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Confessions of a teenage record collector - Episode 04
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Episode 3: In this series I will create mixes based on my teenage record collection. I kept a diary throughout the 1980s and logged every record I bought each year so can accurately recreate my archive.
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In this series I will create mixes based on my teenage record collection. I kept a diary throughout the 1980s and logged every record I bought each year so can accurately recreate my archive.
During my teenage years I amassed a rather small but compact box of Punk, New Wave and Mod singles. I mainly focussed on The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers but was becoming increasingly more interested in obscure releases on independent labels.
This second mix is based on records I had (and still have) up to the end of December 1982. Everything has been digitized from those vinyl records. I even used my 1980s Technics SL-1210MK2 turntable which has survived the decades, and is still in excellent working order.
In order of appearance:
Beatles - "If I Needed Someone"
Bluebells - "Forevermore"
Byrds - "Renaissance Fair"
Church - "An Interlude"
Cure - "Charlotte Sometimes"
Dead Kennedys - "Holiday In Cambodia"
Doors - "Soul Kitchen"
Hurrah! - "I'll Be Your Surprise"
Jam - "Town Called Malice"
Modern English - "The Prize"
Kinks - "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion"
Psychedelic Furs - "Aeroplane"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Fireworks"
Stiff Little Fingers - "Back To Front"
Stranglers - "Cruel Garden"
Talk Talk - "Today"
Undertones - "You've Got My Number"
Vapors - "Daylight Titans"
XTC - "Ball And Chain" -
In this series I will create mixes based on my teenage record collection. I kept a diary throughout the 1980s and logged every record I bought each year so can accurately recreate my archive.
During my teenage years I amassed a rather small but compact box of Punk, New Wave and Mod singles. I mainly focussed on The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers but was becoming increasingly more interested in obscure releases on independent labels.
This first mix is based on records I had (and still have) up to the end of December 1982. Everything has been digitized from those vinyl records. I even used my 1980s Technics SL-1210MK2 turntable which has survived the decades, and is still in excellent working order.
It’s going to take some time to digitize the records in the record box as well as selected album cuts. But I’ve now got time on my hands to put in a concerted effort to recreate the music coming loudly out of my bedroom back in the early eighties.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only teenager blasting a load of racket from stereo speakers back in the day. The amount of times I was scolded for playing my records too loud or having a parent banging on the living-room ceiling shouting “Turn that fucking noise down”.
Many of these records have been lying dormant for decades but at last they’re seeing the light of day, coming to life once more and bringing back a lot of memories.
I will eventually move onto 1983 and then my final year as a teenager, 1984. Big Brother wasn’t watching over me and telling me what to do. I was the eldest sibling and so thee big brother.
In order of appearance:
B Movie - "Nowhere Girl"
Bluebells - "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (flexi with first single 'Forever More')
Byrds - "My Back Pages"
Church - "The Unguarded Moment"
Cure - "Another Journey By Train"
Dead Kennedys - "Police Truck"
Hurrah! - "The Sun Shines Here"
Jam - "Pop Art Poem" (flexi given away with Flexipop magazine)
Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
Modern English - "I Melt With You"
Nine Below Zero - "Sugarbeat (And Rhythm Sweet)"
OMD - "Maid Of Orleans"
Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"
Secret Affair - "Do You Know"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Coal Mind"
Stiff Little Fingers - "Bits Of Kids"
TV21 - "All Join Hands"
XTC - "Looking For Footprints" (flexi given away free with Flexipop magazine)
