Remember single cassette tapes? When your mom or your friend’s older sister would drop you off at North Kent Mall? And you’d hit up Sam Goody or whatever random now-extinct music chain, and you didn’t want to spend the money on a whole tape so you’d just buy the single?
I’d hand over my hard earned allowance dollars, scrapped and saved from good grades and chores around my suburban homestead. $1.99, for Gillette’s Mr. Personality.
Remember that gem?
Somewhere at my parent’s house is a shoebox of all the random singles collected over my confusing musical youth. Coolio, Gangsta’s Paradise. Brian McKnight, One Last Cry. And of course, Expose, I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me).
What cringeworthy classics are in your singles collection?
March 6th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
a) remember how depressing northkent mall became when it slowly started dying a store at a time? b) “i swear” by all 4 one.
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March 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I feel like I spent so. much. time. at North Kent (like, entire Saturdays), but the only things I really remember about it was how EMPTY it was. And the Orange Julius.
Ha, All 4 One. Remember “She’s Got SKILLZ”?!?!?! Awesome.
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March 8th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
My cassette case is equally troubling. Lords of the Underground “Chief Rocka”Motley Crew “Dr. Feelgood”PM Dawn “Set adrift on memory bliss”Oh snap!
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March 8th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Speaking of SNAP!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33tH-JdPDg
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March 8th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
KLF “3am eternal”! I could do this shit all night.
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March 10th, 2009 at 7:05 am
I also had the I swear and the PM Dawn. Perhaps my most cringe worthy was “In the Still of The Night” I honestly can’t even remember who sang it, but it was some bad with harmonies - you know how I love a good harmony.
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