Friday, March 27, 2009

NME/Rough Trade C81 & C86 Cassettes

Two essential post-punk cassettes from the 80's with plenty of noise, no wave, & even some dub thrown in. The track lists speak for themselves - a lot of these you'll know, some you won't. I like the first comp better, but that's just me. Jangle jangle jangle.

C81

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 (1:51)
  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" – 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)
C86

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"
Download
c81 side 1
c81 side 2
c86 side 1
c86 side 2
All mediafire

5 comments:

  1. nice post, both total classics

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  2. The side one on both is no longer available. Could you reupload it, please?

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  3. The side one on both is no longer available. Could you reupload it, please?

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