Calvin,

Download the AirCassette app in iTunes - it turns you iPhone into a cassette tape - it even gives you the choice of SONY, AGFA or BASF Cassettes!!!!!!!  Real fun!

Peter wrote:

Dire Straits - Making Movies.

 

How can that not be great - it mentions Whitley Bay!!

Easily the best album Dire Straits ever made. Classic!

NewOrder---Blue Monday

Soft Cell----Tainted Llove

Tracks the never age!

"Closer" by Joy Division!

Or, just the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart", which oddly isn't on either of their studio albums.

I'd like to lodge an official complaint about some of the truly awful selections in this thread!

What tapes do you use and what deck do you record on?

You might look into the Beocord 8000 range if you like the 80's!

Puncher wrote:

I'd like to lodge an official complaint about some of the truly awful selections in this thread!

Well, the original premise was that it was a terrible year - I'm glad to not remember so much 😁

@Puncher lol - And quite a few of them aren't 1980 but 1979 album releases that only got a 7" pressing come the new year.  I'll add Brass In Pocket by The Pretenders as one a friend recommended.

Even still, my initial point stands - if you took all the tracks mentioned here, sifted the 1979/81 tracks out and stuck them in a playlist, you'd only just about fill a 90 minute tape, which is a bit shoddy really given what happened before and after.

I've got a BeoSystem 5500 which is the right era, although I generally prefer the 70s, designwise and musically.  I did look at that BC8000 at the time I bought the system though.

Tapeswise, it's a stack of Maxell 90m which I have no idea about quality wise, thought I think they're just a generic brand.  Frankly, I'm not going to defend the format from an audiophile perspective anyway, I just like the physicality.

Calvin wrote:

Tapeswise, it's a stack of Maxell 90m which I have no idea about quality wise, thought I think they're just a generic brand.  Frankly, I'm not going to defend the format from an audiophile perspective anyway, I just like the physicality.

Maxell was one of the top 5 tape brands, up there with TDK, BASF and Sony.