NME cassettes from the 1980s

I wore out my copy of Pogo a GoGo. Best Punk compilation ever.

Yes, indeed.

Best one? The "Department of enjoyment" definitely, with the Art of Noise tracks and oh so much more.

I just heard C81 for the first time - I had no idea Wah! was so great!

Is there a link to the tracklistings for these?

I would need a tracklisting to decide. (A tracklisting would be interesting for other reasons too - this is popular music history in the making after all)

why isn't c81 in the poll? who cares for the nme numbering? anyways here is the tracklisting.

Side one

1. "The "Sweetest Girl"" – Scritti Politti (6:09)
2. "Twist and Crawl Dub" – The Beat (4:58)
3. "Misery Goats" – Pere Ubu (2:26)
4. "7,000 Names of Wah!" – Wah! Heat (3:57)
5. "Blue Boy" – Orange Juice (2:52)
6. "Raising the Count" – Cabaret Voltaire (3:32)
7. "Kebab Traume (Live)" – D.A.F (3:50)
8. "Bare Pork" – Furious Pig (1:28)
9. "Raquel" – The Specials (1:56)
10. "I Look Alone" – Buzzcocks (3:00)
11. "Fanfare in the Garden" – Essential Logic (3:00)
12. "Born Again Cretin" – Robert Wyatt (3:07)

Side two

1. "Shouting Out Loud" – The Raincoats (3:19)
2. "Endless Soul" – Josef K (2:27)
3. "Low Profile" – The Blue Orchids (3:47)
4. "Red Nettle" – Virgin Prunes (2:13)
5. "We Could Send Letters" – Aztec Camera (4:57)
6. "Milkmaid" – Red Crayola (2:01)
7. "Don't Get in My Way" – Linx (5:15)
8. "The Day My Pad Went Mad" – The Massed Carnaby St John Cooper Clarkes (1:46)
9. "Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher" – James Blood Ulmer (4:03)
10. "Close to Home" – Ian Dury (4:13)
11. "Greener Grass" – Gist (2:32)
12. "Parallel Lines" – Subway Sect (2:38)
13. "81 Minutes" – John Cooper Clarke (0:13)

and here is the tracklisting of c86 (nme022):

Side one

1. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
2. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head
3. The Soup Dragons - Pleasantly Surprised
4. The Wolfhounds - Feeling So Strange Again
5. The Bodines - Therese
6. Mighty Mighty - Law
7. Stump - Buffalo
8. Bogshed - Run To The Temple
9. A Witness - Sharpened Sticks
10. The Pastels - Breaking Lines
11. Age of Chance - From Now On, This Will Be Your God

Side two

1. The Shop Assistants - It's Up To You
2. Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers
3. Miaow - Sport Most Royal
4. Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)
5. The Servants - Transparent
6. The Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's no pubs in Heaven)
7. bIG fLAME - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
8. Fuzzbox - Console Me
9. McCarthy - Celestial City
10. The Shrubs - Bullfighter's Bones
11. The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait

I didn't include C81 because it wasn't part of the series, even though it was the obvious precursor. That and it would probably win easy. There had been even earlier NME only items - though they were flexies or vinyl. And of course there were a lot more after this series - I think Ruby Trax or Sgt Pepper Knew My Father comes in soon after.

Here's a track listing of NME028 Hi Voltage

A1 Suicide Ghost Rider (2:27)
A2 Soft Cell Memorabilia (4:45)
A3 Matt Johnson Red Cinders In The Sand (5:29)
A4 Holger Hiller Jonny (Du Lump) (3:33)
A5 Erasure Senseless (3:25)
A6 Thomas Leer Letter From America (4:02)
A7 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft Kebab Traume (3:50)

