Today's Memory Tape is delivered by certfied listener James Walsh. He didn't have much access to music as a kid, but luckily there was a 'cool dad' around to ensure he kept on the right track.
In his words:
"This 90min tape was made over the course of 3 months (in 1993 or 1994) by me and two school friends in a town an hour outside Cape Town - we were looking to start a band and had no idea what to model ourselves on. We decided to make a master tape of stuff that was worth learning how to play. We were all around 12-13 yrs old and had tiny record collections mainly inherited from our parents.
We had huge trouble getting hold of good music. There was no decent radio station back then (they all played contemporary stuff or pop) and record stores didn't stock much either, and all CDs were imported but were way too expensive. No Internet or satellite TV either - can you imagine a world without it? As it happened, one of us (not me) had a really cool dad that was into music and used to go to the UK on business trips and often brought back great records. So whilst me and the other guy had just a few good records that we could lift tracks from, most of the good stuff came from the 'cool dad', and you can kind of tell which ones"
The we-want-to-start-a-band-and-need-to-listen-to-cool-stuff mixtape
Side A:
1) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2) Bryan Adams - Run To You
3) Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times*
4) Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days*
5) Roxette - The Look
6) Pearl Jam - Go*
7) Blur - End Of A Century*
8) Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
9) Rodriguez - The Establishment Blues
10) Live - I Alone*
11) Counting Crows - Mr Jones*
12) Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock*
Side B:
1) Pink Floyd - Eclipse
2) Springbok Nude Girls - Baby Murdered Me
3) Oasis - Roll With It*
4) Tori Amos - Past The Mission*
5) Alice In Chains - Dam That River*
6) Nirvana - Penny Royal Tea*
7) Nine Inch Nails - Wish*
8) Radiohead - Stop Whispering*
9) Stiltskin - Inside
10) Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
11) Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy*
12) Faith No More - Be Aggressive*
* = the 'cool dad' picks
