Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent - Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent [CD]
Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent - Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent [CD]
3CDs Compiled By Celebrated Author And Director Grant McPhee (Postcard From Scotland, Teenage Superstars, Etc). Tracing The Evolution Of The Scottish Indie Scene, From The Mid-80s Exploits Of The C86 Scene, Through Belshill And Into The Late 1990s Via Chemikal Underground And Fife's Diy Movement. Packed With Household Names, Essential Cuts, Underground Legends, Lesser-Known Indie Gems And Four Previously Unreleased Tracks. Complete With Archival Imagery, Band Biographies And Grant McPhee's Insightful First-Hand Account. Following it's blossoming in the post-punk era, by the mid-80s, the Scottish indie scene had become a sprawling, glorious network of bands, fanzines, club nights and record shops. When the NME issued it's now-mythic 'C86' cassette in 1986, Scottish music featured heavily, setting the tone for a couple of decades of brilliant and eclectic music. From the noise-pop of The Jesus And Mary Chain and the effortless retro cool of Primal Scream, through the kawaii stylings of Bis and the sophisticated pop of Belle And Sebastian, to the dour post rock of Arab Strap and the melting pot eclecticism of The Beta Band, 'Something For The Longing' pulls together a snapshot of that time and place. Compiled chronologically, this is a story whose narrative takes in familiar faces, mythical scenesters, bona fide rock gods, singularly minded labels and, above all, the inventive musical exploits of a nation punching well above it's weight. Complete with a sleevenote essay and band biographies by curator Grant McPhee, archival imagery and a handful of unreleased recordings provided especially by the artists, 'Something For The Longing' is a must-hear for fans and collectors of the '80s and '90s indie scenes, anybody who was there and then, and the Caledophile in your life.
Tracklist:
- The Jesus and Mary Chain-You Trip Me Up
- Shop Assistants - I Don't Wanna Be Friends with You
- Rote Kapelle - These Animals Are Dangerous
- The Soup Dragons - Soft As Your Face
- The Motorcycle Boy - Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Primal Scream - Gentle Tuesday
- The Big Gun - Heard About Love
- The Thieves - Talk Your Head Off
- The Clouds - Get Out of My Dream
- Biff Bang Pow! - He Don't Need That Girl
- The Revolving Paint Dream - Stop the World
- The Jasmine Minks - Cut Me Deep
- Christine's Cat - She's Alive
- Baby Lemonade - Much Too Late
- The Golden Dawn - My Secret World
- The Vaselines - Teenage Superstar
- Dawson - Noel Edmonds
- Stretchheads - a Freakout
- Badgewearer - Buspass Conspiracy
- Spirea X - Chlorine Dream
- Fenn - Saint's Gate (Demo)
- The Fizzbombs - Blue Summer
- The Hardy Boys - Wonderful Lie
- Whiteout - the Next Big Thing
- The Vultures - You're Not Scared
- The Orchids - Something for the Longing
- The Wendys - Enjoy the Things You Fear
- Pearlfishers - Sacred
- BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs
- Superstar - Don't Wanna Die
- Long Fin Killie - the Lamberton Lamplighter
- Whirling Pig Dervish - Whip
- The Stanleys - Royal Blue
- Lung Leg - Punk Pop Travesty
- Glue - Modelling
- Spare Snare - Wired for Sound
- Pink Kross - Punk Outfit
- Lugworm - Sweaty Says
- The Blisters - Patrick Meets the Courgettes
- Trout - Owl in the Tree
- The Yummy Fur - Typical of Boys
- The Poison Sisters - Chicane
- Hee Haw - 6/26
- Sally Skull - Bride of Frankenstein
- The Luci Baines Band - Find a Lil Love (Extended)
- Eska - Running on Sum Six Dew
- Country Teasers - Last Bridge of Spencer Smith
- Nostril - Token Song About Foreign Politics
- Dick Johnson - Disposable
- Arab Strap - the First Big Weekend
- The Delgados - Monica Webster
- Bis - Keroleen
- Frank Blake - Plastic Bag
- Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
- Urusei Yatsura - Hello Tiger
- The Male Nurse - My Own Private P. Swayze
- Starstruck - Orange
- The Starlets - Tainted
- El Hombre Trajeado - Logo (Album Version)
- Gilded Lil - Last Tango in Tollkross
- Camera Obscura - Your Sound
- Huckleberry - Three-Speed Wilfred
- King Creosote - a Little Paint
- The Beta Band - Inner Meet Me
- The Amphetameanies - Last Night
- V-Twin - Thank You Baby
- Mogwai - Christmas Steps
UPC: 5013929120785
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 5.1.26
Format: CD