Up The Irons! Heavy metal appreciation thread.

[SableWyvern]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. There were also 120 min blank tapes available, but they were pretty expensive IIRC.

Yep, and I believe they added length by making the tape thinner, so the quality and durability decreased accordingly.

 

[R_J_K75]

Yep, and I believe they added length by making the tape thinner, so the quality and durability decreased accordingly.

Sounds logical. I was never an audiophile so I was never too picky when it came to audio equipment. The only thing that bothered me was when you could tell when something was poorly recorded and produced. Genesis Live from 1973 and the first few Screaming Trees come to mind as offenders; at least the copies I have on CD. That could also be the transfer from the master to the CD. Columbia House and BMG were well known for their stuff being of lower quality than the originals.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The biggest advantage cassettes retained once CDs entered the market was their ability to record. Recordable CDs eroded that a bit, but some CD players couldn’t read those properly.

DATs could outperform them in every way, but they never got cheap enough to be a serious threat in the consumer market.

 

[Jahydin]

Why on earth would anyone want to buy cassettes anymore? They sucked in every aspect, the tape snapped, got stuck in the player or just came loose, and the sound quality was bad. Before you could buy a player that skipped to the next song, playing a specific song was a PITA. The only redeeming quality I can think of was being able to copy them if you had, a dual cassette deck and trade tapes before burning CDs or MP3s/streaming was available. I just read an article a few hours ago that Pink Floyd re-released Dark Side of the Moon too.

I'm right there with you. It has to be just for the novelty. Vinyl isn't my thing either (mostly due to cost), but at least I can understand the fascination.

I am a bit surprised the 5.1 format music never took off. I thought the idea was really cool...

 

[Jahydin]

The biggest advantage cassettes retained once CDs entered the market was their ability to record. Recordable CDs eroded that a bit, but some CD players couldn’t read those properly.

DATs could outperform them in every way, but they never got cheap enough to be a serious threat in the consumer market.

Recording songs to tape that played on the radio was how I got most of my music as a teenager!

 

[Jacob Lewis]

So... we're just going to pretend that 8-tracks never happened, right? Right??

 

[R_J_K75]

It has to be just for the novelty.

This baffles me, people buying into cassettes because they are the current fashionable thing.

Vinyl isn't my thing either (mostly due to cost), but at least I can understand the fascination.

I was never into vinyl either, takes up too much space to be worth the while. Not to mention good equipment was always a pretty hefty investment, and the LPs themselves are pretty expensive now.

I am a bit surprised the 5.1 format music never took off. I thought the idea was really cool...

I think sometimes technology is just too niche to appeal to the general public.

Jerry Cantrells vinyl collection. I'd imagine that shelving cost more than most people's entire music collection.

 

[Jacob Lewis]

I think some of you should already know this band by name, if not this particular album....

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Flotsam and Jetsam​

Album: No Place For Disgrace (1988)

Listen Here [Note: There is a remade (not remastered) version of this album where the current members of the band replayed and re-recorded the album to get a cleaner, more modern sound. It sucks. This is the correct version, even if you prefer the new one.]

Flotsam and Jetsam is an American thrash metal band that was formed in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1981. Before settling on its current name in 1984, the band had existed under three different names, Paradox, Dredlox and Dogz. Their current lineup includes vocalist Eric "A.K" Knutson, guitarists Michael Gilbert and Steve Conley, bassist Bill Bodily, and drummer Ken Mary. Flotsam and Jetsam went through several lineup changes over the years, leaving Knutson as the only constant member. They are also notable for featuring a then-unknown Jason Newsted, who was Flotsam and Jetsam's bassist from 1981 to 1986, when he left the band shortly after the release of their debut album to join Metallica.

Flotsam and Jetsam has released fourteen studio albums in their career, with the latest being 2021's Blood in the Water. Despite not achieving similar levels of commercial success as some of their thrash metal contemporaries, the band emerged as part of the second wave of the genre in the mid-to-late 1980s and has enjoyed some moderate success in the United States, with two of their albums (1988's No Place for Disgrace and 1990's When the Storm Comes Down) entering the Billboard 200 chart.

No Place for Disgrace is thematically much darker than Doomsday for the Deceiver, and while some of the band's subsequent albums have a more political edge, the lyrical content of the album was similar to its predecessor, focusing on themes centered around history and literature, as well as Satanism and the occult. No Place for Disgrace also received some notice for its cover of an Elton John song, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", and upon its release charted on Billboard at 143.

 

[Zardnaar]

At the risk of losing some of my credibility as a metalhead, I remember the first album I ever bought (it was on cassette):
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Do I need to explain what a "cassette" was? Or a "Pac-Man"? An "Arcade"? "Quarters"?!

This was probably a bad idea...

My first albums bought with my own money were...

Skid Row. Self titled.

And Poisons Flesh and Blood.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I think some of you should already know this band by name, if not this particular album....

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Flotsam and Jetsam​

Album: No Place For Disgrace (1988)

View attachment 442495

Listen Here [Note: There is a remade (not remastered) version of this album where the current members of the band replayed and re-recorded the album to get a cleaner, more modern sound. It sucks. This is the correct version, even if you prefer the new one.]

Flotsam and Jetsam is an American thrash metal band that was formed in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1981. Before settling on its current name in 1984, the band had existed under three different names, Paradox, Dredlox and Dogz. Their current lineup includes vocalist Eric "A.K" Knutson, guitarists Michael Gilbert and Steve Conley, bassist Bill Bodily, and drummer Ken Mary. Flotsam and Jetsam went through several lineup changes over the years, leaving Knutson as the only constant member. They are also notable for featuring a then-unknown Jason Newsted, who was Flotsam and Jetsam's bassist from 1981 to 1986, when he left the band shortly after the release of their debut album to join Metallica.

Flotsam and Jetsam has released fourteen studio albums in their career, with the latest being 2021's Blood in the Water. Despite not achieving similar levels of commercial success as some of their thrash metal contemporaries, the band emerged as part of the second wave of the genre in the mid-to-late 1980s and has enjoyed some moderate success in the United States, with two of their albums (1988's No Place for Disgrace and 1990's When the Storm Comes Down) entering the Billboard 200 chart.

No Place for Disgrace is thematically much darker than Doomsday for the Deceiver, and while some of the band's subsequent albums have a more political edge, the lyrical content of the album was similar to its predecessor, focusing on themes centered around history and literature, as well as Satanism and the occult. No Place for Disgrace also received some notice for its cover of an Elton John song, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", and upon its release charted on Billboard at 143.

Enjoyed my copy of No Place for Disgrace on VINYL (although I liked Doomsday for the Deceiver more) AND CASSETTE my dudes and dudesses!

The Elton John cover Saturday Nights All Right for Fighting, is my favorite version.

Also FOURTEEN STUDIO ALBUMS?!? I guess I only liked their first two...