Mix Tapes...

[MinionZombie]

Okay, had an idea for a thread - dig out your first (or earliest that you can find) Mix Tape that you've mad, and post the track listing here. (Yes, I was watching High Fidelity recently... ) I'll start, I've been on a bit of a cassette tape binge recently as I dug them out of my cupboard and came across the first ever mix tape I made waaaaay back in middle 1995 when I was a kid, get ready for some old school 90s chaps & chapettes. SIDE ONE 2 Unlimited - "No Limit" (classic choon - end of ... "techno techno techno techno!!") Snap - "Exterminate" Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "Boom! Shake The Room" (back in the days of Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, perhaps the best dinner time American teen import shown at 6:25pm on BBC2 ... EVER ) D:Ream - "Things Can Only Get Better" (often played over shots of Labour entering Downing Street in 1997, promising the world ... and then delivering none of it) Aswad - "Shine" (yes, the same Aswad that Tim mentions in Spaced - "BOGLING TO ASWAD!") PJ & Duncan - "AKA Let's Get Ready To Rumble" (for those of you too young to remember/even know - Ant & Dec used to be called PJ & Duncan and were not only in Byker Grove - the classic being "PEEEEEEH-JAAAAAAY" when he got a paintball in the eyes - but they were rappers ) Bananarama - "Lananeeneenoonoo-HELP!" (featuring comedy duo French & Saunders, if I'm not mistaken) Fuzzbox - "Pink Sunshine" (f*cking classic, I love this track - 90s cheese-ish at it's best) (not sure of artist) - "Never Gonna Get Enough" SIDE TWO (not sure of artist) - "We Have Got The Power" Ambassadors of Funk feat. MC Mario - "Supermarioland" (daaaaamn ... the memories) Snap - "Rhythm Is A Dancer" Rage - "Run To You" (yep, cover of Bryan Adams) The Shamen - "Eberneezer Goode" (memories of childhood naiveté/innocence - the track was actually about the drug Ecstasy and caused a major fuss in the tabloid press ... I just thought it was about a party animal called Eberneezer Goode ) 2 Unlimited - "Workaholic" (again - classic, you can almost feel the dehydrated clubbing nutters bashing out some shapes to this choon) Messiah - "Temple Of Dreams" (samples the movie "Running Man") Madness - "House Of Fun" (EVERYONE should have heard this song by now) East17 - "House Of Love" (geezer-ish Brit bad-boy band who condoned Ecstasy in the press, with disasterous results ... classic choon though) Daaaaaamn, this brings back so many memories. Okay, your turn.

[Chaos]

Man o' man, mix tapes bring back memories. I don't have any old tapes offhand, but I remember a couple of tracks off the first mix tape a friend dubbed for me. Concrete Blonde - Joey, They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng, R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It Good stuff.

[Tricky]

I cant remember really,i know i had one that had cotton eye joe,culture beat-mr vain,the bart man,ebeneezer goode & a load of other stuff on that il try to remember! And i had the prodigy's first album on tape,copied from a mate,i loved it!its what got me into dance music & although i was way too young to go to raves then,i couldnt wait to be old enough (the true rave scene had died by the time i was old enough but hard house had just landed,back in 2000!) Heres quality early prodigy tune!from that album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzGyBTEzfg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHutUvQGVCs Of course im well into my rock and bands as well,& i hate cheesy commercial dance music

[Chaos]

I cant remember really,i know i had one that had cotton eye joe,culture beat-mr vain,the bart man,ebeneezer goode & a load of other stuff on that il try to remember! And i had the prodigy's first album on tape,copied from a mate,i loved it!its what got me into dance music & although i was way too young to go to raves then,i couldnt wait to be old enough (the true rave scene had died by the time i was old enough but hard house had just landed,back in 2000!) Heres quality early prodigy tune!from that album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzGyBTEzfg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHutUvQGVCs Of course im well into my rock and bands as well,& i hate cheesy commercial dance music hahaha, Good ol' Cotton Eye Joe. Great song! Great dance tune for wedding receptions!

[_liam_]

MZ you have one of the ultimate 90s school disco tapes...you should do one of those club nights. cant find my earliest one, but i found a pretty old one (97?). prodigy - breathe prodigy - the trick (b side) GTA theme a white zombie remix of some kind marilyn manson - the beautiful people/1996 pulp fiction theme fun lovin criminals - scooby snacks sneaker pimps - 6 underground (choon!) death in vegas - dirt alice cooper - feed my frankenstein coolio - gangsters paradise (lol) lol interesting how tapes degenerate...everyone sounds high pitched & froggy (coolio sounds hilarious, gerry adams rapping)

[Tricky]

hahaha, Good ol' Cotton Eye Joe. Great song! Great dance tune for wedding receptions! Remember this one as well that was very similar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfe3l2bWnoc bangin' choons from dudes who wanted to make you pray good and squeal like a pig

[EvilNed]

I remember the first time I heard Old Pop in an Oak... I thought to myself, it's the same ****ing song!

