NME's C81 and C86 Tapes

It's my 13th and last blogpost for the month of November 2008 and I've noticed that this month I've broken my monthly blogpost number record for the past 15 months of my blog's existence. Wheew!! This time I'll feature these two Vintage 80s cassette tapes released by British magazine "NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS" back in 1981 and 1986 entitled "NME C81" and "NME C86". Well, I consider it to be at least NEW WAVE and POST PUNK and it depends upon your personal perspectives about it because these compilations featured Independent Musicians of the era. Some of the Artists here made it big on MANILA's NEW WAVE airwaves back in the 80s like AZTEC CAMERA, THE SOUP DRAGONS, and PRIMAL SCREAM just to name a few.


AZTEC CAMERA


SOUP DRAGONS


PRIMAL SCREAM

Some blogs have featured these tapes for downloads thus making it accessible to a lot of people who loves the music of the 80s. Manila's New Wave Programs like LITEWAVE and CLUB RETRO introduced some bands of this genre back in 2003-2006 like Another Sunny Day, Shop Assistants, The Wedding Present which never made it here in the Philippines during the 80s. Definitely, both are good compilations and perfect for PINOY NEW WAVERS who likes more obscure 80s music.

So why the title C81 and C86? Well, "C" stands for Cassette so "C81" means Cassette 81(since it was released back in January 1981), and "C86" means Cassette 86(since it was released back in June 1986). Well, It's not the usual C60, C90, and C120 tapes that we are all familiar of because these three refers to the running time in minutes which are 60,90, and 120 minutes in recording length. Whatever happen to cassette tapes? Huh? I was able to get both digitize copy back in 2005 and I find both compilations very interesting and great. It reflected the mood of the British Music Scene back on those days with highly melodic pop sounds which started and created it's own very unique musical genre.

C81


Tracklisting:

SIDE ONE
1) Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl
2) The Beat - Twist and Crawl Dub
3) Pere Ubu - Misery Goats
4) Wah! Heat - 7,000 Names of Wah!
5) Orange juice - Blue Boy
6) Cabaret Voltaire - Raising the Count
7) D.A.F. - Kebab Traume
8) Furious Pig - Bare Pork
9) The Specials - Raquel
10)Buzzcocks - I Look Alone
11)Essential Logic - Fanfare in the Garden
12)Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin

SIDE TWO
1) The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud
2) Josef F - Endless Soul
3) The Blue Orchids - Low Profile
4) Virgin Prunes - Red Nettle
5) Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters
6) Red Crayola - Milkmaid
7) Linx - Don't Get in My Way
8) The Massed Carnaby St John Cooper Clarkes - The Day My Pad Went Mad
9) James Blood Ulmer - Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher
10)Ian Dury - Close to Home
11)Gist - Greener Grass
12)Subway Sect - Parallel Lines
13)John Cooper Clarke - 81 Minutes

This C81 cassette was compiled by NME journalist Roy Carr, and Christopher Rose.


C86


Tracklisting:

SIDE ONE
1) Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
2) The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head
3) The Soup Dragons - Pleasantly Surprised
4) The Wolfhounds - Feeling So Strange Again
5) The Bodines - Therese
6) Mighty Mighty - Law
7) Stump - Buffalo
8) Bogshed - Run To The Temple
9) A Witness - Sharpened Sticks
10)The Pastels - Breaking Lines
11)Age of Chance - From Now On, This Will Be Your God

SIDE TWO
1) The Shop Assistants - It's Up To You
2) Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers
3) Miaow - Sport Most Royal
4) Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)
5) The Servants - Transparent
6) The Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's no pubs in Heaven)
7) Big Flame - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
8) Fuzzbox - Console Me
9) McCarthy - Celestial City
10)The Shrubs - Bullfighter's Bones
11)The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait

This C86 cassette was compiled by NME writers Roy Carr, Neil Taylor and Adrian Thrills.

DOWNLOAD THE TAPES ON THIS SITE: http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/

GREAT GENRE!!
-DR. STIRRING RHOD-

SCALE MODELS (Part 2)

Additional Photos Guys!

