The Perils Of Drink Revealed!

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This is a mixtape I and two accomplices made when in an advanced state of inebriation in November 200. Copies are available to registered abstinence charities on request. (Or any lunatic who wants to do a C90Go!)

(The tape is abominably mixed throughout and there are several criminal attempts at cross-mixing tracks, plus the occasional intercut into a British West Country Accents sound effects LP. Also 'scratching'.)

SIDE ONE:
1. John singing opening bars of "The Logical Song"
2. Supertramp - "The Logical Song"
3. Bruce Willis - "Under The Boardwalk"
4. The Streetband - "Toast"
5. B.A. Robertson - "To Be Or Not To Be"
6. Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - "C'Mon Everybody"
7. Sue Wilkinson - "You've Got To Be A Hustler If You Want To Get On"
8. Carter USM - "Falling On A Bruise"
9. Barry Manilow - "Let's Hang On"
10. Smokie - "Mexican Girl"
11. The Prodigy - "Smack My Bitch Up"
12. Jona Lewie - "You Will Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties"
13. Black - "Wonderful Life"
14. Surface Noise - "The Scratch"
15. East 17 - "Stay Another Day"

SIDE TWO:

1. Twangy surf thing with wooshing noises and fake choir. Unidentifable.
2. Cats UK - "Luton Airport"
3. Stump - "Buffalo"
4. Inspiral Carpets - "Sackville"
5. Baby Bird - "45 And Fat"
6. Collage - "Romeo Where's Juliet"
7. Gravediggaz - "The Night The Earth Cried"
8. Sultans Of Ping FC - "Where's Me Jumper" (elongated by many unlistenable 'rewinds')
9. The Piranhas - "Tom Hark"
10. A House - "Endless Pet Art"
11. Sue Wilkinson - "You've Got To Be A Hustler If You Want To Get On
(Slight Return)"
12. Northside - "Shall We Take A Trip?"
13. The Bellamy Brothers - "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You
Hold It Against Me"
14. Barry Manilow - "Ready To Take A Chance Again"
15. That Petrol Emotion - "Sweet Shiver Burn"
16. Some Carter B Side or other
17. Errol Dunkley - "OK Fred"

The worst aspect of this is that THREE FURTHER C90s were made after this, during which another bottle of vodka was almost finished. Those have been destroyed I believe, Christ knows what we found to put on them.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

(NB any time a track you might think is 'good' comes up it is invariably savaged after a minute by rural accents and/or Sue Wilkinson.)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

MUST HAVE. Will happily review this for a C90 piece. Actually, drop me a line anyway about some article ideas I have...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

10. A House - "Endless Pet Art"

I NEED to hear this

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry RickyT it isn't the 'real actual' EPA it's just boring old Endless Art but I included the injoke anyway.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

all dead but still ALOIVE!

― all RickyT's pets ever (RickyT), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Twangy surf thing with wooshing noises and fake choir. Unidentifable.

"Telstar" by The Torandoes!!!

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

No no it isn't. It's not "Telstar" or "Pipeline" or one of the famous ones. The fake choir is kind of Gainsbourg-y. I know John owns some Man Or Astroman records so perhaps it's one of those.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

British West Country Accents sound effects LP

I NEED to hear this!

(Well, OK, no, I don't, but I am boggling gently. Intriguing and very very scary. Someone stop me before I go to see if anyone on soulseek has any Pam Ayres. Perils of drink indeed.)

― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

WTF?!?!?!

Argh! Carter twice! Carter twice! And Northside too! Oh noooooooooo! Even Barry Manilow can't redeem this!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Even Barry Manilow can't redeem this!

Surely this is a classic pot/kettle situation if this the comparison being reached for.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I will always love Manilow, my mom used to play Manilow to make me go to sleep at night when I was a kid. Which sounds like an insult, but it just means his music is very comforting.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, well, then this cannot be denied. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

that tape is visionary for November 200! Tom, you look great for your age. How can drink be bad when it pickles so perfectly?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 October 2002 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 October 2002 06:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I need to hustle a Mexican bitch to smack up!

― dave q, Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a living West Country Sound Effects LP, tragically.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it sounds ace EXCEPT the manilow. only very exceptional states of consciousness allow me to listen to manilow

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i want you and your c90 baby.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You're only as sick as your secrets, Tom, and you're a brave man for copping to That Petrol Emotion.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Well that's the background music for the pr0n session sorted.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 October 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, that IS the exceptional state of consciousness i was thinking of. uncanny.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 18 October 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Ewing - Back to Mine

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we've just found the definitive explanation of why Tom stopped liking indie.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently one of the later tapes survives. It is called "666".

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

1. this is the worst tape ever

2. it was immediately obvious that it was made by tom

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the track selection was not by me Gareth esp side 2! Point 1 is entirely correct.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first track on side 1 however should be released to as many people as possible.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Track B1 is "Reel Ten" by The Plugz off of the Repo Man soundtrack; Track B16 is Carter USM's cover version of Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title) by the Monkees from the B-side of Anytime Anyplace Anywhere.

― John, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Having heard a lot of this at the weekend, and some of it twice I can confirm that it is every bit as awful as alleged/

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Yousendit???

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

Some Carter B side or other

WHERE'S THE RESPECT???!!!!!????

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

I searched a bit but never found a reference to this:
dj trainwreck, the worst mixtape ever
I strongly recommend reading the introduction and listening to the mix straight through without skipping around. Maybe I'll start an ILM thread if it hasn't been mentioned before.

I have listened to this mix about ten times this week.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

Needless to say it's likely to be the greatest mixtape ever.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:53 (eighteen years ago)

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