Summer of 1978. Crazy. 37 years ago. I'm 50 now. Where does the time go? I was 14 then. Live in Philadelphia now. Grew up in Northern NJ and went to summer camp in the NY Catskill Mountains. Many of the others campers and counselors were from Brooklyn and Long Island. They'd play a local band from Long Island all the time. I fell in love with the album. Now I must have well over 100 Maxell cassettes that I recorded on my own from vinyl. Making mixed tapes and full albums. Of all of them this local Long Island band, The Good Rats, was by far the most obscure album in my collection. I had some outstanding recording equipment and have an older car with a cassette deck and CD changer. So I still keep some of the tapes in the car and it's amazing to me that since there's a space to write the recording date that I'm playing a tape that I recorded over 30 years ago and it sounds just as good as a CD, my satellite radio, or the day that I recorded it. I still have my entire album collection. It's in storage. Switching over to CD was tough. I bought so many duplicates. Just born in that time of history before today's technology. I was in the wireless business. I remember the very 1st car phone in 1983. Just when I got out of high school. The analog phones had a transceiver in the trunk the size of a briefcase. They quickly got smaller, the brick sized handheld phone became the 1st Motorola flip phone by 1990. I remember in our office seeing it for the 1st time. Then of course everything went digital and then to the smartphones of today. But I hadn't purchased a CD since 2002 when satellite radio 1st came out. I couldn't stand all the commercials on regular radio and the satellite fee wound up saving me a ton of money as I literally went 13 years without buying a CD after buying about 1000 of them up untilm that point. Recently I wanted to get some CDs for the 12 disc changer in my car. My favorite titles. I've gone a little overboard lately, making up for the last 13 years without a CD purchase. I know most people don't even buy CDs anymore, but I'm nostalgic for them. And the eBay prices are really great. This band, The Good Rats, I've only ever heard this one album, Birth Comes To Us All. But all 10 tracks on it are great. Some great hard rock and a few ballad type tracks. I only buy CDs brand new. I never thought this was made on CD. But the album that came out in 1978 was released on CD in 1995. Found it on eBay brand new and sealed. And only 2 left. We all talk about music taking us back to a time and place in our lives. With such an obscure band it doesn't get much more specific for me. Kissed my 1st girl in 6th grade when I was 11. I was born in July so the summer of 1978 when I was 14 was between 8th grade, my last year in Junior High School and 9th grade, my 1st year in High School. I still keep in contact with so many of the people from that camp. I went there for years after 1978, becoming a waiter and a counselor before my summer camping days ended. It seems like a lifetime ago because it is. But to have this album on CD, part of the soundtrack of my life, puts a smile on my face. I wasn't even going to search it on eBay when I was buying other CDs because I never thought a local band would have a CD release 17 years after the album release. But I'm certainly glad that I did. I'll be able to listen to it for the rest of my life. I know it's digital now. But in my car I like to shake my windows with my system's subwoofer.Read full review
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