Mid 90s Compilations

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Yesterday's thread on 1996 being a good year got me thinking, and this morning I've dug out all my mid-90s home-made Indie compilation tapes I made. This is something I started in 1990 and have continued on a regular basis to this day, like the good old scarfer I (not-so-) secretly am.

 

For those interested (Thorns, and at a push, Gertcha), here are the ones I've brought in with me today!!...

 

 

Volume 27 - Early Summer 1995

 

Side One

Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape

Dubstar - Stars

Salad - Drink The Elixir

Bluetones - Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?

Coast - Polly's Domain

Out Of My Hair - Mr Jones

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Menswear - Daydreamer

 

Side Two

Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You

Salad - Motorbike To Heaven

Real People - Bring You Down

Verve - On Your Own

Out Of My Hair - I'd Rather Be

Boo Radleys - It's Lulu

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Stuck

 

 

Volume 28 - late Summer 1995

 

Side One

Blur - Country House

Oasis - Roll With It

Supergrass - Alright

Ash - Girl From Mars

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father

Mojo Filters - Come Together

Radiohead - Lucky

 

Side Two

Charlatans - Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over

Oasis - Rockin' Chair

Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me

Gene - Olympian

Supergrass - Time

Oasis & Friends - Fade Away

Charlatans - Your Skies Are Mine

 

 

Volume 29 - Sept/Oct 1995

 

Side One

Radiohead - Planet Telex

Cast - Alright

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster

Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?

Echobelly - Great Things

Menswear - Stardust

Charlatans - Here Comes A Soul Saver

Verve - This Is Music

 

Side Two

Cast - Follow Me Down

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Radiohead - Just

Charlatans - Toothache

Verve - History

Chemical Brothers - Life Is Sweet

 

 

Volume 30 - Oct/Nov 1995

 

Side One

Pulp - Sorted For Es And Wizz

Bluetones - Bluetonic

Oasis - Cast No Shadow

Ash - Angel Interceptor

Shed Seven - Where Have You Been Tonight

Marion - Let's All Go Together

Boo Radleys - From The Bench At Belvedere

Honeycrack - Hey Bulldog

 

Side Two

Pulp - Mis-shapes

Blueburn - Got To Know You

Blameless - Town Clowns

Honeycrack - Sitting At Home

Echobelly - King Of The Kerb

Pulp - Underwear

Oasis - Morning Glory

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

 

 

Volume 32 - Early 1996

 

Side One

Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song

Bluetones - Slight Return

Blur - Stereotypes

Terrorvision - Perseverance

Northern Uproar - From A Window

Ride - Black Nite Crash

Alanis Morissette - You Learn

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

 

Side Two

Bluetones - Talking To Clarry

Shed Seven - Getting Better

Perfume - Haven't Seen You

Northern Uproar - My Mind's Eye

Heavy Stereo - Chinese Burn

Oasis - Underneath The Sky

Ride - Ride The Wind

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

 

Volume 33 - Early Spring 1996

 

Side One

Supergrass - Going Out

Ocean Colour Scene - You've Got It Bad

Shed Seven - Going For Gold

Ash - Goldfinger

Longpigs - On And On

Pulp - Something Changed

Marion - Sleep (Acoustic)

Cast - Walkaway

 

Side Two

Alanis Morissette - Forgiven

Elastica - 2:1

Garbage - Stupid Girl

Supergrass - Melanie Davis

Perfume - Carving Your Name

Alanis Morissette - Ironic

Ash - Get Ready

Wildhearts - Sick Of Drugs

 

 

Haven't got Volume 31 with me for some reason, but judging by what's missing, it must have been the Nov/Dec 95 edition, including stuff like Wonderwall, The Universal by Blur, Kelly's Heroes by Black Grape etc.

 

Can't wait to listen to all this lot today!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Volume 26 was a good one too... Some Might Say, Acquiesce, Just Lookin' by the Charlies, Finetime by Cast, Sparky's Dream, The Changingman... off the top of my head!!

