Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Grave Dancers Union On Cassette

Josh called me around 5 PM (PST) to let me know that a local record store had thrown away a whole dumpster of cassette tapes. We managed to salvage these plastic masterpieces:



All this reminds me of:



• The time Josh and I dumpstered multiple Wendy's for soggy AirTran Cups after Night School
• How I gave The Only Girl I've Ever Loved my tape collection and it melted in the sun (a metaphor for our whole relationship?)
• My brother TJ's Teenage Obsession with cassettes

3 compromises:

Anonymous said...

Can i get a full listing of the haul? I only recognize Tracy Chapman (score), Siameze Dream (bigtime score) and STP first album.

dennism said...

i think i can recognize about every single one of those tapes, especially the only tape that matters...wham! right on the bottom for some odd reason.

tightslice said...

Okay so I found an old wine box that somebody (very properly) converted to a 100-count tape holder ($3 at Goodwill). So we had to a lose a few of the doubles (as well as some of the lousier ones Josh picked out). Here is the list of the albums that will be accompanying us on our journey:

Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms
The B-52's - S/T
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
Bananarama - Wow!
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
Blind Melon - S/T
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
Bobby Brown - Dance!... Ya Know It!
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat
Tevin Campbell - I'm Ready
Mariah Carey - Music Box
Mariah Carey - Unplugged
Mariah Carey - Emotions
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth
Tracy Chapman - S/T
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
The Patsy Cline Story
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It...
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
The Cranberries - To The Faithfully Departed
Christoper Cross - S/T
The Crow Soundtrack
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper
Duran Duran - Rio
Electronic - S/T
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Let It Loose
Fat Boys - Crushin'
Fishbone - Truth & Soul
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
Peter Gabriel - Us
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Amy Grant - Heart In Motion
Hall & Oates - Greatest Hits
George Harrison - Cloud Nine
Whitney Houston - Whitney
Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight
Billy Idol - S/T
INXS - Kick
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
The Jets - S/T
Kid 'N Play - Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody
Lemonheads - Lovey
The Lightning Seeds - CloudCuckooLand
Living Colour - Vivid
Madonna - S/T
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Madonna - Bedtime Stories
Madonna - True Blue
George Michael - Faith
George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Net's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
New Order - Technique
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Ray Parker Jr. - Greatest Hits
Dolly Parton - White Limozeen
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pebbles - S/T
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
The Police - Synchronicity
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Porno For Pyros - S/T
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Green
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
Rick Springfield - Living In Oz
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Tiffany - S/T
Timmy T - All For Love
TLC - CrazySexyCool
Ralph Tresvant - S/T
Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme
Wham! - Fantastic
Wham! - Music From The Edge Of Heaven
Wham! - Make It Big
Paul Westerburg - 14 songs
Vanessa Williams - The Right Stuff
Wilson Phillips - S/T
Yaz - Upstairs At Eric's
Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin'

Basically what I'm saying is we are getting gayer by the day.