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      NO limits ... vol 1 (2.18.91)  THE SMITHS What Difference Does It Make? LUSH Sweetness and Light KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Drive That Fast (*) BLAKE BABIES Out There (*) (*) Steve Masters of Live 105 track backannounce MIAOW When It All Comes Down THE NEW SEEKERS We'd Like To Teach The World To Sing JIMI HENDRIX Purple Haze MC 900 FT JESUS Shut Up CONSOLIDATED Dysfunctional Relationship (12") NINE INCH NAILS Get Down Make Love NITZER EBB Fun To Be Had (The George Clinton/(Not So) Long Mix) outro..."You Better Be Careful Out There"   << Side 1 features quite the variety of tracks, starting out with Morrissey (mope) and Miki (mop).  Once again, Mr. Masters shows up with two great early '90s bands/tracks...the MIAOW was the closest this thing got to my usual haunting grounds, at least until the very end of Side B (see below), and then transitioning to some 60's tracks here (pulled from the original vinyl onto this Sony HF tape), plus the end tracks a...

FLLR NS2-48 - New Sounds 2 The Blues - 11/11/90 A great selection of melancholy modern rock hits from my CD collection at the time.   Yes, I owned the old Columbia Robert Johnson box set, which was notoriously noise reduced, as I understand that transfers done directly from the 78s sound a loss less dead than this seems to. "Harold And Joe" is another Robert's paean to a different drug than what his fellow Robert was imbibing, and not one associated with the blues as traditionally defined.  Love the dying pen highlighting only certain strokes. "Harold And Joe", "Waiting For The Night" and "All Day Long" are all deep cuts and are favorites of mine from these bands.  Everybody knows the last one, of course. The Bird (Turkey) - 11/11/90 These are all in large measure joke tunes, but all of the have quite interesting backstories, so I'm taking the time to present them here. The Lydon one was taking from an '86 era interview with Ivar Ham...

  Modern Classics Vol. 11 #45 Side A - 10/5 "Gangly Bootleg Mixes"   Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven The Weathermen - Bang Bang! (Rocket Mix) The Blue Aeroplanes - ... and Stones (Gangly Bootleg Mix Part 1) Inspiral Carpets - Commercial Rain (rub-a-dub Mix) Dee-Lite - What Is Love? - (holographic goatee Mix) Omega Tribe - Night Life Dinosaur Jr - Throw Down << Pulled down from my collection of stuff on vinyl.  The Dinosaur Jr Cure cover track really cuts out like that, on record.  Really disconcerting when I heard it the first time.  The most enjoyable track on here is the Omega Tribe one since I hadn't heard it since.   The best title for a remix does have to be the Holographic Goatee mix.... must be a DJ Keir reference...heard a recent story about that band and how they loved to party. >> Side B - 10/5 "Living On The Ceiling"   Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (taped Jan '88) Oingo Boingo - Cinderella Undercover The House Of Love - ...

Modern Classics Vol. 11 #45 Side A - 6/4 - 6/6     UK Café 6/4/90 (live) The House Of Love - Christine The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict [from '77]   interstital Someone's really confused - Confusion + 2 Live samples   Live 105 Interview w/Modern English 6/6/1990 by Mark Hamilton - approximately 20 minutes   Includes: interview segment 1 Life's Rich Tapestry interview segment 2 I Melt With You ('90 version)  interview segment 3 Dawn Chorus   Selections Roxy Music - Avalon  [from radio] Cocteau Twins - Lazy Calm  [from my Victorialand LP] Ian McCulloch - Candleland (2nd coming extended mix) [from CD-S] Durutti Column - When The World (Newson mix/edit)  [from CD-S] << Interesting for the Modern English interview which was aired live on-air.  The HoL and Buzzcocks live tracks may not be super-common.  Quite like the sequencing / chill vibe of the last five songs on here after the strum und drang of the initial selections >...

