Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · May 29 Found in a sidewalk giveaway pile, an incredible case of staple multi-generational Dudes Rock cassettes; a musical taste profile of a certain type of 1990s white guy frozen in time
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“Bat Out of Hell” was like the analog version of that U2 album that came with your iPod. No one knows how, but if you had a sizable enough collection of rock cassettes, “Bat Out of Hell” would just sort of appear.
R.I.P. to whoever the dude was who collected all those
I have never seen or heard of anyone who has bought a copy of Bat out of Hell. Yet every English speaking family family seems to have at least one version on cassette.
I was wondering where my collection went...
this dude definitely had a 1985 ford escort that he drove into the new millennium
Hi. 90s chic here. At least half of those were in my 1989 Pontiac Lemans. As for Bat Out Of Hell, top 10.
I used to know like ten of those guys!
Wow
From Springsteen to The Offspring: The Story of slightly rebellious white guy
I can only check off seven that I didn’t own, but mine were all cds.
If there was a Bryan Adams cassette in there I would've sworn it was mine! 🤣
I have four of those. One of them is a cassette. And I tend more to female 80s pop punk.
On the daaaaark siiide!
Someone loved this
I just listened to Frogstomp front to back mowing the yard...insane album from three mid-teens.
That’s a unicorn
Any other Dudes Who Rock experiencing nearly agonal levels of yearning from looking at this picture. God, to have been alive and conscious 35 years before YouTube Shorts were a thing
Dopes to infinity!!!🤘💕
Oh hell yeah, brother. However, this needs Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits like the final shard in The Dark Crystal
I had nine of these, mostly on CD. And I'm familiar with eight or nine others. I graduated high school in the mid 90s. I am also someone for whom Bat Out Of Hell inexplicably showed up in their collection one day. I gave it away. It came back again.
Bought weed off this guy. You had to chill for like 30 minutes so as not to appear'suspicious'
This guy 100% played guitar in a bad band.
Why would you ASSUME it's a white guy??
Whoever he is, I like him
I will admit, I owned at least half of those titles back in the day. My particular fave's were Janes Addiction and Soundgarden. 👍
How do you do, fellow 50 year olds
My slightly older generation collection:
That’s a lot of sausage.
I had that Eddie & the Cruisers soundtrack! It was great.
Looks like someone made full use of their Columbia House membership.
“Dopes to Infinity” is an all-timer.
Sure bro
Silverchair! <Yells in strayan.>
I can only assume that the love of my life (1991-1994) finally let go and tossed the cassettes I left when I had to move out of the apartment she held the lease on.
score!
This looks like a 1994 ad for a Columbia House "10 tapes for a penny" scam.
La adicción de Jane!!!!!!
“Dudes Rock” ? FFS Rob! This Gen X chick is the proud owner of a number of these classic titles (on vinyl).
Except for the Meatloaf, that could've been my collection
I’ve only got a few cassettes, but I’ve got a lot of CD’s.
I am so fucking jealous
yeah about that lol bsky.app/profile/pett...
A fascinating collection...
@schuyler.info I know you hadn’t expected your parents to mail your old tapes but I can’t believe you just put them out on the sidewalk like this
Respectfully, OH F■CK you rob. 🤩
Bob Marley and the Wailers would be the odd one out in THIS collection ,no?
I’d love to have the Beastie Boys tape
dude, those are my tapes!
He's still hiding from Columbia House.
What a fucking score! Pork Soda is an all time favorite album
Fell off the back of the hamburger train
This box of free cassettes just pulled out of Freedom 250.
This is a serious find
I had Jane’s Addiction and Meatloaf on cassette and like seven more of those on CD in high school
I knew a bunch of people with this exact tape collection :) mine wasn’t far off… Born 1980. Sprinkle in some more hip hop and CDs because of my age.
I am uncomfortable being about 90% that guy.
All of them have refused to play at Trump's party.
This man loves *guitars*
The one Nirvana tape being Incesticide speaks volumes to the absolute madman who curated this collection. I hope his younger cousins still think he's the coolest.
The hidden “Beavis and Butthead experience” soundtrack is the most important clue
Gotta say ASTONISHED to see Aussie kid trio Silverchair’s debut album in this collection. Having lived outside of Aus for two decades I assumed their overseas success w/all record label marketing BS back in the day. Nobody seems to have ever heard of them outside of Oz.
