Some of the live Pet Shop Boys is the same recording from Tape 18. Looks like I made a little compilation here.
Shawn and Jeff parts are May 1995.
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Tape 45
Here’s a very very good night at The Alphabet Club 🙂
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I’d cry missing Anything Box, Cause and Effect and Machine In Motion too. Killer lineup. I’d see Anything Box quite a few times like 20 years later at least, haha 😀
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I was so young and innocent but now it is so clear to me that this is music to lean back and spark it to. At the time, I would lay in my bean bag, incense burning, a purple lava lamp my only source of light. No smoking though. I was a clean teen. Haha.
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I used to make my own compilations, and it looks like a big chunk of side A on this tape was a compilation of all the live Erasure I’d collected to this point, haha. Then it goes into some Alphabet Club for a while, then some pretty hard Movement stuff (Ministry to Nitzer Ebb to KMFDM = perfect block, haha) then some more Alphabet Club.
The majority of this tape was probably recorded in ’95, but I had caught wind of a new OMD song being played on Live 105 in the summer of ’96. To get Live 105 at my house, I had to rig a wire from my boom box’s antennae out my window and up to my roof. Worth it! I was able to catch Walking On The Milky Way twice this way. I wouldn’t be able to get my hands on the Universal album until about 2000.
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