Blogcritics Comments on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Sun, 4 May 2008 13:04:38 EDT

Mark...Skunk or Patchouli? I think it is skunk & that wouldn't surprise me after reading this thread. You sick bastich *Smirk*

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Sun, 4 May 2008 12:44:06 EDT

*yuck*...Why not scare a skunk and let it spray you?! to each his own brian. i happen to love that smell.

Comment by Happy on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Sun, 4 May 2008 10:09:53 EDT

The 8 track player in my ford LTD was the right size to stash my stone pipe! Thank goodness the cops didnt look there! Vinyl rules!

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Sat, 3 May 2008 16:21:45 EDT

(she writes while radiating essence of patchouli.) *yuck*...Why not scare a skunk and let it spray you?!

Comment by Mary K. Williams on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Sat, 3 May 2008 14:02:30 EDT

Very good stuff Mark. I can't remember what the smell of a new vinyl record was like, but I do know that I love the smell of musty books. And while we're speaking of odors, I used to work in an office with this fax machine. The coupler smelled oddly like band-aids. (she writes while radiating essence of patchouli.) : )

Comment by JC Mosquito on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 23:30:11 EDT

As a kid, the day I came home with my brand new copy of Deep Purple's Burn was the same day part of our basement flooded. I will always associate that album with the smell of wet carpet and vice versa.

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 22:37:55 EDT

Just recently I bought (again,some 20+ yrs later) Kick Axe - Vices on cassette because on CD it is going for $30-$40.

Comment by Darren on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 22:02:42 EDT

RE: Brian's Denon tape deck. What a beauty - I love how the promotional photos of cassette decks always had these mysteriously cool looking clear cassettes loaded into them that you could see actual metal reels inside. My Maxell UDXLII's never looked like that... I may be the only person alive who IS nostalgic for the days of cassettes. I started out on vinyl and quickly moved to tapes for their portability ( I was a teenager with a boom box fetish, natch) and when we moved house two years ago was pained to finally have to throw out hundreds of pounds of 80's rock on cassette. Some of it (mostly obscure Canadian rock) is still not available on CD - Gary O's "Strange Behaviour" or Chalk Circle's "Mending Wall" anyone?

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 21:32:51 EDT

My Denon DRR-680 is built pretty damn good as well.

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 21:25:44 EDT

yes, i have a Nak CR-2A. built like a freaking tank.

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 21:17:01 EDT

Dude...Nakamichi!! That should start right up. Those were the best decks you could buy. My friend had the "Dragon" in his car,ya know, the one that flipped the tape over for you... I forgot to mention that I love The Cars & some of The Tubes stuff was pretty cool. Todd Rundgren sounds pretty damn good with'em (The Cars) nowadays. My only(fondest)memories of 8-Track was that mom had a deck in her Ford LTD. My brother used to play KISS - Double Platinum & The Eagles - Greatest Hits. Glen, I'm pretty sure that storing your 8-Track tapes under the hood wasn't a good idea. It's not very convenient either,especially on the highway...*smirk*

Comment by Glen Boyd on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 20:14:55 EDT

Actually, now that I think about it, 8 Tracks smelled kind of like burnt oil. -Glen

Comment by Glen Boyd on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 20:12:08 EDT

8-tracks? isn't boyd around here somewhere? no wait, that's wax cylinders. 8-Tracks never really had a distinctive smell. Just this really irritating clicking sound between tracks -- and sometimes right in the middle of them. I did used to store mine in one of those revolving "lazy susan" fixtures though. Nah, not much to miss there. But the smell of vinyl...ahh, now that's the stuff of dreams. Very well put Sir Mark. -Glen

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 20:02:01 EDT

yeah brian, i've got a bunch of radio shows and hard to find things on tape....but my poor Nakamichi hasn't been fired up in several years. we'll see what happens.

Comment by Bennett on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 18:01:01 EDT

Great stuff Mark. Damn fine to hear someone else "just had to have" The Tubes album. Classic stuff that.

Comment by Brian aka Guppusmaximus on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 17:49:20 EDT

I've done some transfers of cassette. Trying to buy the CD of that no longer produced album costs way too much & trying to work with vinyl can be a real pain in the ass. I have my trusty Denon single player hooked up through my sound card & Sony Sound Forge 8.0. With the real hard to find stuff I encode to 24bit/96kHz for future purposes. I can always re-encode from their on down for any other reason(CD,Flac,etc). As for this "smell thing",I couldn't be bothered but I don't like the smell of books or magazines either. I guess if you want any kind of smell from your digital files, you could always fry your hard drive...*Smirk*

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 16:40:43 EDT

i have a pile of cassettes, still packed away in a couple of boxes...waiting for me to do digital transfers (these are mostly radio shows and things). i bet i never bought more than 10 or so actual prerecorded cassettes.

Comment by Josh Hathaway on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 16:19:38 EDT

Man, it's been so long I'd forgotten about my once large collection of cassettes. Yeah, that was my entry point into the world of music. I don't miss those fuckin' things, that's for damn sure. I don't think I can get nostalgic about cassettes at all.

Comment by Mark Saleski on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:59:17 EDT

this is kinda weird. now that i think of it, i like the smell of books, magazines, and newspapers too. 8-tracks? isn't boyd around here somewhere? no wait, that's wax cylinders. ;-)

Comment by Matt Wardlaw on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:41:27 EDT

Wow - you nailed my feelings on vinyl. Well done.

Comment by Tom Johnson on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:40:18 EDT

And here comes a third generation of music format: the cassette. I used to love opening cassettes and smelling the liner. The best ones had a sweetness the likes of which I've never smelled before or since. It faded over time. Some were like most CDs that I open today: they had an awful, sharp stink, and I seem to recall it was on later cassettes that I bought, not the earlier ones. It must be due to some combination of slightly more environmentally-friendly (read: recycled) paper and ink that leads to a nasty odor. I just checked the new Portishead CD - not much of an odor, but it does strangely smell like the drawing-tools section of an art store. Pencils and erasers, specifically. Weird. Someone needs to chime in and tells us what 8-tracks smelled like.

Comment by Josh Hathaway on The Friday Morning Listen: The Cars

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:24:56 EDT

That is to say, it would have smelled like anticipation." I didn't grow up with vinyl for quite as much of my musical life as you, but I know that scent and the feelings attached to it. The scent of anticipation. Amen. For me, it's the tactile response to opening a CD, something digital files can't give. I'd already attempted the album calculus in my head and couldn't come to the solution as to which record to put back. My wife needs to read that statement. I understand it only too well.