MEMORY TAPES: 2ND APRIL 2010

We've all made them, and now we celebrate them... Lauren wants to know about the compliation tapes and CDs your friends, lovers and exs have made for you, and the ones you've made for them.

Dig one out, take a photo of it, scribble the tracklisting in an email along with your contact details and email it to Lauren. A bit of a back story about the compilation would be nice too; when you got it, who you made it for, whether you discovered some amazing new music as a result...

Then, Lauren picks five songs and plays them all on a Friday, exciting eh?!

"This week's Memory Tape comes from Pat Olver, who writes... "I turned 50 on April 5th 1999. Nobody offered to throw me a party, so I decided to do my own. I booked a room, hired a PA system, invited some people I knew, and pre-prepared 4 hours of music burned to CD to last from 8pm to midnight. It was carefully themed to start familiar and poppy so as not to scare the straights, gradually descend via metal and trance into feedback hell, and then end on a chilled, anthemic note.

"In the event the party was a bit of a disaster. The different groups of friends didn't get on and lurked in separate corners of the room, the mate with a van who picked up the PA didn't listen to the setup instructions and we couldn't get it working properly, and the CDs never got played. But they still captured my musical taste at a pivotal time in my life, so I'm proud of the result."

CD1

Millennium - Robbie Williams

Brimful of Asha - Cornershop

Think I'm in Love - Spiritualized

Ready to Go - Republica

Copper Girl - 3 Colours Red

Weekend - The Wildhearts

I wanna go where the People go - The Wildhearts

I can see for miles - The Who

It's Like That - Run DMC

CD2

Step on - Happy Mondays

Something Good - Utah Saints

Weaving Darkness - Global

Small Stone - Global

She eats the stars - Global

Shamanka - Global

Geomantix - Prana

I think we can - Doof

Underground - Sneaker Pimps

CD3

Man called Sun - The Verve

Bruise Pristine - Placebo

Song 2 - Blur

Anthem - The Wildhearts

I want you - Utah Saints

Nurse Maximum - The Wildhearts

The Rezwalker - Transwave

CD4

Push - The Wildhearts

Rusty Cage - Soundgarden

Be aggressive - Faith No More

Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers

Heroin - The Wildhearts

Slide Away - The Verve

Blue - The Verve

Dreaming in A - The Wildhearts

All you good good people - Embrace

Already There - The Verve

New star in the sky - Air

Tender - Blur

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