B1 Cabaret Voltaire Baader Meinhof (3:30)
B2 Holger Czukay Hay Baba Rebop (3:40)
B3 Depeche Mode Black Celebration (5:00)
B4 Neu! Hallogallo (9:50)
B5 Can I Want More (3:20)
B6 Colourbox Breakdown (7:49)
B7 Yello Homer Hosse (5:15)

and here is NME011 Department of Enjoyment

A1 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Perfect Skin (3:15)
A2 Smiths, The Girl Afraid (2:50)
A3 Orange Juice (3) A Place In My Heart Dub Mix 2 (2:22)
A4 Boothill Foot Tappers, The Get Your Feet Out Of My Shoes (2:22)
A5 Paul Young & Royal Family, The Lonely So Long (3:35)
A6 Cocteau Twins Millimillienary (3:39)
A7 Waterboys, The Pagan Palace (5:14)
A8 Wah Come Back (5:00)
A9 Nick Cave & The Cavemen I Put A Spell On You (5:00)
A10 Prisoners, The Reaching My Head (2:50)
A11 Moodists, The Some Kinda Jones (3:27)
A12 Hüsker Dü Real World (2:23)

B1 Robert Wyatt & Hugh Hopper Amber & The Amberines (4:00)
B2 Redskins, The Kick Over The Statues! (Can't Stop The Redskins) (3:59)
B3 Billy Bragg Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (2:54)
B4 Bourgie Bourgie Little Red Rooster (3:45)
B5 Dr. John Dorothy (3:10)
B6 Wynton Marsalis The Star Spangled Banner (3:10)
B7 African Connexion C'est la Danse (5:30)
B8 Papa Levi Mi God - My King (4:10)
B9 Time Zone Wildstyle (Remix) (5:00)
B10 Art Of Noise, The Beatbox Diversion 3 & 4 (6:57)

Indispensable for "Come Back" alone, with the altered (original?) lyric where Wylie reels off a list of WEA artists hyped into the charts ("And don't mention Deaf School!"). Classic.

Marcello - indeed, I always liked somebody biting the hand that feeds, and Wylie is doing it while complaining about the food. "Come Back! - We'll get you on the Sooty Show".

oh and here is another tracklisting NME021 pogo a gogo

A1 Sex Pistols - Satellite
A2 Undertones - True Confessions
A3 Nipple Erectors - King Of The Bop
A4 Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
A5 Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
A6 Damned - Stretcher Case Baby
A7 Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
A8 Stranglers - Choosey Susie
A9 Victim - Strange Thing By Night

B1 Clash - 1977 (demo)
B2 Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
B3 Slits - Typical Girls
B4 Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp
B5 Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
B6 Jam - In The City
B7 Fall - Bingo Master's Breakout
B8 Subway Sect - Ambition
B9 Wire - Dot Dash
B10 Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

I got most of these (about 90%of them) when they came out. I faded out for Blow-up UK and Bush Fire I think.

Will have to see. Be a shame if my 'complete collection' is missing only a couple.

They used to print a page in the paper that you could cut-out and make into a cassette booklet. I did for the C81 one and maybe a couple more.

Actually, I was going to do a poll for NME freebies, seeing as how they are giving away a free 7" single in a couple weeks. First time since the Paul Weller WildWood Portishead remix. And that was an anacronism at the time!

Actually, I was going to do a poll for NME freebies, seeing as how they are giving away a free 7" single in a couple weeks

for me that has to be the Steinski, The Motorcade Sped On 7".
a track that was never going to get an official release gets covermounted to become part of the history of the cut-n-paste genre.
its certainly the only 7" the NME gave away all those years ago that I still play.

Which was the pebbles/nuggets style garage one?

"We have come for your children"...

That has "I" by the Knight Riders? Which has the greatest 'solo/freakout' ever..

It's a sort of Louie Louie chugger, but on the "OK let's go" they take off on this frantic reckless breakout, and after a minute or two you think "They'll never get back to the song from here" but they do and completely effortlessly. I still hold it in awe.

I was just about to say "We Have Come For Your Children" was a cracking compilation

for me that has to be the Steinski, The Motorcade Sped On 7".

OTM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've still got most of these... but I'd kill to get my hands on Neon West again.

I pinched my copy of C86 from the stepfather of my schoolfriend (and formal visuals man for the TVPs). Then i went and taped over it.

Heres the track listing of NME024 We have come for your children
(feel free everybody to add other track listings!) Mark S mentioned this had originally a different cover, I've got the rabbits one and I dont think I ever saw the original.

