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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