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My music timeline

By heidipreece

  • Vinyl

    Vinyl
    My dad had a huge record collection-I especially remember the Christmas records. We'd listen to Alabama, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Nat King Cole. I loved listening to records-I remember when they'd get stuck and you'd hear that scratch and had to go fix the needle.

  • Stereo

    We had a huge stereo in our house. We always had some sort of music playing.

  • 8 track tape

    I remember when we bought an 8 track tape. It was so exciting! My dad bought me a Smurfs tape. I listened to it forever!!

  • Boom box

    Boom box
    I remember when I got my first boom box. It was the cool thing because it was portable. I could move it around the house-when I was studying, etc, it went with me everywhere.

  • Mix tape

    Mix tape
    I loved creating mix tapes. We'd record music from the radio onto a cassette tape. We'd put the songs in random order and listen to them over and over. We'd give them to our friends, boys we liked, etc. It was a fun way to share music with each other.

  • Walkman

    Walkman
    It was so cool when the Walkman was invented. I loved listening to my mix tapes, and the cassettes I'd bought. Tiffany was the first tape I ever owned.

  • Discman

    Discman
    Even cooler than the Walkman was the Discman. The invention of the CD was so cool! No more tapes unspooling. But, then the CD would get a scratch. So annoying....

  • CD stereo

    CD stereo
    When I went off to college, I got a CD stereo. My roommates and I would pool our CDs, and listen to them for hours.

  • MP3

    MP3
    When the MP3 player came out, I had to have one. It was mind blowing to think that it was so small! I wasn't cool enough to have an Ipod, so I went with the generic MP3.

  • Cell phone

    Cell phone
    Then, we started listening to music on our cell phones. You plugged in your headphones, and you were good to go! This one took me a lot longer to adjust to, admittedly. I don't know why, exactly.

  • Amazon music

    Amazon music
    There are tons of streaming services out there, from Pandora to Spotify to Iheartradio to SiriusXM. The one that's my favorite at the moment is Amazon music. I can have music in my classroom, on my phone, in my car, and on my Alexa speaker at home.