hey, nerds
Also, saved to Warble & Hiss: https://mltshp.com/thetapes
it tool 34 pages but i found my WM-38, a "Standard, low cost Walkman in light/baby blue with Dolby B."
@cwhartman I still like tapes!!!
this is a great site!
Ah my beloved Sony WM-F63. I miss the tactile feeling of every part of it. Smooth, soft, solid and robust, even if it was a bit heavy. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
I'm sorry — THERE WAS A PINGU WALKMAN??
https://www.youtube.com/embed...
https://walkman.land/series/29
https://www.youtube.com/embed...
https://walkman.land/series/29
Bookmarking cos I have a story about this.
I tried to search for the Panasonic and Sony units I owned, but there are so many!
Found the Panasonic one. I wore it out! https://walkman.land/panasoni...
This Sony was the most important part of my freshman year of college: https://walkman.land/sony...
Travelling through Europe in 86/87 with my girl and one earplug each
I never realized just how many models there were. And I kinda forgot just how many I owned over the years. Still haven’t found my favorite old Panasonic yet, but it’s gotta be there.
@Argie dawwwww.
i spent way too much time yesterday perusing the archive, and discovering all of the 80s/90s walkin'mens i owned were far too off-brand to show up in the archives.
i never had a strong nostalgia for tapes, even though i LOVED (and often still miss) making a good mixtape. more than anything else i miss the days of having a home dual tape deck so i could dub a nice hourlong walking mix for myself or a syrupy, dramatic mix for a significant other. spending time with each track in realtime was such a lovely experience that i've never replicated since.
starting sometime in the 2010s, a lot of bands started printing their albums to cassette (because it was much cheaper for artists, maybe like $500 for 500 cassettes, as opposed to like $1500 for 100 LPs). i would often buy a cassette from a touring band, even though i didn't have a deck, and now i have a good handful of relatively new releases that i've never played physically.
one of these days, i want to go back and get a good dual deck. not right now, but one of these days when there's fun money for it.
i never had a strong nostalgia for tapes, even though i LOVED (and often still miss) making a good mixtape. more than anything else i miss the days of having a home dual tape deck so i could dub a nice hourlong walking mix for myself or a syrupy, dramatic mix for a significant other. spending time with each track in realtime was such a lovely experience that i've never replicated since.
starting sometime in the 2010s, a lot of bands started printing their albums to cassette (because it was much cheaper for artists, maybe like $500 for 500 cassettes, as opposed to like $1500 for 100 LPs). i would often buy a cassette from a touring band, even though i didn't have a deck, and now i have a good handful of relatively new releases that i've never played physically.
one of these days, i want to go back and get a good dual deck. not right now, but one of these days when there's fun money for it.
When I was a kid my parents bought me various walkmans. The first must have been a godsend, because now on long car journeys instead of me having to suffer ELO and Gladys Knight and the Pipps, and asking every five minutes "Are we there yet?", I got my own little insular world and I would listen to my own music religiously.
At one point they bought me a funny little Walkman (definitely not Sony). It had a little mute button that would dim the music and simultaneously engage a microphone. At some parts of the journey one of my parents would ask me a question which I would not hear and only when one of them turned around did I realise they had said something. I would press the mute button and politely ask "Can you repeat that please?".
Even at the time the pompousness of this was not lost on me.
At one point they bought me a funny little Walkman (definitely not Sony). It had a little mute button that would dim the music and simultaneously engage a microphone. At some parts of the journey one of my parents would ask me a question which I would not hear and only when one of them turned around did I realise they had said something. I would press the mute button and politely ask "Can you repeat that please?".
Even at the time the pompousness of this was not lost on me.
@MackReed ++
We got a pair each once we were married 😊
We got a pair each once we were married 😊
I had a bunch of these over the years through the 90's. My favorite was probably the Panasonic that recorded. I recorded a bunch of stuff from the radio that I still occasionally listen to with that, as well as a couple of concerts. I didn't find it on the site, but its probably still at my parents house.
Eventually I ended up with a high-end Sony (WM-EX677?) on closeout right around the time I was the only one who still cared about tapes. It was super tiny, had full-logic controls and Dolby B, but also had some weird slim rechargeable battery that didn't last long. It could use a AA in a sidecar setup, but it looked super clunky.