NME / Rough Trade

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1981
UK CS Rough Trade(Rough Tapes) COPY 001
SIDE A
  1. Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl
  2. The Beat - Twist & Crawl Dub
  3. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats
  4. Wah! Heat - 7,000 Names Of Wah
  5. Orange Juice - Blue Boy
  6. Cabaret Voltiare - Raising The Count [CABS5]
  7. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Kebab Träume (Live)
  8. Furious Pig - Bare Pork
  9. The Panther Burns - Bourgeois Blues
  10. Buzzcocks - I Look Alone
  11. Essential Logic - Fanfare In The Garden
  12. Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin
SIDE B
  1. The Raincoats - Shouting Out Loud
  2. Josef K - Endless Soul
  3. Blue Orchids - Low Profile
  4. Virgin Prunes - Red Nettle
  5. Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters
  6. The Red Crayola - Milkmaid
  7. Linx - Don't Get In My Way
  8. John Cooper Clarke - 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. The Gist - Greener Grass
  12. Subway Sect - Parallel Lines
  13. John Cooper Clarke - 81 Minutes
The legendary first NME cassette that very decently represents the new music at the time, after Punk had so unrelentingly ravaged all that was kind and good in musicland.