, I have the vinyl. And my local classic rock station, WCSX, does play it every Thanksgiving. And I agree that the rest of the album is also quite nice. I especially like “Chilling of the Evening.”
Good episode...my longtime neighbor had a CD copy of that Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits back in the day, which I enjoyed so much that I dubbed a cassette copy for myself, but had no idea that both Little Drummer Boy and Please Come Home for Christmas were re-recordings. Also, many radio stations across the country still play Alice's Restaurant annually every Thanksgiving...in fact, being a DJ myself, I do so every year on my station! Not to mention I remember the Back to the Beach soundtrack from the Audio-Based Board Games ep, and the cigarette pack-style casing used for that Doobie Brothers release was pretty cool.
Oh, and very impressive that you not only recalled where/when you scored certain cassettes, but also some backstories on them...definitely some great stuff!
Did anyone else have those books that came with a read along cassette as a kid? Those were my jam. 😅
I had some VeggieTales ones. I lost the cassettes though.
@@CaptainSpiffari I had some of those too! I remember a Tarzan book based on the disney movie that I listened to until I wore out the tape XD
No, but I did have the 7 inch records with books you could read along with.
@@michaelfisher9722 I found one of those a little while ago in a thrift shop for my vinyl collection. It's a lady and the tramp one from the late 60s. It's super adorable. ☺️
Have a few of the tapes, but no books.
Transverse City is SUCH a good album.
If anyone has played Shadowrun, the opening song would make for a perfect theme song for a Shadowrun movie
Hey Ben, I step on things all the time. The Meat Loaf album is amazing. One of the first ones that I really took any notice of as a kid.
I'm like you but with books. I think I've had about three copies, an eBook and an audiobook of my favourite fantasy potboiler.
I feel ya on the flea bay issue. I've recently tried to order 2 different items and got the "your order was cancelled email", and the reason being I'm out of stock or the item is damaged. If the item was damaged, I wished the seller(s) would have contacted me about it cause it might be an easy fix for me.
My local rock station WMMR 93.3(based in Philadelphia) still plays Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving every year.
Heh.. I have one of those "for transfer" boxes..
Always nice to discover others who also keep up the Alice's Restaurant Thanksgiving tradition.
Hey Benny, is there something in particular that you're looking for that you might be having difficulty finding ? Maybe your faithful followers might be able to find or possibly already have, and are willing to get it to you ? I occasional hit of the thrift stores and would definitely look into it. Anyhow, just putting it out there. Like these compartmental containers, I actually had a few but tossed them. They were in pretty decent shape but I no longer had any use for them.
Since the 2008 Universal Fire artists have been contacting Ben in order to reissue their stuff.
Ben, i’ve been hoping forever and ever and ever and that you might do an episode of archive on bootleg cassettes such as those on Thompsun, Avidex and 747 label. I find them fascinating and am collecting them. Gotta love the unique, colorful clamshell packaging reminiscent of VHS boxes. I’d be so interested to hear about the histories and eventual fates of these companies if you can dig up any more info than I’ve been able to.
Alice's Restaurant is my dad's favorite album, I'd say. I haven't had a cassette collection since I was little, mainly because they'd all get eaten or destroyed somehow. And basically none of it was actual albums, that's how young I was. Just various Sesame Street and Muppet book and tapes and stuff like that. When I got older, I did have a few cassettes, but by then I switched to CD's because I just hated fast forwarding and rewinding to hear certain songs. Only thing I really liked doing was playing with blank tapes and recording weird shit.
My old tapes were full of Dr. Demento. I've been able to hunt down much of it digitally. I also had a ton of early 80s hip hop. I've found actual videos of them! I'm from Eastern Connecticut, we didn't get much airplay for rap. I went to a boys school, and they would snag some fresh shit from NYC.
I still remember my first two records I got as a kid. This was the early 70s... whipped cream and other Delights. Smooth, and sweet jazz. And Get Smart. The record was Get Smart's Greatest Hits I guess. I was big Get Smart fan. I did find that album here on UA-cam, and it's Eerie how much I remember.