I was able to pass by again "The 6th National Scale Model Competition" so I took photos from my cellphone the second time around so here it goes PART TWO!!

BRAINIAC!!


ALIEN!!


JURASSIC?


PEARL SHAKE or PEARL HARBOR?


STAR WARS!!

Nice mirror underneath the Millenium Falcon so that viewers would appreciate the great structures below it.



GUNDAMit!!




PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!!



AHOY THERE!!! ENEMY AHOY!!!




Photographer's Haven
This next photos are definitely interesting because there is also an ongoing photo contest in the area. WOW!! What you see here are taken by photographers and these are from the Miniature exhibits. ASTIG!!

TANK you very much!!

YUP!! THANKING the Guys for shooting the TANKS!!

WOW!! They almost look REAL!!


Hey!! Centimeters in height!!


Hope you ENJOYED the VIEW!!
-DR. STIRRING RHOD-

SCALE MODELS

Well, just to be different for today I decided to make a blogpost on the ongoing "6th National Scale Model Competition" at the SM MEGAMALL here in MANILA. I'm a collector of Vinyl Records, Cassette Tapes, CDs, and DVDs of my kind of music and I was just amaze to see the collections of my KABAYANS this time not pertaining to music. WOW!! I took photos of their massive collection so get ready for a wild trip. Toys for the Big Boys? I guess? I saw some owners discussing about their entries and they were adults okay. I love toys but I'm not a Hardcore Toy collector or even this SCALE MODELS. HANEP TALAGA!! This is totally awesome!!

BATTLESHIP with BOOKS



PLANES



ANOTHER BATTLESHIP



MILITARY CAMP?



BATTLESHIPS AGAIN





ANIME



FIGHTER PLANES




TANKS




MORE TANKS!!



RAILWAY GUN MODEL




THE PHOTOS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!!

If you have time guys do check it out because there are still a lot of these stuffs which I wasn't able to shoot on my cellphone.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!!
-DR. STIRRING RHOD-

WAVE REPUBLIC

My country,the REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES , is considered as a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY that is comprise of 7,107 Islands divided into Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. KABAYAN do you guys remember Beauty Queen/Actress Charlene Gonzales mentioning how many islands we have back in the 1994 Miss Universe Pageant held here in MANILA? Ooops!! Muhlach na nga pala siya. He He He!! I may say a lot of Political Controversies rocking the nation again lately from the EURO Generals, JOC-JOC Bolante fertilizer fund scam and the changes in the Senate Presidency that never really left our system. Ang PINOY Talaga!! Naaah!! In the 80s PINOYS were just lucky and blessed enough that at this side of the world the NEW WAVE Genre have flourished and had influenced a lot of youngsters back then. Of course big thanks to WXB102, POWER105, and NU107 during those times because these three radio stations made it possible for us to listen to this kind of music. YUP!! An ASIAN country who knows this kind of musical genre. With the recent visits of 80s Icons here in MANILA this 2008 definitely this kind of music will still be around.

Well, here is another Philippine NEW WAVE CD bootleg compilation released here in MANILA back in 1998 entitled "WAVE REPUBLIC". As usual this became a series like the other bootleg compilations I've featured here before. I guess, the REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, is indeed a "WAVE REPUBLIC"!! PINOY NEW WAVERS!!



KABAYAN Rhenzo who also shared us his Italo Mix before was able to complete the entire series and was kind enough to share it here in my little blog. AYUZ ba? I reuploaded the files Rhenzo gave me so here it goes the three volumes of the classic "WAVE REPUBLIC SERIES". I wanna thank again my good friend JACK J. for creating the password. Again, this is for promotional use only!! So ENJOY GUYS!!



