1. [01] Embarrassment, The - Celebrity Art Party (1981) (3:06) 2. [02] Minutemen - Straight Jacket (1981) (0:57) 3. [03] Replacements, The - Johnny's Gonna Die (1981) (3:24) 4. [04] Flesh Eaters - Pray Til You Sweat (1981) (2:36) 5. [05] Black Flag - Louie Louie (1981) (1:19) 6. [06] Stiff Little Fingers - The Only One (1981) (4:18) 7. [07] Mx-80 - Cover To Cover (1981) (2:42) 8. [08] Meat Puppets - Big House (1981) (1:06) 9. [09] Agent Orange - Too Young To Die (1981) (2:04) 10. [10] Saints, The - Paradise (Edit) (1981) (2:56) 11. [11] Buzzcocks - I Look Alone (1981) (3:01) 12. [12] Empire - All These Things (1981) (3:15) 13. [13] Secret Hate - New Routines-Suicide (1981) (1:26) 14. [14] Gordons, The - Coalminers Song (1981) (5:43) 15. [15] Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens (1981) (2:27) 16. [16] Cramps, The - Green Fuz (1981) (2:06) 17. [17] Minor Threat - Straight Edge (1981) (0:45) 18. [18] 100 Flowers - Reject Yourself (1981) (2:34) 19. [19] Undertones, The - Julie Ocean (1981) (1:46) 20. [20] Rudimentary Peni - Teenage Time Killer (1981) (1:11) 21. [21] Flipper - Ha Ha Ha (1981) (2:13) 22. [22] Mission of Burma - Fame and Fortune (1981) (3:35) 23. [23] Gun Club - Goodbye Johnny (1981) (3:45) 24. [24] Josef K - Crazy To Exist (1981) (2:57) 25. [25] Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait (1981) (2:21) 26. [26] Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (1981) (0:59) 27. [27] Bush Tetras - Rituals (Edit) (1981) (3:02) 28. [28] Wipers - When It's Over (1981) (6:36) 29. [29] X - Adult Books (1981) (3:19) 30. [30] Zoomers - Give Your Heart (1981) (2:13)
BRAIN
31. [01] Art Bears - Truth (1981) (2:55) 32. [02] Birthday Party, The - Cry (1981) (2:41) 33. [03] Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Rote Lippen (1981) (2:44) 34. [04] Branca, Glenn - Structure (1981) (3:04) 35. [05] Nomi, Klaus - The Twist (1981) (3:06) 36. [06] Flying Lizards - Hands 2 Take (1981).wav 37. [07] Negativland - Dearmary (1981).wav 38. [08] New Age Steppers - Crazy Dreams & High Ideas (Edit) (1981).wav 39. [09] Lemon Kittens - Kites (1981).wav 40. [10] Trio - Kummer (1981) (2:40) 41. [11] Pere Ubu - Lonesome Cowboy Dave (1981).wav 42. [12] Residents, The - Would We Be Alive (Edit) (1981).wav 43. [13] Johnson, Matt - The River Flows East In Spring (Edit) (1981).wav 44. [14] Eyeless in Gaza - The Decoration (1981).wav 45. [15] Einstürzende Neubauten - Abstieg & Zerfall (1981).wav 46. [16] Fire Engines - Candyskin (1981).wav 47. [17] Section 25 - Hit (1981).wav 48. [18] Crass - Bata Motel (1981).wav 49. [19] Liaisons Dangereuses - Aperitif De La Mort (Edit) (1981).wav 50. [20] Crash Course in Science - Factory Forehead (1981).wav 51. [21] Foetus - Thank Heaven for Push Button Phones (1981).wav 52. [22] Cabaret Voltaire - A Touch Of Evil (Edit) (1981).wav 53. [23] Chrome - Planet Strike (1981).wav 54. [24] DNA - Blonde Red Head (1981).wav 55. [25] Clock DVA - 4 Hours (1981).wav 56. [26] Homosexuals - Nursery Chymes (1981).wav 57. [27] Mertins, Wim - Multiple 12 (Edit) (1981).wav 58. [28] This Heat - Makeshift Swahili (1981).wav
CONVERTIBLE 59. [01] Young Marble Giants - Final Day (1981) (1:43) 60. [02] Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (1981).wav 61. [03] Martha & The Muffins - This Is the Ice Age (Edit) (1981).wav 62. [04] Altered Images - Happy Birthday (1981).wav 63. [05] Church, The - Too Fast For You (1981).wav 64. [06] Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl (Single) (Edit) (1981).wav 65. [07] Romeo Void - Myself To Myself (1981).wav 66. [08] Barracudas - Don't Let Go (1981).wav 67. [09] dB's, The - Black and White (1981).wav 68. [10] Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (1981).wav 69. [11] Magazine - The Honeymoon Killers (1981).wav 70. [12] Beat, The (English) - Too Nice To Talk To (1981).wav 71. [13] Marine Girls - Tonight (1981).wav 72. [14] Pretenders - Message of Love (1981).wav 73. [15] Necessaries - More Real (1981).wav 74. [16] Teardrop Explodes, The - Falling Down Around Me (1981).wav 75. [17] Squeeze - Is That Love (1981).wav 76. [18] Go Betweens, The - Your Turn, My Turn (1981).wav 77. [19] Hitchcock, Robyn - Love (1981).wav 78. [20] Stranglers, The - Golden Brown (1981).wav 79. [21] Ramones - It's Not My Place (1981).wav 80. [22] XTC - Respectable Street (1981).wav 81. [23] Pylon - Crazy (1981).wav 82. [24] Costello, Elvis - Strict Time (1981).wav 83. [25] REM - Radio Free Europe (1981).wav
CASSETTE
84. [01] Clean, The - Billy Two (1981) (2:22) 85. [02] Fall - Prole Art Threat (1981).wav 86. [03] Dow Jones & The Industrials - Ladies With Appliances (1981).wav 87. [04] Tronics - Cruisin (1981).wav 88. [05] Terraplanes - Evil Going On (1981).wav 89. [06] Nervous Gender - Fat Cow (1981).wav 90. [07] 49 Americans - Love at first sight (1981).wav 91. [08] Cardboards - On the R to TZ (1981).wav 92. [09] Felt - Something Sends Me to Sleep (1981).wav 93. [10] Concrete - Uranium (1981).wav 94. [11] Discount Chiefs - Different Light (1981).wav 95. [12] Disturbed - Betrayed (1981).wav 96. [13] Scapa Flow - Somewhere (1981).wav 97. [14] Dancing Cigarettes - Mr. Morse (1981).wav 98. [15] Amoebas In Chaos - Designer Genes (1981).wav 99. [16] Tall Dwarfs - All My Hollowness to You (1981).wav 100. [17] Monitor - Amphibious (1981).wav 101. [18] Dolphins - She Took a Long Cold Look (1981).wav 102. [19] Blue Orchids - Bad Education (1981).wav 103. [20] Voice Farm - AM City (Edit) (1981).wav 104. [21] Biting Tongues - Reflector (1981).wav 105. [22] Flux of Pink Indians - Sick Butchers (1981).wav 106. [23] Aztec Camera - Just Like Gold (1981).wav 107. [24] Diagram Brothers, The - Put It In A Bigger Box (1981).wav 108. [25] Pel Mel - Ipanema Mon Amour (1981).wav 109. [26] Marine Girls - Times We Used to Spend (1981) (1:44) 110. [27] Human Switchboard - I Used to Believe in You (1981).wav 111. [28] Social Climbers - Hello Texas (1981).wav 112. [29] Half Japanese - My Knowledge Was Wrong (1981).wav 113. [30] Television Personalities - This Angry Silence (1981).wav 114. [31] Via Veneto - Empty (Edit) (1981).wav 115. [32] Violent Femmes - Waiting For The Bus (Demo) (1981).wav 116. [33] Thick Pigeon - Silhouettes (1981).wav