Well manufactured ❤❤❤
When I was a kid there was a local teletext type station that for some reason played NRBQ's It "Was an Accident" on repeat for like 3 weeks.
I did not know that count floyd put an album out that's new to me. 😀👍🧛♂️
ya that is a rarity to see Kate the Bush live on stage anywhere. It's her policy to hide in her dungeon and wait . Hasn't performed live since the early 80s. No problem here.. her shrill delivery isn't for everyone.
Before the Dawn live at Hammersmith Apollo in London happened in 2014, filmed with 4k cameras, official footage never released to the public.
My older brother used to have a huge cache of cassettes, but my mother tossed them out due to them being overrun with cockroaches.
Sad, isn't it? 😭
Damn cockroaches.
I had over 200 tapes and 300 CDs
I miss my collection..
Lost in the sands of time because of some bad life choices.
Went down a bit of a wikihole/spotify binge after this lot. Lene Lovich rocks (OOOoooOOooo!)
Cosmetically the best but functionally the worst 😂 it's like you are describing some of my ex girlfriends 🤣
I learned from Rocky Burnett that lines are toed, not towed. Mind you, Tommy James thinks that lines should be dragged. I still don't understand why John Hartford spilled ink all over some fishing line and hung it out to dry--unless he actually meant a line that was writ... Okay, never mind.
As for Popeye, i don’t know how much Hollywood legend you believe but Shelly just got finished with “The Shining” when she started on ”Popeye” and story goes she was more or less verbally and mentally abused by Stanley Kubrick. So just getting off from that and into a “kiddie” film with Robin Williams was a break she deserved...
23:32 No clear leader tape on that Jules Shear cassette? Not a defect. Quite often record companies would eliminate the clear leader on their cassette issues.
As I said, the first song starts "already-in-progress"--and that's right at the start of the tape, no lead time whatsoever.
@@OddityArchive Okay, in your tape's case, a bad cut, but generally speaking, I've often seen cassettes that don't use leader tape. To quote Tom Jones, "It's Not Unusual"! LOL
I like the Lene Lovich album's Stateless and Flex. They are unusual, but do have good songs. I think the US version of Stateless is slightly different to the British and European version.
I was hoping you'd talk about your copy of Bella Donna in the first drawer (I'm a big Stevie fan...) but I'm glad you talked about the Blondie tape. I was never a big fan, but Debbie Harry did grow up in my town so I'm kinda proud of that LOL.
That copy of "Bella Donna" is easily one of the best-sounding tapes I've got. Whoever put it together absolutely nailed it. Bought it new--probably in the late '90's or very early '00's.
Glad to see some Bee Gees and Kate Bush representation.
Oh my God.
You got Billy joel attila...
I do want a copy of that.
Been a fan since I had chance to listen too it few years ago and the possibility of billy joel going hard rock or metal is very close on that album.
And Billy joel playing hammond organ would give Joh lord of deep purple a run for his money.
And plus if billy joel ATTILA would have gone big would probably make the stranger heavyer.
With that paper over the late bush I thought she was naked or something.
And you had to cover it so UA-cam wouldn't strike it.
Whomever got the repossessed house got one hell of a tape and CD collection.
AC/DC IRON MAIDEN METALLICA ANTHRAX AND OZZY and so on..
I was somewhat disappointed that you cut out the parts where you were having difficulty reinserting the cassette drawers.
Oh nice. Steal on the Redbone CD.
I have Arlo on Reel to Reel..
Yeah, isn't the tune Amie awesome :)
What does the J stand for?
what j?
@@maximilianfischer8899 The J in “BJM”, Ben’s initials on one of those tapes.
Jehoshaphat?
@@michaelfisher9722 Sounds about right
Just "J". Kinda like Bullwinkle J. Moose.
I showed a video where I show some cassettes I received ua-cam.com/video/3fdeLR-tOsc/v-deo.html. Let me know if there is anything you are interested in.
The one positive to re-formatting tapes is they are easier to do then vinyl albums.. I put them on my P.C when the mood strikes me