Omg. Fabulous! Probably some zoomer cleaning out dads estate. Doesn’t know what cassettes are.
As one of those old white guys, I still have my Sony Walkman, should I too ever be so blessed!
Monster Magnet was one the worst opening acts I’ve ever laid eyes on.
I yearn for my old Weird Al tapes. Still trying to re-build my old collection through CDs after when I had to move and give up a majority of my vinyl/cassette collection. Have a few cassettes that somehow slipped through including old mixtapes my parents made from the radio and FM the soundtrack.
I know it smell crazy in there
you got some 70s - hell late 60s even - for good balance, I see
Seeing Silverchair in there just hit me over the head.
That's a nice collection... I found on cassette a while back at a Goodwill, Joe Satriani's debut, Not of this World... Great tape 🎸👍
Eddie and the cruisers and Pantera. Impressive.
That’s a fine collection… might use it as inspiration for a new mixtape 🔥
You mean the guy who always had weed? Yeah I remember that guy 🤣
Ooh! I want the Beastie Boys tape!
Not sure how I feel about the assumption this was a dude collection. Gotta say I had the majority of them as well. Kudos for the Eddie and the Cruisers, loved that one.
dopes to infinity is an all time dude album
This is almost certainly the tape collection of a guy born between 1973 and 1978 with either a really young dad or (more likely) a much older brother
No Phil Collins?
Try and find a cassette player these days— plus these tapes only last 10-30 years. Give it up man! Let it go! Your youth is gone, gone, gone…….🙆🏻♂️😢😢😢
Pork Soda!
I love the random B B King in there
That Jane's Addiction tape has never been played but that Doors one barely turns anymore
This absolutely comes across as "Dad's old tapes" after he's gone.
unsure why pantera’s in there and without the springsteen that’s a solid selection
Could be a woman's collection.
That's gotta be the one copy of Pulse on cassette that ever existed. Do you think it had the blinking light?
That’s awesome! I forgot all about Monster Magnet. I used to build for Gibson in the ‘90’s and worked with one those guys on a Les Paul.
This collection has a two pack a day habit.
Eddie and the Cruisers!
Eddie And The Cruisers soundtrack. Crucial for a certain type of guy.
Bong music
nice to have Relics there so you can listen to Pulse but not get caught having it be the only Pink Floyd album you own
I was just thinking about Superunknown and how that was considered pop music for a window of time
I feel seen
It's hard to believe that's one person's collection... that this collection represents one person's taste. Who is this mystery person? Are they interesting or just weird?
Hmmmm. I had/have like half of these.
I guess I am that guy
There is significant overlap with what I was listening to in HS in the ‘90s, but I’m definitely a bit younger than whoever put this together.
Gen X had everything, and now how bad do we suck?!
I’m buyin’ if you’re sellin’
Truly a glorious find
Beastie Boys is the only one I had.
are you upset he doesn't have any taylor swift
If you're only going to have one Rush tape, Permanent Waves is indeed the correct choice.
Fuckin Rush AND Soundgarden AND Silverchair (AND lots more)
What ever happened to Joe Satriani?
Relics and Pulse seem like an unlikely pair.
Oh man what were they thinking???
Satriani's album is epic, just sayin'.
I don’t know about this. The overlap of Pantera fans and Springsteen fans is approximately zero
Even Eddie and the cruisers??! This looks like the tapes I had in my Ford Probe
That surfing with the alien cassette looks sick
Every album is a banger except that "Bat Out Of Hell" tape… maybe it belongs to his little sister
Jealous of this haul, enjoy dude
One step closer to finding the bastard who stole my cassette organizer 32 years ago.
What "type of 1990s white guy" was big into the Doors? Or the 1980 Rush album "Permanent Waves"? (I mean, I personally was a big fan of "Entre Nous" and "Natural Science", but I was in my 30s in the '90s...)
Holy shit
Th separation between Relics and Pulse as the two Floyd albums that guy had is kind of sending me. 🤣
This must be the collection for someone who didn't have a cd player in their car yet, bc I don't know anyone who bought pulse without the pulsing light cd case
Who ever had or has great taste in music. iMO
Odelay! feels so out of place on cassette for reasons I cannot put into words. But it's also the one that I now most want to listen to on cassette.
