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Member	Item		Review/Comment
TopPopper 12th Jul 2016		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - A Hard Days Night (1964)	Spare a thought for those of us brought up on the gold-inlay cassettes. We got nothing like that either - and not even a decent-sized cover image!
TopPopper 22nd Nov 2015		Cassette Album Dave Bryant - God Likes Me (1982)	God's supposed to love everyone. If he merely likes this guy, I want to know why.
TopPopper 12th Oct 2015		Cassette Album Wings - London Town	Saw an episode of the Simpsons tonight and Homer (as a younger guy) had a t-shirt with this logo on. Update: actually it's slightly different, but I wonder if there's a connection? see here
TopPopper 2nd Sep 2015		8-Track The Beatles - Please Please Me (1972)	I have dated this to 1972, as per this, and because everything adds up including the 1E number. I presume it has a gold inlay.
TopPopper 24th Jun 2015		Cassette Album The Beatles - 20 Greatest Hits (1982)	Added - scans of the later edition with the boxed logo. I don't agree this compilation was pointless. In fact it was the first Beatles greatest hits album available in the UK. (Excluding of course 1962-66 and 1967-70, which were four LPs in two double albums, and therefore rather expensive.) This one had "Love Me Do" in its anniversary year, plus all the UK number 1 singles in one package.
TopPopper 25th Apr 2015		8-Track The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1972)	I think the first release was 1969 (see here), not 1967. Anyone disagree? If not, I'll change it.
TopPopper 3rd Mar 2015		Cassette Album The Beach Boys - The Capitol Years	Is that what you meant? It IS possible to re-order the images, but I thought you were asking for them to display in two rows of three, to make up the bigger picture. As it is now, this would work, but depending what size browser/monitor people are viewing it on.
TopPopper 3rd Mar 2015		Cassette Album The Beach Boys - The Capitol Years	I don't think it's possible to arrange the images to get all six in the right place. How they display depends on the screen they are being viewed on. Try pulling the edge of your browser window to a different size, and you'll see what I mean. The way to do it would be to photograph them together and upload that as a single image.
TopPopper 18th Jan 2015		8-Track Los Beatles - Rubber Soul	Nice. Any chance of an image of the front, too?
TopPopper 12th Nov 2014		Cassette Album Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Upstairs (2014)	Cassettes trendy again? Record Store Day release on the format. Here's the vinyl. And here's a CD edition.
TopPopper 2nd Nov 2014		Cassette Album The Kinks - Golden Hour Of The Kinks (1973)	It's probably just a common or garden inaccuracy. Don't forget Golden Hour was something of a budget line.
TopPopper 29th Oct 2014		Cassette Album Cast (The Goon Show) - Goon Show Classics 5 (1990)	You can hear and/or download just about all the Goon Shows which survive here, including these ones.
TopPopper 28th Oct 2014		Cassette Album Johnny Morris - Johnny Morris Stories	I remember in class (late 1970s up to around 1980) we would all gather round a cassette player and listen to stories. Not Johnny Morris in my case, but I remember one long story about an eskimo. We'd get another installment each week. I guess the idea might have been to blank the tapes and return them when finished with.
TopPopper 20th Oct 2014		8-Track The Beatles - A Collection Of Beatles' Oldies (1972)	Having done a little investigation, I think 1970 is right. That would match the existing date for the reel-to-reel edition, and there's no obvious reason why 1970 would be given on the product otherwise. So, I'll make it 1970, and I agree that the label is EMI not Parlophone (nor Apple).
TopPopper 8th Sep 2014		Cassette Album Martin Jarvis - Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (1994)	I think it's a good idea. We differentiate between cassette singles and cassette albums, so it's not purely about the physical format. It's also about the type of content, and I concur with the view that these aren't albums.
TopPopper 6th Sep 2014		Cassette Album The Beatles - History Of The Beatles	Hey, where's Ringo?
