Cherry Red 8cd boxset!

one of my favorite labels is putting out a huge 8 cd boxset. what do you think?

v/a - I'll Give You My Heart , I'll Give You My Heart The Cherry Red Singles Collect ion 1978-1983 8XCD (Cherry Red (UK): CRCDBOX 4: 5013929100404) $84.99

COMING 10/13/2008
Cherry Red Records marks its 30th Anniversary in style with this lavish celebratory 8-Disc / 185 track Long Box Set. Chronologically plots 61 Single / EP A & B sides from 1978 to 1983. Features 24 tracks from the U.K. Top 50 Indie Chart including 12 Top 20 & 2 #1 Hits. Includes hits by Dead Kennedys, The Monochrome Set, Eyeless In Gaza, The Runaways, Marc Bolan, Everything But The Girl, Robert Wyatt and many more. A comprehensive 78 page booklet plots the story of Cherry Red Records and details many rare 7 & 12 picture sleeves. Features extensive interviews conducted by Alex Ogg with fly-on-the-wall accounts from label founders and band members. TRACKS: CD ONE: CHERRY 1 - 10: 1. The Tights Bad Hearts 2. The Tights It 3. The Tights Cracked 4. The Tights Howard Hughes 5. The Tights China s Eternal 6. Destroy All Monsters Bored 7. Destroy All Monsters You re Gonna Die 8. Staa Marx Crazy Weekend 9. Staa Marx P.V.S. (Pleasant Valley Sunday) 10. Morgan-Fisher Geneva 11. Morgan-Fisher Roll Away The Stone 78 12. Morgan-Fisher Sleeper 13. Morgan-Fisher Lydian Theme 14. Hollywood Brats Then He Kissed Me 15. Hollywood Brats Sick On You 16. Destroy All Monsters Meet The Creeper 17. Destroy All Monsters Nov. 22nd 1968 18. The Runaways Right Now 19. The Runaways Black Leather 20. Destroy All Monsters What Do I Get? 21. Destroy All Monsters Nobody Knows 22. Richard Strange International Language 23. Richard Strange Kiss Goodbye Tomorrow TWO: CHERRY 11 - 21: 1. The Burtons MacArthur Park 2. Jah Wurzel Wuthering Heights 3. Hybrid Kids D Ya Think I m Sexy 4. Hybrid Kids Catch A F-Falling Star 5. Dead Kennedys Holiday In Cambodia 6. Dead Kennedys Police Truck 7. Emotion Pictures They Say Space Is Cold 8. Emotion Pictures Rescue Remedy 9. Alan Burnham Music To Save The World By 10. Alan Burnham Science Fiction 11. Dead Kennedys Kill The Poor 12. Dead Kennedys In-Sight 13. Hybrid Kids Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 14. Hybrid Kids Holly And Ivy 15. Medium, Medium Hungry So Angry 16. Medium, Medium Nadsat Dream 17. Five Or Six Another Reason 18. Five Or Six The Trial 19. Eyeless In Gaza Invisibility 20. Eyeless In Gaza Three Kittens 21. Eyeless In Gaza Plague Of Years 22. Second Layer Courts Or Wars 23. Second Layer Fixation CD THREE: CHERRY 22 - 27: 1. The Misunderstood Children Of The Sun 2. The Misunderstood Who Do You Love 3. The Misunderstood I Can Take You To The Sun 4. Five Or Six Polar Exposure 5. Five Or Six - Inclination 6. Five Or Six Outward Conversation 7. Five Or Six The Dreams I Cannot Keep 8. Five Or Six Building Kind 9. Five Or Six - Shifting 10. Five Or Six Lost Cause 11. Five Or Six Mud, Clay And Sticks 12. Five Or Six - Concoction 13. Five Or Six Cold Climate 14. Dead Kennedys Too Drunk To Fuck 15. Dead Kennedys The Prey 16. Ben Watt Can t 17. Ben Watt Tower Of Silence 18. Ben Watt - Aubade 19. Felt Something Sends Me To Sleep 20. Felt Red Indians 21. Soul - Tribes 22. Soul - Love CD FOUR: CHERRY 28 - 35: 1. Thomas Leer Don t 2. Thomas Leer Letter From America 3. Thomas Leer Tight As A Drum 4. Thomas Leer West End 5. Marc Bolan You Scare Me To Death 6. Marc Bolan The Perfumed Garden Of Gulliver Smith 7. The Passage - Taboo 8. The Passage - Taboodub 9. Eyeless In Gaza - Others 10. Eyeless In Gaza Jane Dancing 11. Eyeless In Gaza Ever Present 12. Eyeless In Gaza Avenue With Trees 13. Marc Bolan Cat Black 14. Marc Bolan Jasper C Debussy 15. The Reflections 4 Countries 16. The Reflections The Coroner And The Inquest 17. The Nightingales Inside Out 18. The Nightingales Under The Lash 19. The Nightingales Use Your Loaf 20. The Passage - XOYO 21. The Passage Animal In Me 22. The Passage Born Every Minute CD FIVE: CHERRY 36 - 43: 1. Ben Watt with Robert Wyatt Walter And John 2. Ben Watt with Robert Wyatt Aquamarine 3. Ben Watt with Robert Wyatt Slipping Slowly 4. Ben Watt with Robert Wyatt Another Conversation With Myself 5. Ben Watt with Robert Wyatt A Girl In Winter 6. Everything But The Girl Night And Day 7. Everything But The Girl Feeling Dizzy 8. Everything But The Girl On My Mind 9. The Nightingales Paraffin Brain 10. The Nightingales Elvis, The Last Ten Days 11. Marc Bolan The Wizard 12. Marc Bolan Beyond The Risin Sun 13. Marine Girls On My Mind 14. Marine Girls The Lure Of Rockpools 15. Creation Rebel Love I Can Feel 16. Creation Rebel Read And Learn 17. The Monochrome Set The Mating Game 18. The Monochrome Set J.D.H.A.N.E.Y. 19. Five Or Six This Is For The Moment 20. Five Or Six - Think 21. Five Or Six - Rushes 22. Five Or Six - Theme CD SIX: CHERRY 44 - 52: 1. The Nightingales Which Hi-Fi? 2. The Nightingales Give Em Time 3. The Nightingales My Brilliant Career 4. The Nightingales The Sun Of Gods Mate 5. Felt My Face Is On Fire 6. Felt Trails Of Colour Disolve 7. Atilla The Stockbroker - Cocktails 8. Atilla The Stockbroker Contributory Negligence 9. Atilla The Stockbroker The Night I Slept With Seething Wells (!) 10. Atilla The Stockbroker Fifth Column 11. Atilla The Stockbroker The Oracle 12. Eyeless In Gaza Veil Like Calm 13. Eyeless In Gaza Taking Steps 14. Joe Crow - Compulsion 15. Joe Crow Absent Friends 16. Kevin Coyne So Strange 17. Kevin Coyne Father, Dear Father 18. The Passage - Wave 19. The Passage - Drugface 20. The Passage - Angleland 21. The Monochrome Set Cast A Long Shadow 22. The Monochrome Set The Bridge 23. Thomas Leer All About You 24. Thomas Leer Saving Grace CD SEVEN: CHERRY 53 - 61: 1. Tracey Thorn Plain Sailing 2. Tracey Thorn Goodbye Joe 3. Marine Girls Don t Come Back 4. Marine Girls You Must Be Mad 5. Ben Watt Some Things Don t Mat ter 6. Ben Watt On Box Hill 7. The Nightingales Urban Ospreys 8. The Nightingales - Cakehole 9. Can - Moonshake 10. Can Turtles Have Short Legs 11. Can One More Night 12. The Passage Sharp Tongue 13. The Passage brd usa ddr jfk 14. Felt Penelope Tree 15. Felt A Preacher In New England 16. Felt Now Summer Spreads Its Wings 17. The Monochrome Set Jet Set Junta 18. The Monochrome Set Love Goes Down The Drain 19. The Monochrome Set Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie) 20. Fantastic Something If She Doesn t Smile 21. Fantastic Something The Thousand Guitars Of St. Dominiques CD EIGHT: SELECTED ALBUM TRACKS+RARITIES: 1. Morgan The Sleeper Awakes 2. Bodast Do You Remember 3. Kevin Harrison Chase The Dragon 4. A Tent No Way Of Knowing 5. Gilbert And Lewis extract from Mzui 6. New Age Steppers Threat To Creation 7. Piero Milesi Modi 2 (extract) 8. Lol Coxhill and Morgan Fisher Pretty Little Girl 9. Kevin Hewick Feathering The Nest 10. Martyn Bates The Look Of Love 11. John Otway Mine Tonight 12. Robert Wyatt Rangers In The Night 13. George Melly Sounds That Saved My Life 14. Robert Fripp - Miniature 15. Andy Partridge The History Of Rock n Roll 16. Ivor Culter Brooch Boat 17. Genesis Gospel Singers N tutu 18. Katakumbey Glory Halleluya 19. The Reflections Tightrope Walker 20. Squad Flasher (from Sent From Coventry) 21. Europeans - Europeans 22. Glaxo Babies Christine Keeler 23. Private Dicks She Said So 24. Apartment The Car 25. The Letters Nobody Loves Me 26. Art Objects Showing Off To Impress The Girls 27. The Final Eclipse - Birdsong 28. Extract: The Compassion & Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher

