Some of the track dividers are quite arbitrary, but many are not. Tracks from the Davenport Family, Right Arm Severed, Kino Rattlers, Craig Microcassette System - but good luck identifying any of them- I can't! Also contains really, really, super duper rare jams from we-cant-say-who.Įach of these self-contained pieces represents a salvaged chunk of audio revealed to me from the murk of an almost completely abandoned source tape. Usually this was at the end or the beginning of the tape, but not as a rule.įound sound, recording mistakes, tape-collage mash-up recordings of unknown bands captured live, this thing has tracks from everywhere and everyone. I decided to go through each one of these 90-minute tapes, take all of the worthy material, boil it down, and pack it onto one, bulging, festering 90-minute tape and then recycle the whole lot by dubbing over the source materials.Īll of the original versions of this release retained just a minute or two of audio from the source cassette it was recorded onto, preserving a small snippet of audio from that particular source cassette. Whatever it may be, these tapes were going nowhere.
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Some pieces were too short, too boring, or too long. “I had this bad habit of doing that,” I was quoted as saying, “I guess I wanted to make it more mysterious for myself.” I had already listened through the tapes once and deemed almost 90% of the content unusable for any particular project I had running. Tapes I had found at thrift stores or at rummage sales with recordings already on them, recorded and abandoned by someone unknown.īeing an obsessive recorder and packrat but never a practicing documentarian (I’ve been called a poor archivist) many of these cassettes were left unmarked, or if marked, then only with some indecipherable scribble unreadable even to myself. Recordings of jams, live shows, experiments, but also of general found sound. These tapes were full of old and new recordings, most of which I had made myself. The story behind this tape begins with a huge festering box of 90-minute cassette tapes I had amassed. Here is a slightly altered description of this release from the original Earjerk catalog. And don’t get your scrunchies in a bunch: Some hair metal definite snuck in.Originally released in 2005. From genre-defining works of genius to ear-worm flights of fancy, these are the best songs of the 'Æ0s.
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But mostly, we curated with maximum enjoyment in mind while limiting the list to one song per artist. In gathering our list of the ’80s very best, there was a lot to consider: Lasting impact, cultural relevance, actual musicianship, catchiness, coolness and, of course, nostalgia. And as the decade wore on, rap’s wave turned into a tsunami that changed the face of pop music. New Wave stalwarts like Talking Heads and Devo found new grooves while transcendent artists like Marvin Gaye and Paul Simon offered up some of the best work of their careers. Pop on most any ’80s playlist and you’re bound to hear the same cycle of kitchy, seemingly alien vintage pop: synthy goth songs, lite hip-hop, the occasional punk infusion and a whole lot of hair metal.īut the '80s sound was so much more than the sum of its eccentricities, and there's a huge difference between an ‘80s song’ and a ‘song from the 80s.’ This is the decade that gave us Prince and Madonna, MJ and NWA. ’80s nostalgia usually focuses on the decade at its most outlandish: big hair, Day-glo shirts, scrunchies, New Coke… call it the Stranger Thingseffect.