Won’t get spooled again
Posted: 11/04/2012 | Author: Push | Filed under: Magazines, Music | Tags: C81, C86, Cabaret Voltaire, Melody Maker, Muzik, NME, NME Tapes, Robert Wyatt, Roy Carr, Savoy Records, Stompin' At The Savoy, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Shop Assistants, The Specials, The Wedding Present, Uncut, Vox | 8 CommentsIf you bought the NME during the 1980s, you’ll no doubt remember some of the compilation tapes given away free with the paper throughout the decade. I’ve got a tall and wobbly stack of NME tapes sitting on a shelf somewhere, but I haven’t heard any of them for yonks – not least because I don’t own a tape player these days. So I am very pleased to have discovered Press Play And Record, a website with digital rips of many of these superb compilations.
The NME tapes were compiled by journalist Roy Carr, who’s never really got the credit he deserves for these spooled delights. Roy began writing for NME in the late 1960s and put together tapes and later CDs for all the IPC Media music magazines – Melody Maker, Muzik, Vox and Uncut as well as the NME – for around 30 years.