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MEMORY TAPES: 21ST MAY 2010
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|17:16 UK time, Wednesday, 19 May 2010
So Memory Tapes is back to normal this week. Last week we changed it to a Glastonbury special, but this week Lauren is back celebrating the compilation albums in your life.
This week it's the turn of Anne Wilkins, who writes: "This tape was made for me by my teacher when I was at school, I think because I said something terrible like "I don't think I really like the Smiths", and because they were his favourite band he was upset and so made me a tape. (Just to verify - I do now love the Smiths, of course I do, but at the time I'd only really heard Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, which is still not really my favourite Smiths song.)
"This collection of songs honestly changed my life (I know I sound like an idiot right now), and pushed my musical tastes towards 80s indie, where I have remained ever since. The tape's almost 10 years old, and I still have it on my stereo. Almost every song on here is one of my most favouritest songs, I really love them all - counting it up now, I ended up buying albums 13 albums from this tape alone.
"I played the tape over and over and eventually made a copy of it because I was scared I'd wear it out! I never told my teacher this though because I was too shy, and needless to say I developped a huge crush on him. Oh dear!!"
There was artwork too:
And the 'life-changing' tracks were...
Side A:
Deeper - Arab Strap
Bill Is Dead - The Fall
Red Umbrella - Kostars
Pop Queen - Ben Lee
1969 - The Stooges
Give My Love To Kevin (Acoustic) - The Wedding Present
The Beatles And The Stones - House of Love
Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene
Debaser - Pixies
Soul Auctioneer - Death in Vegas
Scholorship Is The Enemy Of Romance - Billy Bragg
Side B:
Life's An Ocean - The Verve
The Death Of A Disco Dancer - The Smiths
Cedar Room - Doves
Sunday To Saturday - The June Brides
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Add It Up - Violent Femmes
Thank You For The Music - Cornelius
North Country Boy - The Charlatans
The Rock - Delakota
Magic In The Air - Badly Drawn Boy
Song For The Lovers - Richard Ashcroft
So Hot - Spacemen 3
Tune in to the show on Friday 21st May to hear which 5 tracks get selected.
If you have a Memory Tape you'd like to submit, then email Lauren now...
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