Music from the 80's and 90's
Cassette tapes. What are they, some ask. My kids got a total kick out of sifting through two grocery bags full of tapes. We had a school cancellation today, so I thought this might be fun to go through. Preparing for eBay, freecycle, etc. All you could hear in my house was the clackety-clack of plastic covers hitting each other, and my kids saying, “Wow. Who’s this?”
We’ve got a little Whitney, some Madonna, James Taylor, a whole lot of Chicago, then a few less known groups like The Church. It was a lot of fun listening to a few of the tapes, and then I hit jackpot. A recording I made with a friend at the tender age of 14, and basically throughout a 24-hour period. My brother was in the background making goofy comments, and at one point I just said, “Hey, go.” That made Abby laugh.  Strangely enough, my friend, Christine, and I said on tape, “Ooh, we should play this for our kids one day.” This is what I said at the end:
“Oh, and if one day, I have kids, if I have a girl, I don’t want to be a snot. I’ll let her go out with her friends…”Â
Abby was laughing, laughing, laughing. Ollie kept saying, “Mom? Mom? You?” and giggling.
Look at his hair?! I can’t believe we thought this was so hot then…
Ahh…Sting. We still love you.
Wow! Finding a recording of you at the age of 14 with a note to your future daughter?–priceless.
That’s hilarious! You should convert that to digital and keep it!
Richard Markx was a cutie back then….and probably still is, although I haven’t seen him around in a while. He’s just got that aged-gracefully look about him. It’s funny to see this post about cassette tapes as I just found mine the other day, packed away with a bunch of other 70s & 80s stuff. I even found my old collection of Smurf figurines….lol One of my most treasured finds, however, was a cassette tape of a high school we did for the Christmas season. I put the tape into an old tape player that I still have, closed my eyes and it was just like being there. Such good times!
Oh yeah, I saw Richard Marx in concert last October, too. He’s still cute! I think I posted a picture? http://www.julietiu.com/tag/music/
oh…by the way…I found your blog from Craft Critique. I followed the link to your blog from their site. I always like to see how people started out their blogs and the kinds of posts they had when the blog was fairly new 🙂
Thanks for visiting from Craft Critique! I love finding hidden “treasures” like cassette tapes that people have recorded themselves. My kids think it’s hilarious to hear my 12-yr old voice. And, I recently visited a little independent toy store where I found Smurf figurines! It was crazy?!