WAVE REPUBLIC
Wave For A New Nation (The First Strike)
TRACKLIST:
01 No Explanation - The Church
02 Matador (Extended Version) - Xmal Deutschland
03 I Go Crazy - Flesh For Lulu
04 Heaven Knows - When In Rome
05 Away - Bolshoi
06 Book Of Love - Book Of Love
07 Russian Radio - Red flag
08 Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
09 Catch Me I'm Falling - Real Life
10 Hot You're Cool - General Public
11 Love Still Flows - Lotus Eaters
12 Walking Away - Information Society
13 Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade
14 What's Your Name - Depeche Mode
15 Situation - Cetu Javu
16 Stiches And Burn - Fra Lippo Lippi
17 German Girl (Acoustic Version) - Lotus Eaters

CLICK THE LOGO TO DOWNLOAD Volume One:

Password: http://docmuzic.blogspot.com/

WAVE REPUBLIC
Waver's Paradise (The Second Strike)
TRACKLIST
01 Whatever Possessed You - The Care
02 Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes) - Book Of Love
03 Black Man Ray - China Crisis
04 Just Like Heaven - The Cure
05 Girlfriend In A Coma - The Smiths
06 Hand Across The Sea - Modern English
07 Tomorrow - Information Society
08 This Is The Day - The The
09 Angel - Fra Lippo Lippi
10 TV Man - Bolshoi
11 I Send A Message - INXS
12 So In Love - OMD
13 Gorgeous - Gene Loves Jezebel
14 Maybe Maybe - Aha
15 Swich On Switch Off - B-Movie
16 Angels Don't Cry - Psychedelic Furs
17 Who Knows What Love Is - Strawberry Switchblade

CLICK THE LOGO TO DOWNLOAD Volume Two:

Password: http://docmuzic.blogspot.com/

WAVE REPUBLIC
Wave Revisited (The Third Strike)
TRACKLIST

01 Whirlpool Heart - The Wild Swans

02 Crazy (Extnded Version) - Icehouse

03 State Of Art - Friends Again

04 Love Moves In Strange Ways - Blue Zoo

05 When All's Well - Everything But The Girl

06 Bringing Home The Ashes - The Wild Swans

07 The She Goes - The LA's

08 Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morissey

09 Arts In The Minor / Harry Houdini - Kon Kan

10 Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo And The Bunnymen

11 What's The Matter Here - 10,000 maniacs

12 Mary's Prayer - Danny Wilson

13 Alive And Kicking - Simple Minds

14 Pandora's Box - OMD

15 Have In Mind - Cetu Javu

16 Round And Round - New Order

17 Postcard From Paradise - Flesh For Lulu

CLICK THE LOGO TO DOWNLOAD Volume Three:

Password: http://docmuzic.blogspot.com/

Thanks again RHENZO!!!

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

is a WAVE REPUBLIC!!

-DR. STIRRING RHOD-

Discover GENE LOVES JEZEBEL

Let's Discover

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL

Christopher Columbus discovered AMERICA in 1492. Ferdinand Magellan discovered the PHILIPPINES in 1521. Who discovered GENE LOVES JEZEBEL here in MANILA? Hmmmp!! Let's think it over. Well, you got it right KABAYAN!! YUP!! WXB102 discovered GENE LOVES JEZEBEL for PINOY WAVERS wayback 1986. WXB102 introduced the band here in MANILA by playing the classic extended version of "DESIRE" back in 1986.

"De...de...de...de...de..DESIIIIRE!!"......."Come and get it(3x)"... for PINOY WAVERS would be the instant memory for this great band. "DISCOVER" album was my very first GLJ Vinyl Record I bought back in 1986 and when I had a chance to buy the CD version last 2001 then I grabbed that opportunity. Wheew!! Then XB played a string of songs from the album like "HEARTACHE", "SWEETEST THING", and "BRAND NEW MOON" that made the band more popular to PINOY WAVERS. Btw, HEARTACHE and BRAND NEW MOON were included on the HIGH ADVENTURE bootleg cassette tape entitled "102 Music" which I featured here in my blog before while "DESIRE" was included on the volume two of that "102 Music" cassette tape. I still remember around October 1987 after school I was listening to the POWER105 tandem of Harry Nolan and Tazmanian Devil mixing DESIRE(12") with Echo And The Bunnymen's"Lips Like Sugar(12")and this was just before BM would finally go back to New Wave format on December 1987. That mix became an instant classic for DJ mixing. Who would forget the party shout of "Liberal Party, Liberal Party wouldn't hurt anyone" in the tune of "HEARTACHE". We have attended parties singing that false lyrics for fun. Ha Ha Ha! Those were the days indeed!! Though XB also played some songs from their "PROMISE" and "IMMIGRANT" albums, "DISCOVER" was still the album to reckon with during those times.


