In honour of the Walkman's anniversary this week, our #SonicFriday theme is 'memories from my cassette player'.
Let us know which songs you listened to on tape and we'll put them together in a playlist.
Conversation
We start our playlist with one of our volunteers’ musical memories.
'Listening to cassettes was different than listening to CDs. Analogue recordings produce a very warm sound…One of my favourite tapes was Suzanne Vega'
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One of our PhD students sent us this video of her fisher price cassette player that still works!
Who knew the intro to the tape version of Cinderella was such a bop? #SonicFriday
One of our volunteers shared a memory about rewinding tapes: 'We used to have cassettes in the car. Every so often the tape got tangled up & you had to get a pencil out & try to rewind it. The tape started playing funny pitches when we played it again'
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You lot have really outdone yourselves, thank you for all the #SonicFriday songs. The playlist is coming in at a cool 4 hours.
Our social media person (and resident DJ) has put them into some kind of order, but feel free to live in chaos and shuffle it.
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As a kid I remember walking around my house with my Fisher-Price. I had so much fun playing the “Record” button and recording myself and my parents speaking! I’ve just found those tapes again, and they made me smile!