The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!

[jingle.boy]

Let's see if we can name them all:

Starting with Row 1
New Jersey
Keep the Faith
7800 Farenheit
Coverdale/Page
Pyromania

Row 2
Retroactive
Brothers in Arms
Eat 'em and Smile
A Lil Ain't Enough
Skyscraper
Damn Yankees
Out of this World

Row 3
Prisoners in Paradis
3 Sides to Every Story
Twice Shy
Killers
Alive III
Crazy Nights
Hot in the Shade
<dunno the Lynch Mob one>

Row 4
Marching Out
Rising Force
Shout at the Devil
No More Tears
<I'm ashamed I don't know more of the Ozzy ones  >

Row 5
Native Tongue
Open up and Say ... Ahh!
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Rage for Order
Crazy World
<handful of Savatage - I don't know them to see them, but have all the albums>
Flying in a Blue Dream
Surfing with the Alien

Row 6
Slave to the Grind
0U812
Right Here, Right Now
Diver Down
FUCK
1984
5150
Passion and Warfare

Row 7
Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake
Pull
Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking, Rich

There's a few more in there I recognize, but they're just on the tip of my tongue.

That was fun.  Who can fill in the blanks?

[Kwyjibo]

From the back of my head (my additional guesses in Italics):

Starting with Row 1
Never Neverland
?
?
New Jersey
Keep the Faith
7800 Farenheit
Into The Fire
?
Coverdale/Page
Pyromania High ‘n Dry

Row 2
Beast From The East
Retroactive
Brothers in Arms
Eat 'em and Smile
A Lil Ain't Enough
Skyscraper
Damn Yankees
Slaves And Masters
?
Out of this World

Row 3
Prisoners in Paradis
3 Sides to Every Story
?
Twice Shy
Painkiller
Guitar Shop
Killers
Alive III
Crazy Nights
Hot in the Shade
Wicked Sensation

Row 4
?
Marching Out
Rising Force
Fire & Ice
Shout at the Devil
?
?
No More Tears
No Rest For The Wicked
?
Bark At The Moon
The Ultimate Sin
?

Row 5
Native Tongue
Open up and Say ... Ahh!
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Rage for Order
?
Crazy World
Power Of The Night
Gutter Ballett
Hall Of The Mountain King
Streets
Flying in a Blue Dream
Surfing with the Alien
The Extremist

Row 6
?
Slave to the Grind
?
0U812
Right Here, Right Now
Van Halen II
Diver Down
FUCK
1984
Women And Children First/Fair Warning
5150
Passion and Warfare
Saints And Sinners

Row 7
Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake
Pull
Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking, Rich

That's it for now. With some thinking and research I would probably recognize more.

[MoraWintersoul]

If recognizing those and owning stuff on tapes is the official fogey criteria... well...

no, seriously, CDs didn't get here until the early 2000's or so, along with PCs. My brother used to record stuff from the radio onto the empty cassettes. And my favorite was the transition from Christina Aguilera to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grx08ehxXMM

[Kwyjibo]

Recording stuff from the radio and yelling at the DJ if he/she talked into the end of the song For years and years this was the only way to obtain music, apart from buying. And buying was expensive and money was scarce in my teenage years. There was no internet, there was no MP3, there was no downloading. And yet we knew about our favorite bands, I wonder how we did it?

[jingle.boy]

If recognizing those and owning stuff on tapes is the official fogey criteria... well...

It's not... it was just fun to do.

no, seriously, CDs didn't get here until the early 2000's or so, =Grx08ehxXMM

Wow!  I bought my first CD (Eat 'em and Smile) in 1987.  In fact, I went straight from vinyl to CDs.  I never really had much of a tape collection (other than the mixed tapes I made/traded)

Recording stuff from the radio and yelling at the DJ if he/she talked into the end of the song

Oh god yes.  The that would happen when they did this, followed by the when you finally got a completely 'clean' recording with no DJ.  Calling in to make your requests, and getting your voice on the radio with the song was a perfectly acceptable compromise though.  I chuckle that some radio stations still do "all-request lunch hour" type of programming.  Who the fuck needs to call into the radio to listen to a song they want to hear these days??

[MoraWintersoul]

no, seriously, CDs didn't get here until the early 2000's or so

Wow!  I bought my first CD (Eat 'em and Smile) in 1987.  In fact, I went straight from vinyl to CDs.  I never really had much of a tape collection (other than the mixed tapes I made/traded)

I'm sure some people had them, just not us regular mortals

[King Postwhore]

Recording stuff from the radio and yelling at the DJ if he/she talked into the end of the song

So, so many times did I do that!

[hefdaddy42]

I remember recording on cassette an acoustic radio performance by Joe Satriani.  Had to be the late 80s or early 90s.  I forget the radio show.

That was a cool tape.

Of course, I would also record my favorite music videos on VHS from MTV.  I know I wasn't the only one.

[Another_Won]

no, seriously, CDs didn't get here until the early 2000's or so

Wow!  I bought my first CD (Eat 'em and Smile) in 1987.  In fact, I went straight from vinyl to CDs.  I never really had much of a tape collection (other than the mixed tapes I made/traded)

I'm sure some people had them, just not us regular mortals

I remember getting my first CD Carousel around 1989 or 90 and thought I was late to the game

[jingle.boy]

I remember recording on cassette an acoustic radio performance by Joe Satriani.  Had to be the late 80s or early 90s.  I forget the radio show.

That was a cool tape.

Of course, I would also record my favorite music videos on VHS from MTV.  I know I wasn't the only one.

