No new show this week for various reasons, so we employed the emergency tape. I released the full version of A Boot Up The Eighties in December 2008, although I’d been working on it for a couple of years. I did have to make a special Noisebox edit to remove a certain cigar-chomping DJ who, at the time, wasn’t disgraced. This was easily done by lopping off the first few minutes and speeding the rest up ever so slightly to fit into an hour.
Tracklisting? I might put one up at some point, but most of you will recognise most of it. It’s easier to list the few tunes I threw in that weren’t UK Top 40 hits: Big Bubbles No Troubles by Ellis Beggs and Howard (Beggs off of Kajagoogoo), Chicago acid producer Adonis with The Poke, Hip Hop Be Bop by Man Parrish (of Male Stripper fame), and Mantronix’s King Of The Beats, which is the bit you can hear when Murray Head is “rapping”.
Despite the limitations of the time (none of your AI separation nonsense in the late 00s, so I spent a lot of time searching for alternative versions of songs so I could make instrumentals and acapellas – the 12″/80s compilations really helped here) I still think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done, and you can play it at my funeral if you like.