This is a pretty great and fun compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_to_Get_Happy:_A_Story_of_Indie-Pop_1980-1989
I'm a fan of most of this stuff and there's plenty of nice surprises (along with a handful of duds).
I don't know if it's the Nuggets of indiepop, as the compiler aspired to, but it's got a special place on my racks for sure.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 July 2013 01:13 (twelve years ago)
decent enough tracklisting but favouring the obscure track over the better track not always a great idea (eg solace is one of the dullest sea urchins tracks imo and bodines would be better served with skankin queens if they absolutely can't bear to put therese on it)
― electricsound, Monday, 15 July 2013 03:15 (twelve years ago)
In the liner notes, the compiler explained that he tried not to repeat tracks from the CD86 and Rough Trade: Indiepop 1 comps, and that for some bands who released only a single or two he chose the track that had been comp'd less often.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 July 2013 03:29 (twelve years ago)
Robert Frost wrote a poem about that.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 15 July 2013 03:32 (twelve years ago)
totally fair enough though there does seem to be a bit of a lack of consistency in that sense. anyway it's not really a big deal.
― electricsound, Monday, 15 July 2013 03:38 (twelve years ago)
Eh tbf "Therese" is on a few other comps I have (which confuses me - I thought they were on Creation?). Id quite like to obtain this if I could afford to, as I dont really own any of these singles.
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 15 July 2013 08:38 (twelve years ago)
Oh, "Everybody's Problem" by Pulp. They'll love that...
― Mark G, Monday, 15 July 2013 11:49 (twelve years ago)
I thought the Nuggets of indiepop was the Sound of Leamington Spa series?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:47 (twelve years ago)
The Sound of Leamington Spa comps are pretty lousy IMO. Don't like the sound most of the bands were going for, which is mostly sort of bland Lloyd Cole type AOR stuff iirc.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:57 (twelve years ago)
This looks like it'd be right up my street, think I know about 15 of these songs (I like almost all of them) and know plenty more of the bands but not necessarily the songs on this comp.
Girls At Our Best at #2 had me hooked immediately, I can't get enough of them atm
But this cant all be deep cuts, I'd have thought that the likes of 'getting nowhere fast', 'nerve pylon', 'shine on' would be pretty much the only songs by those bands that ever get chosen for comps
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Monday, 15 July 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)
Prequel coming this fall: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-sun-shines-here-the-roots-of-indie-pop-1980-1984-3cd/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 August 2021 20:22 (four years ago)
Strong presence from the Marine Girls 'nuum there, do you they have someone on the inside?
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 7 August 2021 00:58 (four years ago)
Gina Hartman and the Fox sisters to reunite as Everything But The Everything But The Girl Girl
― Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 7 August 2021 01:10 (four years ago)
there was a large marine girls presence on Pillows and Prayers too, i wonder if that means anything.
― koogs, Saturday, 7 August 2021 02:21 (four years ago)