Did You Own A Walkman?

[Bertuzzied]

My dad had the original walkman from Sony like the one in article.
My first walkman was from Sanyo and it had the coolest thing ever. In order to get any radio stations you had to put in the tuner yourself. It was in the shape of a cassette. hehe It is the one in the middle. Not the pink one!


AUTO REVERSE!

[Bertuzzied]

My last and prob best walkman of all time. Cost me like $600 and you could only buy it in Asia.

[Joe Nieuwendyk]

I bought a Walkman at WEM so that I could listen to game 3 of the 1989 Stanley Cup finals on the bus ride home. They lost that game...stupid Sony!

[Akai-Sesui]

The last walkman I owned was capable of skipping tracks, it was pretty damned impressive to me. It was actually lighter than the first generation CD players, so I didn't switch my portable music until I got a CD burner.
It even had an extended battery bay so that you could shove in another AA battery for extra music time.

Anyone remember MDs? Those things were pretty much a waste of time.

[awildermode]

Hide your iPod in a retro Walkman

[Kipper is King]

I have my mom's late 1980's era Walkman that I still bring to Flames games once in a blue moon when I want to listen to the radio brodcast.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by awildermode

Hide your iPod in a retro Walkman

good idea and all but you need those retro headphones to go with that.

[You Need a Thneed]

I had a walkman, and a discman without any kind of anti skip. Pretty much had to be perfectly still. I think for driving with the diskman, I brought a pillow along to set the discman on top of. I never had the latest or greatest ones though.

Some of my friends had discmans you could drop on the floor and they wouldn't skip.

[KTrain]

The art of the mix tape has been lost on the iPod generation. I can remember painstakingly picking songs, finding them on the tape and sitting beside my dual-tape ghettoblaster making sure there wasn't too much space between songs. It could take hours to put together a great mixtape.

iPod playlists may be easier but there isn't any craftsmanship in making them.

[CrusaderPi]

Remember recording songs on cassette off the radio? Now that is a forgotten art.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Oh man...I remember staying up until 10:00 in elementary so I could record AM106's Top 10 at 10, just so I could listen to it on my fancy Sony Walkman at school the next day.

I can still remember recording Mysterious Ways by U2 so that I could show my friend this awesome new song I heard. He told me it reminded him of Garfield. I think that ruined that song for me forever

[flip]

Taping songs off the radio was so ghetto. So was making plans days in advance and not calling every 5 minutes for updates on the way to said plans.

I honestly don't know how I did it. Could you imagine making plans at like 3pm and meeting someone at the theatre at 8pm and not talking in between. They'd just be expected to show up at the right time and place. Now my plans aren't concrete until I'm actually on my way, and even then it is debatable.

[4X4]

I remember having to actually talk on the phone to girlfriends. No such thing as text messaging. I was one of the really lucky kids that had a dedicated "kids line" so that my parents wouldn't be picking up the extension and telling me they needed to use the phone.

I also remember the temptation of stealing tapes from the store to get music I couldn't afford.

And if you remember the phrase "Please be kind, rewind", you're old like me.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

Remember recording songs on cassette off the radio? Now that is a forgotten art.

Oh man, that just brought back a bunch of nostalgia. I totally remember sitting beside my stereo/tape recorder with a blank tape, and Cjay92 playing. I would just sit there, listening to song after song, and everytime a song was ending, I'd have my finger on the record button, ready to quickly press it if the next song was worth recording.

That reminds me of another lost aspect of music. Do you guys remember when a new song came out and you really liked it, and you would just pray that it came on while you were in your parents car going somewhere, or listening to your stereo?...and then that amazing feeling when it finally came on?

It's just not the same now a days, where you like a new song, and immediatly go to youtube and play it a few times, then download and put it on your ipod.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by flip

Taping songs off the radio was so ghetto. So was making plans days in advance and not calling every 5 minutes for updates on the way to said plans.

I honestly don't know how I did it. Could you imagine making plans at like 3pm and meeting someone at the theatre at 8pm and not talking in between. They'd just be expected to show up at the right time and place. Now my plans aren't concrete until I'm actually on my way, and even then it is debatable.

I remember me and my friends always had things that just kind of happened. Ie: Every Sunday afternoon, you knew that if you walked up to the school, there would be kids playing street hockey. There was no phone calls, or seeing how many people were interested or anything. You just knew that it was something that happened.

Or the one green area near my house. You would just go ring the doorbell of a couple of friends in the area, then the three or four of you would saunter over there, and you knew there would be other kids playing football or soccer or some sport, if it was early evening on a weekday.

...and for movies and things like that, it was as simple as "hey lets see this movie, friday at 7pm at such and such theatre"....."sure, see you there".

Now with cell phones every little thing we do is a hassle, trying to get people together and wondering if peoples plans will change.

[burn_baby_burn]

I had a Walkman in the late 80's. It was a great way to amuse myself since I spent two hours on a school bus everyday. It was also handy on the long bus trips for high school sports. Sucked lugging all those taps around though.

[4X4]

Hoo boy, I remember when the Nintendo came out. Begging and begging my old man for a No-friend-o. Me and my buddy played Super Mario for weeks before finally passing the game. What a rush that was.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by KTrain

The art of the mix tape has been lost of the iPod generation. I can remember painstakingly picking songs, finding them on the tape and sitting beside my dual-tape ghettoblaster making sure there wasn't too much space between songs. It could take hours to put together a great mixtape.

iPod playlists may be easier but there isn't any craftsmanship in making them.

The art of the mix CD-R has been lost of the iPod generation. I can remember painstakingly picking songs, finding them among my massive 1GB hard drive and sitting beside my dual-monitor 486-computer making sure that every file had a proper tag and was normalized to a reasonable volume. It could take hours to put together a great mixCD-R, but it helped to be able to burn at 2X!!!

[an_album_cover]

Originally Posted by flip

Taping songs off the radio was so ghetto. So was making plans days in advance and not calling every 5 minutes for updates on the way to said plans.

I honestly don't know how I did it. Could you imagine making plans at like 3pm and meeting someone at the theatre at 8pm and not talking in between. They'd just be expected to show up at the right time and place. Now my plans aren't concrete until I'm actually on my way, and even then it is debatable.

Very true. One of the reasons why I ditched my "smart" phone was because I felt too connected. My phone only does calls and texts now, and I love it.

Before it was:

Person 1 @ 10:00: You still coming?
Person 2 @ 10:02: Yeah, I'm just in the car.
Person 1 @ 10:05: Cool. Where are you?
Person 2 @ 10:08: I'm just a few blocks away.
Person 1 @ 10:10: Nice. I'll be inside at the bar.
Person 2 @ 10:13: Ok. I'm just parking now.
Person 1 @ 10:15: Sweet. I'll see you inside.
Person 2 @ 10:17: I'm walking through the doors. Where are you?
Person 1 @ 10:19: Look over to your right.
Person 2 @ 10:21: Oh, there you are. Coming over.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

The art of the mix CD-R has been lost of the iPod generation. I can remember painstakingly picking songs, finding them among my massive 1GB hard drive and sitting beside my dual-monitor 486-computer making sure that every file had a proper tag and was normalized to a reasonable volume. It could take hours to put together a great mixCD-R, but it helped to be able to burn at 2X!!!

Are we talking pre-napster or post? I remember having to search for FTP sites. Then when having found a song, I had to first upload a song to the FTP just so I could have download credits to download the song. All this on a wicked fast 28.8kbps modem (or maybe it was on my 14.4 with Cadvision).

And then even before that, pre-MP3... when the closest thing you could get was a MOD file that had samples of real instruments on them. It was like a midi file, but better! Wow!