3CD's

[Rinskie 1321]

I was thinking the other day that a good portion of us started this hobby around the same time but may have been different times in our lives. I thought it might be fun to list 3 albums you would regularly listen to while sprawled out on the floor memorizing Tamiya Catalogues or RC Car Auction mags. As much as I try to proofread, my brain stills is not all the way with us so please support my typos 

1. U2's Rattle and Hum

2. Nitzer Ebb's Showtime (found that CD the other day which prompter the thread)

3 Beastie Boy's License to Ill

 

What say you guys?

[Twinfan 2454]

Appetite For Destruction

Slippery When Wet

Live After Death

[Mad Ax 11388]

If you're talking about music I was listening to when I got back into Tamiya as an adult, then that would have been around the time I was renting a shared home with my cousin, and I mostly would have been listening to:

• Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
• Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
• Fluke - Progressive History X

although my tastes are fairly eclectic (if not exactly mainstream) so it's possible there was some rock, metal and britpop in there too.

If you're talking about when I was first obsessed with Tamiya, then...  CDs?  What are CDs?

Back then I'd have been listening to cassette tapes, such as:

• Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
• Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
• Erasure - Chorus

These days, on any given Workshop Sunday, my phone gets plugged into the workshop amp at 9am and doesn't get unplugged until I come in around 5 or 6pm.  Just this weekend I listened to, among other things:

• Be Svendsen - Live at Mount Nemrut (Cercle)
• Leftfield - Leftism
• Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

 

[ADRay1000 744]

I was 9 in 1988 when I got my start. The top 3 tapes in my Walkman were probably 

Buddy Holly Lives

Bangles - Different Light

Stand By Me Soundtrack

[GToddC5 2886]

Cassette tapes here as well, on constant rotation! Three that stick out the most are:

 

Alice in Chains • Facelift

Alice In Chains • Dirt

Nirvana • Nevermind

[Rinskie 1321]

Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I was heavily into new wave during my early RC days. While waiting for my 15 minute fast charger to fast charge, I had a ton of albums to sift through more accurately tape cassests. I am not sure if this even occurs anymore but for you people born before iTunes and Napster and crap like that....you had to...... buy albums.This meant you were either rich or you concentrated on generas. People now say  they listen to a little bit of everything which may be truer now than ever but in the 70's/80's that meant getting your crap off the radio. The best way to find good stuff before you were old enough to drive to the music store was swap albums with friends. Hey man, have you heard the new Cure album Head on the Door? Wanna swap for your Smiths Louder than Bombs? Honestly, I went down a dark trip last Friday before my surgery where I was convinced that would my last Friday on Earth so I spent it listening to music I haven't heard in over 20 years. Man it's scary how much of my brain is occupied by the Dead Milkmen 

[Rinskie 1321]

26 minutes ago, Mad Ax said:

 

If you're talking about when I was first obsessed with Tamiya, then...  CDs?  What are CDs?

 

 

The first CD I ever purchased was the Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss me. It was released the same year as the grasshopper thank you very much kind sir. My brother bought an INXS album and the U2 Album, I bought the Cure. We had a single CD player we'd split between the both of us.

[Nikko85 4404]

sometimes just have the fan on when I make, but now I've got wireless headphones it's much easier.

Can't say I've got three I'd always go back to, but 

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Almost killed me - Hold Steady
Good Mourning -  Alkaline Trio

seem to come up a lot.

 

 

[Busdriver 6664]

I got into RC cars in the very late 70’s into the early 80’s so it was casettes and vinyl. No CD’s though I think they were heard of by not mainstream . As to what I suppose

Elton John everything!!!!!!!

then

1 Rumours

2 Dark side of the Moon

3 Arrival

but other stuff was always mixed in as diverse as Steeleye Span, Ralph McTell, and Cat Steven’s. 
as to when I got back into RC in 2019 ish probably all the same but now on CD’s. Currently I use Spotify a lot and listed to all sorts of. Particularly like female singer songwriters, Florence and the Machine, being the most up to date.

[GToddC5 2886]

9 minutes ago, Rinskie said:

Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping for. I was heavily into new wave during my early RC days. While waiting for my 15 minute fast charger to fast charge, I had a ton of albums to sift through more accurately tape cassests. I am not sure if this even occurs anymore but for you people born before iTunes and Napster and crap like that....you had to...... buy albums.This meant you were either rich or you concentrated on generas. People now say  they listen to a little bit of everything which may be truer now than ever but in the 70's/80's that meant getting your crap off the radio. The best way to find good stuff before you were old enough to drive to the music store was swap albums with friends. Hey man, have you heard the new Cure album Head on the Door? Wanna swap for your Smiths Louder than Bombs? Honestly, I went down a dark trip last Friday before my surgery where I was convinced that would my last Friday on Earth so I spent it listening to music I haven't heard in over 20 years. Man it's scary how much of my brain is occupied by the Dead Milkmen 

I feel like I was really in a sweet spot for my initial hobby fascination. It must have been summer of 1987 when I bought my first hobby grade R/C - the Blackfoot - at 13. So at the very beginning, I was listening to whatever decent station I could get my Dad's old radio to tune in to, in my basement lair. My meager money came from a daily paper route riding my 1987 GT Performer, and then at 16 my first PT job after school. At that point I was able to buy a used moped and then go further beyond where my bicycle took me for years. There were actual music stores, and they took the place of the card/candy shops of my youth. The Grunge era was in full force and I was witness to some incredible music through high school, graduating in 1992. I guess my hobby interests slipped away as chasing girls took over my senses. Man, thinking back at that five year period spent with my buddies and our R/C meetups - I just can't imagine a better time or better music to grow up with.

