10 Tapes You Wore Out In The 80s

[elvisontour]

I was a bit of a mad cat in the 80s always on me push bike with headphone cassette and a carrier bag of tapes and batteries to keep me going.

Just like today back then having so many choons to listen too there was only a few tapes I wore out as I was constantly changing tapes.

Here are 10 that took the heads off me tape deck.

PRINCE - SIGN OF THE TIMES

INXS - KICK

QUADRANTPARK TAPE - DISCO BISCUITS

DEEPHEAT - VOL1 - VARIOUS 12" Mixes

NOWDANCE-89 - VARIOUS

NENEH CHERRY - RAW LIKE SUSHI

SOUL TO SOUL - CLUB CLASSICS VOL 1

SMASH HITS PARTY 88

JUSTHITS 85-86

PHIL COLLINS - NO JACKET REQUIRED

My question is---- what was yours??????

 

[T.C]

Yep Elvira , me too, many a time out on my bike with my walkman blaring
(some maybe v.early 90's though, then I got my 1st car)
if we're talking albums rather than self-made compilations or dance tapes, such stuff as

INXS - Kick
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol 1
Black Box - Dreamland
George Michael - Faith
Prince - Diamonds and Pearls
U2 - Rattle and Hum / The Joshua Tree
Madonna - Immaculate Collection / True Blue
Tranvision Vamp -Velveteen / Pop Art
Any Erasure tapes
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction / Use your Illusion I and II
Wham - The Final
Bobby Brown - Dance... Ya know it
Human League - Greatest Hits
Eurythmics - Greatest Hits


and probably loads more I cant think off the top of my head, always had my stereo on / headphones attached

Ha, remembering this list has made me laugh

 

[U31]

I couldnt drive till i passed my test about 1990 so no tapes for me till then, i didnt need em, other mates had wog boxes and tapes to go in em.. Me bessy mates had a cousin in canada so we got the early drop on the Electro tapes being sent over and they got hammered,
But when we got the car fitted with an Alpine with HX pro and Dolby, the ones that i remember getting worn out or the tape coming out and twisted when you wound it back with a pencil are in no order of preference, Megabass, breaks bass and bleeps, A Welly tape, dunno which one, and the end of Biorhythm turned inside out and played backwards for the last 5 minutes which was trippy as fuck, until that too wore out.
The last 'un i remember wearing out was Vertigo Hippy pigs coming away from the Kielder stage of the Network Q rally, dunno the year, but i got in to a race down the A1 coming around Scotch Corner with a french Peugeot team, their service barge and god knows who else.
I hit the roundabout sideways full on and pissed these French boys off, all thier spotlights came on, the lights on their service barge lit up and off it went!
I remember it going mental and there being loads of us all tearing down the A1.
If you Google the year Francoir Delacour Got nicked for Speeding on the A1 at Harrogate in a team Ford Cossie. Sapphire.. (wasnt fuck all to do with me, honest, i'd pulled back at the time 'cause of the roadworks just outside Harrogate and was driving at the speed limit, Hossifer..):$

 

[T.C]

we got the car fitted with an Alpine with HX pro and Dolby

Ahh yeah I had an Alpine in my 1st car, when car CD players had not long been out remember some of them used to jump like fookery at the slightest road bump

 

[Northern Star]

some embarrasing ones too lol Only 3 of the original cassetts from this list have survived

House hits 88

Nik Kershaw - The Riddle

Nik Kershaw - Human Racing

Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination

Simple Minds - Live in the city of light

Erasure - The Circus

The Clash - The Clash

Deep Heat 4

Sade - Diamond Life

Joy Division - Electric Funeral

New Order - Technique and Substance

 

[wayne]

House hits 88- as above

Soul to soul club classics- as above

http://www.discogs.com/Ice-T-Power/release/152083- Ice T power

Ice-T - The Iceberg / Freedom Of Speech... Just Watch What You Say (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs Ice t - Iceburg

Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show at Discogs

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back at Discogs

Porno tape was - boy it got hammered
Loose Ends III (1987) - IMDb


Struggling to remember more sorry

 

[BOD]

Mostly U2 tapes for me, was buying records at a very ealry age or pinching my sisters. A lot of the U2 albums were recorded off older mates til I started buying the lp's, but I used to go in 4play and Our Price etc and pinch the in lay cards from the cassette boxes in the racks to make mine look like originals :$

 

[T.C]

Nik Kershaw - Human Racing

Ha, that was the 1st album I ever bought

 

[djpileup]

Queen - The Works

Rocky IV - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Footloose (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

remember those foam covers you got for the headphones they came in all different colours