A Real Mix Tape, on real tape!!

Jan 02, 2016 22:20

From For The Love Of Vinyl

I made a trip up into the attic this afternoon as I decided, for no good reason, that I wanted to make an old fashion mix tape, on an actual cassette. I know, that makes little sense really, but sometimes I get ideas in my head and just follow them through. It would appear that a bird made it's nest in the attic, right on top of my old double cassette player, so I had to move that and pick bits of straw and twigs out of the deck, I also grabbed a few old cassettes that were in a nearby box (I have a load more somewhere up there but didn't feel like looking for them). Here it is, although i was still cleaning it at this point before and after:



It's the top bit, the amp was already there. After some faffing about I got it all plugged in and working and immediately realised that my plan was destined to fail, the left hand tape was knackered and that's the one that records, so I thought I'd see what was on some of the old tapes I brought down with me by using the right hand tape player. It is also semi knackered and only plays if I hold my finger on the play button. I did just this just to find out what was on one of the tapes.

It took a while but I found myself writing down the artist and track title as I slowly worked my way through it, and half way through side B this happened:



It would appear that I had been recording over a 'Best of UB40' album, or something like that, and the second half was just UB40, in the phase where I liked nothing they did. Hence the rather large notation in the photograph above.

Ah well, no matter, my finger was getting tired from constantly holding down the play button anyway. I decided to finish the mix tape, not actually of course, but here, using only tracks that I definitely owned at the time and could have added to the tape, so here is what it turned out to be, followed by the whole thing on Spotify should anybody ever like to have a proper listen.

Side A
Knock Me Down - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jupiter And Teardrop - Grant Lee Buffalo
Holy Love - Julian Cope
The One I Love - R.E.M.
High - The Cure
Sooner Or Later - World Party
A Girl Called Johnny - The Waterboys
Allison Road - Gin Blossoms
4th Of July - Aimee Mann
Central Reservation - Beth Orton

Side B
Beside You - Iggy Pop
Long Time Gone - Galliano
Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freak Power
Zombie - The Cranberries
My Favourite Game - The Cardigans
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Weak - Skunk Anansie
Epic - Faith No More
Ready To Go - Republica
Waking Up - Elastica

There are two songs missing, as they aren't available on Spotify, 'Inside' by Stiltskin and '20th Century' by Brad.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1136278651/playlist/5L7mSiCzMWMak48IxKUuLN
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