NME/Rough Trade C81

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Isn't this just a god damn wonderful comp ?
and also :
can anybody tell me the two tracks that were on the original NME giveaway version that weren't included on the 'proper' release?

― laddy brainstorm, Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

this been re-issued ?
i have the tape.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

not yet.

― laddy brainstorm, Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

treklizt?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

there's 24 tracks on my copy

side 1:
scritti politti - the sweetest girl
the beat - twist and crawl dub
pere ubu - misery goats live
wah heat - 7000 names of wah!
orange juice - blue boy
cabaret voltaire - raising the count
d.a.f - kebabtraume live
furious pig - bare pork
specials - raquel
buzzcocks - i look alone
essential logic - fanfare in the garden
robert wyatt - born again cretin

side 2:
raincoats - shouting out loud
josef k - endless soul
blue orchids - low profile
virgin prunes - red nettle
aztec camera - we could send letters
red crayola - milkmaid
linx - don't get in my way
the massed carnaby street john cooper clarkes - the day my pad went mad
james blood ulmer - jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher
ian dury - close to home
gist - greener grass
subway sect - parallel lines

tada

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, that's 'the "sweetest girl"'!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and all mastered in a bollywood cassette fashion too.
but that adds to it's charm.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 14 August 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah yes, but think of the NME C96 CD! Dweeb, Magoo, Tiger, Quickspace Supersport- you'll all see when there's an incredibly hip scene in the early 2020s based on the innovations of Spare Snare and Backwater.

― Myron Kosloff, Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

^^ this guy has obviously not heard any Bearsuit. the Sickroom label is under the influence of C96 in excelsis.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, muchas gracias frenchbloke !!

you must have the original NME giveaway version then. on the sold- in- stores version substitute

Panther Burns -"Bourgeouis Blues" for
Specials - "Raquel"

and
Television Personalities - "Magnificent Dreams" for
Linx - "Don't Get in my Way"

― laddy brainstorm, Thursday, 14 August 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I was off sick from primary school when this arrived at our house, and I played it repeatedly through the day, though some of it was a bit beyond me (Furious Pig) and other things (Blue Orchids, Subway Sect) I wouldn't really get for a few years. I thought the Linx track was completely necessary and I'm sorry it was replaced.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it actually given away? I thought you had to buy it through the post.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it was a coupon job plus not a few pounds kinda thing. i have another couple of nme tapes as well somewhere

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes you had to collect tokens from the paper and send them off with some money (less than £2 I recall) and wait for up to 28 days. It was very exciting. All that great run of NME cassettes (about which there was an ilx thread many moons ago) were done that way. (that was a crosspost obv)

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The best 2 NME mail order comps I have are the Charly 'Pocket Jukebox' (the early 90s reissue CD with extra tracks) and the Vietnam comp 'Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die'. The former especially I listen to loads and introduced me to some wonderful things like Betty Everett and the Shangri-Las. It also has a lovely Dells track called 'Don't Tell Nobody' for which I can't find a date or much information at all. I think maybe Charly were the first to issue it. I love Fred Dellar.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

N I was hoping you'd be your usual wizardly link demon self and you've let me down.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

To Pocket Jukebox? Well that's the weird weird thing. Google reveals only two passing references to it, one on an Andy Kershaw playlist and one on a James bulletin board (!). It's odd, and exposes the biases of the internet, I suppose.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, btw I meant Betty Lavette, not Betty Everett. I'm always getting my Bettys in a twist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Linx track is one of the few from it I can hum from memory. Licensing issues I assume meant the switch - bit of a shame. I picked a bunch of tapes up from work (when I worked in the R&TE) before they could find their way to the 50p bin, C81, Pogo A Go Go, a Stax one (may not have been NME actually).

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX triumphes again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Sandy Blair.

Now of course I want to put 'coupons' on NYLPM and make people print them off and send them to me for a tape.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There was another one as well N, which went into much more detail about ones like Night People, Smile Jamaica and the Ace Case (one of my faves) but thanks for that one.

Betty Lavette is a long-standing obsession of mine. The Charly LP form which "Let Me Down Easy" is taken is a masterpiece and the recent complete Atlantic Sessions is great too, incl a trivvic gospelly version of "Heart of Gold" which is better than it sounds.

Tom that's genius.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

We should also go round readers' houses and sellotape a flexi to their computer screens.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Tom - do it.

(cross post - no, not the sello bit)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I am this [] close to actually doing the coupons thing now - we should discuss by email (or pub voicemail) what should be on the tape.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The last flexi-pressing machine in the UK was decommissioned a few years ago, sadly. I understand Pam Berry had something to do with the final flexi. PAM KILLED THE FLEXIDISC.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It has to have (as mentioned on t'other thread) "Billy Joel" by Blood Sausage. Haven't heard that in years.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah Tim, you meant you wanted ILM links:

Is this the one you mean?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's going to have Blood Sausage on I am this [ ] close to doing it.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

CURSES those brackets were meant to be much further apart.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I understand Pam Berry had something to do with the final flexi.

this is correct. it was a Belmondo/Helen Love split. hmmm, perhaps blame Helen Love instead.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

N: yes though I remember it being more about tapes and less about indie, but it was fun reading it again. It seems very breathless.

ESOJ: ah! I don't think H. Love would care though so I'll blame PB some more perhaps.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It now looks likely that we will do the coupons thing. "Hurrah".

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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