In late 1987,with the release of "HOUSE OF DOLLS", NU107 brought back the energy of the band by introducing songs like "MOTION OF LOVE","GORGEOUS", "SUSPICION" and "TWENTY KILLER HURTS"(sounds like an amount of voltage). In 1988, POWER105 would make "VAGABOND", and "BUGG'S BRUISES" an instant hit for PINOY WAVERS. In 1989, NU107 played "JEALOUS" from the "KISS OF LIFE" album which didn't make that much impact here in MANILA since this was the time when the diffirences between MICHAEL and JAY really errupted.

Photo courtesy of RAMIL

I still remember my friends and I used to joke that the ASTON TWINS names were GENE and JEZEBEL so since they are brothers they love each other thus coming up with a band name "Gene Loves Jezebel". He He He!! Well, that's our form of discussion okay. Not knowing that after two decades the twins would split-up and even formed two "GENE LOVES JEZEBEL" bands WOW!! Weird isn't it? I guess that's their form of excitement and love for each other. Ha Ha Ha!!


GENE LOVES JEZEBEL was formed by the ASTON TWINS namely MICHAEL and JAY ASTON together with IAN HUDSON back in 1980. They were originally called "SLAV ARYAN" before coming up with the name GENE LOVES JEZEBEL also popularly known as GLJ. The trio had several live gigs back then and were able to sign up with an Indie Record label called SITUATION TWO(The same label that released the album of LULU KISS ME DEAD) and released a demo single entitled "Shaving My Neck". In 1986 the band moved it's recording contract to BEGGARS BANQUET which is the parent company of SITUATION TWO and by this time the band would get more exposure on college radio and definitely it included exposure here in MANILA thru XB, BM, and NU.

The news of the band coming over here in MANILA wayback 1989 became a major excitement for PINOY WAVERS like me. My brother, cousin and I were able to buy our tickets at SM NORTH EDSA at the defunct "EVERYTHING ROCKS" shop. YUP!! We will never forget our experience buying those tickets because all the Sales ladies in that shop were wearing a skimpy black and shiny mini-skirt dress that would really make you drool. Ha Ha Ha!! Few weeks after we bought the tickets there was an announcement over at NU107 that the concert was cancelled. Wheew!! The reasons were not totally explained to the fans but what we knew back then was that one of the member's relatives was affected by the 1989 SAN FRANCISCO earthquake. I have no idea if this report was confirmed. Some have said It was because of Gringo Honasan's Coup d'etat attempt on the Cory Aquino Government back then. Of course all of us were very disappointed that time especially when the cancellation of the concert was 100% and we have to get our tickets refunded. Ngek!! So we returned the tickets and got our refund and we came back to the shop again. He He He!! That's life I may say.

Here's a photo of my old GLJ poster that I bought back in 1989 during those SHAMBHU days. YUP!! It's still displayed on a part of my room. As you will notice the four corners have thumbtacks that would cause TETANUS. Ha Ha Ha!! Rusty already through the years.

Finally, GENE LOVES JEZEBEL is coming over here in MANILA. What a relief!! Well, as what I've mentioned just a while back the twins have two GLJ bands and the one that will be doing a concert here would be MICHAEL ASTON's wing. It should have been great if both MICHAEL and JAY were still intact so that PINOY WAVERS would at least see these guys perform together LIVE in the flesh. So how would the crowd be? That I don't definitely know. Well, I just hope MICHAEL will sing our favorites GLJ songs so that we could enjoy the concert. Though, I'm expecting some new stuffs, let's just hope that not that much so that we could get all our money's worth since the tickets are not that cheap and the band would not give us any HEARTACHES. They should beat the smash hit Pinoy Tele-nobela "DYESEBEL". Ha Ha Ha!! I wonder if DYESEBEL stars Dingdong and Marian will watch the concert....with Karylle? Ooows!! PINOY loves DYESEBEL or GENE LOVES JEZEBEL? It's your choice. He He He!!