A1 Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
A2 The Mojo Men - Dance Withe Me
A3 The Knight Riders - I
A4 The Novas - The Crusher
A5 The Barbarians - Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?
A6 Circus - Bad Seed (You're A Bad Seed)
A7 The Shapes Of Things - So Mystifying
A8 The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
A9 The Premiers - Farmer John
A10 The Stereo Shoestrings - On The Road South

B1 The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
B2 The Castaways - Liar, Liar
B3 The Lollipop Shoppe - You Must Be A Witch
B4 Merrell Fankhauser - Gon To Pot
B5 The Bad Roads - Blue Girl
B6 The Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
B7 The Jades Of Fort Worth - Little Girl
B8 The Knickerbockers - Lies
B9 The Moving Sidewalks - Need Me
B10 She - Outta Reach

C81 seems important, and I would have voted for it if it had been in the poll.

I was never a fan of shoegazing, which means most of the C86 bands leave me cold.

I remember seeing the 'banned' version. I forget the contention.

No shoegazing bands on C86

Several of the Baggy bands started out as shoegazers. Primal Scream were surely shoegazers by 1986.

No they were never shoegazers. They were 'Byrds/Love' lite, then they briefly went Iggy until the dance remix of Loaded, then they went all ravey and then the stones and so on.

I'm not even sure the term "shoegazing" had been thought of in 1986

... it wasn't coined till 1990, according to Wikipedia

I haven't heard any of them but I'm voting for 28 because it has Thomas Leer, that crazy early Matt Johnson stuff, the Cabs, Can, Neu!, DAF etc. all so good.

but I'd kill to get my hands on Neon West again

Going for 50p in the cassette bin at Camden MVE a couple of weekends ago.

I'll pay for postage!

might not be there now but I'll have a peek this weekend.

That would be marvellous, thank you.

Several of the genre-based cassettes acted as primers for areas of music with which I wasn't previously familiar. Neon West for country ("A Gamble Either Way", "Feelin Single, Seein Double"), Smile Jamaica for vintage reggae, Night People for be-bop, All Africa Radio, Holiday Romance (first proper exposure to Billie). Low Lights & Trick Mirrors is great, particularly Lambert Hendricks & Ross doing vocalese on "Jackie". Some great pioneering reggae on the of-the-moment comps, eg. Papa Levi "Mi God Mi King", Wayne Smith "Under Mi Sleng Teng". Love the Balloon Farm's "A Question Of Temperature" on We Have Come For Your Children. C81 an obvious classic; hated 80% of C86, but found it useful to Form A Position on all that stuff. Oh, and Funky Four Plus One's "That's The Joint", that was a revelation. To think that once upon a time, the NME was all about expanding musical horizons...

in a nutshell, entirely yes.

Note to self: type up some track listings when you get home; it will be great displacement activity for that Bucks Fizz Very Best Ofreview. Actually. I'm astonished that there's no archive of this information already on the web... but there isn't.

Indie City was great. Not too dissimilar to the Rough Trade box set. I wish I had bought it on CD.

Indie City wasnt on CD. It was on a promo LP tho.

Here's the Neon West NME016 tracklisting

intro: Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No1
A1: Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
A2: Vince Gill - A Victim of LIfe's CIrcumstances
A3: Dolly Parton - A Gamble Either Way
A4: Jerry Reed - Honkin
A5: The Judds - John Deere Tractor
A6: Earl Thomas Cowley - Don't Make It Easy For Me
A7: Ronnie Milsap - She Loves My Car
A8: Gus Hardin - After The Last Goodbye
A9: Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
A10: Jimmy C Newman - Daddy's In His Pirouge
A11: Alabama - Green River

B1: Hank Williams Jr - Family Tradition
B2: John Anderson - Black Sheep
B3: Gram Parsons - The Return Of The Grievous Angel
B4: Karen Brooks - Tonight I'm Here With Someone Else
B5: The Whites - You Put The Blue In Me
B6: Rodney Crowell - Stars On The Water
B7: Shelly West - Somebody Buy This Cowgirl A Beer
B8: David Frizzell - I'm Gonna Hire a Wino To Decorate Our Home
B9: Emmylou Harris - Feelin Single Seein Double
B10: Guy Clark - Homegrown Tomatoes
B11: David Frizzell and Shelly West - You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma

I love this tape - mainly because it wasn't the sort of thing I liked but I got it anyway and it worked its way into my system with its rough charms.

