Mixtapes Explained to Modern Kids

[@JayBradford]

Ah, the mixtape. I only gave away one carefully produced mixtape that I mailed to a pretty Swedish girl that I met on a beach in Florida. That tape went with her all over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. She and the mixtape eventually found their way back to Florida where she explained that the mixtape constantly reminded her of me. 24 years, a marriage and 2 adult kids later... we still listen to the same music together. Hence the power of the mixtape. Peace.

[@xXEternalBeatXx]

Du bör också lära dig svenska unless you allready have lol

[@JayBradford]

Petrok Stir Självfallet :p

[@JayBradford]

***** Thanks! :) That's actually not the first time somebody has mentioned that.

[@rockgurl1218]

I know this is an old comment, but that was beautiful!

[@thegalaxyairsoft]

Came here to have a nice time. Left crying. Ty op

[@amandas2639]

You forgot the absolute worst part about making a mix tape. You'd wait around ALL DAY to hear your favorite song so that you could record it off the radio, only for some jackass DJ to talk over the intro or cut the song off early. RAAAGE.

[@PP-bs3od]

That's why the stuff I record is either from a CD, or music I produce myself live, while it's recording!

[@bobdavis4848]

Or one could have saved up to buy the actual record, to support the artist. It's not the DJ's responsibility to cater to listeners' taping desires. It's the DJ's responsibility to cram as much entertainment as they can on into their allotted time frame.

[@amandas2639]

@@bobdavis4848 lmao lighten up, francis. I was, like, seven. It's not that serious.

[@bobdavis4848]

@@amandas2639 I never denied or assumed anything about what your age might have been. I simply pointed out a legal issue that exists, as a point of advice. If you want to tell someone to lighten up, you might try doing that to some copyright holders, and see how well that works out for you. If you were a musician, especially one who needed sales as your livelihood, I think you'd hope everyone who likes your music would buy it or would ask their parents to buy it for them, instead of doing something else to get satisfied without it. I want to thank you for the "Francis" compliment; I just looked it up in the urban dictionary. I didn't realize I was that kind all the time, but I try to be. Have a nice day.

[@amandas2639]

@@bobdavis4848 lmao I'm not reading all that, but I'm sorry for you or happy that happened

[@Darlingbeauties]

I was making mix tapes in 2005 with my friends and sometimes we would record our own voices instead of music and pretend we were hosts of a radio show. I can't wait to pull out those tapes in a few years a listen to myself from when I was 8.

[@glotznichso4108]

same xD

[@beltionbambie1239]

ee rr reminder about this so you can listen to them ee rr

[@snippetshub]

Been 7 years, how did it go? :)

[@T2uyu]

you make mixtape at 8? freaking genius

[@ONormanO]

So happy to have lived during the time of floppy-disks, tape-cassettes and VHS. Thank you so much for this video, was very nostalgic. :)

[@persevere67]

i use to make mix tapes all the time, i loved my Sony Walkman until the CD player came along and then the CD writer, then it was all about mix CD's and then it was about putting a couple hundred MP3's on one CD and then and then well you all know the rest, the ipod came along and now i have 32 freaking GB's on a chip the size of my thumbnail with thousands of songs on it and i never even listen anymore, it really is true that more is less.

[@jeremyheartriter4576]

Ikr, they meant so much when they're hard to come by, now I have over 800 songs in my phone and I listen to only 50 of them at most

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

​@@jeremyheartriter4576oh wow hmm..

[@Fuppy636]

WHY DO PEOPLE TREAT THESE THINGS AS IF THEY WHERE IN THE PRE HISTORIC AGE? Its not that damn old so stop acting like it is.

[@sokker80ii]

Though it hasn't been a hundred years since mix tapes, they are completely done for the generations that are going to college now. You can't buy mixtapes at walmart anymore.

[@TrouvoSouvok]

Footballboy and if you can't get it at walmart you cant get it anywhere lol

[@15fvp]

It's because of how rapid technology is changing. So much so that the majority of kids who are teenagers now have no idea what this is or have a very vague and distant memory of such a thing or have only seen it in the media.

[@sokker80ii]

Trouvo Souvok I see what you are trying to say. But by Walmart i mean in any generic store. I do know there are antique and yard sales where you can buy tapes

[@televisionkid7783]

ffupnooC EXACTLY

[@pr0cess1on]

Im 16 and have made 3 mixtapes in the past month. The feeling of having a physical copy of the music I love is amazing.

