To find out more about C81 visit the wikipedia entry which contains information and images which used to be found on the old indie mp3 site. Side One
1. "The "Sweetest Girl"" – Scritti Politti
2. "Twist and Crawl Dub" – The Beat
3. "Misery Goats" – Pere Ubu
4. "7,000 Names of Wah!" – Wah! Heat
5. "Blue Boy" – Orange Juice
6. "Raising the Count" – Cabaret Voltaire
7. "Kebab Traume Live" – D.A.F
8. "Bare Pork" – Furious Pig
9. "Raquel" – The Specials
10. "I Look Alone" – Buzzcocks
11. "Fanfare in the Garden" – Essential Logic
12. "Born Again Cretin" – Robert Wyatt
Side Two
1. "Shouting Out Loud" – The Raincoats
2. "Endless Soul" – Josef K
3. "Low Profile" – Blue Orchids
4. "Red Nettle" – Virgin Prunes
5. "We Could Send Letters" – Aztec Camera
6. "Milkmaid" – Red Crayola
7. "Don't Get in My Way" – Linx
8. "The Day My Pad Went Mad" – The Massed Carnaby St John Cooper Clarkes
9. "Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher" – James Blood Ulmer
10. "Close to Home" – Ian Dury
11. "Greener Grass" – Gist
12. "Parallel Lines" – Subway Sect
13. "81 Minutes" - John Cooper Clarke
NOTE: For some reason tracks 24 & 25 were missing. I have now re-uploaded this part of the tape. If you have previously downloaded the second part you can download the missing two tracks from here.
C81 Part One (Tracks 1 - 12)
C81 Part Two (Tracks 13 - 25)
Stylus Magazine - A Review of C81
i've often mentioned this at my blog...awesome stuff and a very influential part of my musical upbringing... and extremely relevant to now as well because there's echoes all over of the bands on C81...
C86 though was a different story... classic in it's own way but a little one-dimensional in comparison..
I very well remember playing this cassette in my senor year in high school, driving my first car ('75 Ford Maverick)in Deer Park, Texas. All the tracks made a deep impression on my at the time. Thanks for the comp.
Top banana, Tom!
good stuff and all that.
but can you give wikipedia proper attribution for this blog post or put it in quotes or something.
bit cheeky.
[i know there's a via at the end]
cos i, er (and a few others) wrote most of it.
Some of the wikipedia entry looks like it was lifted from my old site as it seems has also happened for the entries for C86, The Bodines, The Mighty Lemon Drops etc so the via's remain i'm afraid.
well its not via its cut and paste
but whatever.
if i quoted from your blog/site on my blog i'd put it in blockspace or quotes I wouldn' t just cut and paste it.
your site is cited in the c86 entry as a source and as an external link
[i did that edit].
sorry for being a grumpy old sod.
That's a fair point but you have still not addressed the fact that some of the wikipedia entry was lifted direct from my old site and i'm not talking about the tracklisting or the images! Okay words have been changed round but I referred to the Simon Reynolds book for example. Wikipedia is a fine resource but plenty of the entries I have seen have been lifted from other sites without any credit.
As for the entries for The Bodines and Mighty Lemon Drops chunks of my pages have been lifted. I have no problem with any of this but find it laughable that I should quote a source that had taken from me originally.
Don't worry - i'm a grumpy old sod too.
Please can you repost part two of C81 tape?
hello:
C81 has been deleted. Any chance it can be reposted or is available somewhere else - dying to hear it if anyone else has a way to help :-) thanks
sunmoonrain@gmail.com
I know it's a long shot, but any chance of reposting this?
I've only just found you via the Dalston Oxfam Shop blog. I had this tape years ago - via the Record amd Music Exchange Tape in Notting Hill - but I lost it.
I especially want to hear the Wah! Heat track again.
I too picked this tape up secondhand at some point and lost it again at some point - a wonderful tape.
key kids. NME 002 - Jive Wire - on the blog:
http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com/2008/04/nme-002-jive-wire.html
This brings back so many memories. This cassette sent me off in many directions which I was very grateful for and because of it I was introduced to great bands like The Blue Orchids and Aztec Camera (which I later got to see play live). And probably because of this tape - It sent me on a path of discovery to dig up more of the Pere Ubu and Virgin Prunes stuff and also got to see them live - Wow!