8-Track Tapes From The '80s

Contrary to popular legend, the 8-Track wasn't quite dead in the 1980s. It was dying and on life support. They were phased out by the major labels for retail sale by 1983. But not truly dead until 1988 when the very last licensed manufacturer of new commercial 8-Track music tapes, the RCA Music Club quietly discontinued them.

Remember May Day Baskets?

Remember when we used to make May Day Baskets out of brightly coloured construction paper and our crayons?

It was a lot more fun than getting decked upside the head by some dreadlocked anarchy dude from down in Eugene, OR who came up to pick a fight in Seattle on you because you LOOK like a capitalist (and sometimes, LESS than they do) on an otherwise perfectly good Thursday night when you actually kinda felt for them and would love to help them figure things out if they would just CALM DOWN!

Good times.....

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How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak Out Party

I remember encountering this record at a vintage record shop I worked in back in the '80s. How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak Out Party (in that order?) is one of the very first records that I suspect was deliberately targeted towards the "chemically altered". And as you would expect, the stereo left/right panning is used codependently. And to extremes.

Nothing else is known about The Unfolding and it's not clear if they were an actual group or a one-off assembling of studio musicians.

But without the psychoactive drugs, this record doesn't induce much more than a headache. But if you got 'em (or just curious), you can hear it here.

Oneophile Records

If you're a beer guzzler, this probably isn't for you. So go back to your Motley Crue albums. I'll have something for you later on this week.

This one's for the classy people....

If you love wine, fine cuisine and the good life, you'll be happy to know through the miracle of the vinyl LP record, selecting and serving wine has never been easier.

In the late 1960s, a couple albums were released targeting the oneophile or wine connoisseur.  The first is On Wine by Peter Sichel (Columbia Special Products, 1966).

(This is Side One of this album. Side Two, which isn't included had light classical and jazz music. Presumably the stuff that goes good with wine.)

 

Basically, if you're confused on what wine to serve with what food, these records will set you straight. I for one am not a huge wine drinker (more of a beer or bourbon type.) 

 

Tho other is The Joy Of Wine by Alex Lichine (MGM Records, 1967)

 

 

 You can hear the complete double album here. (Thanks to WFMU's Beware of The Blog.)