In this series I will create mixes based on my teenage record collection. I kept a diary throughout the 1980s and logged every record I bought each year so can accurately recreate my archive.

During my teenage years I amassed a rather small but compact box of Punk, New Wave and Mod singles. I mainly focussed on The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers but was becoming increasingly more interested in obscure releases on independent labels.

This first mix is based on records I had (and still have) up to the end of December 1982. Everything has been digitized from those vinyl records. I even used my 1980s Technics SL-1210MK2 turntable which has survived the decades, and is still in excellent working order.

In order of appearance:
B Movie - "Nowhere Girl"
Bluebells - "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (flexi with first single 'Forever More')
Byrds - "My Back Pages"
Church - "The Unguarded Moment"
Cure - "Another Journey By Train"
Dead Kennedys - "Police Truck"
Hurrah! - "The Sun Shines Here"
Jam - "Pop Art Poem" (flexi given away with Flexipop magazine)
Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
Modern English - "I Melt With You"
Nine Below Zero - "Sugarbeat (And Rhythm Sweet)"
OMD - "Maid Of Orleans"
Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"
Secret Affair - "Do You Know"
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Coal Mind"
Stiff Little Fingers - "Bits Of Kids"
TV21 - "All Join Hands"
XTC - "Looking For Footprints" (flexi given away free with Flexipop magazine)