Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been....?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the battlegrounds in the Hip Hop Wars was NME's "C86" cassette, a tape compiled by some of the paper's writers, later described as "the most indie thing to have ever existed". While many of the bands were later embarassed by it and while it suffers from the usual post-facto "OMG it wasn't a scene" backlash (sure, it wasn't a scene in the sense of bands working and collaborating together, but it captures a mood quite well), its legend lives on.

Here's a poll about it:


[Poll #829524]


SHAMBLE ON.

Comments

What If This Tape Is Great?

[koganbot]

Haven't heard anything on it. If I ever hear the whole thing and it turns out to be GREBT, will this undermine my Why Music Sucks rants from '86 and '87? (Answer would probably be, "No, not at all. Were just a blip while you, Frank, had stuck your nose up at a trend.")

Re: What If This Tape Is Great?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well i didn't read yr wms rants till 90 or 91 i don't think but they seemed exactly in synch to me -- to articulate most of the relevant critique let's say

there are a couple of gently fugitive songs on it which seem better now than they did then -- i have an (original! swank swank) tape copy which i can't upload sadly

therese which tom put up last night is on it and is emblematic

Re: What If This Tape Is Great?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

the blog i meant to link up the way http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/ has mp3s of the whole thing if you look around