Amazingly,five of the Ron Johnson stable appeared on the Iconic 'Indie' compilation "C-86", as released/compiled by the NME.
Indeed we also find Bogshed nestled in amongst such pale floppy fringe wearers as The Wolfhounds, the Bodines and other jangly foppish nonsense.
I'm surprised to discover that the tape that defined an Indie Era of jingly jangly tweedom, did in fact have some very non-jangly groups included.
Primal Scream open up the proceedings sounding, for all the world exactly like the very shit Stone Roses, three years in advance of all that 'Madchester' crap.
Of course Primal Scream would become one of those very same ,terrible bandwagon jumping combo's of 1989. Of the rest only The Soup Dragons would join them in making dance/indie crossover awfulness; which is a shame because I quite liked early Soup Dragons......I'll admit......in fact i quite enjoyed a lot of this tape!?....which is strange, as I regarded this stuff (Ron Johnson acts excepted), as the enemy,rather than the NME.
30 years removed,one now finds this jangly indie pop refreshing,and charmingly youthful.Unlike me.
Tracklist:
2–The Mighty Lemon Drops Happy Head 2:42
3–The Soup Dragons Pleasantly Surprised 2:05
4–The Wolfhounds-Feeling So Strange Again 1:41
5–The Bodines-Therese 3:09
6–Mighty Mighty-Law 3:40
7–Stump-Buffalo 4:30
8–Bogshed-Run To The Temple 3:28
9–A Witness-Sharpened Sticks 2:30
10–The Pastels-Breaking Lines 2:59
11–The Age Of Chance-From Now On,This Will Be Your God 3:12
12–Shop Assistants-It's Up To You 2:38
13–The Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers 1:48
14–Miaow-Sport Most Royal 2:54
15–Half Man Half Biscuit-I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart) 3:46
16–The Servants-Transparent 2:36
17–MacKenzies-Big Jim (There's No Pubs In Heaven) 2:34
18–Big Flame-New Way(Quick Wash & Brush Up With Liberation Theology)1:37
19–We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It-Console Me 1:24
20–McCarthy-Celestial City 2:59
21–The Shrubs-Bullfighter's Bones 3:48
22–The Wedding Present-This Boy Can Wait 4:00
6 comments:
I you for posting this.
It's easy to disparage the C-86 scene - C-85 really as all of the bands included on the tape had come to prominence from '84 onwards - but what was terrific about that (brief) period was the random array of acts you'd often find piled up together at the average mid-week gig: Primal Scream, Bogshed, A Witness and McCarthy have zilch in common but I saw all 4 of them on the same bill one evening in Sheffield. And the diversity of acts inevitably brought together an equally diverse selection of audience members of course. Great times for music and underground culture in the UK basically...
I saw the C-86 tour at York uni and the best band were Bristols Flatmates who i'd never heard of, the rest were average the whole C86 thing was just a nme invention.
"30 years removed, one now finds this jangly indie pop refreshing, and charmingly youthful."
One really doesn't. With the exception of the Ron Johnson bands, it's unrelentingly dire.
Awww don't be like that Jonathan.
all IMO of course ;)
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