In 2012, my dad started giving a few of his cassette tapes each week and it began my love for cassettes. Since 2016, I've had some time to get back into cassette tapes, and here are 5 albums I got into on cassette.
1: Simon Townshend - Simon Townshend's Moving Target (1985)
This was always album that I had phases with because I never had enough time to finish it. In January 2016, during a day when we decided to stay home from the record store and explore our own collection, and I went digging for cassette tapes and I dug this album out. I finally made some time to listen to it and it soon became one of my favorite albums. This was actually at a time when I only listened to this and Honey Davis exclusively, since I was really heavily into playing the computer game, Fate.
2: Axe - Nemesis (1983)
I recall listening to this album after I had found it along with albums by Blackfoot, Bow Wow Wow, and Lizzy Borden. During one of my earliest experiences listening to it, I knew it was something special and I fell in love with it!! I love "I Think You'll Remember" tonight on an unbelievable level. The whole album has an awesome flow to it, and is surprisingly scarce to come by these days. I got lucky that my dad had an original cassette copy that still worked by the time I had found it.
3: Platinum Blonde - Alien Shores (1985)
This was another tape that my dad let me borrow in 2012. It was a similar scenario to Simon Townshend, where I didn't have a lot of time to listen to it, but I got back into it recently. It's a really good listen. When my brother made his first mixtape, he actually put "Crying Over You" on it, after I had let him borrow my phone to create a mixtape.
4: Highly Suspect - The Boy Who Died Wolf (2016)
My dad had gotten two copies of this album on cassette from a record store pal of ours, and he gave me the extra one. I knew of Highly Suspect, but I didn't initially get into them when Mister Asylum was released. Once I had listened to this album, everything changed. It has a bizarre landscape to it, and it's just awesome in general.
5: Honey Davis - Honey Davis (1993)
When my dad first told about Honey Davis, I kept the name in the back of my mind. During one of my cassette digging days, I found a tape of it and I soon fell in love with it because of how original it was. I was surprised at how it became all I listened to for months at a time, mainly because it seems like something outside of my usual listening genre. If I hadn't been open minded then, I never would've checked it out and fallen in love with it. Also, the songs on that tape were from the late 1980s, but the songs weren't compiled like this until they were on this specific tape in 1993. This tape is more of a anthology done in an album style format, but it's awesome nonetheless.