Modern Classics Vol. 10 #44 Side A - 8/7 Volume 10 of a series of these.  Starts off with an annoying-sounding Rob Francis interview of a bored-sounding Danny Elfman, from 1990-07-13.   I guess all those movie soundtracks were waaaay more lucrative than Oingo Boingo proved to be, but "Skin" is a pretty good song, admittedly.  Still, a good curio for fans interested in their work, even if the interview itself is cringey on multiple levels. Even better is a long version of Tom Tom club's "Genius of Love", which I believe I pulled from the Sire 12". And then...my first of several shares of 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be LP, which I had on cassette.  People literally were getting arrested for indecency from selling this, if nothing else, Luke Campbell did strike a blow for artistic freedom.  Now all of this seems quaint as we have literal "Proud Boys" Nazis with the same freedom to express their hateful views.  So maybe the less said, the...

  Modern Classics Vol. 9  #43 << Fourth in a series....or should that be ninth?  This one samples from Live 105's broadcast, including a UK Cafe broadcast from 12 July 1990, mixed in with some 12" and CDs I have, including some samples of New Order as "bridge" pieces between segments.  Also features another MC 900 Ft. Jesus track.  Like the last tape, this was a C60 that I must have gotten as a freebie from my dad's grocery store.  >> Side A - 7/12/90   Falco - Der Commissar Kon Kan - Puss n' Boots Revenge - Big Bang   UK Café 7/20/90 Stone Roses - One Love (new!) Girls At Our Best - Politics Drumfish - Papa '90   Funny enough, it wasn't until years later before I would meet my good friend who goes by "GaoBest", after the band who sings "Politics". bridge #1 (New Order - True Faith) House Of Shock - Middle Of Nowhere   Side B - 7/12/90  New Order - Confusion ('90 Alternative Remix) Revenge - Pineapple Face's Re...

  Modern Classics Vol. 8  #42 <<  Third in a series, and dating a week after the last installment.  This features yet another 'AT THE EDGE' set from DJ Bernard (Cabigon).  This Bizjournals article represents much of the biographical information we have about him.  Some of his mixes also appeared on various Art Of Mix compilations , which I don't have.  The Realistic J-Card wasn't original as I think I was one short, you'll see the next tape doesn't even have labels, though it does have its original insert. >> Side A - 5/31/90 Revenge - Pineapple Face B-52's - Roam (DJ Remix) New Order - Blue Monday (Club Mix) Fake - Another Brick (Falling Down) The Cure - Pictures of You (Strange Remix) Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (edit) (only wrote in 'Fake' when digitizing this, as I didn't know who this was by.) Side B - 5/31/90 U2 - Indian Summer Sky David Bowie - TVC15 MC 900ft Jesus - I'm Going Straight To Heaven "Religion" pr...

Modern Classics Vol. 7  #41 << Second in a series.  Looks like this was assembled the following weekend to the one featured previously.  Another example that mixes an Art of Mix 12" which I still have, some CD tracks from a semi-portable tabletop that I bought back in '89 (note the 16kHz line which appears in the waveform tracks), and the rest from trusty old 105.3FM in San Francisco, Live 105.  The Side B tracks were aired in dance mix style at the Edge in Palo Alto.  My recollection was that this was an early (Sunday) morning broadcast with Mark Hamilton, who was at the station until 1995, and then departed to Portland's KNRK to serve as their Program Director, where he is still at, apparently.  Despite rumors that he was either from Ohio or Mississippi, he's an English expat, one of a number the station had.   That station no longer plays "Modern Rock" but some more generic brand of "Alternative" music. >> Key:    Å ...

      Modern Classics Vol. #6  #40  << First of a series.  I thought of looking for #1, but that would have taken you back to 1981 and very rough recordings done with a small transistor leaned up against the mic of an old Realistic tabletop mono recorder.  You would have heard a 9-10 year old me play at DJ.  Be thankful that I took it no further, not even deciding to pop on our local university radio station, little did I know that they would have probably let me on...didn't help that I commuted and didn't live on campus.   So, instead I pulled out my early 90s set...one of a series of maybe 10-12 tapes... >>  Side A - 5/18/90 These were aired as part of Mark Hamilton's "Inside The UK Café" , and were all live.  Icicle Works covering the Clash in 2020 is a bit of an eye-opener.  The Sugarcubes and Cure tracks are *great*.  Click on the above link if you want to sample any of the below listed tracks. ...