From C86 to CD86

[Shinboners]

For those of you who grew up with 1980s indie pop, you might remember an NME cassette titled "C86" which had a lot of those jangly guitar pop bands on it.

20 years on, and there's a CD title "CD86 - 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop". You can get it from Amazon.co.uk. The CD has liner notes written by Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne, and listening to it brings back a lot of memories (especially for those who used to hang out at places like the Carron Tavern, Clockwork Orange, Industry etc.)

To jog the memory, here are a few tracks:

Velocity Girl by Primal Scream
Vibrato by East Village
Pristine Christine by The Sea Urchins
Golden Shower by Boy Hairdressers
Like Frankie Lymon by the Weather Prophets
E102 by BMX Bandits
Tallulah Gosh by Tallulah Gosh
I'll Still Be There by Razorcuts
Upside Down by the Jesus and Mary Chain
Really Stupid by the Primitives
It Always Rains On Sunday by Groove Farm
Black Country Chainsaw Massacre by Pop Will Eat Itself
This Boy Can Wait by the Wedding Present
Dukla Prague Away Kit by Half Man Half Buscuit
Jack and Julian by the Bachelor Pad
Whole Wide World by the Soupdragons
Frans Hals by McCarthy
Baby Honey by the Pastels
Therese by Bodines

 

[Silent Alarm]

What a thread. I think I have a pretty eclectic taste, but post-punk definitely heads it. If there's any chance or scene behind that, it'd be some jangly, C86 indie pop.

Anyway, I only revived this because I'm going to the Wedding Present tonight. They're playing The Hit Parade and some others. Anyone else going?