Best track on this mixtape I made around 1988/1989 when I was around 8 or 9 years old

Yeah, my mix tapes at 9 were based entirely on the playlists of local rock stations: one began "Bad Medicine"/"Desire"/"Welcome to the Jungle" iirc. Something interesting like "Cult of Personality" did make it in sometimes.

I will tell my dad someone on the internet thinks he's cool, he will be very surprised!
What is missing here is all his folk music as I did not yet have a twin cassette deck despite years of pestering and these were all on tape for some reason. If they had been on LP I would maybe have the first three tracks from The Albion Band's Rise Up Like The Sun on here.

i used to wonder how different my life would have been if i had had a cool relative
some people had the older sibling/uncle/whomever. how much cooler could i have been!? off the charts cool!

lol

you are fortunate to have had a dad cool enough to like the albion band!! geez louise

i think the closest i got was my childhood BFF's mom who was into Eno & VU
otherwise it wasn't until i got to middle school and met my friend's older brother who had every bowle, stooges, alice cooper record etc and he was very tall and intimidating (nice, but i was scared of him)

anyway what good fortune you had!

I sometimes wonder if I might have gone into medicine or accounting or something if I'd had a record-collecting, guitar-playing Dad.

I don't think he went out of his way to introduce me to music, it was just always on. He didn't (still doesn't) like any of the stuff from the lucky dip singles. But won't deny my dad is great if you insist 😂

I do wonder about getting my kids into music as my older son has no inclination that way at all, but the younger one has clear tastes already. Just don't want to be this guy (who is 100% some dads I know) - https://www.theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981

oh yeah some people are definitely actively trying to groom their children to like what they like/d -- i think this usually backfires but not my problem, don't really care whether other people's kids like music or not

my parents never forced it on me either, i just needed a buddy and music was 100% there for me

taped everything from radio

there are still songs that i expect to segue into certain other songs just because i taped them off the radio that way 35 years ago

off the charts cool!

lol

Hardly my favourite PF but it's still 'Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2)' for me.

The into to the Art of Noise's Close to the Edit with the engine starting is maybe my favourite 'found sound' in all of pop music.

Another Brick In The Wall pt II is (I now know) a weird version with the single intro (i.e. no scream) and the LP outro ("If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding")

taped everything from radio

there are still songs that i expect to segue into certain other songs just because i taped them off the radio that way 35 years ago

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Ha, same here mookie! :)

i wanted to throw a lol vote to Morris Minor but then i remembered Tony Hawks had never done anything worthwhile in his life

Amazing enough that there's a Bonzo Dog track on your mixtape, but it's a song I don't even know! A+ for crate digging!

xxp or segue into steve wright segments :/

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Come on, this was obviously The Strain, what is wrong with you

Yes CP, still think it's a great tune at the age of nearly 40 - even if it is admittedly a comedy song about having a shit, it is one of the best examples of that dirty early 70s funky blues I can think of.