Well, I recorded on Much Music.  They did these 30 minute spots featuring an entire artist.  You usually got 4-5 videos, with a few interviews as well.  That's how I discovered a lot of music in the mid-late 80s.

[hefdaddy42]

 

[King Postwhore]

You wouldn't believe the video tapes I had of the Saturday night concerts MTV aired.  I remember they simulcasted them on Radio as well.  I also taped every band I loved when they were on the late night talk show circuit.  Can't stay up for those anymore.

[El Barto]

Row 4
?
Marching Out
Rising Force
Fire & Ice
Shout at the Devil
?
?
No More Tears
No Rest For The Wicked
Speak of the Devil
Bark At The Moon
The Ultimate Sin
?

[TAC]

Recording stuff from the radio and yelling at the DJ if he/she talked into the end of the song

Oh god yes.  The that would happen when they did this, followed by the when you finally got a completely 'clean' recording with no DJ.  Calling in to make your requests, and getting your voice on the radio with the song was a perfectly acceptable compromise though.  I chuckle that some radio stations still do "all-request lunch hour" type of programming.  Who the fuck needs to call into the radio to listen to a song they want to hear these days??

Even before internal recording, I remember standing in my kitchen as a kid holding the microphone up to the radio. Kind of tough trying to press record too.

A TAC secret is that one of the songs on my first mix tape recorded from the radio was Funkytown by Lipps Inc! (Ok Joe take your best shot, I'm ready for ya!)

Also on it was Alice Cooper's Clones and Cristopher Cross' Ride Like The Wind, which was just given the killer treatment by Saxon on their latest live album.

[King Postwhore]

Tim, how can I make fun of you about that. 


I know you were a K-Tel lover.



Oh wait.....

[TAC]

I won this album from JB 105 in Providence when I was like 11.
It was LOADED with awesome tunes.

Still have it in the attic!!

[King Postwhore]

OUTED!!








Me too!

[wolfking]

Damn, I gotta wait another 10 years to join this now?    I'll probably be around then though.

[El Barto]

So how many had the Masters of Metal compilation tape, with Trashed, Meanstreak, Breaking the Chains, et al? I'm guessing more than half.

[King Postwhore]

I did.  That was a great album.

[TAC]

I think by that point, I made my own Mix tapes. I wouldn't buy a compilation of stuff I already had.

Any of you guys have these Live Compilations?
I played the shit out of both.

[King Postwhore]

Damn Tim, I had neither! 

[Jaq]

I won this album from JB 105 in Providence when I was like 11.
It was LOADED with awesome tunes.

Still have it in the attic!!

My best friend had this album when we were in high school 

[TAC]

 

Cat Scratch Fever, Slow Ride, Tush, The Grand Illusion, Jungle Love

Lots of great tracks.

[King Postwhore]

Jungle Love was the 1st 45 I ever owned that I bought with my own money.

Perks for cleaning my room.

[TAC]

Jungle Love was the 1st 45 I ever owned that I bought with my own money.

Perks for cleaning my room.

Household chores. The easiest way to buy music when you were in grade school!

My father took me to buy my first album Kiss Alive II for raking the grass.

[King Postwhore]

I bought Kiss Alive 2 with a Beach Boys compilation.

[TAC]

I guess we know which one won!

[Tick]

1st record I bought was a 45 of "Hocus Pocus, by Focus"
1st album was Rock and Roll Over by Kiss!

[Orbert]

When I was eleven years old, I bought two 45's with saved-up allowance.  They were fun, but I started buying albums immediately after that.  I guess even then, I was about exploring what a band was all about, not just the hits.  I started my paper route shortly after that, and made $22 a week, which was a lot of money to a junior high kid in 1973.  Albums were about five bucks each, so that was four albums including tax, per week.  In my 20's, I bought a third 45 because it was a song I knew and loved and they were a one-hit wonder, and this was still long before mp3's and Internet downloads, so I had to nab it.  That's it.  I own three singles and hundreds of albums.

I never bought albums on cassette.  I bought blank cassettes and recorded albums onto them.  The vinyl was better quality for at home, and a good C-90 gave you better quality in the car, so win-win.  You found two albums that went together and put one on each side.

I didn't buy my own car until I was 20, but the first thing I did was upgrade the sound because factory audio back then sucked.  It was a Sony FTU-32 Auto-Reverse cassette deck with "high-power" sound.  It's all about the music, baby.  Always has been.

[TAC]

I bet $22 was a lot of money in 1973. I had my paper route in 1983. Made about $20 plus tips a week delivering about 40 homes.
And it was all about spending it on music.

[Orbert]

You know it. 

I still remember riding my bike to the shopping center near my house.  The pharmacy, for whatever reason, had a few racks of albums in the back, and I'd go through them every week.  Most were $5, but some were $4 or even $3, so I ended up checking out a lot of music I wouldn't have otherwise, just because it was a deal.

[King Postwhore]

We used to walk 30 minutes to this bus station, to take a bus for 30 minutes just to go to the mall to buy albums.

Thankfully, I got my license!

[TAC]

Yeah, we always had to go to the mall which was 4 towns over. But we'd go every weekend and buy music. And to O's point, the bargain bin at Woolworth's was always a must rummage. Found Slade, The Sweet, Lucifer's Friend, Wrabbit, and Accept in that bin!!

Also, we used to bet and win on this.:

I would play with my paper route money and basically double up every week. On a good night, that allowed me to make a purchase out of the Import Bin!

[King Postwhore]

My brother and I would get real competitive on that hockey game.  Always played it at Salisbury Beach in Mass.  Dad was always willing to blow quarters on us kids.