I was ten years old when this cassette compilation came out. My older brother was thirteen and spent a lot of time playing music very loudly in his room with the door shut. He taught me how to make mixed tapes and to tape songs off the radio. We had a big, black , state of the art wireless radio/double cassette player with a built in microphone which we used to record all sorts of silly rubbish on to tape.
Dad used to listen to the ABC news in the mornings and when the "daah, daah, da Duh, da, da, da, daaaaaaah... " of the news' intro came on, it was a signal for myself and my three brothers to quieten down long enough for the bulletin to finish.
My brother played this tape a lot. I bought myself a replacement copy when I was at uni and spending a lot of time in record shops buying cheap music. I bought a Keith Urban tape too but it didn't survive one of my first cassette tape culls. That was before he made it big in the States and before he married 'our Nic'.
Listening to "Centrefold" is contagious and by the time the "nah, nah, na,na, nah, nah"s come along, you'll be singing at the top of your daggiest voice and watch out, could be clapping along too... I love "Golden Brown" though have no idea what it's about. "What about me?" might have been covered by "Nollsy" but he wasn't a patch on Moving Pictures.
If anyone else is struck with a sudden case of nostalgia then feel free to let me know. Before I threw the tape out, my romantic husband hunted down most of the songs via itunes and did a playlist up for me. Words can't say...
I'm pretty sure we had this tape too - I'm going to hunt for it and see if I can find it. You have also inspired me to find the tapes of me and my brother also doing stupid things like game shows on tape...all these things of yours are taking me back to the day.
ReplyDeleteNicole x
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