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    Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/29/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I'm actually something of an anti-pack-rat (comes with the territory when you live in a 900 square foot house)... those three tapes have survived numerous purges. Just about all the other cassettes are long gone.


    MP3s rule!

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    06/28/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I have exactly one tape left. It is in the boom box I keep in my shop/garage. I have no idea what's on it (usually I just listen to my computer's music via a little FM transmitter). I'll try playing it latter when the temperature goes down a bit and I dare step into that oven of a place...
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    Image of Bustedknuckles Bustedknuckles
    06/28/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Normal bias? At least you weren't rocking the Certron.


    Mega-Bonus Points: Minutemen, Desmond Dekker, Residents

    Bonus Points: Shinehead, Alpha Blondy, Parliament

    WTF Minus Points: Lenny Kravitz, Metallica


    I once "dated" a girl 15 years younger than me. When I laid down the "No Britney Spears in my car" law, she said it was a "generational gap". If that's so, I was suffering from a generation gap when I was in high school listening to XTC and Bau Haus while my so-called peers lowered their IQ on Whitesnake, Ratt and Huey Lewis.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/28/09

    @Bustedknuckles: Reasonably fair generalized statement: Bauhaus > *.
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    06/28/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Hold up, remember the cassette suitcase? I've got one. Half the tapes aren't really playable anymore, though.


    (This is where sharing much of my mother's taste in music comes in handy.)

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    06/28/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Oooh, those thingies... I can seemingly remember listening to them when I was, like, a kid. Pretty cool how you kept some of those old mixtapes, got me thinking I should make some mixcds and keep them myself for when I become a weekend editor on some blog. :)


    Guess cars aren't the only thing preserved in Alameda.

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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I had all of one tape when I bought my car, and it was all I listened to for the first year. Now it's a CD player, no MP3 capability, no input. Shame. But the mixtape is alive and well in CD form; the 80 minute CD is the secret weapon of the solo road trip, and mine live in homemade paper grocery bag sleeves. Segueing Nine Inch Nails into Crosby, Stills, Nash on the GO EGGY GO mix is one of my prouder moments.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @skitter: My hero.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/28/09

    @skitter: I still have the On-the-Go from the drive back from the LeMons Saturday. Ministry into Radiohead into Biggie into the New Pornographers? Good start.
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    06/28/09

    @FP - tittin' and shittin' with Tomsk: I think Pandora needs to add a transition between songs thumbs up/down to their algorithm. It might help them narrow down exactly what elements of a particular song someone likes, as well as giving them a better idea of what sounds good together for constructing their sets.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/28/09

    @Don Juan de la Placenta: I'd agree if I wasn't a bit ambivalent toward Radiohead's music.


    And that had better not be first-album Ministry, or I'll be forced to point and laugh.

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    06/28/09

    @skitter: Very true. I don't really use it - I prefer just to acquire random things that people mention or recommend - but if I have to I prefer last.fm. At least it's quite honest about how it works.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/28/09

    @FP - tittin' and shittin' with Tomsk: Yeah, well, that's your problem, not mine ;)


    And, come on, don't be ridiculous. Four Jalops, one car? It was "Jesus Built My Hotrod".

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/28/09

    @Chevrolario Conquistador del Mexico: Okay, good. Thanks.
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    Image of bygeorge bygeorge
    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I have half-a-dozen tapes a friend with alternative tastes made for me in the early 90's - many of these same songs are on my tapes!


    Any easy way to convert these to CD or even MP3?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @bygeorge: Cassette player, 3.5mm male-to-male cable from headphone jack to mic jack on computer, clear up a shit-ton of hard-drive space, start recording, hit Play on the deck, go back later on and cut the songs to individual pieces (select that section, copy it, paste it to a new file, export that as mp3).


    I recommend Audacity for all this. It lets you record, cut up, and export to mp3, and it's free and open-source. All you need for this.

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    06/27/09

    @FP - tittin' and shittin' with Tomsk: The shit-ton of space is for the raw Wave recordings; you're deleting those after you convert 'em to individual tracks in high-bitrate mp3.
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Your mix tapes are nearly as random as my mp3 player's shuffle function, and infinitely more rad.
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Most folk, other than my girlfriend (she's pretty awesome) do not appreciate Psychic TV in the car, either.


