The Best Of New Music - 1988
 

Just dug this old cassette that Rev. Wonder Toad did back in the day (has it REALLY been a quarter-century?) out, still sounds great!

SIDE 1

Bryan Ferry - Limbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUeATOK2Lw4

Robyn Hitchcock - Tropical Flesh Mandala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCttBhIBak

Smithereens - House We Used To Live In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZz2vLUt1Ek

Lloyd Cole - 29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27bdhInyhfc

Wild Swans - Bitterness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGHFKkdVZs

In Tua Nua - All I Wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmR5R1X428

P.I.L. - Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr94K5VX0Q4

Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oespMmWnDo

Let's Active - Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3CLgEY5JVc

Julian Cope - Charlotte Anne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgXVZmIoy4

SIDE 2

The Church - Destination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nidAGwtYGuA

Grapes of Wrath - O Lucky Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVem1YoqcU

Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nos2PPHl718

Thomas Dolby - Pulp Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92UkyZXgEzI

Siouxee and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjUY8IXvnA

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjutUbgpH8

The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFxivmjW34o

Marti Jones - Twisted Vines
http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Vines/dp/B001EW4F72 (not on YT, near as I can tell)

Timbuk 3 - Welcome To The Human Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarKUO-ae-I

Game Theory - In A DeLorean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWzEwCgPfk

Dead Milkman - Punk Rock Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyaK3jo4Sl4

Enjoy!

-MMM-

O man o man thanks so much for digging that MMM, and wow, all that is now available on YouTube! S'outstanding.

It was so much fun putting those mix tapes together for everyone/anyone who gave a shit! I was just looking at the "master tapes" the other day... thanks for checking in mah man!

Yes, mix tapes were something special, they were personal. You could tell if the tape creator was just throwing some shit they liked on a tape, or if the were thinking. How the songs worked with each other, formed a chain. If there was a jarring transition, was it intentional? You know, like the alarm clocks in Dark Side of the Moon.

Good tapes would carry you half way through a song when suddenly you realize you've been humming along with a song you don't know. Also an good tape didn't make you wait 30 seconds for the start, chop the last song off, and didn't leave dead tape so you had to fast forward to the end or listen to hiss.

We didn't get cable until I was 11...the summer of 1987. The music on 120 Minutes was new and weird and awesome. I learned about a lot of the above bands via 120 Minutes.

Nice work MMM!

Thanks, all, for the kind words!

I always tried to make my mixtapes flow as well, which was good practice for making playlists in iTunes nowadays... ;-)

Toad: Have you considered putting those old mixtapes onto Soundcloud or sommat?

-MMM-

Can't be Soundcloud -- they have a very tight limit on how much you're allowed to upload (3 hours for free, 6 hours for pro plan), and a very tight policy forbidding copyrighted stuff. I could privately host. I'ma think about it.

120 Minutes was excellent, and was the only way for a new generation to get to some of the great stuff not played on all the radio. These days, no need, you can hear anything anywhere. But there is still the problem of someone finding the nuggets of awesome for you and laying them out on a table for you.

I recognized eight bands/artists.

I only recognized one song title.

"Peek-a-Boo"

I soon might be playing said new music to the masses. Details in another thread.