Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭
Also since there was no skipping, your brain would remember what order the songs were in so in your head, Walk of Life always played after Fortunate Son, which always played after Radar Love. It took a long time for it to stop being weird that those songs could play in a different order when CDs came out. At least for me.
And some songs cut off at the end of the tape! The ones you made yourself anyway, so your brain would also start thinking that is legit the end of the song and then you heard it on the radio and it played the whole thing and you were like, What is this, Narnia? There’s more to the song? Because you forgot.
The tapes recorded from the radio with the voice of the host? More likely than you’d think. Bit of advertising you were not fast enough to pause when recording a movie from the TV yup, that was always there. Your favourite scene in the movie had lines at the top from being watched and rewind over and over again. Yup, that too.
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