NME/Rough Trade C81 (1981)
NME/Rough Trade C81 (1981)
- Scritti Politti – The Sweetest Girl
- The Beat – Twist And Crawl Dub
- Pere Ubu – Misery Goats
- Wah! Heat – 7,000 Names Of Wah!
- Orange Juice – Blue Boy
- Cabaret Voltaire – Raising The Count
- D.A.F. – Kebab Traume (live)
- Furious Pig – Bare Pork
- Panther Burns – Bourgeois Blues
- Buzzcocks – I Look Alone
- Essential Logic – Fanfare In The Garden
- Robert Wyatt – Born Again Cretin
- Raincoats – Shouting Out Loud
- Josef K – Endless Soul
- Blue Orchids – Low Profile
- Virgin Prunes – Red Nettle
- Aztec Camera – We Could Send Letters
- Red Crayola – Milkmaid
- Television Personalities – Magnificent Dreams
- The Masses Carnaby St. John Cooper Clarkes – The Day My Pad Went Mad
- James Blood Ulmer – Jazz Is The Teacher, Funk Is The Preacher
- Ian Dury – Close To Home
- Gist – Greener Grass
- Subway Sect – Parallel Lines
For the Rough Trade C81 there was also a 32-page “booklet” of lyrics, photos, band blurbs, etc. that was published in the NME. Basically, a page in the newspaper was designed as 16 small panels, front and back, so when you cut them out properly, you could then sort them in order then fold them into a little booklet about 2 1/2 ” by 3 1/2″ in size, and it was designed to be slipped into the cassette case. Looking at my copy now, it’s a bit too thick to really slide in easily however, but it was still a nice touch. I am not certain, but I don’t think they did this with any of the subsequent tapes, which only came with the usual j-card inserts.
Thanks for the info!
This pretty much started everything. This and John Peel. Just perfect – even in its raggidy moments
[...] C81 cassette was the ’80s version of the flexidisc: cheap to manufacture, NME readers could collect two tokens [...]
| the history of the NME said this on November 23, 2011 at 4:03 am |
They did the booklet with a few of the first tapes (The main ones, not the “archive” ones like “Hit the road Stax”
There were two versions of the C81 tape, the first had Lynx and The Specials but Chrysalis refused the tracks for Rough Trade’s re-release.
Thanks for this. I’ve always liked the alternative version of ‘We Could Send Letters’ – probably the best Aztec Camera song.