[@SpaceSloth707]

Yeah. Streaming and digital music files are pretty neat and handy. But there's just something quite special about physical media. Especially the old analog formats, such as cassette or vinyl.

[@scarfycoolcat]

It never gets old son!

[@NoobFLProducer]

I still remember my teacher doing me a Sum 41 mixtape, i actually still have it !!! god i miss those days, and i miss those sort of headphones.

[@EdibleCowProductions]

I love Sum 41! That seems like an awesome teacher.

[@milkeelu]

that’s awesome!! i just went to see sum41 and simple plan open for the offspring last year and it was great ^_^

[@Bucknik]

I made a mix tape in the '80s that was so awesome that a stereo store actually bought it off me for $25. That's ~$2.50 for every hour it took me to create. Kick ass.

[@nickk2177]

Being 19, that's crazy how much the world has evolved in the mere two decades I've been around. All I need to do is Shazam or Soundhound a song that I don't know on the radio, go home, download it, and throw it on my Smartphone. BOOM. People don't appreciate this kind of stuff nowadays.

[@datgreenEK]

THE FIRST BUZZFEED WITH REAL VOICE OR NARRATION !!! WOOOO!

[@TheKarlProductions]

My dad used to make alot of these when he was still in High School. He likes sharing the newest songs with different artists to his friends alot.

[@stalkingself]

My mom was amazing with mixtapes and video taping music videos in a way that seemed like remixes or a 2 hour song. She taught me how to do it, I think my first videotape was Britney' s oops I did it again lmao obviously I didn't continue as there's no need for it now but kudos to people that do....it's hard and time consuming

[@Niral1337]

They still sell cassettes? :P

[@TwistedGlitter]

***** i want to find some casette's and vhs tapes so i can show my little cousins how i watched movies and listened to music when i was little. i never got to put any music on a casette, but i did it with cds and had about 7 of them before the mp3 era.

[@spinemelter2000]

Things were better then. People talked in person, and conversation was an art.

[@blehe38]

Despite not being born in a time where such things such as mixtapes were in their prime, I find them quite fascinating. In fact, I might as well try and make one just out of curiosity for what it was like to make a physical copy of digital (or something of the sort) songs.

[@MrMarks101]

I miss the old days

[@E5KAred]

I'm 16 and still using walkman. cassette tapes sound so different than CD/mp3/streaming. I love it ^^

[@kittylorane673]

I hate how stereotypical this video is. just because we can email and record things doesn't mean were idiots when it comes to mix tapes and cassettes

[@SiouxWarlord]

If you were lucky you could get through to the radio station and request the song you wanted to hear (record). Funny thing about this is we were basically all pirating the music by doing this, even back then, but didn't seem like such a big deal.

[@xXcangjieXx]

Oh yeah! I remember when you asked your friend after a copy over a specific song that you had missed on the radio haha.

[@oliliz]

My dad had to buy a new cassette because me&my sister fought over 1 cassette.. Such a good old days X)

[@aleksandroramaj]

Even tho im 12 i used mixtapes when i was little and i was a witness of how they were replaced by cd's and then internet

[@Lightdustable]

I'm sorry, but no.

[@Lightdustable]

Jonathan James I hardly do, and im 20

[@DaBrute]

Oh the memories. My godmother got me a green and white Casio cassette player for my 9th b'day. It came with a mic so I used to add little messages if the mixtape was for a girl I liked. Unfortunately, during a bad storm the house flooded and most of those tapes along with my little radio were lost. That really sucked because it was one of my favorite 'toys'. I'd kill to get a hold of one of those tapes today. I'm 30 now.

[@GabrielNinetyNine]

Im 14 and i used to record songs, when i was 11 i got my laptop and started downloading songs. the mixtapes were something special, not like mp3 data, u waited for the song you wanted to record in the radio sometimes it took soo long to get the song u wanted.

[@adan1144]

I did not live in the 1980s or 1990s but was born in 2010 because of my parents. I knew what vhs was and cassettes before Spotify and Netflix. I use cassettes and vhs time to time because I like to feel what the past was like

[@Kell19kell]

those were the days

[@akiraScarecrow]

I remember using the high tech to put the tape back in...

[@jamesb1221222]

Brings back many memories.. of cassette decks eating my damn tapes, then trying to fish the tape out of the deck without destroying the tape.

[@TheArchDick]

You didn't even need blank cassettes, just a tape you didn't listen to or one you hated and fold up a piece of paper into a tiny square (or use adhesive tape) and place it in the empty space on the top side of it and BAM recordable cassette tape! Record silence first, then the goodies. It was a pain, but I truly miss those days.

