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.
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
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.