C86
C86
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.
Tracklist
Disc: 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 ChildrenDisc: 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