C87

famed UK indie comp 'C86' getting posthumous 'C87' sequel box set

Legendary UK indie comp C86 just got reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day and now comes word that Cherry Red is following it up this year with the C87 box set which will be released June 17. Now the NME didn’t actually release a C87 cassette, but Cherry Red got C86 compiler Neil Taylor to put this one together. The first disc features bands who made their debut in late ’86 and early ’87, including The House Of Love, The Vaselines, The Shamen, The Darling Buds, The Inspiral Carpets, Cud, Kitchens Of Distinction, The Boy Hairdressers (who would become Teenage Fanclub), The Sea Urchins, The Wonder Stuff and more. The second and third discs revisits bands who were on the original C86 cassette (The Wedding Present, McCarthy, The Servants, The Wolfhounds, and Mighty Mighty) and other indie groups of the era.

Check out the C87 tracklist below:

C87 tracklist

CD 1
1. The Sea Urchins -Pristine Christine
2. The House of Love – Real Animal
3. This Poison! -Poised Over the Pause Button
4. The Vaselines – Son of a Gun
5. The Wonder Stuff -It’s Not True
6. The Heart Throbs – I, the Jury
7. The Clouds – Get Out of My Dream
8. Cud – Mind the Gap (Demo)
9. The Shamen – Young Till Yesterday
10. The Darling Buds -Spin (Flexidisc Version)
11. Kitchens of Distinction -Escape!
12. The Boy Hairdressers -Golden Shower
13. The Great Leap Forward -My Grandfather’s Cluck
14. The Inspiral Carpets -Now You’re Gone (Demo)
15. The Bachelor Pad -Albert Hofmann
16. The Nivens – Room Without a View
17. The Flatmates -I Could Be in Heaven
18. Blow-Up – Good for Me
19. The Motorcycle Boy – Big Rock Candy Mountain
20. The Raw Herbs – Old Joe
21. Rote Kapelle -These Animals Are Dangeroos
22. Bob – What a Performance
23. The Submarines – Grey Skies Blue
24. Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters – Don’t Ask My Name
25. The Waltones – Downhill
26. I, Ludicrous -My Baby’s Got Jet Lag

CD 2
1. One Thousand Violins -Please Don’t Sandblast My House
2. The Wedding Present -My Favourite Dress
3. Laugh – Paul McCartney
4. The Soup Dragons – Hang Ten!
5. The Primitives – We Found a Way to the Sun
6. The Wolfhounds – the Anti-Midas Touch
7. Biff Bang Pow! -In a Mourning Town
8. The Bodines – Clear
9. Talulah Gosh – Talulah Gosh
10. Mighty Mighty – Built Like a Car
11. Pop Will Eat Itself -Sweet Sweet Pie
12. McCarthy Frans Hals
13. The Chesterfields -Ask Johnny Dee
14. Miaow – When It All Comes Down
15. Razorcuts -I Heard You the First Time
16. David Westlake – the Word Around Town
17. Gol Gappas – Saint Lucy
18. The Railway Children – Brighter
19. BMX Bandits -The Day Before Tomorrow
20. A House – Kick Me Again Jesus
21. The Groove Farm – Couldn’t Get to Sleep
22. Brilliant Corners – Please Please Please
23. Baby Lemonade – Secret Goldfish
24. The Corn Dollies – Forever Steven
25. Rosemary’s Children -Southern Fields

CD 3
1. Dog Faced Hermans -Catbrain Walk
2. Stump – Tupperware Stripper
3. Gaye Bykers on Acid -Everything’s Groovy
4. Bog-Shed -Tried and Tested Public Speaker
5. A Witness – Red Snake
6. MacKenzies – New Breed
7. The Shrubs – Edith
8. Stitched-Back Foot Airman -Tears in the Gutter
9. 14 Iced Bears – Like a Dolphin
10. Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes – I’m Up Here
11. The Desert Wolves -Love Scattered Lives
12. The Siddeleys -What Went Wrong This Time?
13. The Weather Prophets -In My Room
14. The Wishing Stones – Beat Girl
15. The Caretaker Race -Man Overboard (Demo)
16. The Dentists -Just Like Oliver Reed
17. Jamie Wednesday -We Three Kings of Orient Aren’t
18. Phil Wilson – 10 Miles
19. East Village – Her Father’s Son
20. Yeah Jazz – Sharon
21. The Rosehips – So Naïve
22. The Hepburns – Made Up
23. Emily – the Old Stone Bridge