Seminal indie compilation C86 to be reissued

C86, a cassette compilation originally released by NME in 1986, will be expanded and reissued next year by Cherry Red Records.

The release, which featured the likes of Primal Scream, The Pastels, The Wedding Present, Half Man Half Biscuit and more, will get an additional outing as a two-CD set come May 2014.

The re-release will again be helmed by one of its original curators, Neil Taylor, who will provide annotations to the reissue.

Check out its full tracklist beneath, along with a stream of opening track “Velocity Girl” by Primal Scream.

Side 1:
Primal Scream – ‘Velocity Girl’
The Mighty Lemon Drops – ‘Happy Head’
The Soup Dragons – ‘Pleasantly Surprised’
The Wolfhounds – ‘Feeling So Strange Again’
The Bodines – ‘Therese’
Mighty Mighty – ‘Law’
Stump – ‘Buffalo’
Bogshed – ‘Run to the Temple’
A Witness – ‘Sharpened Sticks’
The Pastels – ‘Breaking Lines’
Age of Chance – ‘From Now On, This Will Be Your God’

Side 2:
The Shop Assistants – ‘It’s Up to You’
Close Lobsters – ‘Firestation Towers’
Miaow – ‘Sport Most Royal’
Half Man Half Biscuit – ‘I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart)’
The Servants – ‘Transparent’
The Mackenzies – ‘Big Jim (There’s no pubs in Heaven)’
Big Flame – ‘New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)’
Fuzzbox – ‘Console Me’
McCarthy – ‘Celestial City’
The Shrubs – ‘Bullfighter’s Bones’
The Wedding Present – ‘This Boy Can Wait’