COMPUTER
117. [01] Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (1981).wav 118. [02] Japan - Talking Drum (1981).wav 119. [03] Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Mussolini (Edit) (1981).wav 120. [04] Associates - White Car In Germany (Edit) (1981).wav 121. [05] Devo - Working In A Coal Mine (1981).wav 122. [06] Heaven 17 - The Height Of The Fighting (1981).wav 123. [07] Eurythmics - Take Me To Your Heart (1981).wav 124. [08] Dolby, Thomas - Europa & The Pirate Twins (1981).wav 125. [09] Plastics - Diamond Head (1981).wav 126. [10] Yello - Bostich (1981).wav 127. [11] Numan, Gary - Stories (1981).wav 128. [12] New Musik - Areas (1981).wav 129. [13] Blue Nile, The - I Love This Life (1981) (3:46) 130. [14] Duran Duran - Girls on Film (1981).wav 131. [15] Gottsching, Manuel - E2 E4 (Excerpt) (1981).wav 132. [16] Teardrop Explodes, The - The In-Psychlopedia (Edit) (1981).wav 133. [17] Cybotron - Alleys Of Your Mind (1981).wav 134. [18] Buggles, The - Blue Nylon (1981).wav 135. [19] Soft Cell - Tainted Love (1981).wav 136. [20] Cars - Shake It Up (Edit) (1981).wav 137. [21] Classix Nouveaux - 623 (1981).wav 138. [22] Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit) (1981).wav 139. [23] Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (1981).wav 140. [24] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sacred Heart (1981).wav 141. [25] Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Edit) (1981).wav
FEET
142. [01] British Electronic Foundation - Rise of the East (1981).wav 143. [02] Bush Tetras - You Can't Be Funky (1981).wav 144. [03] Heaven 17 - We're Going To Live (Edit) (1981).wav 145. [04] Foxx, John - Europe After the Rain (1981).wav 146. [05] Dome - D-D-Bo (1981).wav 147. [06] 23 Skidoo - Last Words (1981).wav 148. [07] ESG - UFO (1981).wav 149. [08] Gang of Four - What We All Want (1981).wav 150. [09] Rip Rig Panic - How Caged Bird (1981) (3:32) 151. [10] Logic, Lora - Wonderful Offer (1981).wav 152. [11] Mekons - St Patrick's Day (1981).wav 153. [12] Newman, Colin - Alone (1981).wav 154. [13] Kraftwerk - Numbers (1981).wav 155. [14] Liquid Liquid - Zero Leg (1981).wav 156. [15] Massacre - Gate (1981).wav 157. [16] Family Fodder - Film Music (1981).wav 158. [17] Goat that Went Om - The Pirate Song (1981).wav 159. [18] Dif Juz - Diselt (1981).wav 160. [19] This Heat - Paper Hats (Edit) (1981).wav 161. [20] Trio - Danger Is (1981).wav 162. [21] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The New Stone Age (1981).wav 163. [22] Pigbag - Sunny Day (Edit) (1981).wav 164. [23] Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance (1981).wav 165. [24] YMO - Light in Darkness (1981).wav
FIRE 166. [01] A Certain Ratio - Waterline (1981).wav 167. [02] New Order - Chosen Time (1981).wav 168. [03] Fad Gadget - Make Room (Edit) (1981).wav 169. [04] Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (1981).wav 170. [05] Byrne, David - The Red House (1981).wav 171. [06] Creatures - But Not Them (1981).wav 172. [07] Raybeats - Calhoun Surf (1981).wav 173. [08] Josef K - Heart Of Song (1981).wav 174. [09] Thomas, David - Crickets in the Flats (1981).wav 175. [10] Killing Joke - Butcher (Edit) (1981).wav 176. [11] B-52's, The - Give Me Back My Man (Remix) (Edit) (1981) (3:04) 177. [12] Dif Juz - Soarn (Excerpt) (1981).wav 178. [13] Hitchcock, Robyn - Grooving on a Inner Plane (Edit) (1981).wav 179. [14] INXS - Stay Young (1981).wav 180. [15] Lounge Lizards - Do The Wrong Thing (1981).wav 181. [16] Prince - Controversy (Edit) (1981).wav 182. [17] Pigbag - Papa's Got Brand New Pigbag (Single Version) (1981).wav 183. [18] Talking Heads - Houses In Motion (Edit) (1981).wav 184. [19] Bauhaus - Of Lillies and Remains (1981).wav 185. [20] Specials, The - Ghost Town (Edit) (1981).wav 186. [21] Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (1981).wav 187. [22] Wire - Midnight Bahnhof Cafe (Edit) (1981).wav 188. [23] Family Fodder - Emergency (1981).wav 189. [24] Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud (1981).wav
HEART
190. [01] Cure, The - All Cats Are Grey (1981).wav 191. [02] Passions - Alice's Song (1981).wav 192. [03] Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Voices) (1981).wav 193. [04] Durutti Column - The Missing Boy (1981).wav 194. [05] Costello, Elvis & The Attractions - Gloomy Sunday (1981).wav 195. [06] Mx-80 - Promise of Love (1981).wav 196. [07] Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Edit) (1981).wav 197. [08] New Order - Doubts Even Here (1981) (4:20) 198. [09] Shelley, Pete - It's Hard Enough Knowing (Edit) (1981).wav 199. [10] Sound, The - Winning (1981).wav 200. [11] Japan - Ghosts (1981).wav 201. [12] This Heat - A New Kind Of Water (1981).wav 202. [13] Raincoats - Only Loved At Night (1981).wav 203. [15] Gist - Love at First Sight (1981).wav 204. [15] Numan, Gary - Dance (1981).wav 205. [16] Psychedelic Furs - No Tears (1981).wav 206. [17] Gang of Four - Paralysed (1981).wav 207. [18] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Romance Of The Telescope (1981).wav 208. [19] Ultravox - Rage In Eden (1981).wav 209. [20] Weekend - Nostalgia (Demo) (1981).wav
ICICLE
210. [01] Czukay, Holger - Fragrance (Edit) (1981) (3:16) 211. [02] Harrison, Jerry - Worlds In Collision (1981).wav 212. [03] Comsat Angels - Restless (1981).wav 213. [04] Selecter - Their Dream Goes On (1981).wav 214. [05] Tall Dwarfs - Luck of Loveliness (1981).wav 215. [06] Gun Club - Promise Me (1981).wav 216. [07] ESG - You're No Good (1981).wav 217. [08] Siouxsie & the Banshees - Into The Light (1981).wav 218. [09] Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band (1981).wav 219. [10] Anderson, Laurie - O Superman (For Massenet) (1981).wav 220. [11] Phew - Fragment (Edit) (1981).wav 221. [12] Thomas, David - Big Dreams (1981).wav 222. [13] Del-Byzanteens, The - Girl's Imagination (1981).wav 223. [14] Was (Not Was) - Oh, Mr Friction (1981) (3:32) 224. [15] Eno, Brian & David Byrne - A Secret Life (1981).wav 225. [16] Echo & The Bunnymen - All My Colours (1981).wav 226. [17] Material - Square Dance (1981).wav 227. [18] Sakamoto, Ryuichi - Kachakuchane (Edit) (1981).wav 228. [19] Slits, The - Earthbeat (Peel Session) (Edit) (1981).wav 229. [20] Wyatt, Robert - Born Again Cretin (1981).wav 230. [21] Delta 5 - Different Fur (1981).wav
