Cassette two-fers
Saucy Tweenbal
45 Posts
Homemade cassette double features. Go!
-----------------(Formerly this)----------
Are there any albums you have (by the same artist presumably) that you consider to be basically one album? (and may be inclined to listen to back to back) Often the same sound, have similar styles, and basically could just be a double album (to you)?
Also, (kind of an offshoot) are there any albums that you have where you simply can't listen to one without listening to the other? Forgive me if any of those topics have already been covered.
As for me, I see Quicksilver Messenger Services, "Just For Love" and "What About Me" as one big album (and it makes sense because the songs were basically all from the same writing and recording binge).
Another pair in 1 that Id listen to back to back would be Sly Stones, "Fresh" and "Small Talk". Even the covers look alike.
As for the last part, I can't really answer that question directly because there are certain artists that I often listen to in binges (when I do listen to them). Namely: Can, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead
Aye??
-----------------(Formerly this)----------
Are there any albums you have (by the same artist presumably) that you consider to be basically one album? (and may be inclined to listen to back to back) Often the same sound, have similar styles, and basically could just be a double album (to you)?
Also, (kind of an offshoot) are there any albums that you have where you simply can't listen to one without listening to the other? Forgive me if any of those topics have already been covered.
As for me, I see Quicksilver Messenger Services, "Just For Love" and "What About Me" as one big album (and it makes sense because the songs were basically all from the same writing and recording binge).
Another pair in 1 that Id listen to back to back would be Sly Stones, "Fresh" and "Small Talk". Even the covers look alike.
As for the last part, I can't really answer that question directly because there are certain artists that I often listen to in binges (when I do listen to them). Namely: Can, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead
Aye??
Comments
Edit: Hey now
Hahah...I wasn't trying to be cute. Google Newban and/or Newban 2. They're on the tax-scam Guinness label and were the pre-cursor to Atlantic Starr. OGs go for $600 or so. I'm a big fan of Newban, especially their first LP.
I haven't heard much (if anything) from Atlantic Starr, as I usually just assume it's disco(esque at least) and ignore it. But that looks pretty cool. I'll have to give them a go.
Bartz' album feels like a jazzed up extentlion of the E&J album.
I love both albums dearly.
Check Your Head and Ill Communication
Check Your Head and Ill Communication
Probably because I got both albums on the same day as a teenager- kept them in the same plastic sleeve, similar cover style - even today I confuse which songs are on which album.
Straight Outta Compton/Eazy Duz It
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash/Hootenanny
Natty Dread/Exodus
Quicksilver Messenger Service/ Moby Grape
I'll have to give those j's a listen soon
Its a super group album from Dre, Snoop, Nate and DPG
Anyway, two big double-siders for me were and Doolittle b/w Violent Femmes and Danzig b/w B-52's.
Psychedelic Shack/Cloud Nine
L.A.M.F./So Alone
Those were each tapes made by 2 different friends of mine for me.
Another big one from back then was a tape another friend of mine found in the street that had Joe Jackson's Look Sharp on one side and Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables on the other. We listened to that tape a lot.
On the subject of Tower of Power, I always, always listen to the self titled and Back to Oakland lp's together. Those are both similarly great albums.
Hahah that's great
From the deep files (please pardon my ninth-grade handstyle):
Ramones b/w Berserker. Talk about a fucking wig-splitter.
Wow, you were listening to Scratch Acid in 9th grade.
I'm in like 29th grade and I still haven't gotten around to them yet. And they're even from here.
Hat's off.
But yeah, as much as I'd like to be able to play cool, it was dumb luck all the way. Before that shoebox, I was buying, like, Weird Al and INXS and shit.
To this day I still don't know which songs are on which album.
Sticky Fingers / Exlie / Goats Head always sounded super similar to me.
And on the dubbed tape tip,...back in the late 80's there was a classic rock station that used to play 7 entire albums end-to-end,each Sunday Night.
They called it The Seventh Day.
That is how I got most of my dubbed tapes in JR HIgh.
I had one that tape that had Sticky Fingers on it.
After the fade out on Moonlight Mile..the announcer came on and back announced the album so I kept the tape running and stopped it after he started to announce the next album Genesis - And Then There Were Three.
Curious about the album, I decided to switch the tape back on to record the first track Down And Out and was able to get the first few tracks of that album on the tape as well.
I listed to the tape a lot and loved Moonlight Mile so much (great epic slow fade) that I nowhave this crazy pavlovian response that whenever I hear Moonlight Mile, that I think the next tune should be a crappy mid-period Genesis tune.
Mars Hotel / Wake of the Flood