5013929101203

C86

Various Artists

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRCDBOX12

Release Date:  01 December 2023

Label:  Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929101203

Genres:  Indie  80's  

  • Description

    Back in May/June 1986, the New Musical Express released one of their regular mail-order cassettes. Reflecting the latest trends in Indie music, C86 was a 22-track cassette which was inspired by the NMEs C81 tape from half a decade earlier.

    Aside from a few name bands (The Pastels, Primal Scream, the Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops), most acts were relatively unknown beyond the back pages and gig listings of the weekly music press. A few hadnt even issued a record!



    C86 slowly but surely became the NME's best-selling ever compilation, selling an estimated 40,000 copies and eventually being reissued on LP and cassette by Rough Trade the following year. C86 prompted a week of shows at the ICA and would come to embody a whole musical style and era.



    This deluxe expanded edition of the original C86 cassette adds some 50 bonus tracks. The box set is curated by original compiler Neil Taylor and has the endorsement of the NME. Neil has chosen tracks which could conceivably have been on the original C86 package: all the recordings were made between mid-1985 and mid-1986. Neil wrote about many of the bands at the time.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Velocity Girl - Primal Scream
      • 2. Happy Head - The Mighty Lemon Drops
      • 3. Pleasantly Surprised - The Soup Dragons
      • 4. Feeling So Strange Again - The Wolfhounds
      • 5. Therese - The Bodines
      • 6. Law - Mighty Mighty
      • 7. Buffalo - Stump
      • 8. Run To The Temple - Bogshed
      • 9. Sharpened Sticks - A Witness
      • 10. Breaking Lines - The Pastels
      • 11. From Now On,This Will Be Your God - Age Of Chance
      • 12. It's Up To You Shop - Assistants
      • 13. Firestation Towers - Close Lobsters
      • 14. Miaow - Sport Most Royal
      • 15. Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nnerys Hughes (From The Heart)
      • 16. The Servants - Transparent
      • 17. Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's No Pubs In Heaven)
      • 18. Big Flame - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
      • 19. We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Console Me
      • 20. Mccarthy - Celestial City
      • 21. The Shrubs - Bullfighters Bones
      • 22. The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait(A Bit Longer)

      Disc 2

      • 1. Just The Same - The June Brides
      • 2. Another Side To Mrs Quill - Yeah Yeah Noh
      • 3. Lazy - The Primitives
      • 4. Splashing Along - Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes
      • 5. Rosemary Smith - The Band Of Holy Joy
      • 6. Virginia M.C. - The Mctells
      • 7. E102 - B.M.X. Bandits
      • 8. Like One Thousand Violins - One Thousand Violins
      • 9. Peppermint Dreams - The Dentists
      • 10. Everything's Brilliant - The Membranes
      • 11. Worm In My Brain - The Weather Prophets
      • 12. Meet Me On Tuesdays - The Brilliant Corners
      • 13. I Told You So - Talulah Gosh
      • 14. Hedonist Hat - Pigbros
      • 15. Inside - 14 Iced Bars
      • 16. Go Ahead, Cry - St. Christopher
      • 17. Captain Fantastic (Demo) - The Groove Farm
      • 18. The Peacock Nose - Kilgore Trout
      • 19. Inside Me - The Jesus And Mary Chain
      • 20. You Didn't Love Me Then - The Hit Parade
      • 21. Mine - That Petrol Emotion
      • 22. One Breath - The Turncoats
      • 23. Skink (Flexi Version) - A Riot Of Colour
      • 24. Tune In. Turn On, Trip Out - Paul Groovy & The Pop Art Experience
      • 25. Darkness And Colour - The Railway Children

      Disc 3

      • 1. Sweet Revenge - The Chesterfields
      • 2. World's No Place - The Jasmine Minks
      • 3. Why - Stitched
      • 4. Sad Kaleidoscope - Razorcuts
      • 5. I Remember - Treebound Story
      • 6. Part Time Moral England - The Nightingales
      • 7. Strike Up Matches - Episode Four
      • 8. Everything's Going Right - The Avons
      • 9. Here It Comes - Meat Whiplash
      • 10. Spider Psychiatry - King Of The Slums
      • 11. Freaky Dancin' - Happy Mondays
      • 12. Love's Going Out Of Fashion - Biff Bang Pow
      • 13. Outback Jazz - Blue Areoplanes
      • 14. Heartache - Lawrence & The Comfortable Society
      • 15. Take Your Time, Yeah (Flexi Version) - Laugh
      • 16. Billy Liar - North Of Cornwallis
      • 17. Mesmerized - Pop Will Eat Itself
      • 18. Hang Fire - Benny Profane
      • 19. Real Life - Go! Service
      • 20. Good To Be King - Janitors
      • 21. Gullible's Travels - The Claim
      • 22. Scoop - The Auctioneers
      • 23. Perfect Cockney Hard - On
      • 24. Hep Clothes - The Love Act
      • 25. I Don't Need You - The Enormous Room