BRIEFCASE 231. 45 Grave - 45 Grave (1981) (3:21) 232. 999 - Bongos on the Nile (1981) (2:55) 233. A Flock of Seagulls - Telecommunication (1981) (2:32) 234. ABC - Tears Are Not Enough (Edit) (1981) (2:22) 235. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming (1981) (3:17) 236. Airmail - In a Moment (1981) (5:16) 237. Alternative TV - My Hand Is Still Wet (1981) (3:19) 238. Angelic Upstarts - I Understand (1981) (2:53) 239. Aquila - Without a Care (1981) (4:17) 240. Article 58 - Lost & Found (1981) (3:26) 241. Au Pairs - Love Song (1981) (2:48) 242. Avacados - I Never Knew (1981) (2:23) 243. Babylon Dance Band - Remains of the Beat (1981) (1:47) 244. Bangs - Getting Out Of Hand (1981) (2:12) 245. Beelzebub Youth - Push Push Push (1981) (2:04) 246. Ben Watt - Cant (1981) (3:17) 247. Black Flag - What I See (1981) (1:55) 248. Blah Blah Blah - Central Park (1981) (3:53) 249. Blancmange - Sad Day (Early) (1981) (2:24) 250. Blondie - Rapture (Edit) (1981) (3:39) 251. B-Movie - Remembrance Day (1981) (3:44) 252. Bouncing Czechs - 1992 (Edit) (1981) (2:23) 253. Bow Wow Wow - Why Are Babies So Wise (1981) (2:55) 254. Bunnydrums - Little Room (1981) (3:05) 255. Buzz - Life Ends (1981) (1:57) 256. Cardboards - Electrical Generator (1981) (3:32) 257. Chameleons - Here Today (BBC) (1981) (3:44) 258. Chefs - Someone I Know (1981) (2:07) 259. Chemicals Made From Dirt - Ike (1981) (2:27) 260. Christian Death - Dogs (1981) (2:54) 261. Club Tango - Performance (Edit) (1981) (2:24) 262. Colours Out of Time - The Waiting (BBC) (1981) (3:39) 263. Commericals - Simon (1981) (2:18) 264. Comsat Angels - Now I Know (BBC) (1981) (4:14) 265. Conservatives - Suburban Bitch (1981) (1:21) 266. Crispy Ambulance - The Presence (Edit) (1981).mp3 267. Cure, The - Primary (1981).mp3 268. Dalek I Love You - Heartbeat (1981).mp3 269. Damned, The - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Edit) (1981) (2:52) 270. Dancing Cigarettes - Puppies in a Sack (1981).mp3 271. Dangerous Girls - Men in Suits (1981).mp3 272. Danse Society - Continent (1981).mp3 273. Dark Day - Extermination (1981).mp3 274. Deep Freeze Mice - Dr. Z (1981).mp3 275. Department S - Age Concern (1981).mp3 276. Dif Juz - Cs (1981).mp3 277. Digital Dinosaurs - The Sideways Man (1981).mp3 278. DNA - 5-30 (1981).mp3 279. Doctor Mix & The Remix - Brand New Cadillac (1981).mp3 280. Dramatis - Love Needs No Disguise (1981).mp3 281. Dum Dum Dum - Dum Dum Dum (1981).mp3 282. Effigies - Strong Box (1981).mp3 283. Eight Eyed Spy - Lazy In Love (1981) (2:57) 284. Ejectors - Little Johnny (1981).mp3 285. Embarrassment, The - Sexy Singer Girl (1981).mp3 286. Eno, Brian and David Byrne - Mea Culpa (Edit) (1981).mp3 287. Essential Logic - Fanfare In the Garden (1981).mp3 288. Ex, The - Weapons for El Salvador (1981).mp3 289. Factrix - Thin Line (1981).mp3 290. Fair, Jad - Fish Can Talk (1981).mp3 291. Fall, The - Middle Mass (1981).mp3 292. Family Fodder - Dinosaur Sex (1981).mp3 293. Fast Set, The - King of the Rumbling Spires (1981).mp3 294. Fifteen Minutes - Last Chance for You (1981).mp3 295. Fingerprintz - Shadowed (1981).mp3 296. Five Or Six - The Trial (1981) (2:49) 297. Fleshtones - The Dreg (1981).mp3 298. Freddy And The Fruitloops - Right & Wrong (1981).mp3 299. Front 242 - Body to Body (1981).mp3 300. Generation X - Dancing With Myself (1981).mp3 301. George Harrassment - Yoghurt (1981).mp3 302. Gifted Children - Lichtenstein Girl (1981).mp3 303. Gilbert & Lewis - Hung Up To Dry Whilst Building An Arch (1981).mp3 304. Girls At Our Best - Go for Gold (1981).mp3 305. Gizmos - Biscuits & Gravy (1981).mp3 306. Goldman, Vivien - Launderette (1981).mp3 307. Haig, Paul - Mad Horses (1981).mp3 308. Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirt (1981) (3:05) 309. Homosexuals - In Search of the Perfect Baby (1981).mp3 310. Icehouse - Icehouse (Edit) (1981).mp3 311. Icicle Works - When Winter Lasted Forever (Edit) (1981).mp3 312. It's Immaterial - A Gigantic Raft (Edit) (1981).mp3 313. Jackson, Joe - Beat Crazy (1981).mp3 314. Jagatara - Hey Say! (Edit) (1981).mp3 315. Jam, The - Absolute Beginners (1981) (2:52) 316. Kontakt Microfoon Orkest - Do the Residue (1981).mp3 317. Lambrettas, The - Decent Town (1981).mp3 318. Last Four Digits - Diddy Wah Diddy (1981).mp3 319. Legal Weapon - Daddy's Gone Mad (1981).mp3 320. Liaisons Dangereuses - Etre Assis Ou Danser (1981).mp3 321. Liliput - Eisiger Wind (1981).mp3 322. Limp, The - Marked Man (1981).mp3 323. Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (In) (1981) (3:57) 324. Lovich, Lene - New Toy (1981).mp3 325. Lowest Note on the Organ - Piggy Bank (1981).mp3 326. Ludus - Mutilate (1981).mp3 327. Malaria - How Do You Like My New Dog (1981).mp3 328. Marine - Life in Reverse (1981).mp3 329. Mass - Cross Purposes (1981).mp3 330. Massacre - Subway Heart (1981).mp3 331. Maximum Joy - Strech (Edit) (1981) (2:57) 332. Medium Medium - The Glitterhouse (1981).mp3 333. Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now (1981).mp3 334. Metal Urbain - Hysterie Connective (Early Version) (1981).mp3 335. Meteors - Graveyard Stomp (1981).mp3 336. Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt (1981) (2:56) 337. Misfits, The - Halloween (1981).mp3 338. Modern English - Black Houses (1981).mp3 339. Monochrome Set - Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners (1981).mp3 340. Mr Science - Mr. Science (1981) (2:23) 341. My Captains - Converse (1981).mp3 342. Names - Music For Someone (1981) (1:56) 343. Native Hipsters - Tropical Fish in the Sink (1981).mp3 344. Neu Electrikk - Lust of Berlin (1981) (2:46) 345. New Musik - This World Of Walter (1981).mp3 346. No More - Suicide Commando (1981).mp3 347. Oingo Boingo - Capitalism (1981).mp3 348. Orange Juice - Wan Light (1981).mp3 349. Our Daughter's Wedding - Airlines (1981).mp3 350. Passage - Hip Rebels (1981).mp3 351. Pin Group - Ambivalence (1981).mp3 352. Plimsouls - Mini-Skirt Minnie (1981).mp3 353. Poison Girls - Ideologically Unsound (1981).mp3 354. Police, The - Darkness (1981).mp3 355. Polyphonic Size - Mothers Little Helper (1981) (3:06) 356. Polyrock - Rain (1981).mp3 357. Pop, Iggy - Sea of Love (1981).mp3 358. Post Raisin Band - Pink Lincoln (1981).mp3 359. Predator - He Thinks He Knows Me (1981).mp3 360. Public Image Ltd - Go Back (1981) (3:47) 361. Quad Pi - Near You (1981).mp3 362. Red Asphalt - Red Asphalt (1981).mp3 363. Red Cross - Puss 'N' Boots (1981).mp3 364. Red Krayola - An Old Man's Dream (1981).mp3 365. Reflections - 4 Countries (1981).mp3 366. Room, The - Bated Breath (1981) (4:01) 367. Russell, Arthur - Sketch for Face of Helen (Edit) (1981) (3:31) 368. Scientists - She Said She Loves Me (1981).mp3 369. Second Layer - Distortion (Edit).mp3 370. Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities (Edit) (1981).mp3 371. Slow Children- Spring in Fialta (1981).mp3 372. Social Distortion - Telling Them (1981).mp3 373. Sort Sol - Misguided (1981).MP3 374. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short (Edit) (1981).mp3 375. Splodgenessabounds - Cowpunk Medlum (1981) (2:36) 376. Stranglers - Everybody Loves You When you're Dead (1981).mp3 377. Suburban Lawns - Computer Date (1981).mp3 378. Subway Sect, The - Parallel Lines (1981).mp3 379. Surplus Stock - Let's Kill Each Other (1981).mp3 380. Swamp Children - Call Me Honey (1981) (4:54) 381. Swell Maps - Forest Fire (released 1981) (3:01) 382. Takahashi, Yukihiro - Something in the Air (1981) (4:51) 383. Tame O'Mearas - Curl Curl (1981) (2:18) 384. Teardrop Explodes, The - ...and The Fighting Takes Over (1981) (3:54) 385. Teenage Filmstars - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (1981) (2:56) 386. Telefones - Solid Ground (1981) (3:12) 387. The Past Seven Days - Raindance (Edit) (1981) (4:58) 388. The The - Untitled (1981) (3:23) 389. Theatre of Hate - My Own Invention (1981) (3:17) 390. Theoretical Girls - Electronic Angie (Studio) (1981) (3:37) 391. Thompson Twins - Politics (1981) (2:20) 392. Times, The - Biff! Bang! Pow! (1981) (2:52) 393. Triffids - This Boy (1981) (2:56) 394. TSOL - I'm Tired Of Life (1981) (1:51) 395. Tucker, Maureen - Louie Louie (1981) (2:41) 396. Two by Fours - Another 8 Hours (1981) (1:34) 397. UB40 - One in Ten (1981) (4:33) 398. Urban Verbs - Business and the Rational Mind (1981) (4:52) 399. Urinals - I Hate (1981) (2:03) 400. Vapors, The - Jimmie Jones (1981) (3:24) 401. Visage - Mind Of A Toy (1981) (4:28) 402. Vital Disorder - Let's Talk About Prams (1981) (2:17) 403. Walking Floors - No Next Time (1981) (2:27) 404. Wall of Voodoo - Crack the Bell (1981) (3:33) 405. Wanderers - Beyond the Law (1981) (2:08) 406. Weirdos, The - Weird World (Demo) (1981) (3:02) 407. Wild West - Fierce Atoms (1981) (2:25) 408. xAx - Banging Your Head (1981) (3:42) 409. Xpozez - New Law (1981) (1:19) 410. Zoomers - From the Planet Moon (1981) (2:56) 411. Zounds - Demystification (1981) (3:45)
― I.M., Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
But great work! Incredible!
― ffirehorse (firehorse), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
its not mp3s?
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Getting these things to people I know will enjoy them, and maybe even appreciate all the work that went into them, makes it all worth it. I've been working on this thing with varying attention since summer 2003.
― I.M., Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
It looks like you steered clear of all of the big chart hits, though.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
No, it's 9 80min CDs and and 1 mp3-CD. About 85% of it is sourced from my own collection (CDs and vinyl, including Chuck Warner's hyped2death discs). I've "hand levilised" the tracks using careful combinations of normalising and judicious graphic dynamics, and hand-removed vinyl pops in many cases. For the 2nd edition, I'm using nice white-on-top CD-Rs with my thermal printer (black on white) to better match the packaging.
http://manireik.spymac.net/1981/1981_inside.jpghttp://manireik.spymac.net/1981/1981_front.jpg
― I.M., Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's not meant to be "objective" (like I gather the CDR700 Go! collections). Though a number of these tracks did chart, in England.
― I.M., Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
"My god" good or bad?
― I.M., Friday, 4 March 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link
(also, shamless plug time: Seattle Weekly now has a weekly column called CD-R Go!, check out the first one by me: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0509/050302_music_cdrgo.php)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks so much! It's definitely an example of making the most of my material limitations, but I think in the end it doesn't look too cheap. I would've liked to have a square-shaped booklet, but folding/cutting an 8.5x11 is just more practical.
― I.M., Friday, 4 March 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
No! School us! How did you do this? Did you own and listen to all these records in 1981, or have you accumulated all these over time? I'm just asking because I'll probably be the average ILMer in, er, eight(?) years, meaning that I pay close attention to and consume music at an alarming rate-- but I couldn't dream of making an anthology like this for, say, 2004... I just looked through the tracklisting, and I only recognized about eighty of the bands. Did you own a record shop or something?
