#36, Those 100 in 1 Days

I had been a bit slack updating the flipsideroom ( the other side of the singles on this blog ) but made ammends overnight, plenty to see there :)

All with a c86 flavour on that blog but today's post here has a definite c81 taste about it, and something takes me back on a trip to my past...er....1981 of course !! At that time I was a pimple faced lad still at school, running a radio station in my bedroom after school, using a home made transmitter, adapted from the "build it yourself" transmitter in a Tandy 100 in 1 Electronics kit which basically transmitted as far as 4 houses down the street, which was pretty impressive at the time !! I had my bedroom set up with a mixer, 2 turntables, a microphone and a cassette player. All the mod cons that I'd ever need back then.

Here's some photos, not of my kit which is long gone but this was the exact kit.


The little batch of mostly 1981 tracks on today's post are ripped straight out of my regular playlist on that "radio station" ( called 2XY when it was on AM, per the instruction book, then I somehow jiggered around with it until I got it to be on FM, which was then known as 2XYZ FM ). If I wasn't broadcasting them to my friends 4 houses away then I'd be playing them in the living room on the family stereo unit and annoying my mother after school with all the teenage angst I could muster. All in all a very handy batch of records really !!

( Good to see some things never change ).


Podcast 36 link for mp3
Podcast 36 link for text file tracklisting



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #36
1. History Never Repeats - Split Enz ( Mushroom Aust 1981 ) ( 0.00 - 2.51 )
2. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions ( Polydor 1981 ) ( 2.51 - 6.43 )
3. Funeral Pyre - The Jam ( Polydor 1981) ( 6.43 - 10.09 )
4. The Art Of Parties - Japan ( Virgin 1981 ) ( 10.09 - 13.52 )
5. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio ( Factory 1982 ) ( 13.52 - 17.38 )
6. Atomic Fiction - Nuvo Bloc ( no label Aust 1980 ) ( 17.38 - 21.59 )
7. Too Nice To Talk To - The ( British ) Beat ( Go Feet 1980) ( 21.59 - 25.04 )
8. Merciless Cinema - The Agents ( no label Aust 1981 ) ( 25.04 - 30.36 )
9. Say You - Colourbox ( 4AD 1984 ) ( 30.36 - 34.48 )
10. You're My Kind Of Climate - Rip Rig & Panic( Virgin 1982 ) ( 34.48 - 37.33 )
( duration 37 mins, 320kps mp3 )