A genius release, to mark a brilliant period of music.
This is where it all started. There would be no Arctic Monkeys, or anyone else you're listening too, if this movement wasn't started. A CD for everyones collection.
Long
Live C86.
Amazon.co.uk
Reviewer.
Track listing:
Disc: 1
1. Velocity Girl - Primal Scream
2. Sun A Small Star - Servants
3. Around And Around - Hurrah
4. Why Does The Rain - Loft
5. Vibrato - East Village
6. Pristine Christine - Sea Urchins
7. What Went Wrong This Time - Siddeleys
8. Anorak City - Another Sunny Day
9. Get Out Of My Dream - Clouds (1)
10. Golden Shower - Boy Hairdressers
11. Ask Johnny Dee - Chesterfields (2)
12. He Blows In - Raw Herbs
13. Beat Girl - Wishing Stones
14. You Didn't Love Me Then - Hit Parade
15. Like Frankie Lymon - Weather Prophets
16. Sunday To Saturday - June Brides
17. I Had An Excellent Dream - Dentists
18. Everybodys Knows The Monkey - Mighty Mighty
19. E102 - BMX Bandits
20. Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
21. Cut Me Deep - Jasmine Minks
22. I'll Still Be There - Razorcuts
23. Bodines - Therese
24. Paradise Estate - Television Personalities
Disc: 2
1. Upside Down - Jesus & Mary Chain
2. Really Stupid - Primitives (1)
3. It Always Rains On Sunday - Groove Farm
4. Black Country Chainsaw Massacre - Pop Will Eat Itself
5. Come Get Me - 14 Iced Bears
6. Sign On The Line - Fizzbombs
7. Anti Midas Touch - Wolfhounds (1)
8. This Boy Can Wait - Wedding Present
9. Bible Of The Beats - Age Of Chance
10. Safety Net - Shop Assistants
11. Just Too Bloody Stupid - Close Lobsters
12. Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
13. Don't Slip Up - Meat Whiplash
14. I Could Be In Heaven - Flatmates
15. If I Said - Darling Buds
16. Poised Over The Pause Button - This Poison
17. Jack And Julian - Bachelor Pad
18. On Tape - Pooh Sticks
19. Flowers Are In The Sky - Revolving Paint Dream
20. Whole Wide World - Soup Dragons
21. Frans Hals - McCarthy (1)
22. Like An Angel - Mighty Lemon Drops
23. Why Popstars Can't Dance - Big Flame
24. Baby Honey - Pastels (1)
The highlights? The Wolfhounds' "Anti Midas Touch" still sounds fresh with a mature arrangement, while McCarthy's "Frans Hals" hinted at great things to come. The Wedding Present were out of the blocks with the frantic pop of "This Boy Can Wait" - one of only three tracks of the 48 here which appeared on the original tape - while the brilliant Chesterfields recorded the only song about the scene itself with "Ask Johnny Dee".
So, well
done St Etienne's Bob Stanley for not simply replicating the original
release - how would you like to have to track down 48 teachers/social
workers... whatever
these musicians are up to now, to ask for permission. Just sit back,
put your pointy boots up on the sofa and recall student grants, fanzines,
button badges, Rickenbackers and Thatcherism. Ah, those truly were
the days… (Full
Review)
ANDY STRICKLAND
Yahoo Music
It is a remarkable upsurge of interest in a scene that self-consciously kept itself on the fringe of the mainstream, but nevertheless became hugely influential.
Of the
22 bands on the original tape, only Wedding Present and Primal Scream
went on to make a lasting mark, but the sound and look that C86 captured
still characterises a section of British music culture: it is a world
of jangly Rickenbacker guitars, defiantly asexual feyness, DIY fanzines
and seven-inch singles, bowl-cuts, hair-clips, and childlike innocence. Read
Article
NICK HASTED
Independent Newspaper
This is a pretty good and indispensable introduction for all those who want
to know what C86 was and what it was all about.
The tracks
here are much stronger than the original submissions and these include
Age Of Chance and their industrial stomper Bible Of The Beats, The
Wolfhounds Anti Midas Touch and The Soup Dragons Whole Wide World before
the latter went all baggy on us. Some of the politics also has
seemed to have gone missing but this is clearly understandable twenty
years on although the current administration is doing it's best to
impersonate the mid 1980's Tory government. McCarthy who were followers
of the Workers Revolutionary Party appear and reminds us of those despairing
days that in the end contributed to many of the bands making music
- well it was better than being on the dole a quote I recall from The
Shop Assistants whose track Safety Net is the Teenage Kicks of the
C86 generation.
Listening to this compilation, which captures the spirit if the era, makes me excited as when I first heard this music which has had a pretty big impact on my life. C86 and issues around it means it has it's detractors but twenty years on and I'm Not Scared To Get Happy once again.
Essential stuff - buy!
(Full Review)
TOM
indie-mp3.co.uk