"The Hits Tape 6"

Anyway, the titles in italics, I enjoyed very much, as well as the Erasure & Paul Hardcastle numbers, which would have been in italics also, were I more 31337.

What I thought was interesting is that the musick on these two tapes is to a lagre part stuff that has totally slipped thru the net. Not "classics" in the sense of dreary authentic pantheon-ism, nor bright shiny stuff that one can get away w/liking in yer "I love this stuff so ner" stylee. Nevertheless, despite the second side ov "Hits Tape 6" being a bit of a desert, I did actually enjoy listening to them quite a lot. The best ones were The specials and Terence Trent Darby (3yo Adam also likes the specials very much, would U believe) The worst the trax0rz by G Michael, and Spandau ballet, who = sux0r. Oh, the Carly Simon no. is GRATE also. And the Fleetwood mac one is bloody terrible. Anyway, what d'you think of all this fake soul w/dx7, linn-drum & fairlight + oblig. naff sax solo stuff? Or the big hair-ed & wonderbra-ed up pomp-pop-rock stuff? Do you ph33l like laying out any similar stuff U like, like? Does anyone out there have a good word to say abt poor ole george michael? Are Diane Warren and Albert Hammond EV0L Geen-ee-eye? Is The Specials' "Ghost Town" the BEST EVER single, or what?

Sometimes and Ghost Town on the same tape. Ah man. That is good.

As mixtapes they both suck. 4/16 even 4/7 are bad averages for a good mix tape.

The tracks you identify as classics ... well

Ghosttown's gotta be a bona fide classic. There are days when it's easily the best single evah.

'19' is definitely an under-rated classic. It's so easy to laugh and parody, but I was really chilled when I first heard it. (Might have been because I was 15 and terrified of being drafted into a war :-)

But these are exceptions, so's Erasure. In general DX7-Soul has gotta be an abomination upon music. I can't think of a single song I would want to listen to.

Hits 6 was one of (if not the very first) the first records i ever bought. there should be a second tape which includes the horrow that is 'Star Trekkin'.

horrow = horror, obviously

trying to remember what was on the second tape now. Labi Siffre 'Something Inside So Strong' and Madonna 'La Isla Bonita' were the best. i think Wet Wet Wet and Johnny Hates Jazz were among the others.

it was the first and last pop record i bought, at least as in current pop. i have plenty of stuff that were hits in previous decades

Thank goodness there ws only one tape then. I was going to ask if I should buy a copy ov "Introducing the hardline according to Terence Trent Darby" but then I remembered that I already haf a copy somewhere. Jill also got a copy of ABC's "Beauty Stab" but when she tried to play it, someone had taped brass band musick over it. Bot this and the Human League tape were er, bought from somewhere on the mediterranean coast, if U know what I mean. And yes, "19" is underrated. On listening to it, it's actually a damn fine bit ov electro. The averages U quote mr phil don't seem so bad to me considering that they are in a genre i have rubbish memories of. Nothing on either of these tapes is as bad as limp bizkit, blink 182 or primal scream, so ner.

i just realised your tape is actually just some of the better tracks from both tapes - i've remembered some more: Marillion 'Incommunicado', Jesus and Mary Chain 'April Skies', Echo and the Bunnymen 'The Game'.

eh? (looks at tape) yes, i see it is 1/2 of a set. (it sez "tape 1" on the back) it's a proper BMG copy as well, I see. Now I wish I had both halves, as yr making it sound better. Jill has mentioned that she wants more musick in a similar vein, so I ph34r I will be shopping for "Now!" tapes at market stalls this Sunday.

Gold is good tho. You must be listening wrong.

yeah you have to be staring into the sun while you play 'gold' or it doesn't work. but i suppose you didn't have the original liner notes so i can't blame you.

80s soul:

Alexander O'Neal - "Fake 88"
DMX a go-go! Sax solo to boot. And Mr O'Neal sweating and bellowing. I think it'd sit very nicely alongside that lot.