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Prairie_Seagull

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5. Daughter made a mix-tape for me when she was 16 or 17.

Reply to werdna (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2024, 01:29 PM

Sep 2024

Still have it and play it to this day. Yes I still have a machine that will play it. Some of my experience with new music was because of this cassette. It included the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony. Paid little attention to it until years later
Now I realize she was trying to tell me who she was at the time.

If you have one, take it seriously. It is a labor of Love.

IMO

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Something younger gens likely will never uderstand. [View all] werdna Sep 2024 OP

😀 Clouds Passing Sep 2024 #1

Downloading music, you say? EYESORE 9001 Sep 2024 #2

+1. Bought the original cassette tape machines when they came out. I had hundreds of albums with one or two good songs. Silent Type Sep 2024 #3

I still have some of my old tapes! FirstLight Sep 2024 #4

Daughter made a mix-tape for me when she was 16 or 17. Prairie_Seagull Sep 2024 #5

mixtape was music with value that required an attention span longer than 10 seconds. nt msongs Sep 2024 #6

"Get off my lawn, young whippersnappers!' Elessar Zappa Sep 2024 #7

Ohhh, Mixtapes! 🥰 I've made a few... electric_blue68 Sep 2024 #8