Re: the Official Nikki Nova thread
Oh 8 tracks were a BIG part of my childhood with my grandmama. She lived way out in the boonies and it took us like FOREVER just to get to the general store and that was in an old house. On the porch there was an old coke machine that dispense bottels and old men sitting around reading the paper and talking and playing cards and checkers and women of course were gossiping. I have always been and still am close VERY to my grandparents. They are everything to me, being as though my parents weren't really around. Anyway I remember she would always let me pic the 8 track when I was her co-pilot but it was always a standard choice of about 10 and they were all country music of course. In all fairness though..OLD country music is pretty fucking awesome. It had twang and soul and blues and humor. Today it's like really bad,cheesy wanna be redneck pop. Just sayin...
WOW!!!! Another person who remembers 8-Tracks (who??? and I are not alone)! Like I said earlier, I never actually owned one...don't think my mom or grandmother did either, they were strictly vinyl...BUT, my neighbors and this one woman who used to babysit me had a lot of them....so I am well versed in them. The surprising thing to some might be that music sounded pretty good on 8-Tracks if memory serves me right. Funny thing, though I DID own cassettes....I always forget them...I remember vinyl (they still actually make them on a limited basis), 8-Tracks, and CDs & MP3s of course....but I forget about cassettes for some reason. Probably all of the bad memories when the tape got all messed up and I had to TRY to get the tape wound back into it! Ha ha ha!
Needless to say, as I was raised in the country, country music was a big part of my early years (before I began to branch out). Too much of todays music is nothing more than autotuned and processed GARBAGE! That's why I almost always listen to strictly old stuff. Classic Country is one of my all-time favorite genres! Give me Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline...well you get the picture any day over a lot of the garbage that's out there today. Heck a lot of the stuff I listen to is before my time even...but it doesn't make it any less AWESOME! Needless to say, when I'm out and about, there's an even chance that I'll have the "Country Legends" station on in my truck. But, I listen to alt., grunge, punk, metal, classic rock, well you know....ha ha ha! I don't think you could classify my tastes in music...just like you...just too incredibly varried! Fortunately for us though...neither of us is into the shit that passes itself off as music these days! I was just thanking myself the other day when I was listening to the Pixies again (because of you planting the seed on MFC of course) that I didn't listen to shit in my youth...I mean every generation has some shitty music...it just seems like the recent generations are trying to corner the market! Ha ha ha!
And, like I said, I grew up in the country....so I more than remember the old coke machines with the glass bottles...good memories actually. In my hometown...there was a restaurant called the Blain Hotel (used to rent rooms...still do during hunting season)....and that was where the adults used to hang out, drinking coffee, and gossiping all day! I think they knew my business before I did sometimes. Ha ha ha! Sadly, they would have been better off playing cards and checkers like you remember...I didn't see a lot of that in my countrified hometown. But alot of what you remember, I can relate to also...I grew up in PA, but a part of it that was quite similar to the south (aside from climate that is).
but, by 8-tracks you mean the small vinyls of 45/78 speed sound??? :dunno: