One of the best aspects at the cassette scene was pretty straightforward: if you didn't like something, use the tape for something else. For free music, the risk was usually limited to the cost of an stamped addressed envelope. For shop bought tapes it might be a quid or so over the cost of the equivalent blank. As an impoverished teenager several of my tapes suffered that fate. This one half did, as side two has only one track on it, so the rest of the C60 has the teenage me mumbling into a tape recorder, reminding in me that I used to have much more of a Midlands accent than I do now and that as always, my ambition outweighed my talent.
As for the original tape, I bought it in Selectadisc in Nottingham back when they had the original shop in St James Street. I remember that it was pinned to the racks behind the counter and cost about £1.50 and came with a small magazine, which like all these things has disappeared in the ensuing years.
In retrospect the music is actually not bad in a very Fall/Swell Maps in a barn kind of way (there is a farming concept running through the titles although the correspondence address seems to be student accommodation in Loughborough) although I probably didn't like it so much when I bought it. There's even a dub track with a faltering drum machine through a Kays amp and fake echoes and dropouts everywhere.
In a time when nothing is obscure, this tape appears to achieved it and The Pullman Outskirts appear not to have a presence on the net at all, not even as another forty-something's summer fun band memory, so this may be it. I guess I'd better keep the tape for a while then, it might be the only one left.
- Intro
- Indian Suit Mohican Surprise
- Tell Me Why Cow?
- Poultry
- Tell Me 3 Little Pigs (Part One)
- Ugly (Billy Goat)
- Tell Me 3 Little Pigs (Part Two)
- Baby Lover Dub
- Yoghurt it's Pear
- Pullman Outskirts Theme
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