I know that it's not a competition. Can we all be agreed upon that, and move on?
Certainly, this collection - given away free somehow with the NME in 1981, and you cut-out and pasted-in the sleeve from the paper itself - is exerted an astonishingly major influence upon my taste (which were fairly much in agreement with it anyway). I've said it many times before, and I'm sure I'll say it many times again, but C86 was but a pale echo of this.
You can find way more info, and a download link to listen to the entire tape, over at the Stupid And Contagious blog. Damn, but there isn't a bad track on this, The Beat included. I have a feeling the one they posted isn't the original cassette tape version, but the one that went out on sale to record stores later - certainly I don't remember The Specials being on the original, nor Buzzcocks, nor two John Cooper-Clarke tracks. But damn.
Damn.
C81.
P.S. Oh, and it's Furious Pig. Not Furious Pork.
Have you heard Het, the post-Furious Pig project recorded at Cold Storage? FANTASTIC. It was reissued a few yrs ago on ReR, 'round the same time as the This Heat box. You can read a bit more here: http://www.warpedrealitymagazine.com/2006/07/theres_a_chill_in_the_air.html. Best, Andrea
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ReplyDeleteDave Parsons
So much better than the C86 - and considering 30% of that was kind of my responsibility I should probably go kill myself now.
Yesterday at 18:52 ·
Everett True
Ron Johnson alert! Ron Johnson alert! RESPECT!!!
Yesterday at 18:53 ·
Dave Parsons
Too kind, too kind.
Yesterday at 18:55 ·
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ReplyDeleteChristopher Dawes
Yeah, that's one killer comp, ET... Pretty sure The Specials and The Buzzcocks were on the original tape, tho... Personal faves for me are the Pere Ubu and DAF tracks... Push x
Yesterday at 23:57 ·
Christine Indigo
I got my copy from a thrift store in the US. Paid a buck for it--one of the best dollars I ever spent.
14 hours ago ·
Paul Rosen
This was my first experience of Aztec Camera and possibly Josef K, with the intriguingly pretentious description of those two plus Orange Juice as modern day incarnations of the Velvet Underground from different periods. I guess it was meant as a joke. One bad song on the album - Linx, Don't Get in My Way. Not intrinsically bad, but I always wanted it not to get in the way of the other stuff, which was much cooler. Then again, David Grant from Linx now gets to coach reality tv singers and present toddler music shows.
6 hours ago ·