C91 / Various C91 / Various CD

Three CDs. The Latest In The Hugely Successful 'C' Series, Riffing On The Original 'C86' Cassette. Follows Previous Best-Selling Collections C86 (2014), C87 (2016), C88 (2017), C89 (2018) And C90 (2020). 59 Tracks Charting The Ongoing Rise To Dominance Of The Independent Music Scene, As Once Shoestring Artists And Labels Began To Find Themselves Embraced By The Mainstream. Packed With Well-Known Favourites - The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Dodgy, Saint Etienne, The Cranberries, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Northside, Etc - Alongside Underground And Cult Independent Heroes - Sultans Of Ping Fc, Chapterhouse, Kingmaker, The Stairs, Flowered Up, Levitation And Many, Many More. Produced By The Team That Brought You 'Scared To Get Happy', 'Still In A Dream', 'Another Splash Of Colour', 'Electrical Language', 'Musik Music Musique' And Countless Other Critically Acclaimed Hit Box Sets. Having successfully crossed over from the bedsit to the mainstream throughout 1989 and 1990, independent artists quickly began to dominate the British musical landscape, bringing an authentic new energy to a stagnant, Thatcherite pop scene. 1991 saw countless indie artists score hit singles and albums as the scene continued to mutate and adapt regionally, politically and aesthetically - from Manic Street Preachers' urgent, punk-infused anthems and the outer edges of shoegaze and psychedelic songcraft offered by Chapterhouse and Levitation, through to the dancefloor friendly adventures of Flowered Up and St Etienne, the art-school informed Kingmaker and established baggy favourites The Charlatans, 1991 offered up the broadest and richest smorgasbord of accessible, street-level artists the UK's youth had known in a decade. 'C91' is a snapshot of that time and place, bringing together the cream of the 1991 independent landscape and offering a rollercoaster of hits, near-misses and curiosities along the way. With thoughtful sleevenotes from Lois Wilson (Record Collector and MOJO) and fantastic mood- capturing artwork we've come to associate with the 'C' series, this set - the sixth in the series - continues a journey begun with 'C86', charting an essential, alternative view of the British music scene as it moved towards the inevitability of the 21st Century

1. Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money 2. Dodgy -Summer Fayre 3. Kingmaker - When Lucy's Down 4. Catherine Wheel -Black Metallic 5. Sultans of Ping F.C. - Where's Me Jumper? 6. Bleach - Bethesda 7. Revolver- Crimson 8. The Wendys - Pulling My Fingers Off 9. The Stairs - Weed Bus (Flower Shop Demo) 10. Poppy Factory - 7 X 7 11. The Cranberries - Them 12. The Dylans -Godlike 13. Moose - Jack 14. Spirea X - Jet Pilot 15. Levitation - Nadine 16. Bang Bang Machine - Flower Horse 17. Sweet Jesus - Honey Loving Honey 18. Sun Dial - Fireball 19. Fabulous - There's a Riot Going on 20. Drop -Drone 1 21. Blueboy - Clearer 22. The High- Up and Down 23. The Charlatans - Over Rising 24. Top - She's Got All the World 25. Chapterhouse - Pearl 26. Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us 27. Flowered Up - I'll Be Your Dog (Introducing Barry Mooncult) 28. World of Twist - Sweets 29. Stan-My Delight 30. Paris Angels -Oh Yes 31. Lush -For Love 32. Scorpio Rising -Watermelon 33. Boo Radleys -The Finest Kiss 34. Slowdive -Morningrise 35. Spectrum - (I Love You) to the Moon ; Back 36. Secret Shine -Grey Skies 37. Medalark Eleven -Snake 38. Smashing Orange - Not Very Much to See 39. The Forever People - Sometimes 40. Manic Street Preachers - Stay Beautiful 41. Northside -Take 5 42. Ever - Virginize 43. Ned's Atomic Dustbin -Until You Find Out 44. TH' Faith Healers - Gorgeous Blue Flower in My Garden 45. Spitfire - Dive 46. Honey Smugglers -Closer 47. Horse Latitudes - Northern Country Lie 48. See See Rider - Stolen Heart 49. Steamkings - in Your Room 50. Greenhouse - New World Order 51. Gentle Despite - Shadow of a Girl 52. Moonflowers - Fire 53. Raintree County - Here It Comes 54. Heavenly - So Little Deserve 55. Headtime - Have You Heard 56. Tramway - Maritime City 57. Mexico 70 - What's in Your Mind 58. Fuel - Honey Comes Softly 59. The Sweetest Ache - Sickening