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Ahead of the final episode of Oh You Pretty Things tonight on Ö÷²¥´óÐã 4, we're celebrating all things fashion on the Lauren Laverne show this morning. Aside from playing nothing but the 80s and talking to Talking Heads found David Byrne, we have ex-The Fall guitarist, and now fashion and boutique owner Brix Smith sharing her Memory Tape. This was a tape made especially for the show, featuring songs that soundtracked her first shop, to touring with Nirvana: 

"Music has always been so important to my life. These are songs that are very evocative, songs that really evoke sense memory and completely take me back to a certain point in my life. Some are songs that stick in my mind because the performers have a strong sense of style, or songs that we played in our first shop like Interpol and RHCP. These were songs that formed the soundtrack to our store. When it comes to the 80s though, nothing beats This Mortal Coil’s It'll End in Tears. That album was a complete masterpiece and so haunting.

I always remember Nirvana’s first European tour as they spent with us (The Fall) in Germany I think it was. They were such a bunch skinny, little guys that we’d had to steal sandwiches to feed them up! I was in L.A. when Nevermind was released and I just played it over and over in the open top car."

Oh You Pretty Things

Pixies – Where Is My Mind - a song that I think about pretty much everyday of my life.

Interpol – Slow Hands

Joy Division – Shadow Play

Sonic Youth – Superstar

Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus

This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren

Massive Attack – Teardrop

Portishead – Glory Box

Suede – Animal Nitrate

Mazzy Star – Into Dust

Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows

The Breeders – Cannonball

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge

Primal scream – Come together

Nirvana – Lithium

The Smiths – How Soon Is Now

New Order – Blue Monday

Virgin Prunes – Sandpaper Lullaby

Rowland S Howard And Lydia Lunch – Some Velvet Morning

The Montgolfier Brothers – Seventeen Stars