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Tape 40

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This tape got blocked from Youtube because of the tiny Hootie And The Blowfish snippet. C’mon, it’s an ad for the album! Hahaha. If only the AI could tell the difference.

The 24 Hour Workout ad had me curious if that eventually became 24 Hour Fitness. Didn’t find any evidence of it, but then I fell down a 24 Hour Nautilus rabbit hole (THAT’S who became 24 Hour Fitness) and found this commercial – Oh, hi Live 105’s Lori Thompson! (God that commercial has 1996 written all over it)

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Tape 34

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Late October 1994. I’d be getting Very for Christmas in a few months (and I think Discography either right before or right after thanks to my first BMG membership, haha) so I was still playing my radio recordings at this point.

I was apparently under the impression that I had to love U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name just because PSB covered it, haha.

Watch the volume, it starts terribly low then gets back to normal at 3:33.

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