Sunday 2 August 2015

Four more tapes

Here's a burst of smashing compilation tapes with long self-explanatory titles.

First one is called

If sports people liked cool music, wanted to be inspired but also had a sense of doubt, this is what they'd listen to ...


  • Olympian - Gene
  • Mr November - The National
  • Chin High - Roots Manuva
  • Lose Yourself - Eminem
  • Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop
  • Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group
  • Faster - Manic Street Preachers
  • Steady Pace - Matthew E White

  • The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
  • So Alive - Ryan Adams
  • Get Ready - The Temptations
  • Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest
  • Who Gon Stop Me - Kanye West ft Jay-Z
  • Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
  • Finish Line - Fanfarlo
  • Victory - The Walkmen

If you have siblings, and you can all sing, here is the proof that you should really form a band ...


  • God Only Knows - Beach Boys
  • All I Have to Do is Dream - Everly Brothers
  • Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers
  • Forever Lost - The Magic Numbers
  • Hey Lover - Dawes
  • Emmylou - First Aid Kit
  • Teeth White - The Staves
  • Love You More - The Pierces

  • MMMBop - Hanson
  • I'll be There - The Jackson 5
  • Respect Yourself - The Staple Yourself
  • Thinking of You - Sister Sledge
  • Gan to the Kye - The Unthanks
  • Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers
  • Where Does the Good Go - Tegan and Sara
  • Schooldays - The McGarrigle Hour


Guitars everywhere but not a man jack amongst them! What Maenad frenzy is this!


  • Hey Darling - Sleater-Kinney
  • Our Lips are Sealed - The Go-Gos
  • Deceptacon - Le Tigre
  • Radio On - Ex Hex
  • Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
  • Take Me Anywhere - Tegan and Sara
  • Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
  • Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex

  • Typical Girls - The Slits
  • Woo Hoo - The 5,6,7,8s
  • The Wire - Haim
  • June Gloom - The Like
  • Husbands - Savages
  • Can't Find Entry - Those Dancing Days
  • Undertow - Warpaint
  • Ghost Town - First Aid Kit


A small slab of the glorious history of popular British protest music ...


  • Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
  • Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
  • Eton Rifles - The Jam
  • Time for Heroes  - The Libertines
  • Working Class Hero - John Lennon
  • Give Ireland Back to the Irish - Paul McCartney
  • Free Nelson Mandela - The Specials
  • Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
  • Running the World - Jarvis Cocker

  • God Save the Queen - The Sex  Pistols
  • The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
  • Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
  • Paper Planes - MIA
  • iLL Manors - Plan B
  • Cap in Hand - The Proclaimers
  • Ready for Drowning - Manic Street Preachers
  • The Mountain People - Super Furry Animals
  • Sunrise - The Divine Comedy

1 comment:

  1. I'd buy that last one in a heartbeat! (Not that the others aren't also cracking)

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