And you’re standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
— David Byrne
(1) A quote from Earthbound by Paul Morley:
“Neat and tidy, if hissy and fragile, cassettes possessed a plastic dinkiness that verged on the toylike, but there was also something mysteriously sophisticated and definitely capable about them. They were then in the process of seeing off bloated, colourless eight-track cartridges as a format for pre-recorded music, having become the main commercial support for the vinyl album. Cassettes themselves were a relatively young format; introduced in 1963 by the Dutch electronics company Philips, mainly for dictating machines, pre-recorded album cassettes were introduced commercially in Europe at the end of 1965. This was forty years after the introduction of electrical recording, and the transferring of sound-wave patterns into electricity, the very beginnings of unlimited amplification – previously, there had been no method of turning a small sound into a bigger one for the purpose of recording it.”
(2) YouTube Appropriate Playlist:
- Fringe Intro [1985] [HD]
- Only You (Yazoo)
- Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (Cocteau Twins)
- We Got The Beat (The Go-Go’s)
- This Must Be The Place (Talking Heads)