Rewind...

We're back although I haven't got around to posting the first entry of the week elsewhere simply because my fingers and wrists were off for a couple of days and I needed to rest them.

While resting them thoughts went back to past years and the messy year that was 1984 that including great things such as the Los Angeles Olympics, the '84 Superbowl but a while set of issues with poor communications with people I needed to help me not talking to each other.

It was very much the year of the Walkman as it lived in my coatpockets with stash of tapes and my Pioneer Radio cassette recorder that I listened to radio to on and made recordings as I tended only to play records as special events so hardly surprising many of my lps and singles from them are in great shape.

Billy Idols Rebel Yell and the Footloose soundtrack were played a lot but one favourite was the cassette version of Rewind, a compilation tracks from the 1970's and early 80's by the Rolling Stones taking in many but all their UK singles in a generous 50 odd minute form split over two sides.

For good measure it was a XDR tm issue which meant better tape duplication, higher quality tape used to make it and dolby hx pro for better high notes.

Come the compact disc, that album was not issued until 1987 and then in a different form in the UK and Europe but actually in February 1985 it was issued in Japan briefly and recently a copy arrived here in mint condition.

Most Emi-Toshibi cds in Japan had this right pointing Black Triangle label design.

The rear had titles and track number in Japanese but the folded up booklet has the detail in Japanese and English which does help and some black and white pictures.

The album was related to a video - the first - commercially to show the promotional videos made for the singles you could buy and play on your Betamax or VHS recorder.

Playing this "vintage" cd with the running order of the tape I had certainly brought back a lot of memories.