C90 strangeness

My greatest period of whole-LP taping was probably '95-'97, hence... (drags box out from under bedroom chest-of-drawers)

David Toop 'Pink Noir' / Marta Sebestyen 'Kismet'

Omni Trio 'The Deepest Cut vol 1' / Rickie Lee Jones 'Ghostyhead'

The Walker Brothers 'After The Lights Go Out' / Plug 'Drum'n'Bass for Papa'

Vanessa Daou 'Zipless' / Main 'Dry Stone Feed'

...y'see, I went to great lengths (leaving side-Bs of C90s blank for months) to *avoid* crazy mismatches, so all my choices are boring.

The Who/Nine Inch Nails/Lounge/Gershwin.

Donna Summer "Four Seasons Of Love" / Berio "Laborintus 2"

Yeah, this happens quite often with me. My cassettes are frequently taped over which leads to a mish match of different gumf all on one tape. When an 'album' ends there is invariably a wholly different album which has been taped over, which then continues to the end.
Albums which have been taped side by side have included:
Cindy Dall 'Cindy Dall' B/W Rollins Band 'The End of Silence'
half of Aphex Twin's 'Selected Ambient Works Vol II' B/W Sleeper 'The It Girl'.
a Chris Morris radio 1 show B/W My Life Story 'Mornington Cresent'

I wouldn't try to match sides unless I had two similar things I wanted to tape at the same time. What I tried to match was how much I thought I would play each, in order to avoid having to rewind one side continually to play it. Nothing worse than picking up a tape I wanted to hear and seeing it was at the end of that side, especially in the car.

What I also did was try to fill each side with similar music, so I wouldn't have 5-10 minutes of dead tape after an LP.

Ice-T / Pulp

My mom with her raspy voice and bluesy guitar on side one - I tape over her on side two with some shite like Nik Kershaw. I was in grade eight Mom... I'm so sorry.

Coil/Patty Pravo * Blair 1523/New York New York OST * Laibach/Abba * Sparks/Isaac Hayes

'CHECK THIS OUT' an oft listened to tape is the 'Astroboy' ep by the Dwarves followed by Messiaen piano pieces. But I don't like the empty formalism so much ... of those first guys ha ha ha ha

it is great but makes little sense:
Prince- Purple Rain/Eddie Murphy Live in DC (the one where he goes on about 'faggots' for ten very funny yet excruciating minutes)

The great C90s of my youth were depressingly normal (cheers, Dad). Ultravox's 'Three Into One' met with Duran Duran's 'Rio'. The Cure's 'Pornography' met with 'The Head In The Door', 'Seventeen Seconds' with 'Faith'. Steve Harley and Elton John's greatest hits, ditto Elvis Costello's GH and Joe Jackson's 'I'm The Man', Pink Floyd meeting King Crimson, Talk Talk's last two albums together, XTC all in a bundle...

The weirdest one, just like the thread-starter, featured Prefab Sprout (A Life Of Surprises) alongside Garbage's debut album. We also had Laurie Anderson's 'Big Science' but I can't remember what was on the flip.