[@joewilly78]

Yes! I remember filling those tiny squares to record over. Awesome memory.

[@PP-bs3od]

I used to sometimes prank my friends by getting one of their pre recorded cassettes, and sticking tape over the tabs to record over them, then letting them listen to something unexpected! So much fun. :) try doing that with a CD!

[@solarwalkman]

I found an old Denon cassette deck on the side of the road, and it works beautifully. Mixtapes out the wazoo.

[@misumikaminari]

jesus christ i remember these. And recording shows on VCR too. used to always record WWF when they had the F in their name. so much good times.

[@JR127]

80s and 90s were the best years ever!

[@chrisbell8942]

Is everyone else have the same problem where you go to a video and ALL of them are blurry?

[@pbilk]

I remember recording our voices when we were younger.

[@justbecca87]

Oh my god. this needs to be taught in school. show this video in social studies or history classes! lol

[@crazyhamburger101]

I'm a modern kid and i know what all of these things already, i cant tell if this is a bad thing or a good thing.

[@kikiarekkusu]

you have good parents. Or you're the perfect child for modern society. NOW GO MAKE SOMETHING BIGGER THAN APPLE!

[@aSStronaut111]

KiKi Arekkusu Wait for it....... Orange!!

[@fitnessgal1979]

The good ole days haha i remember doing all of that especially making mixed tapes from the radio when i was in high school back in the 90s

[@jakethemusicman]

I used to create my own mixtapes when I was a kid. I made one for my girlfriend at Christmas but I'd love to be able to make them and share them more often.

[@JesseQuezada]

I remember.. Good old times :)

[@bridgetnash1980]

Mixing my favorite songs together back in the day was totally worth the wait. I actually still have a couple of mine I made

[@yazhini5652]

The first few years of my life were the last few years of mixtape.

[@screeningmimi]

Just my opinion, but I don't think anyone is being condescending or saying the younger generation doesn't know things. It reminded me of how much time and frustration went into waiting hours for a song to come on the radio - just for a chance to tape it, when it's so fast and easy now...And that's a very GOOD thing! It does strike me that we should have more free time now, due to improvements like this - but I have less, perhaps because it's too easy to get sidetracked on KZbin making comments and visiting other interesting videos. ; )

[@crowpowersactivate4508]

"Advanced 80's technology"... Maybe some people were ahead of their time in the 90's, but everyone around me was still making mixtapes. My dad would regularly send them to my mum.

[@JoSe-tp3jy]

lmao smart dad

[@JeremyCrow]

Yesterday when I went to the Goodwill down the street to donate a bunch of stuff I don't want anymore, I found a high end 1981 Hitachi cassette tape deck for just $8. Brought it home and fixed it myself with parts I already had. Sooooo happy! Now if anyone wants to make me a mix tape, I have the ability to listen to it! ;)

[@ulisesventura1212]

It's cool when you have those nifty ones with two so you can play one and duplicate it with the other!

[@captainobscurity491]

This is almost like a lost art.

[@skyesmitherz]

I loved the tape to tape stereo systems that came out. I devised a method of being able to cut out the DJ completely from my recordings of the UK Top 40 charts from the radio. First I would record the whole show on one cassette and then using another cassette, I would cut out all the points were the DJ began speaking. Sounds silly now but my friends really struggled to work out how I managed to produce a perfectly edited Top 40. Mind you, it was 1986 lol

[@JocelinLeige]

Ah this was pretty fun. I made my first mix tape before my great aunt passed away.... I'm 23 now and I think I was probably.......... a lot younger lol. I can't think of the year I made it. Maybe 2001? I was 10 at the time... I can't remember all I know is that it was a while back.

[@kanna5303]

I was too young to even do this kind of stuff with mixtapes, but it brings back good memories when I would listen to children's songs with those :)

[@williescreativecrafts9019]

I still use those things and I'm 14.

[@crystalwaters6059]

yep. making a mixtape was a pain in the ass. but hey, it was worth the time anyway.

[@Jojeezful]

I use to take the ribbon from a cassette we no longer wanted and pretend I was a rhythmic gymnast LOL. It moves the same way the ones that the gymnasts use. :D

[@rickcharles5064]

Can top that! First mix tape I ever made for a girl (of course) was an 8 track tape, holding about 12 songs. I had one of the few recording decks. Got some songs off 45s & lps, some recorded off radio onto a reel-to-reel to 8 track. Tried to fit songs onto each track which was dang near impossible. Many times it would change tracks in the middle of a song. You can see and hear it happen on Wayne's World, when Bohemian Rhapsody was playing and they had to pause then pick back up after the change. I probably should explain what all of those things I've mention are but this is way too long anyway. Anyway, try doing a mix tape on those and you'll never bitch about doing it now. Plus you couldn't save a copy, you'd just have to do it again. Lets just say, IT SUCKED!!! The little bitch just threw it away.

