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4CD SET EXPLORING THE INDIE POP SCENE, 1985-1989.
STELLAR LINE-UP INCLUDES THE STONE ROSES, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, EDWYN COLLINS, THE HOUSEMARTINS, THE JUNE BRIDES, THE SUNDAYS, THE PRIMITIVES, THE SUGARCUBES, THE JASMINE MINKS, PALE SAINTS, THE WONDER STUFF, THE LA’S, INSPIRAL CARPETS, THE LOFT, LUSH, MILLTOWN BROTHERS, THE DARLING BUDS, THE LIGHTNING SEEDS AND MANY MORE.
HOUSEOLD NAMES, CLASSICS AND FORGOTTEN TREASURES.
A COMPANION TO 2022’s ‘THE SUN SHINES HERE’.
COMPILED BY THE TEAM WHO BROUGHT YOU THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ‘SCARED TO GET HAPPY’, ‘TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING’, ‘THE SUN SHINES HERE’ AND THE ‘C86’ SERIES.
During the latter half of the 80s a new breed of guitar-orientated bands began to emerge in the UK - armed with an overt pop song craft sensibility, and enamoured with a conflicting
post-punk spirit and adoration of the 60s, many of these unlikely acts – all anoraks, Dr Martens and charity shop chic – would go on to become Top 40 regulars and set the tone for music beyond these shores, culminating in ‘The Stone Roses’, an album that defined a generation.
‘Cut Me Deep’ – named for a Jasmine Minks track which captured that spirit – presents a snapshot of that time and place, via essential independent labels such as Creation, Sarah Records and 4AD, and their major backed counterparts in Blanco Y Negro et al, alongside distribution via Rough Trade and other like-minded outlets. With an electric guitar in hand (no Stratocasters here please), and resplendent in clothes as immaculately and cheaply curated as their record collections, a new generation of British musicians kickstarted what would become the only credible challenge to the increasingly dominant synthesiser pop scene of the late 1980s. Indeed, the entire movement might be understood as a reaction against that, and a return to the aesthetics of The Byrds and the universally adored Velvet Underground.
A must for the curious, and an essential addition for any collectors of our previous titles documenting the ‘80s British guitar pop scene, ‘Cut Me Deep’ chimes with familiar favourites, long lost curios, major hits and minor also rans, all of which share a pop minded commonality.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
1 Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend
2 Hurrah! - This Boy
3 Grab Grab The Haddock - Wan But Smiling
4 The Woodentops - It Will Come
5 Fantastic Something - The Night We Flew Out The Window
6 Del Amitri - The King Is Poor
7 The Dentists - I Had An Excellent Dream
8 Happy Mondays - Oasis
9 The Loft - Lonely Street
10 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste The Floor
11 Yeah Yeah Noh - The Short-Cut Way To Saturday
12 The Mighty Lemon Drops - Now She's Gone
13 Jamie Wednesday - I Think I'll Throw A Party For Myself
14 The Housemartins - Sheep
15 The Wedding Present - Once More
16 We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Rules And Regulations (EP Version)
17 The Servants - She's Always Hiding (Single Version)
18 The Chesterf!elds - Love Mountain
19 The Beloved - A Hundred Words
20 The June Brides - This Town
21 That Petrol Emotion - Natural Kind Of Joy
22 Mighty Mighty - Everybody Knows The Monkey
23 The Razorcuts - I'll Still Be There
24 Bid - Reach For Your Gun’
25 Anthony Adverse - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
DISC TWO
1 The Bodines - Heard It All
2 Band Of Holy Joy - Who Snatched The Baby
3 The Wise Acres - So Finally Sweet
4 The Weather Prophets - Naked As The Day You Were Born
5 The Stitched-Back Foot Airman - Some People
6 Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
7 J.C. Brouchard With Biff Bang Pow! - Someone Stole My Wheels
8 Gol Gappas - West 14
9 St. Christopher - Charmelle
10 The Soup Dragons - Head Gone Astray
11 Pop Will Eat Itself - Runaround
12 The Primitives - Stop Killing Me
13 The King Of Luxembourg - A Picture Of Dorian Gray
14 The Brilliant Corners - Brian Rix
15 The Hit Parade - I Get So Sentimental
16 The Wolfhounds - Cruelty
17 The Flatmates - Happy All The Time
18 The Hepburns - The Bath House
19 The House Of Love - Flow
20 The Passmore Sisters - Every Child in Heaven
21 Talulah Gosh - Escalator Over The Hill
22 The Waltones - Closest To
23 Revolving Paint Dream - 7 Seconds
24 A House - Snowball Down
DISC THREE
1 The Sugarcubes - Birthday
2 Edwyn Collins - Don't Shilly Shally
3 The Heart Throbs - Make My Day
4 The Sea Urchins - Summershine
5 The Bachelor Pad - Jack and Julian
6 Mood Six - Flowers And Boxes
7 McCarthy - The Well Of Loneliness
8 The Wonder Stuff – Unbearable (Original Version)
9 Miaow - Break The Code
10 The La's - Endless
11 Yeah Jazz - The Girl The Years Were Kind To
12 One Thousand Violins - If I Were a Bullet (Then For Sure I'd Find A Way To Your Heart)
13 Blow Up - Pool Valley
14 Rosemary's Children - WW1
15 BMX Bandits - Figure 4
16 The Man From Delmonte - Water In My Eyes
17 King Of The Slums - England's Leading Light
18 The Orchids - Give Me Some Peppermint Freedom
19 The Lilac Time - Return To Yesterday (Original Version)
20 The Senseless Things - (All You've Got To Do Is) Stay Together
21 The Vaselines - Molly’s Lips
22 14 Iced Bears - Come Get Me
23 Cud - Under My Hat
24 The Groove Farm – The Big Black Plastic Explosion
DISC FOUR
1 The Jasmine Minks - Cut Me Deep
2 The Darling Buds - It's All Up To You
3 Ambassador 277 - The Pop Up Man
4 The Pooh Sticks - 1-2-3 Red Light
5 Rote Kapelle - San Francisco Again
6 Benny Profane - Rob A Bank
7 The Golden Dawn - My Secret World
8 The Corn Dollies - Map Of The World
9 Inspiral Carpets - Butterfly
10 Bradford - Dodging Around In Cars
11 The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy
12 The Times - Heaven Sent Me An Angel
13 Treebound Story - Rain, Rain, Rain
14 The Popguns - Down On Your Knees
15 Another Sunny Day - What's Happened?
16 The Lightning Seeds - Pure
17 The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise
18 The Telescopes - Sadness Pale
19 BOB - Convenience
20 The Claim - Wait And See
21 Milltown Brothers - We’ve Got Time
22 The Mock Turtles - The Willow Song
23 How Many Beans Make 5 - Let’s Get This Thing Finished
24 East Village - Back Between Places
25 Pale Saints - She Rides The Waves
26 Lush - Baby Talk