Mixtapes 80's & 90's YOUR Lists.

(05-04-2019 07:25 )Doddle Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 22:02 )M-L-L Wrote:  Take It Easy On Me - A House. Getting a bit obscure now.

Every Beat Of The Heart - The Railway Children. No, me neither. I'll have to listen to this to remember what it actually sounds like.

Props for A House here, and indeed the 4 of Us in the previous one.

Not remember EBOTH? Pfft!

I will try and see what list I can proffer, later...

Loved the railway children because they were from wigan

This is why kids have it easy nowadays just imagine if we had itunes or spotify in the 80's and 90's
Found a lot of my fave tunes in minutes

(05-04-2019 07:50 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Loved the railway children because they were from wigan

IIRC, the Milltown Brothers were from Lancaster, of course

Anyway, because I said I would... I never thought of them as mixtapes, they were just recorded off the radio stuff. Here's an example (C90, also of course) which I see is basically 1994 & 1995 in 2 nutshells. No Metallica, unsurprisingly

A
On The Bible - Deuce
Country House - Blur
In The Name of the Father - Black Grape
Word Up - Cameo
Scatman's World - Scatman John
Can I Touch You... There? - Michael Bolton
Word Up - Gun
If I Only Knew - Tom Jones
I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant
Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen
When I Need You - Leo Sayer
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Girls and Boys - Blur
Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays

B
Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
Camden Town - Suggs
Fairground - Simply Red
I'd Lie For You etc - Meat Loaf (not Load, oops)
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Someone's Looking At You - The Boomtown Rats
If I Had A Million Dollars - Bare Naked Ladies
Texas Cowboys - The Grid
Common People - Pulp (shameful)
I Can't Dance - Genesis
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

An eclectic mix of music there Doddle nice one. Don't think I've heard of Meat Load though Always loved And the beat goes on, I don't Like Mondays was political(based on a girl who shot her schoolmates one day in the US) and Weezer's tune was good too. Never a fan of Nick Cave, just too weird and sinister for my taste(listen to him singing Red Right Hand in Peaky Blinders)

(05-04-2019 17:00 )GreenMachine Wrote:  .... Nick Cave, just too weird and sinister for my taste(listen to him singing Red Right Hand in Peaky Blinders)

Same track was used in the Season 2 episode of "X-Files" where deranged alien abductee Duane Barry was driving along with Scully tied up in the boot of his car.

You can have other mixtapes with different genres-classical, jazz, rock, heavy metal etc, doesn't have to be restricted to the 80's or 90's, I chose those decades because tapes were still being used and home taping was rife-doing a tape to tape if you had a stereo system that let you do that.

I don't remember if you could be done for recording songs off the radio or not back then, but I do remember seeing on several inner sleeves to LPs I bought, that they had an anti piracy slogan printed on them, I think it was a cassette logo crossed out of some kind but can't remember the actual wording. I'm sure it was in some cassette LPs too. I think album cassettes wore out quicker than vinyl LP's did!!

Yes taping from home off the radio was illegal but if it was for your own(and not copied for friends) use you were okay.

Here's a very meteorologically literal one I must have made around the same time as the previous ones:

Side A

The Sun Rising - The Beloved
House of The Rising Sun - The Animals
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles
Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
Sunshine - World Party
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Was A Sunny Day - Paul Simon
Always The Sun - The Stranglers
Shadow Of The Sun - Paul Weller
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

Side B

Weather With You - Crowded House
Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics
The Sun and The Rain - Madness
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Rain Town - Deacon Blue
Kingdom of Rain - The The
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Roxy Music
Hatful of Rain - Del Amitri
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie (ending the tape with full-on gospel choir )

My family and I recently cleared out my mum's bungalow and found a shoe box full of tapes,one was a mix tape I put together in mid '98 before I started buying mini discs(Apologies in advance as its mostly metal).

Side A

High Tech Hate-Fear Factory
Skulls-The Misfits
Lonely,Cryin' Only-Therapy?
Stain of Mind-Slayer
Cyborg-Brian May
The Outlaw Torn-Metallica
Freak-Bruce Dickinson

Side B

I Am The Law-Anthrax
Black-Pearl Jam
Jesus Christ Pose-Soundgarden
Tourniquet-Headswim
Wuthering Heights-China Drum
The Great Southern Trendkill-Pantera
The Eve of War-Jeff Wayne
Stone Cold Steve Austin's second entrance theme

(07-04-2019 21:13 )rpj316 Wrote:  (Apologies in advance as its mostly metal).

What else would we expect? Props for the excellent Eve of the War