[@rickcharles5064]

Oh yeah, on Wayne's World there was a mistake. Wayne put in a "cassette". A cassette wouldn't make that pause. That was obviously an 8-track pause, double click, pause and start again. Did I say I hated 8-track?

[@juliahill3912]

They sound really cool and I like the mix tape art that he drew on it. It was pretty

[@emjayrage7373]

dude, i'm 13 and I still remember what mixtapes an cassetes are. I have like a bunch of them in my cabinet ( and yes I still use the!!!) kids nowadays still know what they are. it wasn't that long ago buzzfeed, so stereotypical.

[@DAVIDSDIEGO]

It would be cool to revive this relic, although it seems immensely unlikely; kind of like payphones...📼

[@TheClosetiguana]

Every once in a while I'll be listening to a song and I'll expect the next song I had after that song from a mixed tape. Probably because our mixtapes kinda turned in albums that we'd repeatedly listen to.

[@JonnyInfinite]

If I was making a mixtape for that girl at the end, I'd fill the tape with songs that had hair-related puns....

[@lenchiklet]

So that's why Monica made such a big deal about Chandler getting her a mixtape on their anniversary!

[@sambee8982]

Actually, you can also record from another tape and from CDs too.

[@ineinerbank]

i made only a few, since one dock of our double cassette recorder broke down when i was 8 something. but i still have my dads old mixtapes and they are the shit.

[@juliahansen948]

IM 13 AND I LOVED MAKING MIXTAPES!! I STILL DO!!

[@maximilianlindner]

I'm 22 and I feel so old...

[@eflose]

sharen wir wieder Kassetten, jaaa :-)

[@naty2rc]

I still have some of my mixtapes in my memories box.

[@asterisk246]

Now I want a cassette tape recorder and player, and a package of cassette tapes. I am such a weird person who likes both old and new stuff.

[@heisenburger2212]

And while your explaining mixtapes.. Im back over here listening to records and enjoying my new drivers license because I just turned 16...

[@albviv]

little secret ? … NO ONE CARES .. oh wait, maybe bob does, ask him

[@My-name-is-Kit]

the worst is when the DJ would talk over the end of the song you were recording. >_

[@barryallenflash1]

Did a lot of this as a teenager, than later as an adult. It was fun to give to family and friends as a way to say....hey, you're cool and here's some music I think you'll like. I still have some of the tapes I made for myself....some mixes that you just couldn't buy in the stores...forget about "online"...that wasn't EVEN an option. Cool video, brought back a lot of memories.

[@Skitty2Bruce]

when I was young I used to record my voice insted of music and tell stories.

[@Smithyswife229]

Lmaooo Ahhhh the memories ! Remember when the tape used to stop half way through the song then u'd have to turn the tape over!? Hahahaa! Then they invented the player that played both sides of the tape! Whoooah! Lol

[@LillyianPuppy]

There was no better gift ever. I wish I still got mixed tapes.

[@KingDollaDolla]

0:30 did you see jinx too?

[@iamafabulousglitterbunny745]

I have to agree with the guy typing in the beginning! Boston was one of the best bands ever! My friend, Micah introduced me to them and I've been hooked ever since! Even though this comment has absolutely nothing to do with what the video was about ._.

[@andrewsoe8374]

All you need to know about my mixtape is that it's on fire

[@toastysock]

I miss tapes so bad. I still keep a box of mixtapes I made from listening to the radio back in the 90s. It brings back so many memories. Even my car has a tape player. I don't think I could have it any other way.

[@leftythat5833]

i'm 15 (born 1998) and i still use mixtapes and my friend and i only use them and cd's sometimes. it confuses people at school because they are like "what is that" :D

[@cooliofoolio]

This made me want to make one. Then I made one ._.

[@benoftheweek]

I made a mixtape when I was 6 :3

[@jeremyheartriter4576]

Damn! Those were the times when favourite songs meant so much.After all who'd let go of a song that was so hard to come by.

[@inutrasha94]

Where did you get an unopened pack of cassettes?!

[@liamwearmouth9671]

The internet bruh. Maxell still makes blank tapes. You can buy them on Amazon.