[Guest]

When I got my first Tamiya back in the 90's, I listened to cassettes, happy hardcore mainly (can't stand it nowadays).

I got back into the hobby in 2020 when the crazy virus came along. I have listened to trance/progressive since 1997, I still enjoy it to this day but now I'm in my 40's I have been enjoying a lot of the older stuff from the 80s. 

The 3 albums I enjoy while tinkering with my Tamiya cars are-Heart: Bad Animals, Talk Talk- The Colour of Spring and Stevie Nicks- Timespace the best of Stevie Nicks. 

[Superluminal 4187]

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Realm of Chaos - Bolt Thrower

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine

[Big Jon 760]

Man, that was a long time ago….

Probably Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Judas Priest - British Steel, and I was really into W.A.S.P. during that time period.

 

[Wystan Withers 636]

+1 on cassettes... and thinking of that era the ones I played till they wore out would have been:

Ozzy- Blizzard of Oz

Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil

Dio- Last in Line

Really hard to narrow this down to three as so much of my music listening prior to getting a real car (and my prime scale building/RC lusting years) was when backpacking with the Boy Scouts and my 'Walkman pack' was a 10-cassette soft case which left room for 9 cassettes plus the Walkman but those three for sure were 'don't leave home without them' from '83-87.

I keep having to talk myself out of replacing that old Walkman for nostalgia's sake like I did my boom box but crikey they can get expensive for nice ones. collectors...

 

 

[Eric Bloodsmith 27]

I'm a bit younger than most of ya! I remember before I got my first RC car I'd be watching all of Ultimate RC network's reviews, trying to find a good one. I eventually settled on my Mini E-Revo, a wonderful chassis. That silver can I put in it a while back's been doing great.

I was turning 11 when I got my Merv for my birthday, and back then the only music I listened to was my sister's favourite pop songs. Her taste in music these days is a bit more refined than back then.

I got back into RC last year, when I found a new dirt track opened up just a few minutes away from me. These days I look up the composers of good songs I hear in video games and listen to their other works. Right now I really like how Kenji Hiramatsu uses the guitar.

[urban warrior 942]

Bah!

My first music experience was a reel to reel tape player, when I was seven or eight. That was when I started with static model building ... around 1972/1973. But it was not before the late seventies to the early eighties when I discovered my own music taste. Mostly spending the evenings sitting in front of our radio cassette recorder combo, with the fingers on the REC and PLAY buttons. An AFN relay station was nearby and had the best music! I still remember when the guy at the mic said: "It's nine o'clock in Central Europe. From AP, UPI and the major american networks. The news are next on AFN!" A lead pencil was an essential tool for winding the cassettes. My first albums were the following:

Foreigner - 4

SAGA - Worlds Apart

DIO - Holy Diver

I've developed an ear for quite a wide bandwith of music styles back in the heydays. Rock, Pop, Metal, Classic, Soundtracks, Synthesizer and some exceptions of good rap music (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five). My first CD was from Madonna - Something to remember. It was a birthday gift, but I haven't had a CD player at that time. And the girl wo gifted me the CD was standing in front of my hifi system, desperately searching for the CD player. That must have been the mid nineties. I was late with CDs, and it wasn't half the fun looking for CDs in the shops as it was with records.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot, it was in 1987 when I took a little getaway from static modelling to RC ... and the Bruiser started it all for me. Still got my first RC and still love it.

[Otis311 421]

Fortunately I had some older brothers to influence me in the early nineties.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine

Pearl Jam - Ten

Same brothers had a Frog and a Falcon.

[Tamiyastef 3073]

My first RC was a Grasshopper in 1984 so pre CD era. I had a recordplayer and Never mind the *****s from the Sex Pistols wasn't really approved by my more classic music oriented parents. Next to that album I had several singles (7") and maxisingles (12") from The Sisters Of Mercy. Their First and Last and Always album from 1985 is probably the most played album in my entire collection. The last track on that album named "Some kind of stranger" will be, at least if I have anything to say about it, the tune that accompanies me to my last resting place. Another milestone (also from 1985) and one of the first (if not the first) album to appear on CD is Brothers in arms from Dire straits. The second most played record in my collection will be Graceland by Paul Simon, that's some real happy music for me. I wrote and typed my whole dissertation listening to one cassette that had Graceland on one side and the greatest hits from the Police on the other side, great memories.   

