What music has been left in your new shit?

[scooters]

I decided to see if the multi changer in the scoob was working today. Turned out it was full of the last chap's CD's. Great! I thought - perhaps there are some 80's classics given he was about my age. To my horror the casstte is stuck with 6 - what I can only describe as "God Rock"....now I'm pretty open to anyone following whatever faith they want to unless it harms other folk and I do understand that a lot of folk like this sort of music but if there is one thing I cannot abide it is ANY church/christian music written after the death of HH Parry (died 1918)....if it's not played on an organ I don't like it ...sorry...I don't do happy clappy and I am an old fuddy duddy I'm just made that way. Rock, indie, Jazz, pop, Northern Soul, Classical, Romantic - Rap - like most genres but NOT GOD ROCK....my mood takes a serious nosedive whenever I walk into a church for a christening or wedding and see a set of tomtom drums and a couple of guitars because you just KNOW that somone with a beard and a horrible comb over will stand up and start crooning about loaves or somthing. Sorry, just can't do it!

 

Fortunately, gumtree has today provided a subaru CV changer for a tenner - so the previous one will be taking a one way trip to the landfill - unless of course anyone wants it here

 

anyone else had any results/disasters with music inherited in shit?

[Lord Sterling]

When I brought the 820e home, I found some tapes of Michael Jackson and some 80s stuff + some tapes where the last lady owner was singing

 

Fatha_Sterling used to buy and sell shitters all the time, sometimes I'd find tapes lying aroumd, some great stuff was found on them such as early 90s Rap/Hip-Hop/Dance etc... I found a tape with a sort of mixture of songs, inclusing one Jazzy type tune with only bachground singing in it, I really liked that tune but never found out who it was buy or what it was called....Until a few days ago when I heard on the works radio, made a quick recording via mobile and found out who the song was by.

[Albert Ross]

1979 Opel Kadett Estate with a Sharp "Autoreverse" tapedeck. It had a Gloria Gaynor (Or was it some other Afro-Caribbean warbler?) tape in it when I bought it, and wouldn't eject. Then one hot day, in summer, it did. Cue Deep Purple, Machine head. It was never that hot again, and it didn't eject for me again. I sold it with it in. I like to think that the tape deck survives somewhere, but will only play that Deep Purple cassette.

[mattblack]

A Simon and Garfunkel 8-track in my Corsair, that's about all I can remember.

[254575]

I left des a pet shop boys cd in the explorer. He's never mentioned it, so I assume he loves it

[TagoraSX]

A Black Sabbath 8-track in the Fiat

[Guest]

None of the shit I've b[r]ought has ever had a working sound system - unless you count the 305, which had a really smart Kenwood. It was connected up to the speakers and the aerial and worked when you pressed the button. I found a really shit Moliere tape at the service station near Cholmondeley when I filled up with MM5, and drove home marvelling at the extreme high fidelity reproduction through a pair of 6 cm speakers covered in dust and paint.

 

Here are my notes.

 

Volvo Amazon - UHF radio included. Did not work.

 

Isuzu Piazza - No radio included but a large bag of skunk found hidden in a hollowed A pillar recess. SCTSH_ANDY later custom fabbed a wiring loom to take my Alpine CDA 9847, which I took out before D888 XJM went overseas to spread itself all over Europe in a hail of stolen parts.

 

Mitsubishi Celeste - Radio worked, no tape deck but did come with a SHITLOAD of cat hair and a University of Birmingham complimentary pen.

 

Volvo 480 - Working Sony Explod, no orphaned music but several strategically placed bog rolls in various cubby holes.

 

Volvo 480 (2) - ISO wiring and a pound coin gaffer taped to the firewall.

 

Peugeot 305- Working Kenwood worth approximately 50% of the car's value as scrap.

 

Volvo 460 - Original head unit, aerial feed broken, two speakers still partying on.

[Lacquer Peel]

Celine Dion and Will Smith cassettes in a Peugeot 405 Style(*).

[Cavcraft]

All manner of shit. The absolute worse was the cassette I found that had some REALLY weird sounding girl singing over the top of the songs. It was so spooky and un-nerving I threw onto someone's bunglaow roof as I was driving along.

[lancashireclamper]

"20 Truck Driving Greats" found in the cassette player of a one owner from new Lada 1500 estate purchased in 2001,

included;

'Truck drivin son of a gun'

'Six days on the road'

and, don't know what else as I wanged it out of the window at this point, stars and stripe bedecked box and all,

(Did puzzle me a bit though as the cars previous owner was a recently retired Primary school teacher)

[HMC]

War of the worlds theme music (the one with Richard Burton) was in the cassette deck of my old xj12 series III. Something suitably apocalyptic for that thirsty, unreliable, overheating rust heap!!

[barefoot]

Hillman Imp left me a Neds Atomic Dustbin CD in the Scirocco so I ripped it to iTunes & posted it back to him.

I have never listened to it.

[ProgRocker]

No cassettes or discs left in any of my cars.

