Fierce Panda

I've got a ton of these Fierce Panda compilations. Most have two or three good tracks but, meh, I don't know if I need to continue to own them and not play them. Is there a market for these?

You might have to wait a few years, or decades. It's not a particularly sought-after period of musical history is it? I'd be interested to know what some of your favourite tracks are though.

no market. i like it, but i already have them all, and no fucker wants them these days

a FP POX would take more time than it's worth tbqh, but the 'dead cheap sampler' comp is probably the best set

The first couple are worth a bit, the rest... blimey they made tons didn't they?

I mean, I used to 'collect' them when they came out, but two came out the same day and I decided I needed neither.

the first couple haven't been worth squat for quite a while now

you might get a few bucks for the coldplay 7" or the keane stuff

For me this label was like a kiss of death, if a band was on Fierce Panda I automatically wouldn't listen to them, so much crap.

I must have a couple of things on Fierce Panda though. Kenickie 7" I think.

The last FP thig I got was "This is the last time" Keane.

I'd heard it on the radio and thought "ah that's quite 'nice', the singer sounds a lot like someone I was in a band with". (It wasn't him)...

Anyway, Track 1, ok. Track 2 thought "um, this is the same", and track 3 "and so is this". So, decided this was all the Keane I needed.

Think I was right.

Right, had a butchers on Popsike:

Filter out "Placebo", "Coldplay", "The Music", "Keane" and "Embrace"

Doesn't leave much. Someone got £60 for a 'collection' of FP singles.

a while back I paid £6 for the earlyish comp that had a Green Day song on it figuring I'd be able to make a marginal profit but yeah I'm not even confident of that

Best thing they put out was a Mogwai/ Magoo split 7" of Black Sabbath covers.

Ah yeah I have that one too, on CD tho

Yeah, I found I have a dozen of these on CD, and that they're pretty much worthless if I go by Amazon.co.uk prices. Ah well, I'll rip them and pull off the handful of tracks I liked (mostly the pop-punk stuff) though giving them a spin last night they sure didn't light my fire like they did ten years ago!

I never owned any of the compilations but I had a fair few singles put out on the label.

The first ever single by Ultrasound is still one of my favourite singles I own and I still have all the Art Brut singles but I must have got rid of quite a few over the years. A few years ago I sold the first Keane single (Everybody's Changing) on Amazon for 50 pounds, obviously to a crazy person.

http://www.popsike.com/Keane-Everybodys-Changing-original-Fierce-Panda/230149793501.html

are they really different versions to the Island recordings?

I really couldn't say if they were any different at all now. I heard it on the radio in 2004 went and bought it the next day, never really played it again. I sold it in 2008 around the same time their last album came out, not sure I'd get that much now.

http://fiercepanda.co.uk/pictures/releases/various_gruff%20trade%20ep.jpg

amazed! They're still going!

I wonder if the NME still gives glowing reviews to them.

the gruff trade ep is really good

they put out a few decent things in the last couple of years - hatcham social, the kitten ep - but their none more indie mantle got pretty much entirely shifted to their label fandango sub label, which imo has put out some genuinely great records..

the desperate journalist album makes up for all the shit they've put out for the last few years