i never got one of these tapes so cant comment, but the artwork on Mad Mix II was fantastic :

http://bp2.blogger.com/_r3tnNiJgJMU/ReQr89sBHsI/AAAAAAAAABs/1xBNeAh112E/s1600/madmixii.jpg

as per the blog post here

ha! I voted for Mighty Reel because I just re-read the Virginia Astley thread. Best to be consistent ;)

Virginia Astley

Note to self: type up some track listings when you get home; it will be great displacement activity for that Bucks Fizz Very Best Ofreview. Actually. I'm astonished that there's no archive of this information already on the web... but there isn't.

I'm sure there's a thread on ILM somewhere where mark sinker goes on at length about these tapes and re-posts some track lists. I'll have a look.

This is the thread I meant in my previous post, but while there is a lot of mark s in it, I was wrong about the presence of track lists. Still, worth a read before you vote:

Indie pop and Rockism

NME001: Dancin' Master.
Autumn 1981.

Side One
1. Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica
2. Linx - I Wanna Be With You
3. Grace Jones - Feel Up
4. Talking Heads - Cities
5. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Big Sister
6. Beggar & Co - Laughing On
7. Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint
8. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Inbetweenies
9. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - There But For The Grace Of God Go I
10. The Lounge Lizards - Stomping At The Corona
11. The Polecats - Rockabilly Guy (Dub) [dub mix by Dennis Bovell]
12. Lloyd Coxone - Zion Bound
13. Madness - Shadow On The House

Side Two
1. The Beat - Hit It [8:35!]
2. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Birthday Party
3. Junior Giscombe - Mama Used To Say
4. The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man (Instrumental)
5. Susan - 24,000 Kiss
6. The Jam - When You're Young
7. Dennis Bovell - Better
8. The Plastics - Last Train To Clarksville
9. James White & The Blacks - Contort Yourself
10. The Teardrop Explodes - Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire)
11. U2 - An Cat Dubh

NME002: Jive Wire.
Spring 1982

Side One
1. The Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love
2. David Gamson - No Turn On Red
3. Leisure Process - Love Cascade [6:19]
4. Buzzz - Tonight's Alright
5. Pigbag - A Live Orangutango
6. Aswad - Ghetto In The Sky
7. Scritti Politti - Asylums In Jerusalem
8. The Beat - Get A Job - Stand Down Margaret [live, 7:02]
9. Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie

Side Two
1. Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
2. Kraftwerk - Das Model
3. Altered Images - Happy Birthday
4. Theatre Of Hate - Dreams Of Poppies
5. Gun Club - Ghost On The Highway
6. Tav Falco's Panther Burns - Ms. Froggy
7. Black Uhuru - Happiness
8. Defunkt - Illusions
9. Rip Rig & Panic - Billy Eckstein's Shirt Collar
10. Carmel - Storm
11. Vic Godard & The Subway Sect - Just In Time
12. Pablo - Madeleina

NME008: Mad Mix II

Side One
1. James Brown - Bring It On... Bring It On
2. Aretha Franklin - Get It Right
3. The Eurythmics - Satellite Of Love
4. Sandii & The Sunsetz with David Sylvian - Living On The Front Line
5. Frank Chickens - Shellfish Bamboo
6. Kas Product - Pussy X
7. The Kane Gang - Small Town Creed
8. NYC Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait
9. The New Black Montana - Magumede
10. Yellowman - Who Can Make The Dance Ram?

Side Two
1. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One
2. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath - Halo Flamin' Lead
3. Xmal Deutschland - Sehnsucht
4. The Associates - Aggressive And Ninety Pounds
5. Bonsai Forest - The Great Escape
6. Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
7. The Special AKA - Lonely Crowd
8. JoBoxers - Crime Of Passion
9. J.B.'s All Stars - One Minute Every Hour
10. Cabaret Voltaire - Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself)
11. The Style Council - Party Chambers
12. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years

I haven't heard most of these but I can't imagine anything besting pogo-a-gogo. I should ysi that one.

