{"id":6277,"date":"2017-11-10T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:26:05","slug":"various-artists-c88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/various-artists-c88\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists <br>C88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C88.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6278\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C88.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C88-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>That more than 30 years later it\u2019s still possible to describe a band\u2019s sound aesthetically as \u201cC86\u201d is a tribute to the lasting cultural impact of the humble cassette that <i>NME<\/i> released in 1986 as part of a series of promotional releases designed to garner enthusiasm for the now sounds the weekly paper was covering. Even with the obvious disparity between the 22 tracks on the original releases, the tape managed to capture an intangible thread between the bands, and in doing so, a shared attitude and belief in substance over style. (Though of course, there was plenty of style in the bands\u2019 unstylishness.)<\/p>\n<p>After issuing an expanded edition of <i>C86<\/i> in 2014, Cherry Red has taken that thread and continued to run with it. Realizing that the aesthetic captured on the original cassette has never really died, and indeed continued to thrive in the UK in the subsequent years, the label released <i>C87<\/i> last year and has now followed that up with the three-disc <i>C88<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessors, <i>C88\u2019s<\/i> tracklist is a mix of familiar names and the obscure monikers of acts who may have been short-lived flashes in the pan or simply acts who never crossed over to the greater success of some of their peers. British music perhaps went through its greatest upheaval in decades in 1988, experiencing what would be viewed as a second Summer of Love, with rave culture kicking into full-swing fueled by acid house and Ecstacy. This compilation in some way captures indie pop\u2019s last hurrah before it was supplanted by not only acid house, but subsequently the hazier hues of Madchester and then shoegaze, both of which certainly couldn\u2019t exist without the C86 sound as a precursor. In fact, acts that would figure into both the former (The Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets) and the latter (Pale Saints, The House of Love), as well as acid house (The Shamen), are represented here.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways then, this comp is every bit as indispensable as the original <i>C86<\/i>. Even putting historical significance aside, just listening through <i>C88\u2019s<\/i> 71 tracks, John Reed, the set\u2019s compiler has done a truly remarkable job of capturing the sonic aesthetic of the time. Beginning fittingly with The Pooh Sticks\u2019 \u201cOn Tape,\u201d a track cataloging the singer\u2019s tapes of Orange Juice, Pastels, and Velvet Underground songs, it veers between the Moss Poles\u2019 Ramones redux (\u201cOne Summer\u201d), Bradford\u2019s blue-eyed folk (\u201cTattered, Tangled and Torn\u201d), Bob\u2019s sax-flecked rave-up (\u201cKirsty\u201d), and The Darling Buds\u2019 revved-up pop. It shows that while sharing some similarities and probably even more common influences, these bands were largely following their own muses. <i>C88<\/i> captures that ingenuity, not to mention the richness of the music being made. <i>C88<\/i> may be the last in this series of extrapolations, but no one should be left wanting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That more than 30 years later it\u2019s still possible to describe a band\u2019s sound aesthetically as \u201cC86\u201d is a tribute to the lasting cultural impact of the humble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[387,1444],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-perfect","tag-cherry-red-records","tag-past-perfect"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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