So if you DESIRE to see GLJ LIVE then better "Come And Get It". I guess this would be the SWEETEST THING to happen this November and they better not bring us some HEARTACHES.

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL (NOVEMBER 15 - DECAGON / NOVEMBER 17 - HARDROCK CAFE)

FEATURING MICHAEL ASHTON. HEAR THEM PLAY THEIR HITS : DESIRE, HEARTACHE, SWEETEST THING, TWENTY KILLER HURTS, MOTION OF LOVE, GORGEOUS, ETC..

DECAGON - WITH SANDWICH AS OPENING ACT AND SPINNERS LITO DAVID, ERWIN YONZON & JOJO GERMINO

HARDROCK CAFE' - WITH DEAD POP STARS AS OPENING ACT AND SPINNERS FIED FONTAMILLAS AND MARLON DELA CRUZ

TICKETS @ PHP 1,500.00

COME AND GET IT!

So PINOY WAVERS,

Let's DISCOVER

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL

-DR. STIRRING RHOD-

SNOOG MIX Part Four

SNOOG MIX

"Part Four"

HELLO READERS!! I'm here again to feature another NEW WAVE MIX from my good friend Dindo Lopez aka. "Snoog" who incidentally was my first MIX Contributor in this blog. YUP!! That started a grilling TREND on NEW WAVE MIXES around the PINOY Blogosphere. Of course, my encouragement to my Blogger Friends "THE BEATMEISTER" and "djdocT" to also do me a NEW WAVE MIX have also sparked a lot of interest on PINOY NEW WAVE MIXES in the Blogosphere lately that I'm happy of. AYUZ ba BEAT? Galing natin maginspire noh? He He He!! A KABAYAN of mine also reactivated his old blog by promoting it on Multiply. YUP!! Inspired by my concept I may say. I'm also glad I'm back blogging again because as you will notice I have a few blogpost last JULY to SEPTEMBER this year. I also wanna thank BENJIE of "THE VAULT" because he shared his two mixes also for you guys. Expect more NEW WAVE MIXES from PINOYS in my future blogpost. Hmmmp!! Coming from some of my KABAYAN DJs on PDDJ perhaps? Right THAD and BEAT? Yeeebaaah!!!

So here goes the fourth MIX shared to you guys by SNOOG. Btw, hope you leave any comments if you do like the mix because that would make Snoog and me happy too. This is for promotional use only okay.

Title: VA- Dark All Over Manila II (The Howling Mix 2008)

Mixed By: SnooG

Date: October 31,2008

Genre: Darkwave / PostpunkTime: 00:50:13

Tracklist:
01 She Sells Sanctuary

02 Garden Of Delight

03 Krista

04 Heaven Is Waiting

05 Like An Animal

06 How Beautiful You Are

07 Sickel Moon

08 No Time To Cry

09 On A Dark Day

10 Flame

11 Severina

12 World Without

13 Stop Dead

14 Inside Out

15 Love Removal Machine

CLICK the DRAGON pix to download the mix:

Password: http://www.snoog.multiply.com/

What can say? I'm just speechless SNOOG!! GREAT SET again and It will just leave you breathless. It includes music from The Cure, The Cult, The Mission, Sisters Of Mercy, and incoming MANILA visitor GENE LOVES JEZEBEL. YUP!! Considered as a followup of his "DARK OVER MANILA MIX" that I featured on "Snoog Mix Part Three".Btw, I placed a special Blogpost Label for Snoog so if you wanna read all my blog entries about this great KABAYAN and his mixes just click "Snoog" on the right lower corner of my blog. Nice picture of the BIG CLOCK in MANILA CITY HALL!! Hmmmp!! It's really MANILA not LONDON. He He He!! I hope you do like this set just like I did. THANKS again Snoog!! ENJOY THE MUZIC!!

MABUHAY ka Snoog!!
-DR. STIRRING RHOD-