C86: Deluxe 3Cd Edition / Various C86: Deluxe 3Cd Edition / Various CD

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.

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