[MinionZombie]

hehehe, it's a classic tape, proper 1990s. I also have Dance Tip '95 on CD (my first ever CD), that's packed with classic choons - including Gangsta's Paradise. It's amazing, you can go for years without hearing a choon, but then you hear it again and everything just comes flooding back. Music truly are the footnotes of history. Prodigy - holy crap, "Fat of the Land" was perhaps the biggest CD ever when it came out when I was at high school (got it on both CD and cassette). Everybody was into it. I remember first hearing Breathe on an advert for a Cronenberg film (or season of films, not sure) - for Videodrome. "Pink Sunshine" is still f*cking top class, just before the last chunk of the song it kinda builds up and a bass guitar twangs like "DUN DUN DUN" and I love it.

[_liam_]

It's amazing, you can go for years without hearing a choon, but then you hear it again and everything just comes flooding back. Music truly are the footnotes of history. Prodigy - holy crap, "Fat of the Land" was perhaps the biggest CD ever when it came out when I was at high school (got it on both CD and cassette). Everybody was into it. I remember first hearing Breathe on an advert for a Cronenberg film (or season of films, not sure) - for Videodrome. i remember that ad! the guy looking at his wounded arm and the words "CRONENBERG" appeared on the screen... yeah man fat of the land was one of the first albums i ever bought, it's true what you say, listenin to it now, you can almost smell the pencil shavings and school dinners...

[MinionZombie]

Ahhhh ... pencil shavings reminds me of pencil cases - and how utterly filthy mine would get, then I'd have a sesh cleaning it for about an hour and the inside would go from dark gray/black to the original cream again and it'd be such a novelty. Which pencil case I hear you ask? The one with those raggedy cartoon spiders on, of course! And speaking of albums that your whole year just went nuts over - that Fatboy Slim album (you know, with "right here, right now" and such on it). That went down a storm, it was the official soundtrack (even in the bus) to our school history trip to Belgium (but the driver always skipped past track 3 - "F*cking in Heaven" ... can't imagine why! )

[Danny]

i made a mix DISC a while back, tapes were a bit before my time, just. this aint taht old but some of these i aint heard in yonks, others i dont remember putting on there, but im gonna hafta have a listen to this one. HIM: please dont let it go. system of a down: question mad world, god knows by who ,or how it got on there. HIM: the sacrement kings of leon: molly chambers lordi: the devil is a loser lordi: blood red sandman lordi: would you love a monsterman? linkin park: numb (im ashamed of myself yes ) linkin park: breaking the habit. the racontuers: steady as she goes the rasmus: no fear echo adn the bunnymen :the killing moon (donnie darko soundtrack) cky:familiar realm 28 days later soundtrack: arcade fatboy slim: weapon of choice white stripes: blue orchid.

[MinionZombie]

I fookin' love "Please Don't Let It Go", one of my top five fave HIM tracks. "Would You Love A Monster Man" is proper catchy too. Mad World - probably by Gary Jules. Otherwise if it sounds all 1980s then it's Tears For Fears.

[_liam_]

Ahhhh ... pencil shavings reminds me of pencil cases - and how utterly filthy mine would get, then I'd have a sesh cleaning it for about an hour and the inside would go from dark gray/black to the original cream again and it'd be such a novelty. Which pencil case I hear you ask? The one with those raggedy cartoon spiders on, of course! And speaking of albums that your whole year just went nuts over - that Fatboy Slim album (you know, with "right here, right now" and such on it). That went down a storm, it was the official soundtrack (even in the bus) to our school history trip to Belgium (but the driver always skipped past track 3 - "F*cking in Heaven" ... can't imagine why! ) i always had that pencil cased shaped like a pepsi can although i got an official cradle of filth one when i was 14 i remember that album, that track "love island" was good as i remember it, though id probably cringe listening to it now!

[MinionZombie]

Cringe, maybe ... but you'd secretly love it - guaranteed. I know, cos I do it myself.

[Tricky]

The fat of the land album,that was during what i call my "summer of love" fresh out of school,staring wide eyed into the future,i felt so grown up yet i was actually so young and didnt have a clue!the fat boy slim album was around that time as well,i remember loving that rockerfeller skank tune when it was played on the school bus on the way to my GCSE exams!Oasis were huge,as were kula shaker,cornershop were at number one with "brimful of asher",the spice girls were breaking up,all saints were stunning,and i had masses of friends then as most people in your school year were classed as mates!good times,very good as i remember!thats 9 years ago this summer as well And speaking of pencil cases,ive kept mine!its shaped like a pepsi can,and is covered on almost every inch in amusing schoolboy graffitti such as "reed is gay" "all the ruffness,one time!" "tim davis pushes the cheesy wheelbarrow" and "B.A. baracus,is so crackers,he jumped a fence and hurt his knackers" plus the obligatory swastika & pentagram,purely for the purpose or annoying religious education teachers!