NME014: Raging Spool
1984

Side One
1. Marc Almond - The Pink Shack Blues
2. The Three Johns - Sad House
3. Everything But The Girl - Laugh You Out Of The House
4. Bronski Beat - Screaming (demo)
5. Floy Joy - Into The Hot
6. The Kane Gang - Gun Law (demo)
7. Zeke Manyika - Red Hot International
8. Manu Dibango - Abele Dance
9. Alterations - Hank's Pantry [beresford/toop et al]
10. Test Department - V.F.M.
11. Cabaret Voltaire - Mercy Man

Side Two
1. The Neville Brothers - Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy (live)
2. The Rebels - You Can Make It
3. Screamin' Tony Baxter - Get Up Offa That Thing [bobby orlando does james brown!]
4. Hugh Masekela - Pula En Na/It's Raining
5. Black Stalin - You Ask For It
6. The Daintees - I'm A Hypocrite (A Crocodile Cryer) [#6 and #7 listed the wrong way round on the box; this is the actual order of play]
7. Aztec Camera - Jump (Loaded Version) [van halen cover]
8. The Go-Betweens - Part Company
9. Strawberry Switchblade - Deep Water
10. The Long Ryders - Final Wild Son
11. The Skiff Skats - Cripple Creek

NME017: Tape Worm
1985

Side One
1. The Juicy Bananas - Bad Man [from the soundtrack of Repo Man]
2. Fine Young Cannibals - Love For Sale
3. The Pogues - The Wild Cats Of Kilkenny
4. The Robert Cray Band - Phone Booth (live)
5. Champion Doug Veitch - Not The Heart (NME Re-Mix)
6. Paul Quinn - Ain't That Always The Way (demo)
7. The Faith Brothers - Stranger On Home Ground (string version)
8. Win - Unamerican Broadcasting (NME Mix)
9. Chakk - Cut The Dust (demo)
10. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Inside Me
11. Frank Sidebottom - Anarchy In The UK (live)

Side Two
1. Wayne Smith - Under Mi Sleng Teng
2. Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb
3. Shirley Brown - Love Fever (Remix)
4. Savajazz - Everything We Do
5. Simply Red - Money's Too Tight (Dub)
6. Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo
7. The Blasters - Common Man
8. The Beat Farmers - Reason To Believe
9. Los Lobos - Volver (live)

NME019: All Africa Radio
1985

Side One
1. Manu Dibango/M'Bamina/King Sunny Ade/Salif Keita/Toure Kunda/Mory Kante/Ghetto Blaster/Souzy Kaseya/Ray Lima - Tam Tam Pour L'Ethiopie
2. Bibi Den's Tshibaye (Ivory Coast) - Le Best Ambiance
3. Yassou Ndour (sic) (Senegal) - Immigres
4. Toure Kunda (Senegal) - Santhiaba Silo
5. Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited (Zimbabwe) - Tondobayana
6. Mahotella Queens (South Africa) - Mabone
7. Orchestre Virunga (Kenya) - Malako
8. King Sunny Ade & The African Beats (Nigeria) - Ase [special guest appearance: Stevie Wonder]
9. Manu Dibango (Cameroon) - Pata Piya

Side Two
1. Souzy Kaseya (Zaire) - Monsieur Simon
2. Sankomoto (Lesotho) - Mad House
3. Bosca (Sierra Leone) - Together
4. Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Nigeria) - Cross Examination
5. Mandingo (Gambia) - Kansale
6. Somo Somo (Nigeria) - Mele
7. Super Rail Band (Mali) - Foliber
8. Ladysmith Black Mazembe (sic) (South Africa/Zulu) - Bakhuphuka Izwe Lonke

(Side 1 #4/#9 and Side 2 #4/#5 are all prod. Bill Laswell)

I must have borrowed someone's copy of Jive Wire to listen to. It's definitely ringing loads of bells now. "Billy Eckstein's Shirt Collar"!

fuck all ya'll. i voted for c86.

that's special.

NME030: Blow-up UK
1987

Side One
1. Loose Tubes - Hermeto's Big Breakfast
2. Stan Tracey & Peter King - In Walked Bud
3. Clark Tracey Quintet - New World
4. Human Chain - Jolobe
5. The Jazz Renegades - A Sack Full Of Soul
6. Sphere featuring Andy Sheppard - For C.C.

