MEMORY TAPES: 2ND MARCH 2012

Your Memory Tapes today is another tale of love, but this time it's a man's love for a tape... Jon Saunders, from Bolton, tells his story...

"I used to love cassette tapes. I mean, really love them. I didn't move onto CDs until they stopped selling albums on the format at the end of the 90s and even then, it was very begrudgingly that I switched onto this new-fangled format (It'll never catch on, you know)

"The best thing was always the mixtape, of which I made many and (quite unashamedly) I considered myself something of a master with the twin cassette desk record-play-pause buttons. Ne'er a clunk nor premature end to a song could be heard on one of my many tapes.

"Last week, I was busy relaying loft insulation when a small slip led to my leg puncturing the ceiling into the spare room. What a dreadful mess. I spent all of this weekend trying to sort it, and came upon a (very large) box of my old tapes.

"The dust-covered chore of sorting through the debris was brightened considerably by reliving the memories held in a tape titled: "What A Nice Day"

"I think this was compiled about 2002, and was the default tape to grab when heading out to the car on the sort of day that demanded windows be lowered and appropriate tunes blasted."

He paints quite a picture don't he!? Here's the tracks...

A:

I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Pressure Drop - The Maytals

Get Carter - Roy Budd

Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria

Truck Turner - Isaac Hayes

Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi Trio

007 - Desmond Decker

Evil Vibrations - Mighty Ryeders

Funky President - James Brown

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder

Dance Across The Floor - Jimmy Bo' Horne

Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl

The Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne

Ali Baba - John Holt

Everybody Needs Love - Slim Smith

B:

El Mundo Pequeno - Ian Brown

Cocaine In My Brain - Dillinger

Under Me Sleng Teng - Wayne Smith

Estelle - A Man Called Adam

The Scene Revisited - Love Rec vs Karman Ellis

Save Me - Nina Simone

Distractions - Zero 7

Evening Sun - Gemma Hayes

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