In the 90s, I used to record my favorite movies (from VHS) onto cassettes so I could listen to them at my summer job on the assembly line. What were those movies, you ask…
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Back To School, UHF, Trading PlacesSUPPLIES!
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My truck only has AM/FM and cassette. I still have some of my Weird Al tapes in there for when I’m driving it a lot.
I had a bunch of disney audio books on red cassettes in the early 90’s
My dad used to cassette audio books in the car all the time in the 90’s.
I listened to my dad’s Clear and Present Danger cassettes in the early 90s, partly on my knockoff Walkman, IIRC.
If it counts, I bought a cast recording of an old production of Hamlet on cassette as well, when I was in college.
The experience is generally fine. The linear nature of books works fairly well with cassettes.
Shel Silverstein’s Where The Sidewalk Ends read by the author. Peter and the Wolf with orchestral accompaniment.
My mom had a tape that guided you through isometric exercises to do in the car. There was a large tape book always around my house of like 12 cassettes that somehow taught you how to speed read, but I don’t think anyone ever used it.
Sure, lots. Mostly audiobooks for road trips or commutes. I even had a genuine Sony Walkman.
The library had books on tape in those big molded plastic cases. Like 20 tapes per book sometimes. We’d take a couple of those anytime we’d go on an overnight trip out of town.
I used to record my favorite jokes and songs from Animaniacs.
Don’t know that I every played them on a Walkman though.
I listened to a ton of music on my walkman in the 80s, but the one thing I listened to that has stuck with me since then was the binaural recording of The Mist. I listened to it late at night during a very intense monsoon. Just amazing.
I also listened to that very same recording of The Mist, on my walkman. I remember reading in the liner notes they used a “Kunstkopf” (“false head”) system to make it sound like some things were behind you. Holy sweet fuck that was great to listen to. Then a bunch of years later I’m playing Half Life for the first time and when things went to shit all I could think was “oh, Arrowhead Project”
I remember having the Batman Forever and Batman Knightfall audio books on cassette back when I was a kid.
I listened to them so many times the voice and cadence of the narrator is permanently burned into my subconscious. I still quote them from time to time without really thinking about it.
Just one. I listened to an audiobook version of Fatherland narrated by Werner Klemperer, the actor who played Colonel Klink in the Hogan’s Heroes TV show. So weird listening to him do the female characters.
As a kid I had the Dinotopia audiodrama tapes and my family would get old radio shows like Jack Benny from the CrackerBarrel store on road trips.
I need need need need neeeeeed the magnus archives on tape holy shit i didnt know how much i needed that
The idea of an audio drama on cassette never occured to me
I had a few comedy albums. Some of them like Monty Python had a mix of music and skits. I wasn’t super into audiobooks. Probably the longest thing I ever listened to was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in its (original?) BBC Radio rendition.
The hitchhikers’ radio series on cassette started my love of audiobooks. I listened to it dozens of times as a teen. Went to sleep listening to it.
Never did it on a walkman, but when I was a kid I was taken on a few multi-day road trips where they’d throw an audiobook on.
