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

The one record from this era that I did love enough to actually buy

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Really Stupid" by The Primitives

This isn't a shambling record though. It's teen pop through a JAMC filter. The Shop Assistants sort of fall into this category too. Both bands were templates for the cutie indie that eventually led to the woeful Sarah records. Only they avoided tweeness and were all the better for it. (The Primitives of course lurched successfully into the mainstream within 2 years.)

Re: The one record from this era that I did love enough to actually buy

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i still love the shop assistants "china" -- the aesthetic was JAMC fuzz-harmony with the volume turned right down to 1!!

Re: The one record from this era that I did love enough to actually buy

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

:-( the sarah records sampler figures more highly than c86 in my personal indie oddysey