NME's 'C86 Compilation'.... C&D, S&D, Say Something Interesting About, etc etc etc...

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I don't think it has any C86 tracks on it

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

No Miaow! either. But a lot of the others.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

My main problem with the C86 comp is that most of the really really awesome songs that get labeled as "C86" aren't actually on the C86 comp.

Somebody said it up there

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Velocity Girl" is the same start track on both.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

That's because "Velocity Girl" was (that incarnation of) Primal Scream's best track, nobody else on C86 was represented by their best tracks (they were mostly rubbish tracks that would have ended up stuck on the b-side of a 12")

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Did The Bodines record a better song than "Therese"?!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

About half of the first Bodines album is about as good as "Therese".

"nobody else on C86 was represented by their best tracks "

So true. Though Buffalo is Stump's most likable track.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

The McCarthy track put me off them for far too long.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Gasp! You dare diss the McCarthy track! For shame!

― Bassment Jacks (Bimble...), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

C'mon man, it's far from their best.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

ex-heavenly peeps have a lock on this stuff:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1930836,00.html

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

nicky wire was in heavenly? what did he do, write lyrics for "i fell in love last night"?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing Enrique means Heavenly records.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

(er, I might deserve some kind of whoosh for completely missing the irony there. lif so I'm sorry, I'm not really awake.)

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

i met the something-or-other from heavenly-thee-band. very serious dude.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

peter?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

dunno.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

C86 - Still Doing It For Fun

OK so you steal Bachelor Pad titles for your crappy "celebration" but you try finding their music on CD. Ya bastids!

― Dadaismus (Gives You The Big Reassure) (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone going to any of this? I suppose it is as important not to go as it is for the original bands not to have reformed. But it might be quite good.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I've just seen the price. As you were.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

last.fm is the source of much Heavenly amusement / confusion.
http://www.last.fm/music/Heavenly

cathy was last seen on tv crashing cars with henry rollins. which was funny. juxtaposition.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I've just seen the Magic Numbers are playing at it. As you were.

― Dadaismus (Gives You The Big Reassure) (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Says a lot about today's music scene that C86 gets revived whereas C81 does not (or did the, cough, post-punk "revival" cover the latter?).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

yes... it did! i think the post-punk revival was fairly well covered.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

But there wasn't a specific "sound" to C81, the music was all different

― Dadaismus (Gives You The Big Reassure) (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

And so much better.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well yes, obviously, but a different thing altogether

― Dadaismus (Gives You The Big Reassure) (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

As different as the Brotherhood of Breath were to the Brotherhood of Man.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

I stayed at Amelia Fletcher and the other feller from Heavenly's house once. They were very nice.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see her in her knickers?

I ask that question as a public service, rather than for my own ends.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Don't ask on my account

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Soz, no.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nicky Wire reminisces, 'it were all 7" singles, when I was a lad'

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not the same Nicky Wire who plays in the Manic Street Preachers who used to go on about how shit and unambitious and grey C86 was and how the only two important groups in the world were Public Enemy and Guns N' Roses, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, funny that isn't it?

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

lex would have liked the early manics, i think -- wasn't all that stuff classic nme-bait? they were the ultimate interviews band.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes but guitars ew.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Lex has better taste than that!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

"OK so you steal Bachelor Pad titles for your crappy "celebration" but you try finding their music on CD. Ya bastids!"

Hear, hear!

Later period stuff is possibly forthcoming: http://www.eggrecords.co.uk/future.asp

I have Tales of Hoffmann on cd. But what about the Warholasound period?

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure i once saw a Bachelor Pad cd with all their early stuff on it.
i passed it by and have regreted it ever since.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

It must have been the cd of "Tales of Hoffmann" on Imaginary. Albums of Jack/Do it for Fun etc have never been on cd.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article1932714.ece

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

There were also landmark albums that year from artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Miles Davis and Prince

Selective music history as David Cameron would appreciate it. No nasty Def Jam hip hop there!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

all history is selective, to be fair.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

How an NME cassette launched indie music

No it didn't

C86, the unassuming mail-order cassette compiled by NME, through which the indie sound and scene first coalesced

No it didn't

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Later period stuff is possibly forthcoming: http://www.eggrecords.co.uk/future.asp

It's been forthcoming for yonks, with no end in sight

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's the sort of record collection a Cameron voter would have ("Billy Bragg, oh that reminds me of my student days, his politics are a bit embarrassing now aren't they darling?").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think the artists were "baffled" by black music either, but still...

I don't think many Billy Bragg fans defected to the Tory ranks. I could be wrong though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

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