#8TrackTuesday #8Track #NowPlaying #JohnnyCash #DeadFormats
Down, down, down, and the flames went higher
#8TrackTuesday #8Track #NowPlaying #JohnnyCash #DeadFormats
Down, down, down, and the flames went higher
#8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #8Track #PinkFloyd
CARTRIDGE MUST NOT BE LEFT EXPOSED TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT. REMOVE FROM PLAYER WHEN NOT IN USE.
#NowPlaying #HeavyMetal #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #Misprint
Early #8Track issue of arguably the greatest #BlackSabbath album of all time - only here, mis-titled in the plural
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"Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart" (aka The Electronic Jerks of the Mass for the Present Time and Concrete Music for Maurice Béjart) by Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier. Yep that electronic intro to “Jericho Jerk” was sampled by #DJPremier and #DAngelo in “Devil’s Pie” - tho, I expect not from an #8tracktape.
#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats
A triple whammy: a #quadraphonic #8Track of nothing but #Moog synthesizer. Just how much more 1970s can a piece of plastic get?
#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #Disco #PunkRock
Nothing special about this space-themed disco-lite #8Track relic on the Gordy label from 1979. EXCEPT: Apollo lead guitarist Larry B. Robinson would go on to
1) release a very peculiar #Baháʼí influenced homemade electronic LP entitled "Spiritual Technology" under the name OMb at the dawn of the 80s
2) play lead guitar on a garage-y later 80s #AngrySamoans track entitled "Unhinged"
3) form #MooseheartFaithStellarGrooveBand with ex-Angry Samoan Todd Homer who sounded like obscure, privately-pressed late 60s psychedelic bands on every one of their dozen+ CDs/EPs
4) play lead guitar in the LA-based freejazz/freakrock/comedy collective #HollywoodSquaretet in the early 2000s
Not too many #Motown alumni have gone on to navigate such uncharted musical terrain.
#8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #DeadFormats
The 1974 #8Track reissue of #TheVelvetUnderground's "White Light/White Heat" album - retitled "Archetypes" with enigmatic alternate cover artwork. I wonder who's beneath those motorcycle helmets?
#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #SoundCollage #ExperimentalMusic #FoundSound
“This tape was found at a construction site in Novosibirsk, Russia. The title is what appears to be morse code written on the outer surface of the tape encasing. Its authors and origins are unknown.
Update: this has been released on a Brazilian label called Liga Do Vento Divino, both digitally and as a limited edition #8track cartridge.”
I take no responsibility.
#8TrackTuesday #8TrackTape #8Track
I Am Mildly Curious (Yellow)
#NowPlaying #8TrackTuesday #8Track #LittleRichard
The Girl Can't Help It
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What kinda showroom dummy misspells #Kraftwerk?
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Late 90's snapshot of a fabled suitcase full of #8TrackTapes - these would soundtrack visits to see my surrogate hippie "parents" J & S, who still reside somewhere deep in the heart of the TX hill country. Oh man did they love #RokyErikson!
#8TrackTuesday #Punk #NowPlaying #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTape
Were the Connecticut #HardcorePunk band #ViolentChildren the first to release a self-consciously retro #8Track release? I do believe so. This was originally issued in December 1988. Mass production of 8-track tapes had ceased by then, so each tape had to be duped/hand-spliced on to blank, dead stock cartridges by the label owner himself. It was a perverse joke; what self-respecting punk ever owned an 8-track player?
Other bands would latch on to this idea in the ensuing decade - notably #SpinalTap, who released a promo 8-track of their 1992 "Break Like The Wind" album. But for a moment let's acknowledge the foresight of Violent Children. United Nutmeg forever!
#8TrackCartridge #8TrackTape #NowPlaying
It's #8TrackTuesday again, and today I'm pondering why a sizeable chunk of early 70s #8Track tapes replaced the usual LP cover art with crappy stock images.
Were these less-than legit releases? Was it simply cheaper to license the music, sans artwork? Or was it assumed 8-track listeners just didn't give a shit?
#8TrackCartridge #8TrackTape #8TrackTuesday
Before Seri! Before Google! Before Ask Jeeves! We had
*GENERAL INFORMATION* #8Track cartridges
(presumably with which to man-splain your way through the 1973 oil crisis and beyond)
#DollyParton #8TrackTuesday #8TrackCartridge #8TrackTape #NowPlaying
In the #8Track multiverse, messed-up artwork was always more the rule than the exception
#8Track #8TrackTape #NowPlaying #ToddTamamendClark
Today (the day the world will one day look back on as the inaugural #8TrackTuesday) I present you with perhaps the trippiest #8TrackCartridge of all time: Todd Clark & The Stars "A Deathguard Sampler" from 1976.
Hardly any independent/DIY artists took advantage of 8-tracks during their heyday - certainly, none as noisy, electronic, & weirdly downtuned as Todd. Some of these tracks were salvaged for a retrospective 2xCD on the #Anopheles label in 2005 (including his twisted version of #TheRollingStones' "2000 Light Years From Home"). Otherwise we're left guessing as to why the hell Todd chose this format on which to issue his first home recordings. But we're so happy he did! This is the glistening jewel in the melted heap of plastic coating the backseat of your dad's beat-up Chevy Impala.