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    Question What's in Your 8 Track Collection?

    Thought this would be a good, and funny topic from other discussions on what gear people used to own in previous threads. So now lets talk about the Music. What is in your 8 track collection?
    I will post my collection tomorrow.



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    I sent mine off to a friend in the Midwest, a car player and a Fisher home deck. He had asked me once to recommend a high-end 8 track player...I was actually speechless. I explained to him later that it was an inherently flawed design, and the wow & flutter actually mattered to some people, but he digs it so he paid for the shipping.

    The only tapes I remember distinctly were:

    Kansas- Leftoverture

    John Denver- Greatest Hits

    Boston- Boston

    Spike Jones Collection

    ...and some Perry Como, Acker Bilk, Yakety Sax, Herb Alpert and Hawaiian Love Songs my folks had.

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    Kraftwerk - Autobahn - (what else?) for the long drives between DC and Columbia SC circa 73-74
    Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
    Bonnie Rait - Give it Up!

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    God, once cassette came out, 8 tracks hit the trash can. When I graduated in 73 I had 69 Plymouth GTX had factory 8 track. Home unit was a Craig, Had Akia X1810 reel to reel that also had 8 track on the side of unit.

    Tapes ranged from Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Grass Roots, Guess Who Beach Boys Ten Years After, etc. Out of all of them, still to this day use vinyl the most....

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    Oddly enough, I had (and still have) a Sony home 8-track recorder, so many of my 8-track tapes are home-made. I stumbled upon the odd machine a while back, along with a box of tapes. I hooked it up to play as more of a novelty for my kids and it worked quite well, using the store-bought tapes from the box, until it got to the first splice/track-change contact, where the splice failed and tape ran everywhere. This happened on the next two tapes until I wasn't having fun anymore and quit flagellating myself. The tapes in question were Youngbloods Elephant Mountain, Led Zep II, and one less memorable. Anyone else still have a reaction when listening to CDs you had on 8-track when you hit the track change in your brain but the CD doesn't have the pause or the clunk?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWCCA View Post
    8-track - When you hit the track change in your brain but the CD doesn't have the pause or the clunk?
    You could hear it from across the room (CLUNK)

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWCCA View Post
    Oddly enough, I had (and still have) a Sony home 8-track recorder,
    A couple of weeks ago, bot a Poneer 8track recorder in nearly perfect shape that has DOLBY-B in it, with calibration test tone.
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