Ruthless rummaging in the music o' youth
Mar. 2nd, 2011 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongIn my ongoing attempts to clean out 'stuff' we aren't using, I tackled two large drawers stuffed with audio cassette tapes that we had from mine and the mister's youthfuller days. Tried to be ruthless, which is difficult when sidetracked by "Wow! I remember when I first got this tape back when I was in high school..." type bursts from the past.
Filled a grocery bag halfway with tapes to toss into an upcoming rummage sale (go me!). Made a stack of tapes we decided we really *would* like to listen to again and then plugged a small stack of money into ordering those albums on cd before adding them to their tapey brethren in the bag. Reluctantly pried out of my parentally nostalgic fingers a lot of kiddie tapes (Awww, remember when (insert child's name who is now a teenager) used to sing along with this when she was a toddler....?), etc.
Gads. Did I really used to listen to Barry Manilow? Scott Wesley Brown? Oooold Manhatten Transfer? Guess my tastes have changed. I *did* order a cheap cd of 'world's greatest polkas' and got rid of the polka tapes I got from my grandma, heh... guess if a polka breaks out, we can supply the music, heaven forbid my grandmother's granddaughter would not have at least one polka album in her collection. ;-)
And why is there STILL an entire drawer full? >_< Not fair.
Filled a grocery bag halfway with tapes to toss into an upcoming rummage sale (go me!). Made a stack of tapes we decided we really *would* like to listen to again and then plugged a small stack of money into ordering those albums on cd before adding them to their tapey brethren in the bag. Reluctantly pried out of my parentally nostalgic fingers a lot of kiddie tapes (Awww, remember when (insert child's name who is now a teenager) used to sing along with this when she was a toddler....?), etc.
Gads. Did I really used to listen to Barry Manilow? Scott Wesley Brown? Oooold Manhatten Transfer? Guess my tastes have changed. I *did* order a cheap cd of 'world's greatest polkas' and got rid of the polka tapes I got from my grandma, heh... guess if a polka breaks out, we can supply the music, heaven forbid my grandmother's granddaughter would not have at least one polka album in her collection. ;-)
And why is there STILL an entire drawer full? >_< Not fair.
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Date: 2011-03-03 04:05 pm (UTC)It's soooo hard to jettison things that you once thought important. Not so much the getting rid of them as the getting distracted walking down memory lane while attempting to do so. ;-)
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Date: 2011-03-04 02:37 pm (UTC)And yes, dear old Scott Wesley Brown was quite a hit back in the early 80s but he just didn't make the cut. Still like his rendition of Pooh Corner, tho'...
:-)
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Date: 2011-03-03 10:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-04 02:39 pm (UTC)And lol on going backwards - I just added an Andrews Sisters album...