This is a subject that I have touched upon before. Not only does the music of the very early 1990s continue to have an enduring influence upon me, but so did many of the tracks I heard on shortwave free radio during the same era and up to the turn of the millennium, even if some of them were of a completely different vintage.
Without further ado, may I present to you a compilation album of hits inspired by what to me at least, when compared to the subsequent three decades, was the golden generation of UK-based shortwave free radio. Feel free to guess which tracks were synonymous with certain stations; some will be obvious, others not so...
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
Ofra Haza - Im Nin Alu
Kim Appleby - Don't Worry
Acker Bilk - Fancy Pants
Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory
Space - Magic Fly
Mark Wirtz - A Touch of Velvet - A Sting of Brass
David Morales - Needin' U
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Tinman - Eighteen Strings
Les Reed - Man of Action
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Was (Not) Was - Shake Your Head
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Hyper Go Go - Never Let Go
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
The list surely goes. If I have missed (m)any tracks that particularly remind you of a UK or Irish-based free radio station that broadcast on shortwave during 1990s, please enlighten me. It should be noted that some of the aforementioned tracks were individually far more enjoyable than the stations who broadcast them, but that perhaps is another subject for a different day.
