C86 Deluxe 3cd Edition / Various Uk- C86: Deluxe 3CD Edition

Deluxe three CD edition of this influential cassette-only release. 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 NME’s 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. 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. 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. Key names include the June Brides, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Primitives, That Petrol Emotion, Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes, Happy Mondays, the Nightingales, the Railway Children, Pop Will Eat Itself, BMX Bandits, and others.

Tracklist:

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 1
10. The Pastels – Breaking Lines 1
11. Age of Chance – from Now on, This Will Be Your God 1
12. Shop Assistants – It’s Up to You 1
13. Close Lobsters – Firestation Towers 1
14. Miaow – Sport Most Royal 1
15. Half Man Half Biscuit – I Hate Nerys Hughes (From the Heart) 1
16. The Servants – Transparent 1
17. MacKenzies – Big Jim (There’s No Pubs in Heaven) 1
18. Big Flame – New Way (Quick Wash and Brush Up with Liberation Theology) 1
19. We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It – Console Me 2
20. McCarthy – Celestial City 2
21. The Shrubs – Bullfighter’s Bones 2
22. The Wedding Present – This Boy Can Wait (A Bit Longer!) 2
23. The June Brides – Just the Same 2
24. Yeah Yeah Noh – Another Side to Mrs Quill 2
25. The Primitives – Lazy 2
26. Jesse Garon ; the Desperadoes – Splashing Along 2
27. The Band of Holy Joy – Rosemary Smith 2
28. The McTells – Virginia M.C 2
29. B.M.X. Bandits – E102 3
30. One Thousand Violins – Like One Thousand Violins 3
31. The Dentists – Peppermint Dreams 3
32. The Membranes – Everything’s Brilliant 3
33. The Weather Prophets – Worm in My Brain 3
34. The Brilliant Corners – Meet Me on Tuesdays 3
35. Talulah Gosh – I Told You So 3
36. Pigbros – Hedonist Hat 3
37. 14 Iced Bears – Inside 3
38. St. Christopher – Go Ahead, Cry 3
39. The Groove Farm – Captain Fantastic (Demo) 4
40. Kilgore Trout – the Peacock Nose 4
41. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Inside Me 4
42. The Hit Parade – You Didn’t Love Me Then 4
43. That Petrol Emotion – Mine 4
44. The Turncoats – One Breath 4
45. A Riot of Colour – Skink (Flexi Version) 4
46. Paul Groovy ; the Pop Art Experience – Tune in, Turn on, Trip Out 4
47. The Railway Children – Darkness and Colour 4
48. The Chesterf!Elds – Sweet Revenge 4
49. The Jasmine Minks – World’s No Place 5
50. Stitched-Back Foot Airman – Why 5
51. Razorcuts – Sad Kaleidoscope 5
52. Treebound Story – I Remember 5
53. The Nightingales – Part Time Moral England 5
54. Episode Four – Strike Up Matches 5
55. The Avons – Everything’s Going Right 5
56. Meat Whiplash – Here It Comes 5
57. King of the Slums – Spider Psychiatry 5
58. Happy Mondays – Freaky Dancin’ 5
59. Biff Bang Pow! – Love’s Going Out of Fashion 6
60. Blue Aeroplanes – Outback Jazz 6
61. Lawrence ; the Comfortable Society – Heartache 6
62. Laugh – Take Your Time, Yeah (Flexi Version) 6
63. North of Cornwallis – Billy Liar 6
64. Pop Will Eat Itself – Mesmerized 6
65. Benny Profane – Hang Fire 6
66. Go! Service – Real Life 6
67. Janitors – Good to Be the King 6
68. The Claim – Gullible’s Travels 6
69. The Auctioneers – Scoop 7
70. Noseflutes – Perfect Cockney Hard-On 7
71. The Love Act – Hep Clothes 7
72. The Enormous Room – I Don’t Need You