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

Poptimists/Sukrat crossover alert!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

At first I was wondering whether compilations (ie freebie 7"s given out with music papers etc) count, but happily Tom wrote "not counting C86" so obviously they do. Otherwise my 11 ticks would only have been 6 honest!

And the only reason I have any Pastels at all is The Wire Tapper 2 haha!