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Got obsessed with a fake 80s synth band called 'Voltage Cathedral' last week
Honestly, I was digging through old cassette tapes at a thrift shop in Portland and found this beat-up demo labeled 'Voltage Cathedral - 1986'. The A-side is this wild synth track called 'Digital Rain' that sounds like a broken arcade machine. B-side is just 12 minutes of a guy yelling about his car's odometer. Has anyone else ever found a fake band's tape that felt way too real?
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jake_kelly244mo ago
Buddy of mine found a tape from a band called 'The Dead Pixel Society' at a garage sale. The songs were all about broken VCRs and dial-up modem sounds. He swore it was some underground art project until the guy selling it told him it was just his nephew messing around with a Casio keyboard in 1997.
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mary8364mo ago
...and honestly, are we really calling a thrift store find "too real" just because it has a weird B-side? I mean, every local band from that era had at least one tape where they ran out of ideas and just yelled into the mic. That odometer rant probably meant something to them, but it's still just a bad tape.
People get all dramatic about finding "authentic" stuff but forget most of it is just junk that didn't sell. Your find is cool in a "hey, look at this weird thing" way, not a "this changes everything" way. Jake's story about The Dead Pixel Society kind of proves my point - it was a kid messing around, not some deep art project.
Honestly, half the fun is just imagining what the band members are doing now. Probably still yelling about their cars somewhere.
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