Submitted by Jason B.:
Lately I have been going through a bunch of boxes filled with old cassette tapes and VHS videos that have been collecting dust for years. In the process I came across a few cassette tape treasures in music history:
- The Digital Underground, “The Humpty Dance” on cassingle (you know a single song on a cassette which sold for like 75 cents at Sam Goody)
- Scary Halloween Noises Sound Effects Tape
- The Soundtrack to Moonraker (which I think was a bond film)
- The Sounds of Summer Storms from Honeymoon Island (one hour of lightening and thunder recordings)
- El Debarge, the one with “Who’s Johnny” on it
The one gem that I found was a tape that actually got me into quite a bit of trouble with my Madre. When I was 13 or 14 a friend made me a copy of 2 Live Crew’s, “As Nasty As They Want To Be” on tape. Apparently I was listening to it on the family stereo in the living room and forgot to remove the tape. A few days later I found the cassette on my nightstand in my bedroom with the following inscribed.
Sadly, after the tape was found I was no longer able to sing along with The Crew’s “Me So Horny” as it was replaced with “Me So Grounded.”