TopPopper 6th Sep 2014		Cassette Album The Here And Now Band - Chartbusters (1987)	With thanks to my four-year-old son Archie, who keyed in everything (under my supervision). A future 45-Worlder for sure!
TopPopper 26th Aug 2014		8-Track The Beatles - Beatles For Sale (1972)	Yes it would. Like the cassettes, there were some earlier editions (circa 1970) but the gold inlay ones like this came out along with the gold cassettes. I think all the gold cassettes say "also available on 8 track cartridge". I've added the year in. There are more details available here.
TopPopper 12th Jul 2014		Cassette Album The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge - Fauré (1989)	Update: just checked my CD of The Planets. It's also part of Boots' Classical Collection, but where this tape says Conifer, it says "(P) 1986, 1987 Moss Music Group Inc". I think these inscriptions refer to the company which owns the original recording, but that Classical Collection is the label.
TopPopper 12th Jul 2014		Cassette Album The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge - Fauré (1989)	Conifer might own the recording on this tape, but their logos are absent. It's not uncommon for material to be leased to other labels, and their name be given in the small print (Beatles fans will have seen "an Apple recording" on Parlophone, Capitol, mfp labels, etc). Classical Collection doesn't look too much like a label either, but I think it's a better candidate personally. It would be interesting to see other releases in the series, to see if they are all Conifer, or whether they are being leased in from various sources.
TopPopper 11th Jul 2014		Cassette Album The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge - Fauré (1989)	Should the label be Classical Collection? I see Conifer in the small print but I don't think it's the label.
TopPopper 30th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)	I know that cat farting sound. I never paid any attention to it - just thought it was the noise of the tape join going over the play head. You live and learn! Remember those XDR cassettes from the 1980s? They had a "tone burst" at the start and end, for some reason. (Probably the same reason blank tapes had graphs printed on them - to convince us this was real high-tech stuff!)
TopPopper 28th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Electric Light Orchestra - Time (1988)	You just need the song titles, like they did here.
TopPopper 27th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Electric Light Orchestra - Time (1988)	Does anyone else agree that "See inlay card for details" is just plain lazy?
TopPopper 27th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)	The idea of ultrasonically welding the cassette shell, within millimeters of the tape spool, gives me the heebie jeebies. It must be a very precise process. Is it possible they wound the tape into the casing after the welding was done? Maybe not - but the whole thing sounds improbable to me. It's quite amazing technology in its own way.
TopPopper 27th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)	WIKI: "Ultrasonic welding is an industrial technique whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are locally applied to workpieces being held together under pressure to create a solid-state weld. It is commonly used for plastics, and especially for joining dissimilar materials. In ultrasonic welding, there are no connective bolts, nails, soldering materials, or adhesives necessary to bind the materials together... The ultrasonic energy melts the point contact between the parts, creating a joint. This process is a good automated alternative to glue, screws or snap-fit designs."
TopPopper 26th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue 1	Since it has the logo, if not the inscription, should we change this to Footprint?
TopPopper 26th Jun 2014		Cassette Album Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)	Interesting. My hunch is that the "glued" tapes aren't glued - they are somehow welded by the use of heat. As you say, prising them open is difficult and it tends to split the plastic rather than the two halves coming neatly apart along the seams. As for why, I suspect that applying heat for a few moments is cheaper than purchasing five scews, hence it's cheaper to manufacture welded tapes. By the way, I doubt the screws were manually applied - I'll bet there was a five headed monster with magnetic screw heads, which could do it in a trice. Still more costly though.
TopPopper 21st Jun 2014		Cassette Album Cliff Richard - An Hour Of Cliff Richard (1986)	Maybe it should be EMI? "Hour of Pleasure" looks like a tagline above the EMI label logo.
TopPopper 20th Jun 2014		Cassette Album The Beatles - 1962-1966 (1979)	The wrong photo on the cover! Accident or joke? (And has anyone seen their cover for 1967-70?)

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