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

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Jamie Wednesday were a previous incarnation Carter USM weren't they?

yeah, Carter formed when the other three blokes quit but they still had a gig booked; Jim and Les did the show with a drum machine and thought "well this was easy and we don't have to split the money so much" sorta thing. "let's name this one after you instead of me."

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

What about bIG fLAME? Their tune was fantastic and made me buy a couple of their records, which were equally great. They broke up pretty soon after though.

― everything, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone have this one:

Various Artists - An Hour Of Eloquent Sounds
Pleasantly Surprised 001 / Klark 02
a Speak in Volumes / Sunset Gun Enterprises colaboration 1982

Side 1
Side 2
1. The Birthday Party - The Hairshirt
2. Dante and the Lobster - Murder Followed By
Suicide
3. The French Impressionists - Summertime
4. A Pair Of Blue Eyes - Giovanis Room
5. Eric Random and the Nosebleeds - Bedlam a
Go-Go
6. Ludus - Rosa Luxemburg
7. Primal Scream - Thought
8. Marine Girls - Take A Chance
9. A.P.B. - Love To Learn
10. 22 Beaches - Zoo
11. Essential Bop - Monkey Glands
12. Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon
13. The Wake - The Drill
14. Sunset Gun - Gotta Have Me Go With You
15. Billy Makenzie Sings Orbidoig - Helicopter
Helicopter

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 October 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, anything that has the Cocteau Twins and the Birthday Party has my vote. (Unless, of course, this comp is total ass and those two are mere "bait tracks")

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I saw some vinyl promo version of the C86 tape on eBay recently. I'd be interested in hearing it for historical reasons if nothing else. I bought the Rough Trade Indiepop compilation last month and have just started getting into all those 80s UK indie pop bands. When I was in England last month I was able to find a couple of Creation Records compilations at a used vinyl store for 2 pounds each - 'Doing It For The Kids', and 'Its Different For Domeheads'. Both are good - 'Doing It For The Kids' has a really good Felt song on it I can't find anywhere else.

― W. Earl Piglet, Friday, 31 December 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but the felt song on 'doing it for the kids' is "ballad of the band", it's on three different Felt compilations..

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I thought something wasn't quite right there.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

5 according to AllMusic.
Initial searches only led me to the Bad Company song "Ballad Of the Band".
I guess I didn't look hard enough.
Beside the point - its a good song.

― W. Earl Piglet, Friday, 31 December 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=12257

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

£22.50!!!!!!!!!

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to like saint etienne but their connection to c86 (none of which i've heard) has always bewildered me.

and now bob stanley gone done this.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the music of Bob Stanley's youth, that's the connection

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

the connections of bob stanley to c86 are widespread and considerable

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't know what c86 was when i was getting into saint etienne. they seemed au fait with dance music, which i had been led to believe indie kids weren't supposed to like. and even since then, weren't the c86 lot about "shambling"? not sure what shambing entails exactly, but it doesn't sound very etienne-like.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm trying hard to imagine anyone who is more of an indie kid than Bob Stanley is/was!

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://myspace-961.vo.llnwd.net/01292/16/93/1292173961_m.jpg

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, but, re: St. Etienne and dance music, indie kids do grow up eventually

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

has CD86 got all the C86 trax on it?

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

no.

e.g. Stump "Buffalo"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing Enrique means Heavenly records.

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

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

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

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

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

peter?

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

dunno.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

And so much better.

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

Well yes, obviously, but a different thing altogether

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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