 

However, shortly after I passed my test I bought a punk rock CD compilation, recorded it onto cassette and rocked mightily to the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Stranglers, the Damned and PiL in the little orange Mini - must have been an odd sight! Ah...memories.

[Guest]

All manner of shit. The absolute worse was the cassette I found that had some REALLY weird sounding girl singing over the top of the songs. It was so spooky and un-nerving I threw onto someone's bunglaow roof as I was driving along.

 

I went to a gig at the Ladybarn and someone left a tape like that in my jacket pocket. I'm not sure whether they got the wrong person or whether they were trying to un-nerve me. It was mostly silent other than for a two minute segment in the middle with some bloke SCREAMING at the top of his lungs over the top of some obscure Korean pop music.

 

I drove my rented Transit over it.

[cms206]

One half of an Eagles 'Best of' double cassette in the Proton...

[warren t claim]

Ho trovato un insegnare a te stesso casette italiana in Mercedes.

[Craig the Princess]

+1 on the God Rock.

 

The only tape I can recall was Songs for Jehovah Sides 7 & 8.

[ruffgeezer]

I had one cd in my bx, "Val's car" full of the most middle of the road, wallpaper pop flop shite such as Shitehouse family, Simply dread etc... I think I frisbee'd it in the end.

 

In the sAXo, there was a mishmash of classical and R'n'B, which was complete and utter dross, not helped by the incredibly knackered speakers.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I don't remember finding anything. OTOH, I have probably left behind all sorts of shit, from Greek belly-dancing stuff to Polish rock and from Jimmy Buffett to Pavarotti or possibly all of the above mixed into a single MP3 CD.

[michael1703]

Charlatans - Melting Pot, pretty credible really

[Cavcraft]

Oh aye, got a Focus with a 6 disc changer and found a quantity of cheesey quaver CDs that sounded like a selection of small mammals being tortured with drilling equipment. The previous owner mailed asking me to send them back to him not ten minutes after I'd removed a door card to find the window propped up with a piece of wood.

Introducing them to a hammer made me feel slightly better.

[baldrickthecunning]

A very scratched UB40 CD in the 405's boot changer.

[ashmicro]

Nude pics of the previous owner of my first Metro GTi. She was very tasty, (and the previous owner wasn't bad either )

 

An old white fiver in my Samba which was weird as the car was 1982.

 

a 9mmx19 Fiocchi parabellum round, live (given to police) in a Goof. I should have given them the Lisa Stansfield cassette that was in the Goof as well, as it was criminally bad.

 

A current credit card in the same car

 

Copperhead Road CD in Kate's DB7

 

The best one ever was a mate who bought an ex-local authority house and contents, sight unseen, at public auction. In the garage was a Triumph 2000/2500 (can't remember which) containing the car's keys, a case of vodka (unopened) and a gimp mask. The housewarming party was a good one...

 

Does anyone here remember the bloke who bought a BMW from a Criminal Assets Recovery auction, and he found forty grand inside one of the back doors?

[Father Ted]

I bought an AX once with the Top Gear CD stuck in the CD player, going round and round and round. I smashed it out after a week.

 

Today (not strictly autoshite) I found an 8 track tape of the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange dumped in the brambles whilst doing some Geocaching. Very odd.

[maxpower]

in the 940 volvo i had the guy left about 30 cassettes... mostly shit except the rolling stones hits and creedence clearwater revival live tape

[michael1703]

Nude pics of the previous owner of my first Metro GTi. She was very tasty, (and the previous owner wasn't bad either )

 

and you kept them to yourself?

[messerschmitt owner]

tape of Zaire music - really good too! - in one of the XMs

[ashmicro]

Nude pics of the previous owner of my first Metro GTi. She was very tasty, (and the previous owner wasn't bad either )

 

and you kept them to yourself?

 

Haha!. No, I put them in an envelope and posted them through her door. Copies at www.mymetrosformerkeeper.com

[Andrew353w]

I bought a Jag XJ6 & found a cassette of what I can only describe as "French electro folk" music, that sounded like "'Allo Allo" with electric bits added; sounded great & I wished I'd kept the tape. Later bought a CD of French "Cafe" music-close, but not quite so good! Sold the Jag but never found the cassette!

 

Not QUITE on this topic, but close to it, my Wartburg had a long & medium wave and VHF/FM analogue radio, which also had a short wave that covered the 49 metre band. I had considerable fun tuning it to some strange foreign station with something that sounded suitably like political rantings in a foreign tongue (Radio Pyongyang, from North Korea was always good for this) turning the radio up quite loud & then wondering off shopping. On my return there were often people staring at the car with looks of incredulity....

 

P.S. I've just bought (NOS) a Phillips digital car radio/cassette player for £75, with a short wave! It's a Philips DCC 811, and it's sounds great!! It might be going in the Lada! (Does Radio Moscow still transmit to the UK?)

[Cavcraft]

Nude pics of the previous owner of my first Metro GTi. She was very tasty, (and the previous owner wasn't bad either )

 

and you kept them to yourself?

 

Haha!. No, I put them in an envelope and posted them through her door. Copies at http://www.mymetrosformerkeeper.com

 

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