Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

remember recording from the top 40 countdown on cassette and trying to chop the track as soon as the DJ started talking.

Yep. We had a guy at school who did this religiously every week, then we'd all tape his tape to have something to listen to in the car that week.

I taped Top of the Pops and managed to include my mother in the background shouting that I had to come downstairs immediately because I was in trouble.
Every time I listened to it I jumped and came out in a cold sweat.

The Colonel was a don. This is my favourite from from my anacronistic, hipster, oh-so-better-than-you record collection:

https://youtu.be/0Ro_352U0NE

We had a guy at school who did this

Alright golf club

;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLITXTXBS1s

This. There used to be a pair of terrific late night/early morning programs on CBC called Brave New Waves and Night Lines. The host of Night Lines, for the two weekends preceding xmas every year would play alternative tunes of the season. I had five or six sets of cassettes that I made by selecting the tunes as he played them.

• hit record as song starts
  
• decide whether I want to keep it
  
• If so, all good
  
• if not, quickly stop, rewind, find my initial stop and wait for next tune
  
  

Made for some interesting mixes and especially transitions between songs.

Yesss

Brave New Waves was probably one of the things formative to who I am in a weird way. I only wish a) I discovered it sooner (grade 11 in Ontario, I think?) and b) was able to stay awake later.

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BoJo wannabee in the middle innit?

Met Are Shaky many moons ago in Llandudno when he was a guest of the Milk Race.

This is the content I'm here for.

James Felton is hilarious

Taping sessions on John Peel, it was the only way to get hold of that stuff back before they started putting it all out on vinyl... Then when hip-hop started being a thing a mate used to spend HOURS editing his 12s onto cassette, he was very good at it and his mixes were great... He became a video editor, very apt...

My first piece of vinyl was this classic, 99p from the local Mace.
https://youtu.be/z1cc-TTIw3o

On the vinyl theme - my first ‘album’ was Disco Fever which featured a group called Space. Second was an album by a group called Ananta - I think they were a cult thing - If anyone has any knowledge of them, I would be very interested.
The vinyl thing doesn’t relate to singles - I have no idea what my first single purchase was. I think albums were that much more expensive that a single was super cheap. (It makes sense to me!)

Back before the cuts and top down managing : (

It was fun to do, in a weirdly way.
Too bad I was so unmotivated, didn’t even realize that there was potential for a rewarding career in what I was doing

Fucking hell who started this vinyl thing
Can we have funny mems please

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I remember the track called Space Bass.

I saved up paper round money and bought my first two vinyl LPs from an old arcade record shop long since demolished, The Specials and Off The Wall. Still have them.

Innit?

My favourite items in my dad's old vinyl collection include the soundtrack to The Sting (Marvin Hamlisch playing Scott Joplin), The Muppet Show Album (featuring Hogga Wogga and It's Not Easy Being Green), and Queen's Greatest Hits.

Colonel Abrams was like the Conway Brothers. Had a hit and then recorded a follow up that was almost identical and slid into semi obscurity. Cracking tunes though
https://youtu.be/ChGEd5pCLjc

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