Album Review: C85 (3CD Various Artists)
Cherry Red [release date: 21.10.22]
Taking its lead from NME’s ultra successful C86, this 72 track, triple CD release, C85, celebrates the rise and rise of the Indie band in the UK.
In 1986, NME scribe Neil Taylor had the foresight to bundle together a bunch of tracks from Indie bands that were beginning to breakthrough, thanks to his weekly columns. It was titled C86, a trailbazing release that truly locked onto the fast developing Indie band sound, and sold in the hundreds of thousands.
Taylor had astutely observed that the Popular music terrain was now fertile ground for something different. Punk had just about burnt itself out and rock had found itself in an MTV/ FM Radio cul-de-sac.
Cherry Red’s C85 is an exciting collection, even if just for the fact – in many cases – it steps back a year, to 1985, and gives us the first glimpse of many, many bands who went on to achieve varying degrees of success.
In the case of the Jesus And Mary Chain that first glimpse was ‘Never Understand’, their debut single from the massive Psychocandy album. And there’s loads more here – the very early ‘Delightful’ from the The Happy Mondays’ Forty Five EP is on disc1; Primal Scream’s ‘All Fall Down’ is here… described by Allmusic as “Better than the rest”; The Wedding Present’s ‘The Moment Before’ was championed right into the charts by John Peel,
The (heavily touted) The Loft is here, a band who deservedly featured large on Cherry Red’s Creation Artefact CD release in 2015.
And more … The Stone Roses, The Soup Dragons, The Housemartins, and more … That Petrol Emotion, James, The Primitives, Del Amitri. And so on.
Great liner notes too, full of pics and unfussy but relevant facts, providing the genre with the respect it well deserves.
And for lovers of the arcane, Bob Hope To Die, Ronnie Can You Hear Me, The Stitched-Back Foot Air Man, and Grab Grab The Haddock are all here too. Wonder what ever happened to them? ****
Brian McGowan
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