Side Two
1. Courtney Pine - Big Nick
2. Jamie Talbot - Mornin'
3. Steve Williamson - Splutain And Scenic
4. Tommy Chase Quartet - Double Secret
5. Joe Harriott Quintet - Shepherd's Serenade
6. Tim Whitehead's Borderline - Yellow Hill
7. Working Week - Soul Train
8. Loose Tubes - Arriving

NME031: Bush Fire - Ten Years Of Greensleeves
1987

Side One
1. Jacob Miller - Keep On Knocking
2. Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town
3. Freddie McGregor - Big Ship
4. Augustus Pablo - Up Warrika Hill
5. Wailing Souls - War
6. Black Uhuru - Natural Mystic
7. General Saint & Clint Eastwood - Tribute To General Echo
8. Half Pint - One In A Million
9. Eek-A-Mouse - Terrorists In The City

Side Two
1. Frankie Paul - War Is In The Dance
2. Yellowman - Zungguzungguzungguzeng
3. Barrington Levy - Prison Oval Rock
4. Keith Hudson - Felt We Felt The Strain
5. The Heptones - Love Won't Come Easy
6. Johnny Osbourne - Water Pumping
7. Lone Ranger - Johnny Make You Bad So
8. Coco Tea - Coco Tea Medley
9. Nitty Gritty - Hog In A Minty

NME003: Hit The Road Stax
Spring 1982

(Live recording of a 1960s UK Stax soul show, compered by Emperor Rosko, recording supervision by Tom Dowd, featuring Booker T & The MG's and The Mar-Keys as the house band.)

Side One
1. Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions
2. Booker T & The MG's - Red Beans And Rice
3. Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y
4. Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
5. Eddie Floyd - Raise Your Hand
6. Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

Side Two
1. The Mar-Keys - Last Night
2. The Mar-Keys - Philly Dog
3. Sam & Dave - You Don't Know Like I Know
4. Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Comin'
5. Otis Redding - Respect
6. Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

NME029: I Dreamt I Was Elvis
1987

Side One
Intro: Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' Tonight
1. Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot
2. Jack Earls - Let's Bop
3. Ray Harris - Where'd You Stay Last Night?
4. Carl Perkins - Put Your Cat Clothes On
5. Sonny Burgess - We Wanna Boogie
6. Jerry Lee Lewis - Hillbilly Music
7. Rudy Grayzell - Judy
8. Hayden Thompson - Love My Baby
9. Ray Smith - Break Up
10. Glenn Honeycutt - All Night Rock

Side Two
1. Hal Harris - Jitterbop Baby
2. Pat Cupp & The Flying Saucers - That Girl Of Mine
3. Johnny Todd - Pink Cadillac
4. Glenn Barber - Atom Bomb
5. Benny Joy - Spin The Bottle
6. Truitt Forse - Chicken Bop
7. Dick Busch - Hollywood Party
8. Rock Rogers - That Ain't It
9. Danny Reeves - I'm A Hobo
10. Danny Boy - Don't Go Pretty Baby

NME025: The Latin Kick
1986

Side One
1. Tania Maria - Yatra-Ta
2. Charlie Palmer - Bugalu
3. The Jazz Crusaders - The Latin Bit
4. Ray Barretto - El Watusi
5. The Super All-Stars - Ban-Com-Tim
6. The Jazz Renegades - Manteca
5. The Fania All-Stars - Congo Bongo

Side Two
1. Tito Puente - Para Los Rumberos
2. War - Cisco Kid
3. Willie Colon featuring Ruben Blades - Pedro Navaja [CLASSIC!!!]
4. Joe Bataan - Subway Joe
5. Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Quimbara
6. Cannonball Adderley with the Bossa Rio Sextet featuring Sergio Mendes - Minha Saudade
7. Stan Kenton Orchestra - Viva Prado

NME015: Little Imp
1984

("22 nips from the Aladdin/Imperial archives")

Side One
1. Amos Milburn - Chickenshack Boogie
2. Thurston Harris - Do What You Did
3. Jimmy Liggins - I Ain't Drunk
4. Shirley & Lee - The Flirt
5. Billie Holiday - Detour Ahead
6. Lloyd Glenn with Jack McVea - Chick-A-Boo
7. Earl King - Trick Bag
8. Louis Jordan - Messy Bessy
9. The Showmen - Country Fool
10. Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
11. Illinois Jacquet - Blow Illinois Blow