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― john'n'chicago, Friday, 4 March 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
haha thanks. I considered getting in some hip-hop, but I didn't want to be cursory or throw in some token Flash track. Clearly the scenes coallesced at points (NY at least) but I was primarily interested in helping young people (my age and younger) who suddenly the last couple years find it hip to call things "post-punk revival" or "dancepunk" or whatever that there was a lot more to the 78-82 period than Joy Division, Gang of Four, and maybe (if the kid is adventuresome) Wire, much as I love those bands. I split the set up into varyingly definable sounds/feelings/aesthetics to make it more approachable, but the point remains that even though you could probably call 90%+ of it "post-punk," there was a hell of a lot going on. I included a smattering of sub-Hannet-wannabe stuff, but mostly I went for breadth.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I am an addict, plain and simple. I don't know what the "average" ILMer is, but to put it this way: I could've bought at least a couple cars with the money I've spent on music since I was 12. I'm not proud of it in some capitalist aquisitive way--it's just that music is not an option, it's life. That's probably true for most people here (or they wouldn't be here taking all this stuff so seriously-not-seriously). I can't think of anything else on which I'd rather have blown almost every discretionary penny I've earned. I wish I owned a record shop, but I've never even worked at one.
I'll tell you a little secret (not much of one--it's in the opening "essay" for the set)--I was a year old in 1981. I'm ambivalent about how this fact affects my appreciation of all this music. On the one hand, it means I'm hearing things slightly less in terms of whats considered cool at the time; on the other hand, maybe "what's cool" is valid, and I'm not getting the full picture from the recorded sounds alone. I'm fascinated to hear from people who were there about the whole thing--whether the relative inaccessibility of it all made it an elitist bastion, whether the internet deomcratises things--or whether because it was so scarce it was much more community-driven, that its expansiveness came from the necessity of staying busy. I tend to come down on the feeling that I like how I've heard the music--that much as an honest, non-selfconscious scene (a rare thing indeed) can be exhilirating, I'm more likely to have an honest response to the music "on its own terms" coming to it all after the fact and with relatively little knowledge of ephemeral elements. I could be wrong.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
! My, that's dedication to be showing when you were a year old. ;-) (I tease, etc.)
I sympathize with you on the money/car thing. Happily I have never owned a car. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I work in preservation/restoration architecture and even though I live in a small city, I'm a pretty rabid urbanist. So I like to explain to people who love their cars why I find the utter and total reliance on them (indeed, the razind and reconstruction of society to accommodate them) so absurd in the following way: imagine instead of being on wheels, imagine cars were the same amount of metal and glass and rubber all put together into a big 14'-tall "Mech". Then imagine every suburban mother hopping into her 4,000-pound robot to go to the grocery for milk and bread! Fucking insane, but not much scarrier than the way freeways and cul-de-sacced squirrely over-wide roads look to me.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 March 2005 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Michael ---
I'm not sure what I raised the bar on besides time-sucking geek hobbies, but . . . thanks!
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― blawa (blawa), Friday, 4 March 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 March 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm within a couple spots of 100 as of 10:20A.M. C.S.T., but if you think you would enjoy the set, I still welcome requests. I simply can't guarantee that I will get to those beyond 100 in the immediate future. As the interest seems to be there, however, I guess I have a responsibility to meet it as best I can. If you're willing to wait a little longer (perhaps a month) by all means, go ahead and write to me.
Again, thanks, all. I envisioned this thread quickly falling into oblivion---this is much more fun.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
This really is a beautiful thing. You should be proud.
― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm using nice white-on-top CD-Rs
So are these (in any case, very wonderful) cd's pressed, or burned? I gotta say, it's really impressive how you've gotten some of the more underground stuff on here (e.g. Monitor, Nervous Gender)
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, they're burned. Very home-made affair. It would be amazing to make a "real" version, but I'm sure it'd cost more than I earn in a decade.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― San Carlos (San Carlos), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Especially if you had to own 80% of the CDs!
I picked up a copy of I.M.'s box on the original pressing and it is indeed a lot of fun. Good on ya, *i. Stop making this thing and get to work on 1991. :D
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
And this is PITCHFORK saying this.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― XEON, Saturday, 5 March 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
It's possible that I'm prone to over-emphasising the advantages of the soujourner path. I had no cool older sibling, no hip (only hippie) parents, and lived mostly in smallish towns and medium cities that could hardly be consdered record shop hotbeds (though after initiated into musical obsession, I later discovered they often had the most cohesive, passionate kind of local music scenes around). My parents instilled in me a sense that music was important (and gave me one of my great loves, Joni Mitchell) but didn't have much breadth to share. I'm still not really sure how I got from The Beatles and Smashing Pumpkins and Simon & Garfunkel at age 13 to Sunny Day Real Estate and Stereolab at 17 to where I am today at 24. I didn't have the internet till I was 17; I didn't even have MTV (120 minutes seems to have influenced quite a few burgeoning music kids in the 90s). So I suppose I carried an inflated sense of my own luck, my own instincts--I managed to get here (here being nothing impressive, you know, a predictable 500 records of Jazz/Blues/World Music etc., but it's a start) "without any help".
Which for a while I was troubled when I found myself being adopted as some sort of knowledgeable figure by younger/less experienced kids some years back. Partly this was due to the fact that I didn't (and still don't really) feel I have much musical knowledge--just a record collection a little larger than most "normal" people my age. But the primary source of misgiving came from a distrust of "giving it away," not in the elitist sense that "I've earned it and you haven't"--I've always assumed that notion to be obvious bullshit, though many of you may disagree. But rather I hesitated because I wondered if somehow I might be depriving people of something if I cut out the "labourious" process of trial and error, the often tedious and risky adventure of placing your own money on the counter. I wondered--would I have really appreciated the music as much, if I hadn't had to "work" for it?
If it tells you anything about where I ended up, I eventually gave 70 mp3-CDs filled with roughly the first eight years of my serious music addiction to a younger cousin. Though I have friends who claim that "the internet ruined music," I decided that even for me, there was relatively little "work" involved in the "process of discovery" anymore. Even before it was common to have high-speed internet and good p2p like Soulseek, the "challenges" were essentially whittled down to "do you have the money to afford to be eclectic". I began to ask, what did it mean to have "earned" ones musical knowledge? Pitchfork might be ruining young minds with their awful writing, but hipster "cheat sheets" had been a staple of "musical knowledge" since well before I was born. My own "country mouse" success story in some ways notwithstanding, hadn't the primary determinant of being musically-in-the-know really come down to a few very undemocratic and ultimately ephemeral things: where you happened to live, how much discretionary money you had, and who you knew (whether people or zines)? Where was "PASSION" on the list? Sure, someone with passion AND all the aforementioned advantages could live a great musical life. But for him the "process of discovery" was about as tricky as popping down to Rough Trade to see what'd come in this week (to exagerate). Meanwhile someone with no real passion but a desire to be seen as "hip" could also pop on down. Meanwhile the passionate kid in the hinterland (or the poor kid in the suburbs) had to stagnate with frustration; or, as in my case, find mail-order, making the process not really so difficult, but not that romantic, either.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm still the sort who needs to "own" the record--mp3's don't count--as my bank account can attest. I'm not even proud of this, as it probably comes down to some consumerist materialism as much as any ethical imperative. But let's be honest--the glory of crate digging, the joy of a good local shop, blowing sizeable savings each visit to London or New York--these are all enjoyable, and it's reasonable to wear them as badges of verity (in our own geek minds, at least). Chatting down at the shop or spinning at the radio station--these will always have a visceral appeal that things like typing away on ILM etc. can't provide. But what are we really on about, ultimately? What compels us to take part in all these geeky rituals? (And being honest, when I see Trekkies, I know that but for the grace of God, there go my passions--we're not that different.) It has to be The Sounds Themselves.
