Next in the stack: An 1800-foot 3M\/Scotch tape in an unlabeled box. There’s an enclosed song list, though, calling it “Album Assortment,” which says that Side 1 is Pink Floyd’s “Animals,” “New World Record” by the Electric Light Orchestra, and the first four songs from Foreigner’s self-titled album.<\/p>\n
Side 2, it says, is “Leftoverture” by Kansas, “Hotel California” by the Eagles, and two singles: “Outlaw Man” (more Eagles) and “We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet” by the Blues Magoos.<\/p>\n
The list (which has most but not all of the individual track titles) is accurate. For most of the tape there’s no perceptible tape noise at all — that’s what happens when you use high-quality tape and a decent stereo to record an album. However, there’s some slight “muffling” due to high-frequency loss, especially on “New World Record.”<\/p>\n
I already had “Animals” and “Leftoverture,” and the other stuff is all available fairly cheap, so I thought I might just toss this and buy the rest, instead of spending my time editing.<\/p>\n
But naah. I didn’t edit and save “New World Record” or “Foreigner,” but I went ahead with “Hotel California” — it was such a clean recording it seemed stupid to waste it.<\/p>\n
I knew I had “Outlaw Man” on “Desperado,” so that went straight into the bit bucket. Turns out I also already had the Blues Magoos song — that was from one of my own singles. Didn’t catch that initially. I MP3ed it, then realized the duplication and tossed the new copy.<\/p>\n
Still haven’t decided whether I want to bother going back to “New World Record” or the fragment of “Foreigner.” I saved the Audacity file, just in case I decide I do.<\/p>\n
The tape, though, is finished and discarded.<\/p>\n
That leaves thirty-five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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