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C-86. In 1986, the British music weekly NME issued a cassette dubbed C-86, which included a number of bands -- McCarthy, the Wedding Present, Primal Scream, the Pastels, and the Bodines among them -- influenced in equal measure by the jangly guitar pop of the Smiths, the three-chord naivete of the Ramones, and the nostalgic sweetness of the ...
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Sep 19, 2017 · Despite its naive facade, to dismiss the C86 style would be a crime. Many groups, such as the groovily soft-spoken Mighty Mighty and the aforementioned Close Lobsters, integrated outspoken political messages in their music. However, the group that best translated its politics to music was undoubtedly the London-based McCarthy.
Over a quarter-of-a-century on, pressing play on the C86 mixtape still has that transporting impact – it opens up a portal to a different world. In May 1986, NME readers witnessed what was ...
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- “The Most Indie Thing That Ever Existed”
- Criticism of C86
- The Beginning of Indie
The story of C86 begins in 1981 with the C81 tape. Released by mail order, it was a showcase of bands recently signed to the Rough Trade label rather than a thorough compilation. Despite the tracks coming from only one record label, its sound was far more varied than C86, ranging from experimental jazz to ska. The joint venture was a success regard...
‘Pop’ was an appropriate label for the compilation. The whole point of C86 was a rejection of rock, at the time inundated with over-commercial pop rock, synth infected new wave and Americanised glam metal. According to Chris Nickson, C86 represented ‘a concerted move away from a testosterone-fuelled sound which had been such a vital part of rock mu...
One of the prolonged criticisms of C86 was that it gave birth to a wave of indie pop bands defined by twee, superficial lyrics with little opinion on anything other than how the frontman can’t get a girlfriend. It’s a criticism of alternative music that has continued to this day. Many of the groups were distinctly political. For example, McCarthywe...
The most striking aspect of the tape is that its influence didn’t stop at the bands it helped launch, nor even the bands of the 80s and 90s who were influenced by it. Even to this day, the indie scene contains influence from C86. Just look at bands such as The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and The 1975 (listen to one of this year’s singles, ‘Me & You To...
Mar 9, 2011 · Jim Keoghan Published 3:36am 9 March 2011. As soon as a jingly-jangly indie band appears today, the C86 tag isn’t far behind. And yet, this wasn’t always the case. Over time we seem to have diminished a scene that was far more musically and culturally complex that is often assumed. For all its janglyness, C86 was about much more than just that.
Jun 10, 2014 · Label: Cherry Red. Reviewed: June 10, 2014. After 28 years of being held by many as the gold standard for indie-pop, 1986's C86 compilation is getting a lavish reissue with two bonus discs ...
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Apr 29, 2022 · Sometimes conflated with soundalike sub-genre ‘jangle-pop’, C86 was the term given to a particular brand of introspective, lo-fi, Byrds-influenced indie power-pop. The name derived from a cassette tape given away with a May 1986 issue of the NME. A belated follow-up to their C81 comp from five years previous, C86 was somewhat narrower in ...
