I collaborated with Dall-E to produce this picture.
I had made Liza O’Connor a mix tape which I modestly entitled “THE TAPE”. I don’t think I jotted down the contents anywhere, so unless Liza has kept the tape and wants to share its contents with me/the world, that one is lost for posterity.
Anyway, I still have hers, which she named “THE OTHER TAPE”, which is pretty darned good. I remember thinking it was seriously cool in the spring of 1983, when I played it a lot – no doubt letting a fair chunk of the Keele campus – at least the Barnes flats – hear my tape along with me…whether they wanted to hear it or not.
It’s a great mix tape on the whole. I still play it sometimes – digitised as a playlist. Heck, the cassette might still play but why risk it?
Here’s the track listing:
- Ghosts, Japan
- Flowers of Romance, Public Image Ltd
- The Art of Falling Apart, Soft Cell
- It’s Different For Girls, Joe Jackson
- Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, Buzzcocks
- Coloured Music, The Piranhas
- Homosapien, Pete Shelly
- No More Heroes, The Stranglers
- Kilimanjaro, The Teardrop Explodes
- Transmission, Joy Division
- Loneliest Man in the World, Tourists
- River, King Trigger
- When I Dream, The Teardrop Explodes
- Wake Up & Make Love With Me, Ian Dury and the Blockheads
- Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division
- Golden Brown, The Stranglers
- Will You, Hazel O’Connor
- Jealousy, Queen
- Vincent, Don McLean
- My Funny Valentine, Elvis Costello
- We All Fall In Love Sometimes, Elton John
- I Don’t Know Why It Is, Pete Shelly
- Easy, The Commodores
- As Tears Go By, The Rolling Stones
- Sex, Scritti Polliti
Below vids of all the above – hopefully most will still be there when you get to this page but they should all be findable somewhere:
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