[gertcha EFM]

Some good tunes there. I have to question one though. Edwyn Collins. I really hate that song.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

It hasn't aged well. I liked it at the time. Pretty odd choice for an indie compilation, but it was on Shine Too so I justified it by that!

[gertcha EFM]

I remember it was so over played at the time.

[SteveP]

Volume 28 must have been when the Help album came out, I remember the album because I had to cut the tracklist out of a newspaper for that one.

 

Saying that I would plump for vol 28 as the best, got my fave Radiohead track, the wonderful Olympian by Gene, touch of Black Grape and my fave Charlatans track too. There's obviously a bit of a homage to the battle of the bands for no.1 it was country house v roll with it wasn't it?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Steve - I've still got the cutting from the NME of the tracklists tucked inside my copy of Help!

 

Agreed on Lucky - brilliant piece of music!

 

re: Battle of the bands - I remember refusing to buy Roll With It until the following week, as I desperately wanted Blur to win! Unfortunately, all that hard work was undone by YELLOW going out and buying 75 copies of the Oasis one!

 

Nevertheless, Blur went on to win the singles battle, if not the album war. Hindsight shows Blur won overall though, in my opinion.

[JKiF]

mojo filters?

 

 

some sort of "super group"?

[SteveP]

I am afraid I'm one of those people who thought Oasis were better at the time. I think with hindsight, Blur are the better bunch, simply produced better albums for longer.

 

But it was around Knebworth time and it would have been hard to sway me from Oasis since Def Maybe and What's The Story?

 

I am one of those who has not really been impressed with Oasis since What's The Story. I don't have a problem with them but, well it's not the same, they should have not been so generous with their B sides, The Masterplan album would have been their crowning glory, I guess they peaked too soon.

 

Then again I know plenty of people who thought Radiohead had gone off their rockers once Kid A was out. Sometimes you stick with things sometimes you don't. I have blinkers when it comes to this band, the Betas and a few others who I believe can simply do no wrong. Then I'm reminded that's what I once thought about Oasis.

[SteveP]

JKif - that's right Paul Weller was in it and Oasis I think..

[JKiF]

cheers steve

 

 

u really rate the brixton Academy?

seen some great bands there but can never get into that venue...

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

At the time of the Roll With It single, I was definitely more Blur. Morning Glory was yet to come out, I preferred Parklife to Def Maybe, and Whatever was the only Oasis single which I thought was absolutely amazing.

 

But when Morning Glory came out I was blown away, and frankly it pissed over The Great Escape.

 

Then I was fully Oasis from the end of 95, through 96 and Knebworth, right up until '97 when the Blur album (with Beetlebum etc.) came out and was excellent, and Be Here Now was such a disappointment. Been Blur ever since!

 

One day I'll grow up!

[SteveP]

Jkif I like the Academy, always a good sound always a decent view.

 

I gave it because I went there this year. I actually like the Astoria quite a bit, the ICA is really nice and I think the Kentish Town Forum, whilst it was a bit rough, was a good venue too.

 

Got to say one of my favourite gigs of all time was at the Cambridge Corn Exchange of all places. But I think it was one of my first gigs and there's probably a bit of bias because of that.

 

Haven't been to any of the above this year though!

 

YB, agree with you on What's The Story, but it toook a while to get in to Blur's later stuff. But overall I think Blur are the better lot. But you know who I rate above all of them.

[JKiF]

steve

fair enough

 

personally think the sounds always distorted there

 

prefer the others you mention plus the sheperds bush empire....

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Mojo Filters - Macca too.

[SteveP]

Nice Venue, saw the Bluetones there with the webb brothers a few years back.

 

Brixton also scores highly as there is a Nando's opposite the venue, always a winner, as long as you're not vegatarian or hate chicken.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Bluetones at Shepherd's Bush? December 2002, Steve? I was there too!

 

Don't like Shepherd's Bush Emp, I'm afraid.

[JKiF]

 

 

Nando's .... quality

 

 

piri piri

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

 

Used to quite fancy this one.

[The Lyrical Tarantula]

Volume 30 Side 1 does it for me