wow.

Alan Burnham!

"Christine Keeler"!

but no Lemon Kittens, oh well.

I wish Rough Trade would do a comp like this, I highly approve of the "all the singles, in order" approach.

whoah "Turtles Have Short Legs"!!!

yah a rough trade set would be amazing. i've got the mute box and the creation one, i know there's two for stiff records and ztt is coming out with one but the tracklisting isn't so exciting. any other great uk punk and postpunk labels have boxsets?

I would love a Rough Trade box! It probably will never happen because of copyright problems. As for other punk/post-punk labels, Factory put out the Palatine box. It's certainly not bad, but as usual with Factory some of the inclusions and omissions are somewhat odd.

I've always been tempted to pick up that Flying Nun box.

right, factory box, tracklisting seems mixed for sure. there's a two tone box to but impossible to find. wot about a 4ad box????? thatd be cool.

did anyone else get this? really great overall but some poor vinyl transfers - esp monochrome set's The Bridge and nightingales Son Of God's Mate. but those problems can't distract from the greatness of it all.

Listening to this again from start to finish. Manoman the Destroy All Monsters singles are shit hot and Five Or Six are really growing on me.

Not really the box, but I'm listening to the Pillows and Prayers comp and it is always great.
I also got the reissue of the two Hybrid Kids (aka Morgan Fisher) albums and God nows if there's lot of curious stuff in there.

You know that bit in "D'yer think I'm sexy" ,

"Electronic music is one possibility in tomorrow's world!"

I've got the 'demonstration' single that came off of. ("Changing Horzons")