Side 2, Track 15: Total Run Time: 60:00 minutes The Stranglers: Strange Little Girl: 3 Minutes 34 Seconds: 1981 Well, I do love The Stranglers, and it was either this or ‘Golden Brown’ to finish […]
Category: Volume 1
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 14
Side 2, Track 14: Total Run Time: 57:00 minutes Big Country: Fields Of Fire: 3 Minutes 31 Seconds: 1983 Having discovered today that I still have a vinyl copy of ‘The Crossing, this […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 13
Side 2, Track 13: Total Run Time: 53:38 Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach: 3 Minutes 38 Seconds: 1980 Loved this when it was released and still love it now. It is probably the only […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 12
Side 2, Track 12: Total Run Time: 50:00 David Bowie/Giorgio Moroder: Cat People: 6 Minutes 39 Seconds: 1980 There are a lot of Bowie singles that I could have chosen but this one has always […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 11
Side 2, Track 11: Total Run Time: 43:28 Visage: Fade To Grey: 3 Minutes 48 Seconds: 1980 I hated the video for this, it was pompous and pretentious, but the song, well, it was either […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 10
Side 2, Track 10: Total Run Time: 39:20 Gary Numan I Die You Die: 3 Minutes 48 Seconds: 1980 Well I’ve been waiting for a place to fit Gary Numan in to this mix tape […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 9
Side 2, Track 9: Total Run Time: 35:33 OMD: Enola Gay: 3 Minutes 33 Seconds: 1980 This track should most definitely be filed under the category “People Are Stupid” as, when released, it was banned […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 8
Side 2, Track 8: Total Run Time: 32:00 ABC: Poison Arrow: 3 Minutes 24 Seconds: 1982 ‘The Lexicon Of Love’ is an incredibly good album, good songwriting, great production, and this single from it is a highlight. […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 7
Side 2, Track 7: Total Run Time: 28:47 Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now: 4 Minutes 47 Seconds: 1983 So things are, perhaps, getting a bit random at this point, but when I listen to the tracks back […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 6
Side 2, Track 6: Total Run Time: 24:00 Tom Tom Club: Wordy Rappinghood: 6 Minutes 27 Seconds: 1982 Honestly, I’ve no idea, I just always liked this track even though there was something about it that suggested […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 5
Side 2, Track 5: Total Run Time: 18:00 Talking Heads: Burning Down The House: 4 Minutes 02 Seconds: 1983 and right away here’s another addition, again from 1983, which was in my head as I recently bought […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 4
Side 2, Track 4: Total Run Time: 14:00 Orange Juice: Rip It Up: 5 Minutes 20 Seconds: 1983 Perhaps quite inexplicably in the context of this mix tape, jump back five years and you have this track, […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 3
Side 2, Track 3: Total Run Time: 8:41 The Stone Roses: Sally Cinnamon: 2 Minutes 55 Seconds: 1987 The band hated the video that accompanies this track, they thought it cheap and, I believe, trashed the record […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 2
Side 2, Track 2: Total Run Time: 5:46 Primal Scream: Ivy Ivy Ivy: 3 Minutes 03 Seconds: 1989 It’s only just the 80’s but so what. I saw Primal Scream at the Assembly in Leamington Spa a […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 2 – TRACK 1
Side 2, Track 1: Total Run Time: 2:43 The Smiths: This Charming Man: 2 Minutes 43 Seconds: 1983 The first time I saw the Smiths was on regional TV, it was a feature on them but was […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 1 – TRACK 14
Side 1, Track 14: Total Run Time: 59:00 The The: This Is The Day: 4 Minutes 57 Seconds: 1983 The Album from which this track was taken, ‘Soul Mining’, caused quite a stir round our way when […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 1 – TRACK 13
Side 1, Track 13: Total Run Time: 54:00 The Associates: Waiting For The Love Boat: 4 Minutes 27 Seconds: 1984 I never really took much notice of The Associates back in the early 80’s, having only really […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 1 – TRACK 12
Side 1, Track 12: Total Run Time: 50:00 Japan: Ghosts: 4 Minutes 37 Seconds: 1982 I had a copy of tin Drum, which this single was taken from, back when it was released, and I still have […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 1 – TRACK 11
Side 1, Track 11: Total Run Time: 44:40 Kraftwerk: Das Model: 3 Minutes 40 Seconds: 1981 (Re-Issue) I recently bought a used vinyl copy of The Man-Machine but never owned this single at the time. As I […]
MIX TAPE: VOLUME 1 – SIDE 1 – TRACK 10
Side 1, Track 10: Total Run Time: 41:00 New Order: Temptation: 5 Minutes 23 Seconds: 1982 I never had the original release of this track, but did have it on the double vinyl best of, ‘Substance’, although […]