As the 1981 set itself attests, I've clearly come down that "giving it away" is a logical fallacy. All that you can give to a passionate kid, a neophyte who would know more, will only fuel the fire. None of us (well, maybe a few at this place, but in general) knows everything, and I imagine we'd get depressed if we thought we did (and probably all of us, at least early on, hit that wall of asking, "is this it?" before the next thrill of discovery). So what's the damage done if some kid hears This Heat at 16 on a silly boxed set, instead of waiting around till luck of Pitchfork exposure and the whimsy of reissues made it more likely? I say, more power to him--that's less time he might waste on lesser stuff.
Which brings up my final potential qualm about "giving it away": does a "musical tutor" not risk simply indoctrinating his "puil," risk blunting the development of his capacity for discrimination? Well, I'll pose another question in response. For those of you lucky enough to have been the right age at the right time in the right time for Peel's golden age: did you simply take his word on every track? Or even if you did initially, did his opinions remain yours for good? Well, compared to any of us, John Peel is the "tutoring" God; and if God's own trumpet didn't deafen your own opinions, then I think none of us is likely to do so for anyone else. I say: exposure, exposure, exposure. People may not be ready for everything all at once--and so the temporal facet of our beloved "process of discovery" will inevitably reassert itself. Even if some kid queues up half your collection on Soulseek (as numerous have done mine,) it will take them plenty of time to even hear it all, much less listen to any of it. So I embrace the democratic age of access; don't fear the instantaneousness of it all--our ears and our hearts are still analogue, and for those with passion, the process will still take time. Passion should be the only criterion for gaining access to the beautiful world of music (and paying in to keep the practical side will come with salaries, years on).
I love listening to my collection, and remembering that I bought this record in 2001 on a trip to Philly to meet some girl I barely knew, and listened to it the first time we made love; or that it was recommended me by a kindly shop owner in 1996, and that it changed my life. I doubt that many kids will remember "I downloaded this album, the modified date says, on 5th May 2005, along with these other 10 albums". They will, isntead, form their own memories--when the music first meant something to them, what was happening, maybe even when they got the money together to go out and buy the record. I'm not worried we stand to lose anything important.
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Intro to the 1981 box, 1st Edition:
My first idea of how to introduce this set was to start with a question: "what do we do when we realise Pandora's box is never going to shut?" I wanted to persuade you that the music heard on this set provides one answer to that question: if our belief in fundamental order is shaken, we resolve to make a beautiful mess. I wanted to argue that a lot of this music is part of a lineage of noble "outré" and progressive popular art made by people trying to restore hope and meaning amidst derelict shells of classicism, modernism, and post-modernism. I would also have tried to say something pithy regarding the historical context of this music, about how the shattering of the notion of monolithic cultures made music like this possible, and necessary; and about Thatcher, Reagan, suburbs, post-industrial economics, the dole, the rise of fundamentalism and yuppiedom and anti-disco rockism.But the truth is, I was in diapers in 1981. As far as outré music is concerned, I have less than a decade of experience with the stuff. My parents were hippies spinning Joni Mitchell and James Taylor records in the '80s. They imbued me with a sense that music was deeply important, but didn't have much of its sonic breadth to share. I "know" about as much about music as could be expected of any musically obsessed twenty-four year old who spent high-school in the School of Indie Rock, owns only a couple hundred jazz records, a hundred (predictable) hip-hop records, overuses Skip James on mixes, and only heard his first Talking Heads album as a junior in high school. What I mean is: I still function musically primarily on passion, not knowledge. I'm confident about my abilities to put together a good mix for just about any tastes; do a decent radio show; and hold my own with young know-it-all record clerks in Chicago. But I don't know enough to write cool, authoritative, impressively linernotish liner notes. The fact that I know all this music after-the-fact or "second hand" should affect the quality of the music; an attempt to give you the storytelling goods secondhand would probably do a disservice to the story.This set inevitably reflects my biases as its curator; but I hope it is deep and wide enough to allow you to decide what the "best," "most important," "coolest" sounds are. In fact, I realise you may even disagree with me that 1981 is worth all the trouble. Personally, I think something was happening from about 1978 to 1982 that is noteworthy in the history of pop music. I think there was an earnest expansiveness and playfulness regarding the boundaries (or absence thereof) between genres and between "art" and "pop". Nothing I could say will convince you--but the music might.
I admit that a portion of these tracks are undeniably dated (if charmingly so,) and will probably trigger nostalgia even if you've never heard them. Progressive (in pop terms) as these tracks were at the time, they established the paradigm for the infamous "sound of the 80s," and by extension the cartoonish aesthetic currently revered by college students too young to actually remember the decade. I resisted investigating many of the bands I knew as pathetic yuppie crooners on my older sister's radio in the mid-80s for years; in their early incarnations, at least, some of those bands have become my favourites. The majority of the music of this particular 1981, however, would set a fire were it released today; the paradigm they operated within (or without) was expansive enough that a lot of the best "progressive" music is still exploring it today (in just the way that many of these bands can be said to have been working in virtual homage to Can or the Velvet Underground).Investigating threads of Influence and innovation; glowing about "prescience;" and dividing the thieves from the tributaries arguably enhances musical enjoyment. But I hope you'll ultimately take this music on its own terms. I came into my interest in the "post-punk period" slowly; I bought the hype young that punk was the Sex Pistols, which I didn't especially like, and therefore skipped ahead to Yo La Tengo and the Pixies. It was only after I stumbled through a couple dozen records that I started to notice common years popping up. My subsequent effort to consciously put together a picture of the movement (and my appreciation of the music as a cultural artifact) came only after I first felt the picture. Even after as work-like a relationship as I've had to this music after spending countless man-hours putting this set together, I still hear it foremostly in the visceral way that I did when I knew nothing of its history.On to the indisputable facts: 395 tracks, 345 bands, almost 21 hours of sound, spanning most elements of the post-punk, art-pop, new wave, hardcore, no wave, d.i.y., new romantic, power-pop, dancepunk, art-punk and electropop spheres. Nine of the discs are audio CDs, carefully selected and sequenced along sonic or emotional themes. The tenth disc is an mp3 "appendix" containing tracks by 130-plus bands that didn't fit the main mixes, most of whom are just as good as those on the main CDs. For some of you, there is little new to you here. For a good many, this may be all the "post-punk" you'll ever want. I don't need to change your life, I just want to play you some music; so if you enjoy any of it, my effort has been worthwhile. It is my secret hope, however, that for a few of you, this will be another step toward deep, passionate addiction to music you might not have known existed. Music does not truly exist without both passionate playing and passionate listening; you make music out of noise by listening well.
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 March 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I love the mixes as is! You obviously put a ton of work into them, which is why I'm ultimately cool with long tracks. They flooooow.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
Also, mixes as mixes make me pay attention.
Josh, thanks for understanding. I really do wish there were a way to get the artists/tracks to show universally from a mixed mp3, but given there isn't I had to stick to the format anyway despite the inconveniences. And I agree--lack of the ability to hit "skip" has often gotten me to slow down and listen more carefully on mixes by others. Thanks!