My current record and CD collection is very broad and has many genres. Punk, pop, new wave, rock, folk, disco, and consists of big names of worldfame (Abba, Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones, U2, Prince, Madonna, Queen, REM,...) over more obscure bands (Sisters of Mercy, Violent Femmes, Virgin Prunes, Love like Blood, the Smiths, Nick Cave, the Clash, the Cult, the Pogues, The exploited...) rockbands (Rage against the machine, Red hot chili peppers, kings of leon,...) hardrockbands (ACDC, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Guns and Roses,...) and some classic music from Beethoven over Vivaldi, Strauss, Bach and Dvořák. 

Sorry, it was impossible for me to name just 3 

 

[Nick-W 2049]

My first RC was a Grasshopper 2 which I built with my dad but I didn’t get “into” Rc properly until my TA-01 Cosworth and TA-02 Porsche. By then I would have been listening to:

Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People 

Nirvana - Nevermind

Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

A Love of Nirvana and Terrorvision survived the arrival of Britpop and have followed me into adulthood (I’m seeing Terrorvision live next month) but I’ve not listened to Maiden in decades. 

 

[Saito2 8450]

Great topic. I frequently had music on when studying catalogs, reading RC Car Action or drawing pictures out of the guidebooks. I tend to break things down in eras as my musical taste grew.

In the early/mid 80's when I could only dream of owning a Tamiya I listened to:

*The Motown Sound, 16 #1 Hits, the early 60s

*Jan and Dean Greatest Hits

*Doors, L.A. Woman

 

In the late 80's, with my collection just starting:

*Nirvana, Bleach

*Led Zeppelin, probably 4, Physical Graffiti or House of the Holy

*Probably U2's War or R.EM.'s Document

 

By the early 90's:

*Nirvana, In Utero

*Stone Temple Pilots, Core

*Probably a tossup between Alice in Chains Jar of Flies, Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream or Soundgarden's Superunknown

 

After the internet broadened my interest, I added shoegaze to the mix, so, in my modern times,

*Alison's Halo, Eyedazzler

*My Valentine,  Loveless

*Probably something from Slowdive or Swervedriver

 

 

[OnTheTrail 1417]

Hmmm, I'd have to think about this.   Don't know if could narrow it down to just three. but from memory, I'd say:

>Led Zeppelin (by this time I had all of their first ten albums...all in rotation...all on vinyl)

>The Who - Who's Next

> JVC Jazz Festival 1986

 

My barometer for which were my favorites back there are when I owned the same album both on vinyl and cassette.  One for the house, one for the car.   CD players were starting to come out at that time but way above my budget.   

 

[RichieRich 870]

8 hours ago, Tamiyastef said:

My first RC was a Grasshopper in 1984 so pre CD era. I had a recordplayer and Never mind the *****s from the Sex Pistols wasn't really approved by my more classic music oriented parents. Next to that album I had several singles (7") and maxisingles (12") from The Sisters Of Mercy. Their First and Last and Always album from 1985 is probably the most played album in my entire collection. The last track on that album named "Some kind of stranger" will be, at least if I have anything to say about it, the tune that accompanies me to my last resting place. Another milestone (also from 1985) and one of the first (if not the first) album to appear on CD is Brothers in arms from Dire straits. The second most played record in my collection will be Graceland by Paul Simon, that's some real happy music for me. I wrote and typed my whole dissertation listening to one cassette that had Graceland on one side and the greatest hits from the Police on the other side, great memories.   

My current record and CD collection is very broad and has many genres. Punk, pop, new wave, rock, folk, disco, and consists of big names of worldfame (Abba, Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones, U2, Prince, Madonna, Queen, REM,...) over more obscure bands (Sisters of Mercy, Violent Femmes, Virgin Prunes, Love like Blood, the Smiths, Nick Cave, the Clash, the Cult, the Pogues, The exploited...) rockbands (Rage against the machine, Red hot chili peppers, kings of leon,...) hardrockbands (ACDC, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Guns and Roses,...) and some classic music from Beethoven over Vivaldi, Strauss, Bach and Dvořák. 

Sorry, it was impossible for me to name just 3 

 

I would love to come listen to music at your house. My first car was the Frog back in 1986. Most of the music I listened to in the mid eighties was from MTV playing in the background. I don't really have a top 3 of cassette tapes so, I'll take your collection and add Van Halen, The Cars, Weird Al, The Cure and my personal favorite...Debbie Gibson.

[ADRay1000 744]

I realize as I read this thread that I do have a Tamiya - Futurama correlation that was formed in the early 2000s. Used to pop them in when I’d build or wrench. 

[cstorckiii 535]

The Beat - Special Beat Service

They Might Be Giants - Lincoln

Run DMC -Raising badword

[Tamiyastef 3073]

7 hours ago, RichieRich said:

I would love to come listen to music at your house

You're welcome. Whenever you make a trip to Belgium let me know 

 

7 hours ago, RichieRich said:

add Van Halen, The Cars, Weird Al, The Cure

I only have "jump" from van Halen, "Drive" from the cars, I always had a good laugh with Weird Al and I do have some CD's from The Cure (the only band from these I also saw live BITD)

 

7 hours ago, RichieRich said:

Debbie Gibson

I'll check her out, that's her music I mean