Other Mixes By Funky Ratchet
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Kmart 60 min (2x30), circa 1984
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Huey Lewis & the News | The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll | |
| The Cars | Hello Again | |
| Kenny Loggins | Footloose | |
| Denice Williams | Let's Hear It For the Boy | |
| Bob & Doug McKenzie | The Twelve Days of Christmas | |
| Reader's Digest 120 Music Masterpieces, Highlights Vol. I |
Music from 2001: A Space Odyssey suite: Also Sprach Zarathustra, op.30 (opening movement) [R. Strauss]/ The Blue Danube [J. Strauss II] |
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| Reader's Digest 120 Music Masterpieces, Highlights Vol. I | March of the Toreadors from Carmen [Bizet] (excerpt) | |
| audio clip [Voltron] | "Ro-beast is supercharged...tear those lions to shreds!" | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| audio clip [Voltron] | "Way to go, team!" | |
| PSA [American Medical Association] | "...talk to your children about not talking to strangers." | |
| TV theme | Voltron (closing credits) | |
| audio clip [TV commercial] | "...you'll really go for milk!" | |
| audio clip [Funky Ratchet; age 11] | "I just sucked the helium out of a balloon." | |
| John Fogerty | Centerfield | |
| John Fogerty | Rock 'n' Roll Girls | |
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Found this in a box earlier this week...by all rights, the very first "mix tape" I ever made, dating back to late 1984. This is much more a simple curiosity, as opposed to an actual mix submitted for others' consideration. I guess it serves as a testament to my ongoing need to compile and catalog music, which I'm sure many of you can identify with. And my cataloging wasn't limited to music either - I also found numerous tapes recorded from the television (favorite shows, TV themes, commercials), as this was before my family's first VCR. I was just thrilled to find it after 20+ years. And it still plays too!The first four songs on side A were recorded from my cousin's cassettes when we gathered for Christmas in December of 1984 (In fact, the blank Kmart cassette this was taped on was in my stocking from Santa that morning). The McKenzie Brothers were painstakingly recorded from FM radio, the two Reader's Digest tracks were recorded from my parent's 8-track, and the John Fogerty songs were dubbed from my brother's 45. All television clips were recorded by carefully and quietly placing the tape recorder in proximity to the TV's (mono) speaker.So, as I said, this mix is not so much for the scrutiny of my questionable music tastes at age eleven so much as it is just a fond piece of personal nostalgia that I thought some of you might identify with a bit (or at least provide you with a good laugh).But, then again, maybe this is actually an innovative mish-mash of genres and sound clips, foretelling my future of obsessive mix-making. Or, more likely, just an eleven year old who didn't have the good sense to use seperate tapes to record music and TV...
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haha... very cool. I still have a big stack of cassette mixes I made all through high school in the '80s and college in the '90s. too scared to post them on AotM though. you're a brave soul. that said, I'll admit you'll find those two Footloose songs and the John Fogerty tunes in my collection of 45s.
What a great discovery!
Nice! Alas, I have thrown out my old cassette mixes for CD mixes, then switched to mp3 playlists.
Very fun. Always interesting to look back on one's history.
Hey, a 12 I was listening to Sheb Wooley singing about Purple People Eaters. Everybody has their roots.
i've got this incurable disease called "nostalgia," so of course this is a delight for me - it's always interesting to take a stroll down memory lame
Yeah, I have a hard time being too embarrassed by the music tastes of my youth. I think most of us worked our way through lighter/more conventional/mainstream fare before we took a turn into left field.Then again maybe there's a few of us who did spring forth from the womb with an appreciation for Beefheart, Leonard Cohen, or the Velvet Underground, but I know I'm not one of 'em.
This is nice.
Didn't John Fogery get sued in 1984 by CCR's Record Label for sounding TOO much like Creedence? Really, you couldn't make a story like that up.
Anyway, the mix, what a great find, I'm sure the nostalgia flooded all over you. Now how many degrees of separation are their between this and your '08 mixes?
Anyway, the mix, what a great find, I'm sure the nostalgia flooded all over you. Now how many degrees of separation are their between this and your '08 mixes?
this is, well, interesting. pass the helium please.
You gotta cut loose, footloose... This is kind of funny actually.
I love finding stuff like this. The first thing I ever committed to audiocassette was the ABBA song "Dancing Queen" while I was still in Junior High. I was the first one in my family to actually use the record function on our stereo system's cassette player. By 1984, I wasrecording entire episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus off the TV with my little portable cassette recorder. My sister, 3 1/2 years younger, would probably love this mix.
Just might be the most diverse collection of musical snippets and oddities I've ever seen. As such, two thumbs up!!!!
Picture me howling with laughter and kicking my feet into the air!What great fun to find an old 'n' moldy like this!Now, pop it into a Walkman, pull the earphones out and get a mini-male to male jack, run the line into your hard drive, and post this! Whee HA!I recall sitting in front of a 12" black and white TV set, my Sears tape recorder set on pause while holding the mic (by hand, the kit did not come with a mic stand) and trying to record only the music from a televised Yellow Submarine. The Beatles never sounded so strange...Wonder where that tape got off to...
Somewhere I have 6 episodes of Dr. Demento on Reel to Reel Tapes recorded on an external mic put next to a transister radio. This is priceless
Wow, 1984. Looks bloody interesting.
Priceless indeed!
An innovative mish-mash of genres and sound clips - I'd go for that description, but then again I've got a twenty year old mixtape lying around somewhere with the theme from "Black Beauty" taped 5 times in a row (??)
What a fantastic idea, but no download? ;-) Seriously, this HAS to go in the time capsule. I know some of the, ahem, older folks here will mock us, but we are the real generation spanning analog and digital. There is something to be said for having that little tape recorder mic up next to the tinny speaker of a TV. MOTW!!!!
Love the Voltron tracks...ine of my fave cartoons from back in the day!
Love Bob and Dough McKenzie! Great White North is a classic.
Priceless. Who needs those school "Time Capsules" when a diamond like this surfaces.
Love the mix, eh?
Hey, and this was posted on my birthday. Happy birthday to me.