Name: C85
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRCDBOX130

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929113091

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Cherry Red

Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.

Following the success of the three-disc compilation, The Sun Shines Here (which documented the roots of Indie Pop from 1980-84), the prequel to C86, C85 combines “name” bands with many obscurities making their debut on CD. Several acts on C85 would eventually feature on that NME’s C86 collection: Primal Scream, The Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops, etc, who all had singles released in 1985.

Back in 1986, the NME’s latest mail-order cassette, C86, captured the latest trends in Indie music, inspired by the C81 tape from half a decade earlier. C86 became the NME’s best-selling compilation, selling an estimated 40,000 copies and eventually being re-issued on LP and cassette by Rough Trade the following year. Fast forward to 2014, the triple-CD edition celebrated the cult status of C86, which had come to embody a whole style of indie guitar music with 50 extra tracks.

C85 bridges the gap between The Sun Shines Here and C86, opening with undoubtedly the most vital British breakthrough band of that year in The Jesus &amp; Mary Chain and closing with the debut from a band who’d have to wait several years for their chance, The Stone Roses. Along the way, we hear many key records by the likes of post-Undertones band That Petrol Emotion (their blistering debut ‘Keen’), The Woodentops, James, Del Amitri, The Housemartins (their debut ‘Flag Day’) and a then largely unknown Happy Mondays (again represented by their first single). Where discs one and two reflect the predominant indie pop sound with which C86 was most closely associated, disc 3 acknowledges the harder, more angular sounds of that era (encapsulated by the bands on the Ron Johnson label).

Alongside band biographies for every track is an introductory essay by one-time NME scribe Neil Taylor, the original co-compiler of C86 and author of the book C86 And All That. In short, C85 is essential for any fan of 80s independent music.

DISC ONE 1 THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Never Understand 2 THAT PETROL EMOTION Keen 3 THE WOODENTOPS Move Me 4 THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS Like An Angel 5 HURRAH! Funny Day 6 THE LOFT Your Door Shines Like Gold 7 JAMES Uprising 8 SHOP ASSISTANTS All Day Long 9 THE JUNE BRIDES Josef’s Gone 10 THE WEDDING PRESENT (The Moment Before) Everything’s Spoiled Again 11 THE DENTISTS Pallino 12 THE HOUSEMARTINS Flag Day (Single Version) 13 THE JASMINE MINKS What’s Happening 14 THE SOUP DRAGONS If You Were The Only Girl In The World (Would You Take Me?) 15 MIGHTY MIGHTY Throwaway (A Night At The Flicks version) 16 HAPPY MONDAYS Delightful 17 McCARTHY In Purgatory 18 BIFF BANG POW! Love And Hate 19 THE PRIMITIVES Across My Shoulder (Demo) 20 THE BODINES Paradise 21 PERFECT DISASTER New Beginning 22 THE HIT PARADE The Sun Shines In Gerrards Cross 23 MICRODISNEY Horse Overboard 24 MIAOW Fate 25 THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS Attraction Gear

DISC TWO 1 PRIMAL SCREAM All Fall Down 2 SARAH GOES SHOPPING Summer Blues 3 DEL AMITRI Sticks And Stones, Girl 4 THE PASSMORE SISTERS Dance The House Down 5 THE CLAIM Through His Sunglasses 6 GRAB GRAB THE HADDOCK Last Fond Goodbye 7 THE CHESTERF!ELDS Nose Out Of Joint (Flexidisc Version) 8 THE SEDGEMORONS Drop Dead Darling 9 YEAH JAZZ Julie &amp; The Sea Lions 10 THE WORD ASSOCIATION Mary Mary 11 THE KAMIKAZE PILOTS Sharon Signs To Cherry Red 12 ONE THOUSAND VIOLINS Halcyon Days 13 RONNIE CAN YOU HEAR ME? Vroom For Romance 14 GO! SERVICE It Makes Me Realise 15 HOUSEHUNTERS Shopping City 16 THE SNAKES OF SHAKE Southern Cross 17 ST CHRISTOPHER As Far As The Eye Can See 18 THE WORD Wide Awake 19 BENNY PROFANE Drop Dead (Demo) * 20 THE BRIDGE World Of Your Own 21 THE WAKE Of The Matter 22 ALWAYS Late Again 23 IN EMBRACE Shouting In Cafes 24 THE BAND OF HOLY JOY Consumption

DISC THREE 1 A WITNESS Lucky In London 2 YEAH YEAH NOH Prick Up Your Ears 3 BRILLIANT CORNERS My Baby In Black 4 STITCHED-BACK FOOT AIRMAN Granular Twilight 5 PIG BROS Excessive 6 THE MEMBRANES I Am Fish Eye 7 AGE OF CHANCE Bible Of The Beats 8 THE NOSE FLUTES Girth 9 THE FOLK DEVILS English Disease 10 BIG FLAME All The Irish (Must Go To Heaven) 11 MEAT WHIPLASH Losing Your Grip (Demo) 12 BOG-SHED Fat Lad Exam Failure 13 THE INCA BABIES Brother Rat 14 FIVE GO DOWN TO THE SEA Singing In Braille 15 THE JANITORS Chicken Stew 16 THE SINISTER CLEANERS The Gnomes Of Zurich 17 VEE VV Kindest Cut 18 SPLAT! Taxi 19 BOB HOPE TO DIE Honeymoon 20 THE BLUE AEROPLANES I Wanna Be Your Lover * 21 PALOOKAS Clear Day 22 SUDDEN AFTERNOON Acid Rain (Single Version) 23 THE STONE ROSES So Young