This posting is really just an excuse to publish a couple more mix tapes (or playlists as they are now, forty years on, known), following the success of the previous posting with Liza O’Connor’s mix tape.
There was a suggestion on the Forever Keele Facebook Group that I might have been responsible for disturbing the peace of revising finalists next door, in Barnes L53.
But my diary reminds me that I spent little time in my own flat in those vital revision weeks, early in the summer term of 1983, once Liza moved into a flat in Shelton – Ogblog will write up those events in good time.
It also occurred to me that I had two other cracking good mix tapes given to me around that time. One, “Singles Without A Cause”, was made for me by Veera Bachra in Barnes L52 across the corridor – the other, “Hamzah Varieties” by Hamzah Shawal who was one of my own flatmates in L54. His compilation only stretched to one side of a tape – he was more of an album dude I suppose.
Very distinct tastes in music, both tapes differently eclectic and both very interesting in their own way. Veera’s music tended to blare out from L52 while Hamzah’s music could be heard blaring out from L54. The discerning listener could surely tell which type of music was in play.
They’re great mix tapes, anyway. In particular Veera’s one still gets an airing in my household quite often. Here they are.
Singles Without A Cause – Collated By Veera
- Jumping Jack Flash, The Rolling Stones
- Twelve Thirty, The Mamas and the Papas
- Teenager in Love, Dion (and the Bellmonts)
- Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees
- The Locomotion, Little Eva
- Tears of a Clown, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
- Lola, The Kinks
- Tumbling Dice, The Rolling Stones
- Won’t Get Fooled Again, The Who
- Do It Again, Steely Dan
- Brown Sugar, The Rolling Stones
- Let’s Stay Together, Al Green
- Stone Fox Chase, Area Code 615
- Papa Was a Rolling Stone, The Temptations
- Angie, The Rolling Stones
- Take Me I’m Yours, Squeeze
- There There My Dear, Dexys Midnight Runners
- Ever Fallen In Love, Buzzcocks
- Sara, Fleetwood Mac
- Up the Junction, Squeeze
- Laser Love, After the Fire
- Dance Away, Roxy Music
- She’s Not There, Santana
- Mystery Boy, Culture Club
Hamzah Varieties – Collated By Hamzah
- Twist (Round and Round), Chill Fac-torr
- Round and Round, Chill Fac-torr
- Buffalo Soldier, Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Cry Me A River, Mari Wilson
- You Weren’t In Love With Me, Billy Field
- Don’t Hit Me With Love, Linx
- Good Thing Going, Sugar Minott
- Your Honour, Pluto Shervington
- You Can’t Hurry Love, Phil Collins
- Overnight Sensation, The Raspberries
- Twisting By the Pool, Dire Straits
- Labelled With Love, Squeeze
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