Nostalgia indeed, I used to own this on vinyl when I was so much younger than today…
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Carrying on with Neil Young,don’t even remember buying this,consequently this is the first spin,sounding pretty good.
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I’ve actually got a tape of “Every Picture Tells a Story” that a colleague of my mum’s recorded for me in 1971, iirc. I used to play it on my Philips EL3302 mono cassette recorder. My mum was only 47 then, God rest her soul.
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Still got a copy, in the garage along with all my other records
The Beatles 1967-1970. Concentrated genius in two discs. This is the pretty good sounding 2014 reissue.
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I have a couple of boxes of cassettes going back to 1971. I recently went through them and chucked out the stuck and unrecoverable ones, ran the others end to end
and then put them back in the boxes 
A couple of the mix tapes or radio recordings I kept out but all of the others I either have on record or can stream now. Surprisingly they all still sound amazingly good, especially considering their age and storage conditions. ( I am playing them back on the same machine that recorded them, mostly. Nak cassette deck one)
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The Abba recording was surprisingly decent, given I only had a ribbon FM aerial for my Goodmans. The JVC was only 5 months old, so had no wow etc.
I often do a count-back: 1979 was 44 years ago. 44 years before 1979 was 1935…No wonder things are different…
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I have no idea what made me think of this… 
This is SWMBO’s favourite Kiss album and as she is away until tomorrow evening I thought, as it had come to mind, that I would play it😊
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Nope: in fact I’ve recently invested in some outer sleeves for a couple of hundred LP’s.
Most of my books have been boxed up for months: I just can’t quite go online and (hopefully) arrange for Sue Ryder to pick them up.
They are in the garage as well… 
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In the last 7-8 years, we have passed around 75% of our books to various charity shops.
Those that were too painful to part with or are genuine collectibles being the ones we’ve kept.
So saying, we’ve added close to a hundred new books in that same time frame.
This is a never ending cycle…
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The fix on the album that always jars with me is on the track Somebody Up There Likes Me
As Bowie said to Visconti after “Now you pick them on a screen, this should be followed by the words “What they look like” (you will notice a space) I had intended Luther and co: to do it but forgot. Could you and Mary do a little number on that one”.
Bowie’s instruction to add more vocals refers to the third verse. Visconti and his then-wife Mary Hopkin’s vocal overdub can be heard at 3:25 on the final mix - once heard never forgotten.
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