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Most of the time 2004 still feels recent to me, even though that span is a third of my life. But I guess putting this new "digital box set" next to the old physical box set of '1981' makes me realize a lot of time has passed--and even the mp3s of the new one are out-of-date to many. Hopefully the upside is that there's a whole generation who were 5 when the old box came out, who're primed to discover post-punk!
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― Soundslike, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
So did someone send back a copy of 1981 to you?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 September 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
Soundslike- yes, I'm the Centuries of Sound guy. Can understand why you aren't doing the briefcase thing and why you don't want it on Spotify, but your site in general will still be very useful for me in five years or so, so just wanted to say thanks for that. Also really admire the design of your site, wish I had such skills.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 September 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Speaking of forcing me to pay attention, I'm finally listening to Evensong this morning, and right off the bat I don't think I've ever heard of It's Immaterial. Lovely stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 September 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
and I was looking for an easy way to carry this around
the original is seven mp3s. they don't weigh much.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 September 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
hey soundslike: thanks again for putting this together; much of it's outside of my listening experience and i always appreciate new meat. i was four in '79 so don't judge too harshly.to your points: the mp3s are portable but generally much more frustrating to add in or take out on the fly for portability, whereas streaming allows for listening and sharing and paring in a way that works well for me.the fixation "generally with spotify" is just that it's a service i've used for several years and i've gotten accustomed to it. I didn't start this way! i had thousands of cds and cassettes and vinyl but moving a lot has made me focus more on immediate accessibility and cloud use.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
prob also noteworthy that i grew up without a solid radio station experience so it wasn't until after college that the idea of an unbreakable mix even came into view. i like the freedom to explore and repeat and skip tracks rather than drive at someone else's speed i suppose. it's a limitation on my part!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 September 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
Oh my goodness I will be spending some time with these
― paolo, Thursday, 7 September 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah! My friend (in real life) A.M./Ettiem who is an ILMer send me a copy of the 1st edition pre-ILM. So cool of him!
― Soundslike, Friday, 8 September 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
Haha very good!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 September 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
A q
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
A quick reminder--the full '1981' box including the 'briefcase' has been up for a year for anybody who didn't get a physical copy back in 2005!
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/post-punk-1981-complete-collection-including-the-briefcase/
And for those who did get one 13 years ago--we're old now! ; ) 1981 was 22 years in the past when I started the project. Which means there's some young person out there now making a '1996' box set!
There is literally an entire new listening generation out there since I made this box who get to discover post-punk/new wave--so pass it on!
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
And while I didn't ever really make the non-post-punk 1981 box--this set has a lot of great 1981 non-pp music, for those who might be interested:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/tribute-to-brian-eno-translucence/
And in addition to the '1979' follow-up set, there's annother post-punk box for those who might be interested, with a 1-hr sampler mix: 'Post-Punk 2007-2017'
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/post-punk2007-2017/
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Sorry--having some tech difficulties with my phone. This is the set with non-pp 1981 music:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/le-monde-du-funk-1970-1985/
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
Which means there's some young person out there now making a '1996' box set!We can but pity them.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 15 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Us kids don’t want your old fogie “new wave” music gramps. We like Post Malone and Silento
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 15 April 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
A project like this for the early/mid-’90s would actually be great (’96 is a bit past the curve).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
Or I could just listen to my old CMJ samplers, I guess...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I was fortunate enough to get a physical copy back then. From time to time I glance at my shelf wondering when the CD-Rs will degrade and thinking I should rip them before they do (and while I still have something to rip them with!)
But now I don't have to rip them. Thanks!
― fajita seas, Sunday, 15 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
I was fortunate enough to get a physical copy back then. From time to time I glance at my shelf wondering when the CD-Rs will degrade and thinking I should rip them before they do (and while I still have something to rip them with!)But now I don't have to rip them. Thanks!― fajita seas, Sunday, April 15, 2018 4:15 PM
― fajita seas, Sunday, April 15, 2018 4:15 PM
I've wondered, too, whether those CD-Rs still work after so many years! Supposedly they were the very best in blank white CDs at the time. . .
But glad I could save you the trouble of ripping! Hope you enjoy them anew (and the follow-up sets, too).
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 April 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
Coming January 1, with any luck. . .
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― Soundslike, Sunday, 30 December 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
Dun dun dunnnnnn
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
👍🏼
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
Dun dun dun indeed!
― Mark G, Sunday, 30 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
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POST PUNK 198O
The final link in a trilogy of post-punk/new wave box sets, following up on the original '1981' box set from 2004-2005, and the '1979' set from 2017. This is an eight-mix (all roughly C-90 in length) set covering the year I'd filed away as the breather between the huge statements of 1979 and the massive explosion of creativity of 1981. Turns out, it's just as strong, just as varied, just as exciting.
Featuring:
A Certain Ratio · Animals & Men · The Associates · Au Pairs · Bauhaus · The Beat · The Blackouts · Blondie · Blancmange · David Bowie · Bow Wow Wow · The Boys Next Door · Glenn Branca · The Breakers · Buggles · Buzzcocks · The Cars · Chris Carter · Alex Chilton · Chrome · Colored Minds · The Comsat Angels · Elvis Costello & The Attractions · The Cramps · The Cure · Dalek I · Delta 5 · Deutsch Amerikanische Freundshaftt · Devo · The Diagram Brothers · Din a Testbild · Doctor Mix & The Remix · Dome · Dow Jones & The Industrials · The Durutti Column · Essendon Airport · Factrix · Fad Gadget · Family Fodder · The Feelies · Final Program · Fire Engines · Flowers · Flying Lizard · Free Agents · Friction · John Foxx · Peter Gabriel · Gang of Four · Girls At Our Best · The Gist · The Go-Go’s · The Gordons · Half Japanese · The Human League · Husker Du · Ike Yard · Implog · Indoor LifeIn Camera · INXS · The Jam · Japan · Grace Jones · Josef K · Joy Division · Kid Creole & The Coconuts · Killing Joke · Krisma · Lizard · Ludus · Magazine · Manicured Noise · Marilyn · Martha & The Muffins · Material · Minutemen · Missing Persons · Mission of Burma · Mr. Partridge · Moderne · The Mo-Dettes · The Monchrome Set · Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls · MX-80 Sound · Nasmak · Neonbabies · New Musik · Colin Newman · Gary Numan · Iggy Pop · The Only Ones · Orange Juice · Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark · Our Daughter’s Wedding · Pink Military · Pink Section · Plastics · Polyrock · Poly Styrene · The Pop Group · Pretenders · Prince · Psychedelic Furs · Pylon · Reptile Ranch · Martin Rev · Reversible Cords · Rinder & Lewis · The Room · Roxy Music · Ryuichi Sakamoto · The Selecter · Simple Minds · Siouxsie & The Banshees · The Slits · Smokey · Sods · Soft Cell · The Sound · The Specials · Squeeze · Richard Strange · The Stranglers · Swell Maps · Talking Heads · Teardrop Explodes · Television Personalities · Telex · This Heat · Tuxedomoon · Ultravox · Units · Urban Verbs · Les Vampyrettes · The Vapors · Alan Vega · Virgin Prunes · Visage · Scott WIlk & The Wall · Wipers · Xex · XTC · Yello · Y Pants · Yellow Magic Orchestra · Young Marble Giants
Download/stream here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/post-punk-1980-box-set/
― Soundslike, Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
If you want to check out just the tracklist, check it here.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
What, no "Effortless" by Athletico Spizz 80?
