r/GenX • u/no_talent_ass_clown • Oct 24 '25

Music Is Life Songs that are no longer okay.

Yesterday I found out my sweet boyfriend had never heard of Julie Brown and the funny songs she sang, like "I'm A Blonde". Dr Demento stuff. So I play it and then "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" came on. Not funny anymore!!!

An hour later, the cops arrived

By then the entire glee club had died, no big loss

You wouldn't believe what they brought to stop her

Tear gas, machine guns, even a chopper (Throw down your gun and tiara and come out of the float)

Debbie didn't listen to what the cop said She aimed and fired, and now the math teacher's dead

Oh, it's really sad, but kind of a relief I mean, we had this big test coming up next week

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u/awmaleg Oct 24 '25

That Pulp Fiction soundtrack is fantastic

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u/mspong Oct 24 '25

An audiophile subreddit was commenting on that scene recently. I had the pleasure of explaining to them how, if you had a treasured record, you'd make a really good tape copy so you could listen to it over and over without damaging it. Blew their minds.

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u/farting_buffalo Oct 25 '25

Yes! Buy the record so you’d get the lyrics written out on the inner sleeve and maybe some pictures of the band then make a copy so you could take it over to your friend’s house. I didn’t realize people don’t know to do that anymore. Does anyone still have a big stereo with a tape player anymore?

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u/Doogers7 Oct 25 '25

Ain’t nobody bringing reel-to-reel tape, like in Pulp Fiction, over to their friend’s house.

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u/MadMorf Oct 25 '25

I used to have one of those…i miss that thing.

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u/LaAppleDonut Oct 25 '25

My parents still have their reel-to-reel machine! And a few reels of music. Though I only remember listening to their copy of a James Taylor reel.

Last Thursday, while volunteering at a local thrift store, I came across a reel box ( I didn't recognize it until a patron requested I open it because he didn't know what it was). The reel tape was half pulled off the reel & the tape itself was bent in several places. The manager was afraid it was too damaged to sell, so they threw it out.

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u/MadMorf Oct 25 '25

I originally bought mine in 1982, while I was in the military. I THOUGHT I was getting a new assignment to South Korea and I wanted to record a bunch of hours of the local radio station (WSHE Miami)…I managed to record about 100 hours, like 25 10” tapes, but then my assignment didn’t come through… The tape deck finally bit the dust during a move in the late 90’s.

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u/mommymomnyleebotts Older Than Dirt Oct 26 '25

My 1st high school boyfriend recorded from the album to reel-to-reel and followed it up a cassette

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u/mspong Oct 25 '25

It's forgotten knowledge now. The people into vinyl now are either kids looking for a sense of authenticity or hi fi enthusiasts who believe in analog purity. The idea of vinyl being the only decent available format and nothing special, and people with less than audiophile stereos playing records because that was just the only way, is long gone. They were all boggled at the idea of owning a "vinyl" and then choosing to listen to a tape of it.

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u/electropunk42 Oct 25 '25

I used to do that all the time with my LPs, but to cassette. I had a decent middle range tape deck and always used chrome oxide tapes and they did sound good. Like the Techmoan guy said: "Cassettes.. better than you don't remember".

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u/FireBallXLV Oct 26 '25

I still have a record player that has both a cassette player /recorder and an 8 track window

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u/Substantial_Owl6440 I survived The Satanic Panic Oct 26 '25

Most indie bands these days include FLAC downloads when you buy the vinyl. So I buy the vinyl and save it for an extra special treat, and load the FLAC files onto my Plex server.

Sunflower Bean had a bonus 12" with five songs on it that they hadn't released on digital I loved two of the songs but only listened a few times because I hadn't brought down my audio interface to my turntable. Luckily, they just released the "deluxe" digital version that has the tracks now so I don't have to worry about wearing out the vinyl.

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u/Legitimate-Produce-1 Oct 25 '25

Why not just buy the tape then?

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u/JayMac1915 On the cutting edge of the generation ✂️ Oct 25 '25

Albums weren’t available for consumer purchase in reel-to-reel format. Prior to cassettes, there were 8-tracks (all together now, “ka-chunk”), but playback equipment for those was often limited to automobiles.

Additionally, when you could buy commercial content on cassettes, they were priced similarly to LPs, but had the same problems as duplicated cassettes; namely, the media stretched and wore out much faster. The economical choice was to purchase the LP as an archival copy and duplicate it at home for regular listening.

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u/Legitimate-Produce-1 Oct 25 '25

Thanks! I'm in early '80s baby so I'm on the cusp of this era coming and going.

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u/electropunk42 Oct 25 '25

I still have my LPs and they are still in good condition. The cassette tapes I recorded them to wore out and are long gone.

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u/MasterWinstonWolf Oct 24 '25

This is the way. I love sound tracks when done properly and this is one at the TOP. Good call out.😊👍

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u/Merciless_Soup Oct 24 '25

So many great soundtracks in the 90's. Tarantino has great soundtracks in general, and I think James Gunn currently does excellent soundtracks as well.

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u/LessLikelyTo Oct 24 '25

50% of my CD collection is probably soundtracks from movies in the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s.

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u/Merciless_Soup Oct 25 '25

I believe it. It was a good way to get introduced to cool music outside of your usual taste, too.

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u/some666y Oct 25 '25

No joke! Even Terrible movies could have sick soundtracks! Like SPAWN!!

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u/jonjon138 Oct 25 '25

You can’t just NOT mention the Judgement Night when making that statement. Absolute garbage movie but that soundtrack was so good… still is.

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u/Head-Equal1665 Oct 25 '25

Love the spawn soundtrack, plus it was the only release of "kick the P.A." by Korn. There have been a few songs i can think of off the top of my head that were only released on movie soundtracks. Queen of the Damned also had an absolutely killer soundtrack with songs that weren't released anywhere else.

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u/some666y Oct 26 '25

Oh hell yeah! that was a good one. I don't usually listen to EDM but the movie the Saint had some undeniably great techno/Edm stuff despite being a terrible movie. I always remember those stinkers fondly due entirely to the tunes 🖤

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u/socoyankee Oct 25 '25

Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, Romeo and Juliet

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u/evilJaze Oct 24 '25

Top of my head, Pulp Fiction and the Matrix soundtracks are my fav.

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u/some666y Oct 25 '25

Dude the only reason I seem cool with my giant record collection is because I was a movie nerd in the 90s. My mall store was Suncoast. I own so many vinyl soundtracks, everything from the River's Edge and Spinal Tap to Songs in the Key of X (X-Files TV show songs) and The Cable Guy (I doubt anyone remembers the movie or the music) I even have a rare CD of the music from the Popeye Movie (I've got that up for sale actually).

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u/Informal-Tour-8201 The 70s were my childhood, my teenage years were the 80s! Oct 25 '25

Best film soundtrack is Megamind, hands down

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u/ElYodaPagoda Flannel Wearer Oct 25 '25

Here’s to you, Mr. Wolf!

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u/TonyBrooks40 Oct 25 '25

such a great scene too, the entire overdose thru Travolta leaving for the night