It’s these moments of nostalgia that factor into the cassette’s return to the high street record store. You know you’ve been there, don’t try to deny it. ![]() Gone are the days of mastering really small handwriting to squeeze the tracklist on the insert of your latest mixtape, as well as the moments of jamming your pen into the spool reel, frantically trying to save your overplayed copy of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. Man’s relationship with the long-loved format dates back decades. Although from my personal experience, it always tends to be Greatest Hits 2. ![]() The peculiarity and specificity of this bizarre admission would be bizarre, if it didn’t happen to be totally true. One of my favourite moments in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens – of which there are many – happens when the book’s protagonists note that any tape left in the car for longer than a fortnight will always turn into Queen’s Greatest Hits.
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