Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

I've been digging through my hundreds of cassettes, pulling out some '80s gems, such as my dub of gene loves jezebel's the house of dolls and promise. also spinning some christmas mixes (a/k/a/ mixmas volumes 3 and 4) at work today, frankie goes to hollywood's welcome to the pleasuredome (expect a piece on this, compared-and-contrasted with abc's the lexicon of love, soon), and a.r. kane's 69 (a pre-shoegazer dreampop gem).