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  1. 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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      Find Famous C-86 Artists and Musicians on AllMusic. In 1986,...

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      Find Hand-Picked Top C-86 Songs on AllMusic. In 1986, the...

    • Dirty Hits

      Dirty Hits by Primal Scream released in 2007. Find album...

  2. Sep 19, 2017 · Sporting an especially shambolic sound, the group incorporated strong left-wing politics in their music. This political slant would consume nearly every one of the McCarthy’s singles released in the five years they were together and cemented the band’s legacy in C86 lore. The vast influence C86 had on future generations is hard to miss.

  3. Aug 11, 2022 · C86 became associated with a set of adjectives — “shambling”, “twee” — that few of the bands wished on themselves. And that year in the tape’s title proved to be a bit of a millstone ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mar 9, 2011 · C86 And All That: The 25th Anniversary. Jim Keoghan explains why the C86 cassette compilation has a far more important legacy in independent music than just giving rise to jangly indie-pop. 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.

  6. Sep 28, 2022 · C86 aimed to create a new genre for NME to profit off, hoping to generate attention by ‘discovering’ and promoting a new genre. In achieving this purpose, the tape was a success. To this day, C86 is recognised as its own legitimate subgenre on RateYourMusic.com. But C86 was also used as a pawn in the so-called ‘Hip-Hop Wars’ going on in ...

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  8. C86, a compilation cassette put together by NME in 1986 was more than a just a reflection: it became a genre itself: indie pop. Read more on the legendary C8...

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