Various Artists - Survival Sampler SR-1A (1984)

"Warner Bros. Records' Survival Sampler SR-1A is a portable compendium of the best of British and Australian new music. The complete version, commercially available only on cassette, is 56 minutes in length and features twelve artists from eight different labels. Designed to enhance and perhaps extend human life, the Survival Sampler comes in a can."

this came our way via one BobAvocado:

Guys of ForestRoxx,

I thought you night be interested in an almost all digital source copy of the 1984 Warner Music Survival Sampler SR-1A Sound Rations - I get the sense from your blog that you are approximately my age and might recall this sampler that came in a cold war appropriate army drab can.

I cobbled this together from my CD's except for The Assembly song which seems never to have been released in North America digitally - so its an audio rip from a You Tube video. I do have a vinyl version of the song on a 6 track radio station promotional EP for said sampler (no ability to rip from the vinyl at the moment).

Regards,
BobAvocado



Track List:
01. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make
02. The Church - Electric Lash
03. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
04. Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
05. Carmel - More More More
06. King Crimson - Sleepless
07. Aztec Camera - Pillar To Post
08. The Cure - The Caterpillar
09. The Bluebells - I'm Falling
10. Modern English - Rainbows End
11. The Assembly - Never Never
12. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

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King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

I had older brothers who had a shitton of vinyl. I was their LP gopher. In the basement, the bros reclined (likely buzzed) I'd get the order to go pull something from the stacks - usually Remain in Lights, Houses Of The Holy or Hot Rocks, This was one LP I always paused upon and inspected when I rifled through the goods trying to find the next tunes. The bros always demanded I hurry the F up.

Cover spooked the shit out of my elementary school mind. Only a few tracks too. This was so foreign to me. Like a classical record. I never asked to have it played for me. I didn't want to know what it sounded like. My young pessimist mind, MDD-predisposed psyche too sensitive to handle the haunting I suspect lay within. Holy shit was I right!

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