Just kidding (maybe).
Good work as ever, sir. And the colour scheme for this one is spot on - exactly how I felt about the music at the time. There was an awful lot of grey or silvery grey sleeve art around, mind, which didn't help.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 27 January 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
Not the full-on box-set treatment, I'm afraid, but here's as close as I've come to a follow-up for 1982:
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'Joy! Volume 2: Post-Punk 1982'
01 [0:00:00] The Raincoats- “No One’s Little Girl” (‘Running Away’ 7″)02 [0:04:30] Rip Rig & Panic- “You’re My Kind of Climate” (‘You’re My Kind…’ EP)03 [0:10:20] African Head Charge – “High Protein Snack” (‘Environmental Studies’)04 [0:13:40] Haircut 100 – “Favourite Shirt (Boy Meets Girl)” (‘Pelican West’)05 [0:16:40] Family Fodder – “The Big Dig” (‘The Big Dig’ 7″)06 [0:19:35] Our Daughter’s Wedding – “Buildings” (‘Moving Windows’)07 [0:23:30] The Stick Men- “Personality Pollination” (‘This Is The Master Brew’)08 [0:25:10] Pigbag – “Wiggling” (‘Dr. Heckle and Mister Jive’)09 [0:30:15] Antena – “Camino del Sol” (‘Camino del Sol’ EP)10 [0:33:55] Shriekback – “My Spine is the Bassline” (‘My Spine is the Bassline’ EP)11 [0:37:55] Pylon – “Beep” (‘Beep’ 7″)12 [0:41:15] Scritti Politti – “The Sweetest Girl” (‘Songs To Remember’)13 [0:46:20] Sonic Youth – “The Burning Spear” (‘Sonic Youth’ EP)14 [0:49:40] Delta 5 – “Powerlines” (‘Powerlines’ 7″)15 [0:52:45] Maximum Joy – “Dancing On My Boomerang” (‘Station MXJY’)16 [0:55:55] Weekend – “Summerdays” (‘La Verite’)17 [0:58:45] R.E.M. – “1,000,000” (‘Chronic Town’ EP)18 [1:01:50] Dog Eat Dog – “Rollover” (unreleased)19 [1:04:45] Lora Logic – “Martian Man” (‘Pedigree Charm’)20 [1:09:05] Tones On Tail – “Now We Lustre” (‘There’s Only One’ 7″)21 [1:13:25] 48 Chairs – “Rhino Whip” (‘70% Paranoid’)22 [1:17:10] Pere Ubu – “A Day Such As This” (‘Song of the Bailing Man’)23 [1:20:45] Psychic TV – “Just Drifting” (‘Force The Hand’)24 [1:24:25] ESG – “The Beat” (‘ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody’ EP)25 [1:26:35] A Certain Ratio – “Touch” (‘I’d Like To See You Again’)26 [1:31:35] The Gist – “Love At First Sight” (‘Embrace the Herd’)27 [1:35:00] Special AKA & Rico – “Easter Island” (‘Jungle Music’ EP)28 [1:39:05] Orange Juice – “L.O.V.E. Love” (‘You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever’)29 [1:42:35] Yasuaki Shimizu – “Dots” (‘Kakashi’)30 [1:45:30] Comsat Angels – “After the Rain” (‘Fiction’)
11 [0:37:55] Pylon – “Beep” (‘Beep’ 7″)12 [0:41:15] Scritti Politti – “The Sweetest Girl” (‘Songs To Remember’)13 [0:46:20] Sonic Youth – “The Burning Spear” (‘Sonic Youth’ EP)14 [0:49:40] Delta 5 – “Powerlines” (‘Powerlines’ 7″)15 [0:52:45] Maximum Joy – “Dancing On My Boomerang” (‘Station MXJY’)16 [0:55:55] Weekend – “Summerdays” (‘La Verite’)17 [0:58:45] R.E.M. – “1,000,000” (‘Chronic Town’ EP)18 [1:01:50] Dog Eat Dog – “Rollover” (unreleased)19 [1:04:45] Lora Logic – “Martian Man” (‘Pedigree Charm’)20 [1:09:05] Tones On Tail – “Now We Lustre” (‘There’s Only One’ 7″)
21 [1:13:25] 48 Chairs – “Rhino Whip” (‘70% Paranoid’)22 [1:17:10] Pere Ubu – “A Day Such As This” (‘Song of the Bailing Man’)23 [1:20:45] Psychic TV – “Just Drifting” (‘Force The Hand’)24 [1:24:25] ESG – “The Beat” (‘ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody’ EP)25 [1:26:35] A Certain Ratio – “Touch” (‘I’d Like To See You Again’)26 [1:31:35] The Gist – “Love At First Sight” (‘Embrace the Herd’)27 [1:35:00] Special AKA & Rico – “Easter Island” (‘Jungle Music’ EP)28 [1:39:05] Orange Juice – “L.O.V.E. Love” (‘You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever’)29 [1:42:35] Yasuaki Shimizu – “Dots” (‘Kakashi’)30 [1:45:30] Comsat Angels – “After the Rain” (‘Fiction’)
Download/stream here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/post-punk-1982/
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
The original '1981' set is back up--now in much better audio quality, but as mixed mp3s (not single tracks):
40 years since the post-punk of 1981, 17 years since I made '1981,' a definitive box-set of nine themed mixes spanning the canonized to the unknown. And it still sounds like tomorrow. https://t.co/ePWUOHce9KHigher quality, as mixed mp3s. Dive in, share, and please BUY MUSIC! pic.twitter.com/ZM90ZOneY6— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) January 5, 2021
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
Thanks, just now re-tweeted!
― dow, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
When I first shared these mixes on ILM, bith I and the music were a spritely 24 years old. Now we're both 40! But I think the music is aging (or not aging, really) far better than me. In that it hasn't aged a day, vs. I fell down my stairs a few weeks ago...
To celebrate 40 years since 1981, and over 17 since I started making the mixes, they're up in much higher quality here:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/1981-post-punk/
― Soundslike, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
The original box still sits proudly with my other box sets.
― Chris L, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
These are very much appreciated!
― christopher.ivan, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
Still love these mixes, particularly the personality behind the songs that are picked. They're often either not my favorites or wouldn't have been my personal picks, but that's the whole point of mixes. It forces me to listen to these songs in a fresh context which in turn flavors how I hear them.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
Thanks, all! I definitely often ended up picking tracks that weren't my favorites per se, but instead tracks that fit the vibe and flow of the mixes--so lead to some idiosyncratic choices. But always was the hope, and is now, that folks will hear things they didn't know, and hear those they already knew in a new context.
― Soundslike, Friday, 30 July 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream is doing a fun thing today -- all four of today's live shows are playing only music from 1981. Tony Coulter (on now and for ~15 more minutes) focusing on postpunk/industrial/experimental. 12 hours total.
― Everybody Loves Ramen (WmC), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link