In 1986 the NME’s annual cassette overview of the indie scene, C86, sold 40 000 copies and christened a genre.
Blamed for crystalising an unfairly derided fuzzy guitar pop – with tracks by The Wedding Present, The Soup Dragons and the infant Primal Scream – it also pushed aspirational arty noise like The Wolfhounds and Big Flame.
Two extra discs correct contemporary omissions, like Tallulah Gosh, whose Oxfam cutie-punk defined the scene, and Birmingham’s Beefheart beatniks The Nightingales, who prefigured and outlived it.
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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