{"id":2860,"date":"2005-05-11T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/05\/11\/whats-in-your-8-track-case\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:10:23","slug":"whats-in-your-8-track-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/05\/11\/whats-in-your-8-track-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In Your 8-Track Case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to get this 8-Track tape meme out of my system, and the best way to exorcise it is to list the contents of the tape case I discovered in one of our closets last week. Read what you will into the following playlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Sabbath &#8211; <em>Paranoid<\/em> (The first heavy metal band I ever heard&#8230;and the only recording of same I ever bought.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Chase &#8211; <em>Chase<\/em> (A poor man&#8217;s version of Chicago; the screech trumpets will make your cat commit hara-kiri.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Chicago &#8211; <em>Chicago<\/em> (Next to Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears&#8217; second album, the best horn-rock recording ever.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Neil Diamond &#8211; <em>Tap Root Manuscript<\/em> (Did it years before Paul Simon.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer &#8211; <em>Pictures At An Exhibition<\/em> (What were these guys smoking?)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer &#8211; <em>Tarkus<\/em> (Ditto.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer &#8211; <em>Trilogy<\/em> (Ditto.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">The Grand Funk Railroad &#8211; <em>Time Machine<\/em> (I forgot that GFR was &#8220;The GFR.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">The London Symphony Orchestra &#8211; <em>Star Wars<\/em> (This was cool the first two thousand times I heard it.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Original Soundtrack &#8211; <em>Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/em> (Great parking music, IYKWIM.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">The Rascals &#8211; <em>Freedom Suite<\/em> (Double albums were especially cool on 8-track, since they went on forever.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">San Sebastian Strings &#8211; <em>The Earth<\/em> (By this time, Rod McKuen was either an old beatnik or a young New Ager. In any event, this one didn&#8217;t age gracefully.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Sergio Mendes &amp; Brasil &#8217;66 &#8211; <em>Greatest Hits<\/em> (Holds up better than anything else on this list.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Barbra Streisand &#8211; <em>Barbra Joan Streisand<\/em> (Before we knew her evil twin, Babs. BTW, this was the <a title=\"Gazette post: The ULTIMATE Music Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/05\/06\/the-ultimate-music-challenge\/\">infamous scanned tape<\/a>. But you knew that.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Various &#8211; <em>The Best of the Virtuoso Instrumentalists<\/em> (I have no recollection of this tape. It has an oboe concerto. What was <em>I<\/em> smoking?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to chime in if any of these albums resonate with your inner hippie.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">Technorati tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/8+track+tapes\" rel=\"tag\">8-Track Tapes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick loop through some of the 8-tracks of my youth. (Heh. &#8220;Loop.&#8221; Get it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10239,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}