I had a copy of “Heroes” on prerecorded cassette. I never figured out how it happened, but a couple of seconds got shifted/copied onto the other side’s tracks – with the result that after “Blackout” faded out, at the end of Side 1, there were a couple of seconds of “V-2 Schneider”. Then, after Side 2 started, there were a couple of seconds where that bit of audio dropped out from the beginning of “V-2 Schneider”.
When I was getting into Brian Eno, someone played me the prerecorded cassette of Here Come the Warm Jets. We both thought it was cool how the beginning of the album sounded like a tape slowing down, then the end of it sounded like a tape speeding up. Except shortly thereafter, I bought my own copy (also on prerecorded cassette) and it didn’t start nor end that way. I figured out that he’d gotten a defective copy, but he couldn’t believe it – “no, it’s an Eno album, I’m sure it was supposed to be that way!” He was a bit disappointed about it, but I suggested that’s still how Eno might’ve wanted it.