    If you REALLY want to rattle your passengers, crank up some early Throbbing Gristle.

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    Image of JesusHChrysler JesusHChrysler
    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    One of my friends used to make the best mix tapes ever. his record deck had a faulty erase head, so he could go back and record other sounds or mix/ blend songs together. always epic mixes of 70's psychedelia, new wave pop, industrial, movie quotes, sound effects records.
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    06/27/09

    @JesusHChrysler: damn I wish I had thought of disconnecting the erase head. that was accidental genius.
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    A man who throws 'round "Jockey Full of Bourbon" is a real man.


    Well done.

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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    Those are some very eclectic mix tapes.


    Major bonus points for the Traffic version of "Feelin' Alright" and "Hey Bulldog." But, Oingo Boingo, really?

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @FromaBuick6: What's not to like about Oingo Boingo?
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    06/27/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nothing really. They just seem so out of place on a tape with Rollins Band, Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.


    But then again, maybe that's why that tape is so awesome.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/28/09

    @FromaBuick6: When I was 19, I had a nice wholesome Orange County girlfriend who was a huge Oingo Boingo fan, and- against my will, after enough repitions of Only A Lad and Dead Man's Party- realized that Danny Elfman is one sick and twisted individual, and I mean that in the best possible sense.
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    06/28/09

    @Murilee Martin: Oh, the things I've done for nice, wholesome girlfriends over the years. Usually in an attempt to make them act, uh, less wholesome. Which never worked.


    Oddly enough, being about 20 years younger than you, I'm more likely to force them to listen to Oingo Boingo against their will rather than vice versa.

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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I endorse your product, although I am taken aback by the lack of Aerosmithocity.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/28/09

    @MarywithanM: I also had an iPod loaded with Toys In The Attic on the trip.
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    I still have some, myself, though some of those have dbx noise-reduction, and I haven't had a player with that ability in at least 15 years.


    My wife's RX300, inexplicably, has a tape deck, so she took all of them. Just found they were in the very back of a 20'x10' storage joint we have in the TX Hill Country. I guess they'll still work just fine.


    Also, Murilee, nice to see I'm not the only one who will put Ozzy, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Run D.M.C., and Wilson Pickett all on the same tape (or MP3 disc).

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    06/27/09

    @diesel W123's don't die: If you want to salvage those old tapes, Goodwill/Salvation Army stores can be goldmines for obsolete high-end stereo equipment (especially in larger/wealthier areas). Just today, I spotted a $10 tape deck that had Dolby B, C, *and* HX-Pro.
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    06/27/09

    @ummagumma82: Damn... I need to check some of that out, I think.
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    Image of GeeHalen GeeHalen
    06/27/09

    In reply to Meat Bees and Bad Craziness: Old Road-Trip Mix Tapes Resurrected For CA-to-CO Drive
    CD as a stereo system in a car was one big mistake. Impractical in all areas. I hated it. I still have a tape deck in a car and I just recently bought this adapter by which I can play mp3s in the car.


    And the first thing I did was getting supercar engine sounds and roar them.

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    06/27/09

    @GeeHalen: I bought one of those too and it lasted all of 5 hours before the moving bit in the fake cassette apparently snapped. It was a brand name but bottom of the line. I'm going to try once more. It was great while it lasted!
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    06/27/09

    @GeeHalen: I use a wired (not wireless) FM modulator, permanently installed under the dash. Plays the iPod through the radio without the crappy sound of the wireless type.
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    06/27/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: I never had that go, but the cords used to constantly fray beyond soldering-repair.


    @Murilee Martin: That's definitely what I'd do if I didn't have a line-in jack on the Panasonic deck.

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    06/28/09

    @GeeHalen: I've had tape decks, CD decks and built-in iPod adapters. I've found that being able to control your iPod directly from the stereo spoils you forever. Right now I have a factory CD/cassette, even though I kept the stereo/adapter from my old car. I just lack the motivation to rip out most of my dashboard in order to swap it out.


    I do have a soft spot for tapes, as shitty as they are. I've still got about a dozen tapes in the car - Abbey Road, Sticky Fingers, Hotel California, Born to Run, etc - that I dubbed from CD and vinyl ages ago. Unfortunately, my home cassette deck crapped out awhile back and I've yet to fix it (again, lack of motivation), so I won't be making more tapes anytime soon.

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