Rewind

So not all of us had the great fortune to experience the cassette tape. God I can miss that. Coming home, all excited, you just got your tiny hands on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion II (no I don't care which album is considered better by music idiots (hence the idiots part) and couldn't wait to hear it.

You had to press open, watch the cassette thingie open (in slow motion - video games load quicker than that today). Put in your cassette tape and enjoy it.

Now to hear a specific song was a journey in itself. As learning that your favorite song was "song number 3" wasn't sufficient. You had to know the exact minute/second mark of when your favorite song started, e.g. 7:43 into the album.

Then (this is probably what I miss the most) when you wanted to hear that specific song again. You had to rewind to when it started. No skipping songs here oh no. Usually by doing it where you'd still hear the music playing backwards so you could tell/guess when it ended/started.

There's something beyond sweet of that. Not to mention mix tapes. Aouh. mix tapes.
Favorite songs, carefully recorded together. No transition or fading in/out. Just you and your lobster hands trying to make the best of your self-recorded version of Eye Of The Tiger from Rocky 3's credits rolling on the TV and some Joe Cocker song.