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VA - Cut Me Deep: A Story of Indie Pop 1985-1989 (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 16, 2024

VA - Cut Me Deep: A Story of Indie Pop 1985-1989 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.07 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 732 MB
5:08:49 | Indie Pop | Label: Cherry Red

During the latter half of the '80s a new breed of guitar-orientated bands began to emerge in the UK - armed with an overt pop song craft sensibility, and enamoured with a conflicting post-punk spirit and adoration of the '60s, many of these unlikely acts - all anoraks, Dr Martens and charity shop chic - would go on to become Top 40 regulars and set the tone for music beyond these shores, culminating in 'The Stone Roses', an album that defined a generation. 'Cut Me Deep' - named for a Jasmine Minks track which captured that spirit - presents a snapshot of that time and place, via essential independent labels such as Creation, Sarah Records and 4AD, and their major backed counterparts in Blanco Y Negro et al, alongside distribution via Rough Trade and other like-minded outlets. With an electric guitar in hand (no Stratocasters here please), and resplendent in clothes as immaculately and cheaply curated as their record collections, a new generation of British musicians kickstarted what would become the only credible challenge to the increasingly dominant synthesiser pop scene of the late 1980's.

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VA - Big Gold Dreams: A Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 23, 2019

VA - Big Gold Dreams: A Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 2,54 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 885 Mb | 06:26:19
Indie Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave, Punk Rock | Label: Cherry Red Records

BIG GOLD DREAMS documents the vibrant independent music scene to emerge in Scotland across the late 70s and 80s. Initially ignited by punk, labels sprang up in Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere to give a voice to the explosion of new acts across the country.

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VA - Make More Noise! Women In Independent UK Music 1977 - 1987 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 12, 2020

VA - Make More Noise! Women In Independent UK Music 1977 - 1987 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 04:44:33 | 1,8 Gb
Genre: Classic British Rock, Punk Rock, New Wave / Label: Cherry Red Records

Featuring ninety of the most remarkable female artists, all-girl bands and female-fronted groups to have recorded in the UK during the decade spanning 1977-1987, irrespective of genre and commercial success, “Make More Noise” proudly explores the breakthrough of countless pioneering women of the era. Of course, hugely successful female pop stars were nothing new in 1977, but this isn’t their story. This is the story of the everyday artist. The jobbing, gigging, working musician. The independent spirt.

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VA - C85 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 30, 2024

VA - C85 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 541 MB
3:53:42 | Alternative Rock, Goth Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop | Label: Cherry Red

3CD collection pre-queling NME’s huge selling C86 compilation. Featuring the best of the burgeoning indie scene from 1985.Including tracks from The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, That Petrol Emotion, The Woodentops, James, Del Amitri, The Housemartins and many more.Following the success of the three-disc compilation, ‘The Sun Shines Here’ (which documented the roots of Indie Pop from 1980-84), the prequel to C86, C85 combines “name” bands with many obscurities making their debut on CD. Several acts on C85 would eventually feature on that NME’s C86 collection: Primal Scream, The Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops, etc, who all had singles released in 1985.

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VA - C85 (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 26, 2022

VA - C85 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:01:16 | 1.2 Gb
Genre: Post-Punk, Alternative, Indie Rock / Label: Cherry Red Records

Following the success of the three-disc compilation, ‘The Sun Shines Here’ (which documented the roots of Indie Pop from 1980-84), the prequel to C86, C85 combines “name” bands with many obscurities making their debut on CD. Several acts on C85 would eventually feature on that NME’s C86 collection: Primal Scream, The Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops, etc, who all had singles released in 1985.

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VA - The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (Remastered) (2007) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 7, 2024

VA - The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium (Remastered) (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.1 GB
5:12:51 | Indie Rock, Britpop, Alternative, Shoegaze | Label: Rhino

Incredible four CD box set filled with influential and diverse U.K.-based Indie Pop and Rock acts that emerged from Great Britain in the broad wake of '80s Post-Punk. The Brit Box features all of the styles that wormed their way into the hearts of the music lovers during the late '80s, all through the '90s and beyond including Indie, Shoegaze, Baggy and Brit-Pop. While many artists featured here enjoyed superstar status in Mother England, their impact on U.S. charts was more peripheral but their stylistic imprint and collective uber-hip peer-pressure on late 20th century popular music overall is undeniable. With the respect given the '60s-era British Invasion in countless other compilations, Rhino's new trans-Atlantic ocean liner-sized box shaped to resemble a vintage UK phone booth with real flickering lights champions close to 80 independent acts that didn't so much reject mainstream musical sensibilities as spin it in their own fashion for hits that defined cool. Lovingly compiled with true oh to be in England spirit, Rhino hails Britannia with over five hours of tastemaker tracks.

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V.A. - Mojo Presents: You've Got Everything Now (15 Indie Classics From The 1980s) (2023) Music

Posted by gribovar at Nov. 12, 2023

Mojo magazine (October issue) presents "You've Got Everything Now!" - an indie rock blow-out starring The Sugarcubes, The Wedding Present, The Fall, The Pastels, The Three Johns, Red Guitars and more!

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VA - C85 (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 30, 2024

VA - C85 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 541 MB
3:53:42 | Alternative Rock, Goth Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop | Label: Cherry Red

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VA - Kilt By Death: The Sound Of Old Scotland 1977-1984 (2005) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 20, 2022

VA - Kilt By Death: The Sound Of Old Scotland 1977-1984 (2005)
FLAC (tracks) - 1.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 553 MB
3:58:22 | New Wave, Post-Punk, Power Pop, Punk, Novelty | Label: Not On Label

"After two decades of punk compilations mining increasingly small claims (Bloodstains Across Andorra, anyone?), here?s a collection encompassing the full wealth of the Scottish new wave (1977 to 1984). From punk, to pop, to art, and all points in between, including live nuggets and previously unheard demos. Eighty-seven songs by eighty-three bands.

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VA - C86 [3CD] (2014) Music

Posted by JET 1 at April 7, 2023

VA - C86 [3CD] (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 1.52 GB
Genre: Indie Pop, Post-Punk, C86 | Label: Cherry Red Records | Catalog Number: CRCDBOX12

Curated by the same team behind last year's award-winning 5-CD box set Scared To Get Happy, this highly anticipated reissue will be housed in a 'clamshell'-style hinged box, with a chunky booklet including a 11,500-word sleeve-note by Neil Taylor and lots of pretty pictures. In the NME's own words…"The album, first released on a cassette with NME in 1986, went on to inspire a generation of indie bands and features music by Primal Scream, The Pastels, Shop Assistants and The Wedding Present among many others. Former NME writer Neil Taylor, who assisted in compiling the original 22 track album nearly 30 years ago, has written the liner notes for the reissue and helped with the curation of two bonus discs of material which will include songs exclusive to CD and some never released before including tracks by The Love Act, North of Cornwallis and Paul Groovy & The Pop Art Experience."

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