Side Two
1. Roy Brown - Saturday Night
2. T-Bone Walker - Say, Pretty Baby
3. Patti Anne - Shtiggy Boom
4. Lynn Hope - Miserlou
5. Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
6. Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer While I Was In The Rear
7. The Five Keys - Serve Another Round
8. Thurston Harris featuring Rufus Hunter - Purple Stew
9. Fatso & Flaire - Rock 'N' Roll Drive In
10. Fats Domino - Let The Four Winds Blow
11. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby

Pocket Jukebox clearly has the best music of any of these, but perhaps that's not the criterion?

I've got another 8 or 9 to type up... but not tonight.

NME031: Bush Fire - Ten Years Of Greensleeves

I wish I got this one now!

ysi?

"Dancin' Master" seems kind of nice - at that time dance music was still at times rather good. So I voted for that one. Also one of few with (then) recent music.

Pogo A Go-Go, easy. Still have my copy!

NME020: Feet Start Dancin'
1986
(Kent compilation)

Side One
1. The Sapphires - Slow Fizz
2. Carl Carlton - Competition Ain't Nothin'
3. Patrice Holloway - Love And Desire
4. The Sons Of Moses - Soul Symphony
5. Jackie Wilson - Nothing But Blue Skies
6. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Gonna Fix You Good
7. Thelma Houston - Baby Mine
8. Chuck Jackson - These Chains Of Love (Are Breaking Me Down)
9. Mary Love - Lay This Burden Down
10. The Hoagy Lands - The Next In Line

Side Two
1. Earl Grant - Hide Nor Hair
2. Patti Austin - Take Away The Pain Stain
3. The Marvelows - Your Little Sister
4. The Steinways - You've Been Leading Me On
5. Maxine Brown - One In A Million
6. Marie Knight - You Lie So Well
7. The Shirelles - Last Minute Miracle
8. The Cooperettes - Shing-A-Ling
9. Eddie Bishop - Call Me
10. Garnet Mimms - Looking For You
11. Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over

NME023: Holiday Romance
Billie Holiday - The Verve Years
1986

Side One
1. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
2. Say It Isn't So
3. Comes Love
4. Strange Fruit
5. God Bless The Child
6. Good Morning Heartache
7. East Of The Sun
8. Blue Moon
9. I Cried For You
10. What A Little Moonlight Can Do

Side Two
1. Love Me Or Leave Me
2. Too Marvellous For Words
3. I Get A Kick Out Of YOu
4. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
5. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
6. Ain't Misbehavin'
7. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
8. There Is No Greater Love

This one was always a big favourite of mine, it was the first time I heard Don Thomas' "Come On Train". But more than that its just a brilliantly put together set of rocking rythmn'n'blues

NME032: Pocket Jukebox 2

A1 EARL BOSTIC flamingo
A2 HANK BALLARD the twist
A3 CHRISTINE KITTRELL i'm a woman
A4 CL BLAST somebody shot my eagle
A5 IMPRESSIONS talking about my baby
A6 ANN SEXTON i want to be loved
A7 AARON NEVILLE struttin on a sunday
A8 ROBERT CRAY that's what i'll do

B1 SHANGRI-LAS give him a great big kiss
B2 JOHN LEE HOOKER big legs tight skirt
B3 JIMMY REED shame shame shame
B4 ALBERT KING we all wanna boogie
B5 WYNONIE HARRIS good mornin' judge
B6 NINA SIMONE love me or leave me
B7 DELLS don't tell nobody
B8 DON THOMAS come on train
B9 EARL GAINES turn on your lovelight

Incidentally its currently in 2.99

sorry clicked send too soon - its 2.99 in that second hand store upstairs at de courceys arcade near Byres Road Glasgow.

God, "I'm A Woman". Christine Kittrell's version on that tape was the first I ever heard. "I can make a dress out of a feed bag and I can make a man out of you ..."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i am pleased.

