MEMORY TAPES: 4TH NOVEMBER 2011

We're back to tales of love this week for Memory Tapes, as Hannah Austin explains...

"My memory tape is themed - it's called The Animal Mixtape - (A collection of songs inspired by various animals, great and small"). It was made for me by my girlfriend Nik about a year after we first got together.

We had the most grotesquely romantic honeymoon period when we first got together and must've swapped about 20 mix tapes in the first year, so we started to get a bit more creative with them after a while and do themed tapes.

We've had tonnes of ups and downs since then, have broken up, got back together, moved around etc, but now everything's going really well and we're moving in together in a month! Yay! So it would be really cool if you could play a couple of tracks to celebrate!

It gets a bit tenuous on Side B... Nick Drake? Olivia NEWTon John?! She works in Bristol Zoo now, so it was obviously good practice?!"

Awesome, here's the artwork:

And here's the tracks:

Side A:

The Hot Puppies - The Party

The Hot Puppies - The Drowning Nymph

Eels - I Like Birds

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor

Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Underworld - King of Snake

The Go! Team - Panther Dash

The Flaming Lips - This Here Giraffe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - err I'm not sure which song!

Coco Rosie - Bear Hides and Buffalo

Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier

America - Horse With No Name

Le Tigre - The The Empty

Side B:

Mr Scruff - Fish

Lamb - Til the Clouds Clear

Nick Drake - Cocaine

Ladytron - Ladybird

Emiliana Torrina - Tuna Fish

Le Tigre - Deceptacon

Mouse on Mars - Yippie

Kos - Put the Crab in the Bucket

Goldfrapp - Let's Get Physical (Olivia Newton John cover) (really?!)

The Ramones - Spiderman Theme

Eels - Fresh Feeling

James Hersch - Aardvarks are our Friends

Infected Mushroom - Cat on Mushrooms