Various – NME / Rough Trade C81
Label: | New Musical Express – Copy 001, Rough Tapes – Copy 001 |
|---|---|
Format: | Cassette, Compilation |
Country: | UK |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic, Rock, Reggae, Funk / Soul, Pop |
Style: | Punk, Synth-pop, Ska, New Wave, Post-Punk, Jangle Pop |
Tracklist
| A1 | Scritti Politti– | The "Sweetest Girl" | 6:09 |
| A2 | The Beat (2)– | Twist And Crawl Dub | 4:58 |
| A3 | Pere Ubu– | Misery Goats | 2:26 |
| A4 | Wah! Heat*– | 7,000 Names Of Wah | 3:57 |
| A5 | Orange Juice (3)– | Blue Boy | 2:52 |
| A6 | Cabaret Voltaire– | Raising The Count | 3:32 |
| A7 | D.A.F.*– | Kebab Traume (Live) | 3:50 |
| A8 | Furious Pig– | Bare Pork | 1:28 |
| A9 | Specials*– | Raquel | 1:56 |
| A10 | Buzzcocks– | I Look Alone | 3:00 |
| A11 | Essential Logic– | Fanfare In The Garden | 3:00 |
| A12 | Robert Wyatt– | Born Again Cretin | 3:07 |
| B1 | Raincoats*– | Shouting Out Loud | 3:19 |
| B2 | Josef K– | Endless Soul | 2:27 |
| B3 | Blue Orchids– | Low Profile | 3:47 |
| B4 | Virgin Prunes– | Red Nettle | 2:13 |
| B5 | Aztec Camera– | We Could Send Letters | 4:57 |
| B6 | Red Crayola*– | Milkmaid | 2:01 |
| B7 | Linx– | Don't Get In My Way | 5:15 |
| B8 | The Massed Carnaby Street John Cooper Clarkes– | The Day My Pad Went Mad | 1:46 |
| B9 | James Blood Ulmer– | Jazz Is The Teacher, Funk Is The Preacher | 4:03 |
| B10 | Ian Dury– | Close To Home | 4:13 |
| B11 | Gist*– | Greener Grass | 2:32 |
| B12 | Subway Sect– | Parallel Lines | 2:38 |
| B13 | John Cooper Clarke– | 81 Minutes | 0:13 |
Credits
- Mastered By [Cassette Mastering], Technician [Volume Productions] – Alan (3)
Notes
1st version, a free tape obtainable with an NME voucher. 2 panel inlay printed both sides. Black plastic cassette shell with black paper labels. 'C81 Owner's Manual' was also printed as a cut-out-and-keep booklet with NME.
Track B13 is unlisted.
This version has a different tracklist to the subsequent commercial release through Rough Trade (Various - NME / Rough Trade C81), which substitutes A9 ('Raquel' by The Specials) and B7 ('Don't Get In My Way' by Linx) with alternatives. It also does not include the text: "This cassette began as a mail order only offer through the NME. Two tracks (marked **) are new, due to contractual obligations. Many thanks to the NME for their efforts."
The following texts appear on the inlays of both versions.
"This is the first release (catalogue number Copy 001) of ROUGH TAPES, the new Rough Trade tape cassette catalogue. Future Rough Tapes releases will include "Voice Of America" by Cabaret Voltaire, "Colossal Youth" by Young Marble Giants, "The Art Of Walking" by Pere Ubu, new studio LPs by The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Red Crayola and Wire "cassette only" collection of unreleased material.
The special care with which these cassettes are manufactured is your guarantee of optimum sound quality and of musical reproduction close to the master tape. All our cassette mastering and volume productions was handled by Alan of Tape To Tape Duplicating, phone No. 01 388 5392.
DAF appear by the incredibly kind permission of Mute Records. Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and Josef K are all on the Postcard label. Buzzcocks appear to be part of the of the EMI Leisure Combine; Ian Dury appears courtesy of Stiff Records; Wah! Heat appear couresty of Inevitable Records, and Subway Sect appear courtesy of Oddball.
All the rest are on the Rough Trade Label 221 - 1100."
A 32 page 'NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner's Manual' was available (to cut-out-and-keep) from the NME magazine as a supplement to the tape.
Track B13 is unlisted.
This version has a different tracklist to the subsequent commercial release through Rough Trade (Various - NME / Rough Trade C81), which substitutes A9 ('Raquel' by The Specials) and B7 ('Don't Get In My Way' by Linx) with alternatives. It also does not include the text: "This cassette began as a mail order only offer through the NME. Two tracks (marked **) are new, due to contractual obligations. Many thanks to the NME for their efforts."
The following texts appear on the inlays of both versions.
"This is the first release (catalogue number Copy 001) of ROUGH TAPES, the new Rough Trade tape cassette catalogue. Future Rough Tapes releases will include "Voice Of America" by Cabaret Voltaire, "Colossal Youth" by Young Marble Giants, "The Art Of Walking" by Pere Ubu, new studio LPs by The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Red Crayola and Wire "cassette only" collection of unreleased material.
The special care with which these cassettes are manufactured is your guarantee of optimum sound quality and of musical reproduction close to the master tape. All our cassette mastering and volume productions was handled by Alan of Tape To Tape Duplicating, phone No. 01 388 5392.
DAF appear by the incredibly kind permission of Mute Records. Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and Josef K are all on the Postcard label. Buzzcocks appear to be part of the of the EMI Leisure Combine; Ian Dury appears courtesy of Stiff Records; Wah! Heat appear couresty of Inevitable Records, and Subway Sect appear courtesy of Oddball.
All the rest are on the Rough Trade Label 221 - 1100."
A 32 page 'NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner's Manual' was available (to cut-out-and-keep) from the NME magazine as a supplement to the tape.
Other Versions (2)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited | NME / Rough Trade C81 (Cassette, Compilation, Reissue) | New Musical Express, Rough Tapes | Copy 001 | UK | 1981 | ||
New Submission | NME / Rough Trade C81 (Cassette, Compilation, Reissue, Unofficial Release) | Zorro-Tapes | Copy 001 | UK | 1982 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- I got this with NME on the day of issue and have kept it as best I can during the ensuing years. Try as I might, I cant get this on CD as a stand alone product. The tape has perished slightly but a mate at work transferred from cassette to CD. The sound quality is poor, but listenable. The musical quality is still there - DAF, early buzzcocks, the special aka when they WERE special, classic Josef K and the stand out track "close to home" by Kilburn and the High Roads. 5000 names of Wah, under Pete Wiley's stewardship still excites me - high octane real music.
If anyone has a good quality copy of this on disc, I will gladly pay for the privilege. I will hold on to my cassette and the flawed digital attempt and nestle in memories of bloody good music spanning ska, soul, poetry, punk and pop. Stunning still.
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