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Today's Memory Tapes comes all the Norway and listener Oliver Kersbergen:

The Why-I-Wanted-To-Play-In-A-Band Mixtape

This was late 80`s when Heavy metal was what most kids my age listened to, but that never exited me. Luckily my dad owned a record store and I was able to seek out older stuff, which to me seemed way more cool. Also, finding unknown bands by judging them from the covers at the local library was always brilliant.

Side A:

1) No More Heroes - The Stranglers

They were my favourite band and i found it so interesting how they managed to sound so mean yet very musically sophisticated.

2) Dead End Street - The Kinks

My dad taped a 60`s tape for me before going on holiday in Mallorca. It was The Kinks that I loved the most. Ray Davies is such a brilliant songwriter and this is one of his best.

3) The Model - Kraftwerk

The Model song blew me away the first time I heard it. I was driving home with a girlfriend and she put a mixtape on. This song came on and I almost didn`t want to admit I that I hadn鈥檛 heard it before.

4) Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie

I`ve always been a great fan of his (I have had the chance of playing with Mike Garson from his band on two of my albums) and he was so inspirational in the way he transformed music. This is the first track I can remember. We taped it from a music game show and used to listen to over and over again. Other favourites on that video tape were God Save The Queen and Astronomy Domine. It was tough to figure out if we preferred the energy of punk or the spookiness of Psychedelia. So we ended up doing a bit of both.

5) California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys

We used to play this a lot as kids, practicing it forever. It was always so damn hard to get that ending right.

6) The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr.

They were the epitome of coolness to me at high school. I used to love their noise and beautiful guitar by J Mascis.

7) Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love In) - Chocolate Watch Band

I found them at the local library and thought it had an energy that most Heavy bands at the time were lacking. It made me also check out Nuggets and all the garage bands.

8) Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones

Bless the Stones. They`ve always been around and I鈥檝e always been a big fan. Sympathy For The Devil was the song that made me love playing solos again after shying away from that during my punk days.

9) Scorpio`s View - Lalo Schifrin

We are sort of from the first generation of kids that grew up with video. We used to love Dirty Harry, especially because of the incredible soundtrack.

10) Oh Yeah - Can

This was a wakeup call literally as everybody at a party had fallen asleep. I still fondly remember waking up to this and slightly dazed and being totally mesmerized.

11) I Want You- Bob Dylan

The first record I got with my turntable was Bob Dylan`s greatest hits. I played it all the time.

聽12) Death Of A Soldier - Ennio Morricone

We were big fans of this movie and Morricone`s soundtrack for this film is incredible. I always feel a bit of a tear when this song is being played in a very poignant scene of the movie.

Side B:

1) God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Beach Boys are my favourite band. Hearing Pet Sounds was like feeling a light bulb over your head, and great inspiration to experiment with sounds.

2) Copenhagen - Scott Walker

He is just amazing. I remember discovering his albums while working at the library and finding out about his career. I thought tracks like The Electrician was magical and very eerie. He still does very interesting things and it will be exciting to hear him with Sunn o)))

3) Hung Upon A Dream - The Zombies

It`s such a wonderful, peaceful song and really takes me back in time.

4) Birth Of Liquid Plejades - Tangerine Dream

I always connect this piece with Apocalypse Now for some reason.

5) Funtime - Iggy Pop

I thought The Idiot album was very strange and alien at 14, it sounded so strange compared to Raw Power. This was something that I could not really understand, but I just stuck with it.

6) Hey Ladies - Beastie Boys

I was a massive Beastie Boys fan when Licence to Ill was released and we used to run around with skateboards and spray cans. I remember listening to this at a record store and being gobsmacked by the sounds. Sampling The Beatles was so strange to hear and the sheer collage of sounds was brilliant. They were great innovators of music.

7) Becalmed - Brian Eno

I find Eno`s ambient albums the most interesting. One of my most interesting musical experiments was blasting Metal Machine Music and then put on Discreet Music. Becalmed is one of his finest pieces on Another Green World, which is brilliant because it mixes pop tunes with ambient sounds.

8) Repeater - Fugazi

I discovered this album around 1991. I think it was also released that year. Some friends recorded it on a mixtape along with a lot of punk music like Stiff Little Fingers, Subhumans, Nomeansno and many others. This was handy, as the bus ride to school took a few hours and one would get very bored.

9) Echoes - Pink Floyd

It`s got such an incredible groove.

10) Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

It still is incredible to hear this song and all the heart and soul that went into the production of that musical surreal dream.

11) Blue In Green - Miles Davis

This was, as it is for many others, a good starting point for Jazz. Recently I listened to all of his studio albums and most of his live albums. I still have a hard time finding better performances than this ensemble sextet with Bill Powers, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers and 聽Cannonball Adderley all on top form

12) Straight To Hell - The Clash

The Clash鈥檚 eponymous album was my first punk record (although I did own Raw Power) and I loved the rawness of it. Still I was more drawn to their more musical style. This tune in particular had such great lyrics and is probably my favourite Clash song.