3CD collection pre-queling NME's huge selling C86 compilation. Featuring the best of the burgeoning indie scene from 1985. Including tracks from The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, That Petrol Emotion, The Woodentops, James, Del Amitri, The Housemartins and many more. 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 & 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.

Tracklist:

The Jesus And Mary Chain Never Understand
That Petrol Emotion Keen
The Woodentops Move Me
The Mighty Lemon Drops Like An Angel
Hurrah! Funny Day
The Loft Your Door Shines Like Gold
James Uprising
Shop Assistants All Day Long
The June Brides Josef's Gone
The Wedding Present (The Moment Before) Everything's Spoiled Again
The Dentists Pallino
The Housemartins Flag Day (Single Version)
The Jasmine Minks What's Happening
The Soup Dragons If You Were The Only Girl In The World (Would You Take Me?)
Mighty Mighty Throwaway (A Night At The Flicks Version)
Happy Mondays Delightful
Mccarthy In Purgatory
Biff Bang Pow! Love And Hate
The Primitives Across My Shoulder (Demo)
The Bodines Paradise
Perfect Disaster New Beginning
The Hit Parade The Sun Shines In Gerrards Cross
Microdisney Horse Overboard
Miaow Fate
The Impossible Years Attraction Gear
Primal Scream All Fall Down
Sarah Goes Shopping Summer Blues
Del Amitri Sticks And Stones, Girl
The Passmore Sisters Dance The House Down
The Claim Through His Sunglasses
Grab Grab The Haddock Last Fond Goodbye
The Chesterf!Elds Nose Out Of Joint (Flexidisc Version)
The Sedgemorons Drop Dead Darling
Yeah Jazz Julie ; The Sea Lions
The Word Association Mary Mary
The Kamikaze Pilots Sharon Signs To Cherry Red
One Thousand Violins Halcyon Days
Ronnie Can You Hear Me? Vroom For Romance
Go! Service It Makes Me Realise
Househunters Shopping City
The Snakes Of Shake Southern Cross
St Christopher As Far As The Eye Can See
The Word Wide Awake
Benny Profane Drop Dead (Demo)
The Bridge World Of Your Own
The Wake Of The Matter
Always Late Again
In Embrace Shouting In Cafes
The Band Of Holy Joy Consumption
A Witness Lucky In London
Yeah Yeah Noh Prick Up Your Ears
Brilliant Corners My Baby In Black
Stitched-Back Foot Airman Granular Twilight
Pig Bros Excessive
The Membranes I Am Fish Eye
Age Of Chance Bible Of The Beats
The Nose Flutes Girth
The Folk Devils English Disease
Big Flame All The Irish (Must Go To Heaven)
Meat Whiplash Losing Your Grip (Demo)
Bog-Shed Fat Lad Exam Failure
The Inca Babies Brother Rat
Five Go Down To The Sea Singing In Braille
The Janitors Chicken Stew
The Sinister Cleaners The Gnomes Of Zurich
Vee Vv Kindest Cut
Splat! Taxi
Bob Hope To Die Honeymoon
The Blue Aeroplanes I Wanna Be Your Lover
Palookas Clear Day
Sudden Afternoon Acid Rain (Single Version)
The Stone Roses So Young

UPC: 5013929113091
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 10.21.22
Format: CD

C85 / Various - C85 / Various (Uk) (CD)