2. Yellowman - Zungguzungguzungguzeng

Hey mike, you missed a "gu"! </pedant>

(I missed this poll, would possibly have voted for "High Voltage")

Right, so out of the wide ranging musical tastes of everyone here, it goes that once you delete the punk, indie and garage cornerstones, you get the square root of fuck all!

I mean, yeah the ones that won are good, but there's better below...

So, I'd cleared out some of our loft rubbish, and found most of my NME cassettes from back in the day.

Putting "Indie City" this morning, and deciding the kids might like to hear "Roadrunner (twice)", fastforwarding it, until Alice heard a snatch of something and wanted to hear more. So I span it back, and by the time I dropped them off, they're walking down the road going "ooooo Loook! There goes Concorde again!"

Hooray!

Kids love thast record and nowadays (An Old Man Writes..) they don't even know what concorde is.

I would have voted for Night People in this poll. Introduced me to the joys of jazz.

Amber is just old enough to remember Concorde flying overhead. We have a home video of one of it's last flights over our garden.

How much was it for a flight over your garden?

Well, I couldn't afford it.

I always preferred the David Bunny version. "Ooh, look, cardboard guitars again!"

They insisted I play "Buffalo" from C86 this morning, for their friends. (doing my turn in taking all the kids to school)

After much laffing and appreciation, we got out of the car, then Alice told them about "concorde" and they strolled into school while talking about "fat women, handbags tightly under the arms, shopping basket" etc..

I found my long-lost copy of C81 today. With the little snippy booklet you had to cut out of your NME and staple together yourself! (smiley emoticon)

http://bazooka81.livejournal.com/

I always search this thread thinking it's got this link in it.

It does, now.

I remember these tapes fondly as the "Night People" first got me interested in Jazz. I would dearly love to have the track listing as there was a Bill Evans Track on it but I can't remember the title and have never been able to find it since. It also had Mambo Kayama by the fantastic Art Pepper, what a discovery!

Night People tracklisting.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Ping Pong
Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker - Carioca
Chet Baker - Do It The Hard Way
Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond - This Can’t Be Love
Thelonious Monk - Epistrophy
Mose Allison - Eyesight To The Blind
Sonny Rollins - Will You Still Be Mine
Bill Evans - How Deep Is The Ocean
Art Pepper - Mambo Koyama

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie-Salt Peanuts
Red Rodney Quintet-Rhythm In A Riff
Sonny Stitt-Cool Mambo
The Modern Jazz Quartet-Concorde
Steve Lacy-Reflections
Miles Davis-I Could Write A Book
Jefferson-Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
John Coltrane-I Love You
Wes Montgomery - Trick Bag

Fantastic comp.

Bill Evans - How Deep Is The Ocean

Introduced by Humph!

Seeing as how we have a current "cassette" thread, thought i'd revive this one.

It's funny how thesedays you only have to think of an 'out-of-circulation' music album, and you can find it fairly rapidly on someone's blog.

(Why do people do this? It seems a thankless task, literally: I see those guys' 'messages' and a whole bunch of them are like "Up the Deluxe CAST first album!" or "where is this weeks NME pdf?" That's just plain rude.)

Anyway, was chuffed to find the first NME tape comp "C81", albeit the latter version that replaced two tracks, but hey the newies are PantherBurns and TVPers, which I like greatly, instead of "Raquel" Specials (liked it at the time, not fussed now), and Lynx "Don't get in my way" (early britfunk, mostly not aged well)...

http://pressplayandrecord.wordpress.com/

I could make a case that the NME031 "Bush Fire" reggae tape is the best one! Mainly because I've been playing it this morning and enjoying it hugely.

I could also make a case to store all these cassettes in!

Or, I could, ahem...

.. download the inlays and make nice mini-lp format CDs from them.

Alternatively, someone could upload all the inlays, track details, and suchlike. Then, create youtube links to each tape's tracks.

Ooh, look!

http://nmecassettes.wordpress.com/

C86 is getting reissued next month, I say reissue but it's a 3CD thing w/ the OG tape on CD1 then 50 tracks from other relevant bands across CDs 2 and 3 so kind of an anthology of the period I guess

It's funny how thesedays you only have to think of an 'out-of-circulation' music album, and you can find it fairly rapidly on someone's blog.

Just thinking, "Thesedays" is now "Thosedays"