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Friday 24 May 2013

NME C86 - Compilation


And in the beginning there was C86

C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time. As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical genre characterized by jangling guitars and melodic power pop song structures, although other musical styles were represented on the tape. In its time, it became a pejorative term for its associations with so-called "shambling" (a John Peel-coined description celebrating the self-conscious primitive approach of some of the music) and underachievement. The C86 scene is now recognized as a pivotal moment for independent music in the UK, as is recognized in the subtitle of the compilation's 2006 extended reissue: CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop.

The C86 name was a play on the labelling and length of blank compact cassettes - commonly C60, C90 and C120 - combined with 1986.

1. Primal Scream – “Velocity Girl”
2. The Mighty Lemon Drops – “Happy Head”
3. The Soup Dragons – “Pleasantly Surprised”
4. The Wolfhounds – “Feeling So Strange Again”
5. The Bodines – “Therese”
6. Mighty Mighty – “Law”
7. Stump – “Buffalo”
8. Bogshed – “Run to the Temple”
9. A Witness – “Sharpened Sticks”
10. The Pastels – “Breaking Lines”
11. Age of Chance – “From Now On, This Will Be Your God”

Side two
1. The Shop Assistants – “It’s Up to You”
2. Close Lobsters – “Firestation Towers”
3. Miaow – “Sport Most Royal”
4. Half Man Half Biscuit – “I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)”
5. The Servants – “Transparent”
6. The Mackenzies – “Big Jim (There’s no pubs in Heaven)”
7. Big Flame – “New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)”
8. Fuzzbox – “Console Me”
9. McCarthy – “Celestial City”
10. The Shrubs – “Bullfighter’s Bones”
11. The Wedding Present – “This Boy Can Wait”

Saturday 4 May 2013

Whipping Boy - Submarine



Submarine is the debut album by the Irish rock group Whipping Boy, released in July 1992 on the Liquid Records label.The album used shades of early Sonic Youth and Post Punk Rock along with Ian McCulloch vocal styles in places. Blending music stylings of My Bloody Valentine and The Loop with same kind of drone rock as Spacemen 3.

Safari
Beatle
Sushi
Favourite Sister
Astronaut Blues
Bettyclean
Buffalo
Snow
Valentine 69
Submarine