MEMORY TAPES: 13TH JULY 2012

It's a proper tape this week on Memory Tapes, and it comes from Verity Longley, who writes....

"So, this tape remains to be the best mixtape I've ever been given. My friend Sarah made it when I got my first car in 2003 and I needed things to go in the tape deck.

"I no longer have a cassette player, so can't listen to it which is sad.

"The track listing is a bit early 2000's era, but it's so good. I remember it was the first time I'd heard Neutral Milk Hotel and it just blew me away, I used rewind the Le Tigre track and listen to it over and over, and Hefner...just... I was more into punk at the time and oddly, this music resonates with me even more now than it did at the time.

"I occasionally run a club night in Bristol now and still play some of these songs."

Side A

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945

The Clash - Safe European Home

The Libertines - Never, Never

Smashing Pumpkins - Hello Kittykat

Sleater-Kinney - Oh

Ramones - She's a Sensation

British Sea Power - Remember Me

Le Tigre - Fake French

The Rocks - Celeste

Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah

Radiohead - Thinking About You

Pixies - Allison

The Libertines - The Delaney

Side B

The Barbs - Massive Crush

Hefner - Hello Kitten

The Killers - Under the gun

Special Needs - Francesca

David Hasselhoff - Looking for Freedom

The Cribs - Another Number

The Ordinary Boys - In Awe of the Awful

Helen Love - Debbie Loves Joey

Guided By Voices - Things That I Will Keep

The Rakes- Ausland Mission

The Auteurs - Adolescent Song About Mindless Devotion

The Rocks - Can You Hear Me

Thurman - English Tea

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