Saturday, November 10, 2007

NME cassettes


In the 1980s I used to collect cassettes from New Musical Express. They have issued a whole lot of cassettes I think, but in the 80s they had a numbered series, and my collection is numbers 1-37. I´m not sure if this is all of them, or if I missed some after this. Robert Wyatt is on numbers 1, 4, 11, 33 and 37.

NME 001 C 81 (Rough Trade)(1981)
NME 002 Jiwe wire
NME 003 Hit the road (Stax)
NME 004 Mighty Reel (1982)
NME 005 Pocket jukebox (Charly)
NME 006 Racket Packet (1983)
NME 007 Stompin´at the Savoy
NME 008 Mad Mix II
NME 009 The Ace Case
NME 010 Smile Jamaica
NME 011 Department of enjoyment
NME 012 Checkmate (Chess)(1984)
NME 013 Night people (1984)
NME 014 Raging Spool
NME 015 Little Imp (1984)
NME 016 Neon West
NME 017 Tapeworm (1985)
NME 018 Straight No Chaser (Blue Note)
NME 019 All Africa Radio (1985)
NME 020 Feet Start Dancin´
NME 021 Pogo à Go Go
NME 022 C 86 (1986)
NME 023 Holiday Romance (Verve years) (1986)
NME 024 We have come for your children
NME 025 The Latin Kick (1986)
NME 026 low Light And Trick Mirrors
NME 027 What´s Happenin´Stateside (1986)
NME 028 Hi-voltage
NME 029 I dreamt i was Elvis (Charly/Ace) (1987)
NME 030 Blow-up UK (1987)
NME 031 Bush fire (Greensleves) (1987)
NME 032 Pocket Jukebox 2 (1987)
NME 033 Mixed Peel (Strange Fruit) (1987)
NME 034 The Tape With No Name (1987)
NME 035 The World At One
NME 036 Indie City 1 (1988)
NME 037 Indie City 2 (1988)

According to one comment, you'd rather look here too!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice collection.

You might enjoy reading the following blog, which has commentary on all the 80s NME tapes:

http://bazooka81.livejournal.com/

Svenn said...
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Svenn said...

Oh no! I was searching for this kind of stuff this morning, but then again, I wouldn't have bragged about my collection, if I had found it :-)
Thanks!

Vicki Cormie said...

Cheers! I've been trying to remember the name of Checkmate one for ages to try and recreate it.

Anonymous said...

anyone know of a copy of NME 020 Feet Start Dancin´ - my copy has become unplayable and it was such a great compilation

bonanza_b@yhaoo.com

Anonymous said...

I have an electronic copy.

Rob said...

I used to collect these cassettes also. My favourite was the "Pocket Jukebox" tape, which I wore out. At one point I replaced the casing and that gave it a few more years of life.

Eventually, I decided to track down every song on CD so I could make my own CDR compliation, which is harder than it sounds as some of the songs are very rare. The only place to find the Julia Lee and T-Bone Walker songs was on 5 and 6 CD box sets! Somebody burned me the T-Bone cut, but I had to shell out $120 to get the Julia Lee box.

The track list is here:
http://www.discogs.com/release/680200

dalston shopper said...

There's lots on my blog too in case you want to refer people there.

http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com/search?q=nme

Anonymous said...

I have quite a few of these ripped to mp3, but also need quite a few too. If anyone landing on here would like to trade, please email mike@grasshoppers.fsworld.co.uk

Emily Jeal said...

Hello,
I would really like to get hold of a copy of NME 010 Smile Jamaica for a Channel 4 documentary. Would it be possible to arrange making a copy of Smile Jamaica? Please contact me at emily.jeal@oftv.co.uk
Many thanks
Emily Jeal

Emily Jeal said...

Hello,
I'm working on a Channel 4 series about the 80s. I would really like to get hold of a copy of NME's Smile Jamaica comp. Would you be able to help me? I can be contacted at emily.jeal@oftv.co.uk
Many thanks
Emily