Post by madoldlu on Oct 29, 2019 16:13:54 GMT -5
Just listened to Orphans and Arabesque. Not bad. I gave up on them with Ghost Stories and I was lukewarm with A Head Full of Dreams after that. But I really love some/most of their stuff up to that point (Parachutes through Mylo Xyloto). I'll give the new album a listen.
As far as the whole cassette thing, that' just a thing now I guess. Like oakey said, it's a hipster thing. Maybe Guardians of the Galaxy had a little to do with it?
But Arcade Fire released their last album on cassette, and an EP several years ago as well--and that EP was cassette only! Luckily it came with a digital download of the songs. Otherwise the regular digital download only had a few of the songs the cassette did, so you had to get the cassette if you wanted all the songs. And on their album Reflektor, the first song on side 2 has the old cassette tape "tones" in the beginning.
Personally I never got into "official" cassettes. My sister and I knew cassettes were delicate. No tape was safe from getting accordion folded or chewed up or even melting in the car (we grew up in Miami). So we knew to just buy the vinyl and just make good tape recordings from that. That way, if anything happened to the tape, you still had the source material to make a new tape. And even when CDs came out, we still held on to buying the vinyl and making tapes for on the go. Having a portable CD player seemed risky since it could result in a scratched disk if we weren't careful. It wasn't really til the iPod that we finally gave up on tapes and Walkmans. And I too purged all those old home made cassettes.
As far as the whole cassette thing, that' just a thing now I guess. Like oakey said, it's a hipster thing. Maybe Guardians of the Galaxy had a little to do with it?
But Arcade Fire released their last album on cassette, and an EP several years ago as well--and that EP was cassette only! Luckily it came with a digital download of the songs. Otherwise the regular digital download only had a few of the songs the cassette did, so you had to get the cassette if you wanted all the songs. And on their album Reflektor, the first song on side 2 has the old cassette tape "tones" in the beginning.
Personally I never got into "official" cassettes. My sister and I knew cassettes were delicate. No tape was safe from getting accordion folded or chewed up or even melting in the car (we grew up in Miami). So we knew to just buy the vinyl and just make good tape recordings from that. That way, if anything happened to the tape, you still had the source material to make a new tape. And even when CDs came out, we still held on to buying the vinyl and making tapes for on the go. Having a portable CD player seemed risky since it could result in a scratched disk if we weren't careful. It wasn't really til the iPod that we finally gave up on tapes and Walkmans. And I too purged all those old home made cassettes.