Fogey DUers: What music do you remember listening to on 8-Track?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I remember distinctly listening to 8 Tracks of Neil Diamond "Hot August Nights" and whatever Merle Haggard record had "Okie from Muskogee", in my friend's family car on their 8 track.

[KitchenWitch]

1. Bob Seger

[DawgHouse]

2. Lynyrd Skynyrd

Street Survivors.

[trackfan]

3. I had a Leon Redbone album on 8-track.

[swag]

4. Since you brought up "Hot August Nights," please tell me what is going on

in this picture:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. I remember having the same question/thought, over 30 yrs ago...

[swag]

8. Things seem to me now to have been more confusing back then.

But that's probably a counterintuitive impact of my having grown even stupider over the years.

Still:

[Skittles]

6. I have a Fever Tree 8-Track

YES

I am curious, did EVERYONE have a matchbook under their 8-Track in their car?

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. On certain tapes, yeah

If you didn't, they'd double-track. x(

[Skittles]

19. YES

OMG it's been so long I couldn't remember WHY we did that!

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. You remember why

we used to see tapes in trees so often?

[Skittles]

33. oh............yes

yes.........indeed....I do :o

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. I thought it was to light up your.. oh never mind.

[Skittles]

34. HEY

they had car lighters then; we are not THAT OLD :rofl:

[Nicole]

7. CSN&Y - Our House

The Guess Who - These Eyes

[fishwax]

9. well, I was very young, but Kenny Rogers's "Just Dropped In"

"Just Dropped In (to see what condition my condition was in)" was a pre-country Kenny Rogers psychedlic sorta-hit. All my dad ever listened to was country music--no exceptions--and I remember when that song came on the 8-track I would curl up on the floor next to the speakers and jam out :rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. TELL ME you've seen "The Big Lebowski", where this song is featured

quite prominently in a big, drug influenced, Busby-Berkley style musical number?

[fishwax]

11. oh yeah, I love that movie

and I love that scene :rofl: (and whenever I see the scene, I think of myself as a kid.)

The first time we saw it, I was grooving to the song, mouthing the words and all, and my wife was like "how the FUCK do you know this song?" Like it was something from another planet, and the fact that I knew it fundamentally altered her understanding of me as a human being. Great moment. Hilarious. :rofl:

I might have to pop that in the DVD player tonight.

Busby-Berkeley style ... I'd never made that connection before (not having been exposed to Busby-Berkely until earlier this year), but yeah, duh, totally :):thumbsup:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Too funny.. I had zero frame of reference for this song outside Lebowski.

Now, reading your post, I can completely understand the origin of this song as the country act's grabbing a little piece of the prevailing psychedelic/drug culture, LOL.

[fishwax]

25. well, kenny rogers had a kind of interesting pre-country road

he was in the new christy minstrels, a "folk" group that was extremely popular with the general public (third only to the kingston trio and peter, paul, and mary) but generally regarded as lightweight by folk's hardcore fans. They're considered lightweight because they generally avoided controversial songs/topics, but members of the NCM included artists as varied as kenny rogers, barry maguire (of the byrds) and (!) kym carnes. I wasn't alive for their recording career, but they strike me as basically a cash cow.

Anyway, after he left the new christy minstrels, rogers headed new edition, which started out as soft-psych (just dropped in was on their first album) and then evolved into country (and then devolved into inexplicably crappy country).

All of which makes that condition song a pretty fascinating track, in the way it straddles vague drug references, irredeemably cheezy pop/country sensibilities, and desperately commercial aspirations :)

But nothing will ever top how it was used in Lebowski :rofl: That was a stroke of genius.

Great pictures, btw :)

[argyl]

29. Only song I know of that makes reference to glue sniffing/huffing..

"Found my mind in a brown paper bag and then
Tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high"

I wonder if he still sings this one in concert?

[NMMNG]

13. I had a K-Tel compilation 8-Track called "The Hot Ones"

It had these "hits" of the late 70s:

A1 Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
A2 Atlanta Rhythm Section -Imaginary Lover
A3 Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend
A4 Dave Mason - We Just Disagree
A5 Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
B1 England Dan & John Ford Coley - We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye
B2 Gene Cotton - Before My Heart Finds Out
B3 Smokie -Living Next Door To Alice
B4 Player (4) -This Time I'm In It For Love
C1 ABBA - The Name Of The Game
C2 KC & The Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes
C3 Michael Zager Band, The - Let's All Chant
C4 Parliament - Flashlight
C5 Trammps, The - Disco Inferno
D1 Emotions, The - Best Of My Love
D2 Barry White - It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me
D3 B.J. Thomas -Don't Worry Baby
D4 Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island



I may have had one or two other 8 tracks, but they were pretty much on their way out by the time I got into music enough to by buying my own stuff so I mainly got vinyl and cassette tapes.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. I have fond memories of the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack. I

think it's a very good album.

I loved "Disco Inferno" and "Night on Disco Mountain"!

[NMMNG]

28. I have the SNF soundtrack, but on CD

I'm fond of the Bee Gees tunes myself.

[corporatemedia]

14. "Kuh-Klick Kuh-Klick" in the middle of a long song. - Effen 8 tracks!

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. All of it

Between my friend down the street and me, we had a pretty decent collection. About all we listened to was hard rock — Deep Purple ("Made In Japan," "Machine Head," "Stormbringer," "Fireball"), Uriah Heep, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Montrose — all the prerequisite headbanger bands of the early '70s.

The first tapes I ever bought, though, were the Chicago at Carnegie Hall set — though in those days, CTA could kick some pretty good ass when they felt like it.

[unsavedtrash]

16. Mac Davis, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, Charlie Pride

I loved the 8 track player. I liked the sound of the tape going in the slot. Yes, I am a little odd.

[libnnc]

18. K-Tel's Disco Inferno and Kenny Rogers...

oy....

[swag]

21. The Beatles, Elton John, the Who, Pink Floyd

kerthunk

[The empressof all]

22. Cowsills

They made me HAPPY! HAPPY! HAPPY!

[pokerfan]

23. I'll just say it with a picture

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. That first album is so great!

[pokerfan]

30. It was my antidote to disco

[DainBramaged]

31. Crosby Stills Nash and Young; Moody Blues; Rolling Stones, Doors

[timtom]

32. Captain Beefheart

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