😂💯
"Eddie and the Crusiers" is a legit banger from the 80's. Movie and soundtrack. The movie is currently streaming for free on Pluto. The app, not the planet, that isn't a planet but maybe is.
pantera and silverchair is a wild combo
I knew some guys in the 90s who loved Pantera, every time I got out of their car I felt like they just beat the shit out of me
Once you've sold the Camaro and with it went the very last working cassette player in your possession, the only thing left to do is to pass the tapes onto a good home.
Wow the more I look the better it gets. It's like the more names I read the more clearly I see his face.
I can honestly say I owned none of that. Must be my age?
lol I own all but 4 or 5 of these
That Primus Pork Soda tape 🤘🏾
Ghods, Rush is suck central.
Pretty sure I dated the guy who owned these lol.
Nice find! That's some old school Columbia House Record Club stuff right there.
hey I was wondering where those went
lol the only thing there's two of is Pantera
All bangers. Grab the lot and buy a tape deck
There is the Eddie and the Cruisers cassette tape in that persons collection. I could most likely be friends with this person
White woman here. I owned a lot of those albums and bands on vinyl and tape. Now I have a lot of them on my playlist, along with every genre from indigenous music from around the world, rock and roll, a cupella, soul, country, r & b, hip hop, metal, punk & pop. What I won’t listen to is Kid Rock. 😂
Odelay feels like a surprisingly late 90’s cassette
Pork Soda, hell yeah
I had 100% forgotten Silverchair
I might buy a tape deck after a find like that.
I see a Beavis and Butthead tape buried in there. I’m gonna have to sit with this for a good long while.
omg permanent waves
Everything with this was lining up for me until we fishtailed right off the road
I can smell the Midwest all over this...
the curation goes fucking crazy
🥰
I have 16 of these. But I didn't freeze in time!
If it’s anything like my cassette case, one of those is a decoy with a bag of weed inside it.
Incredible offering, wore out at least one of those specifically on cassette
All that's missing is Dennis Leary's No Cure for Cancer album. I'm sure it's under there somewhere.
I love that everyone is also picking through this collection, and having a conversation that would sound the same if we were all standing together at the giveaway pile.
And it’s the Wal-Mart version of Ritual de lo Habitual.
pork soda, lol
I admit that I had several of these cassettes.
You found my tapes. Can I have them back
kinda surprised there isn't a Bush tape in this
Non dude here, but Permanent Waves is timeless.
It me tho
Nice!
I feel like something sad happened for this to end up on the sidewalk. One doesn't just spontaneously quit dopin' to infinity 30+ years after tapes went out of vogue.
Love Soundgarden
Hells I want that stack. Um I have a good number of that stack (on CD, I'm not a neanderthal)
On the dark side! Whoa, yeah!
Had a similar box under the seat of my 75 Camaro, circa 1992.
Pretty eclectic.
Outstanding 👏
This would have worked on me in 1994. It still works on me today.
Whomever owned that collection was rad as hell in the mid 90s.
Hey I was looking for those! I thought I left them in my Honda Civic. (Actually I’ve never heard of Monster Magnet and wouldn’t have purchased Silverchair)
I think I dropped that.
When I was a child the first tape I ever wanted to get was Licensed to Ill. My parents nixed that and I got He's the DJ and I'm the Rapper from the Fresh Prince. Eh...I mean, fine at the time as a very young person looking back?
I'm kicking things off with Floyd (Relics), then Sabbath, then roll into Rush, maybe some Nirvana. Then we see where the night takes us.
Toss Beck and Rush into the recycler
Beck and Rush would be tossed in the trash bin
What a find. Incredible.
The guy probably still owes Columbia House....
100% accurate
I have, like, 60% overlap with that 90s white guy. Thankfully I like lots of other stuff as well, but so much of this is essential listening.
The big question: BMG or Columbia House?
Hell yeah, "Ritual"! That album rules.
you could reconstitute him from this DNA Jurassic Park style
Eww gross the Offspring
They finally sold Dad's Chevy Impala with the AM/FM cassette player.
Haha I have / had a lot of these
This dude was really into cassettes because I had every single one of these albums, but I had them all on CD
*white guy, or closeted white lesbian, because I had almost every single one of those in the 90s lol
Quite a treasure trove!
I had literally none of ‘em. Should I check whether I’m a white guy after all?
These were white guys with cars. Car playback is the only excuse for pre-rec cassettes in the eras represented.