[@jonjones916]

You can still buy them ;D

[@strider5964]

Walgreens.radio shack. Amazon. Walmart. They still sell em

[@tomnewbontwainjackson]

+stopasking lol i like just laughed at your comment cause i couldnt tell if it was sarcasm or just a joke lol ah so funny :D

[@xXcangjieXx]

Pretty much any generic store like walmart or tech stores.

[@davids5660]

🔥🔥🔥Mixtape dropping 2029

[@myspaceuser]

We should bring back this again, it's really fun when you give something to someone that you worked hard for, you know.

[@M_D93]

I am 23 and I have been around mixtape when I was younger, but just now, I learned how to make a mixtape.

[@Ohsnappitsvic]

Uh to the person below me. It's not sarcastic. Making a mix tape was a pain in the ass!

[@ernestocastelan3000]

That's so right! Back in the day if u had a tape recorder u were cool! I would gey paid like 5bucks just to put a music

[@JoseGonzalez-ss9nm]

I'm 15 and I still remember those tapes. I used to break them by pulling the thing and recorded music from the radio. BuzzFeed, it hasn't been that long you know.

[@sharonfieldstone]

My sentiments exactly. I'm 17 and only stopped recording music from the radio when I was 11. It really hasn't been very long.

[@TheInternetcord]

shrrprnt depending on where your from I suppose, I'm 17 and only remember playing stuff on these when I was 3, quickly moving to cd's and then to flash and internet. I barely ever used tapes

[@FireFerretMakko]

shrrprnt In what cave do you live then because 6 years ago most people I know had those stick mp3 players and some had those old iPod mini's or aready had Nano's and years before that everybody used discmans

[@sharonfieldstone]

Erin Warbler Not saying that it was my primary source of music, it was just something I found fun to do at the time.

[@anarchoutis]

I'm 28 and I haven't used a cassette in over 10 years.

[@enriquesosa4702]

Recuerdo que hacía cassettes escuchando sinido 103.7 fm de Guadalajara

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

Wow dat so cool..

[@Favoritebruh]

Daquan's dropping his new mixtape soon.

[@Misguided1111]

I still have some of my old mix tapes...I love labor intensive happiness

[@HealedWolf]

My car only plays cassette tapes and it makes my inner hipster glisten when people find out that they can only listen Bon Jovi and sorts

[@TheOfficialNYMO]

You can get a cassette audio adapter which has a audio input that enables you to plug in a CD player, mp3, or phone. ;p

[@ms_med]

You guys brought back so many good memories! :)

[@UNR3S7]

Aww. I almost wish that the entire internet music presence would suddenly dissolve so that we could have the opportunity to make meaningful mixtapes.

[@3peopleinaroom50]

Why is this so me

[@MsShiinaapple]

If those kids learn physics and computer science, they will know what these are.

[@ThereArtWings]

The game i played was on floppy disk!

[@markhanson6563]

What about making a mixed tape from CD to cassette? LOVE the pencil in the cassette spool. Been there, tried to do that!

[@ChrystineDeeMarie]

Don't mean to brag but, by kindergarden I professionalize making my friends and family cassette mixtapes. It all I ever did coming home from school, I sat & listened to the radio all evening. Music was always a big part of me until I was forced to be social and got sucked in with Barbie products and tainted on what a young girl should act & be. Then in grade 4, burned CD's where a thing. Never learned. I loved cassettes.

[@jazzmander13]

I still have some of my old mixed tapes. Good times, but it was in the 90s.

[@chriscory2049]

I kinda wanna make a mixed tape now.

[@bandyboi3032]

Oh, I remember these hellish, but at the same time amazing, creations.

[@Frobbl]

I'm 20, still a kinda young generation but of course I still know cassettes/mixtapes from my childhood. But I am wondering, do kids that are like 12 or younger today seriously not know cassettes/mixtapes anymore???

[@TheChronoTiger]

Actually, i am 13 and when i was 4-5 years old i knew what is a mixtape is

[@PalStanleyFan1]

I'm 14 and I have known what a cassette is as long as I ca remember too... For me it seems strange half of the kids at my age doesn't know what it is.

[@3peopleinaroom50]

@@PalStanleyFan1 exactly. I'm 15 and remember listening to Winnie the Pooh and other stories on cassettes

[@blackericdenice]

I bought a 2001 Chevy minivan with a tape player. My youngest son asked me what goes in here? I told him it’s a tape player. He asked me why was I playing around.

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

Wow that's so cool. That is 2 years near the end of the era of mixtapes for sure!