C92 - Various Artists (3CD)

The Latest In The Hugely Successful ‘C’ Series, Riffing On The Original ‘C86’ Cassette.
Exploring The Post-Baggy, Pre-Britpop Indie Scene Of 1992.
Packed With Well-Known Favourites – Radiohead, The Charlatans, Ride, Lush, Inspiral Carpets, Dodgy, Boo Radleys, The Auteurs, The Stairs, Levitation, Sultans Of Ping F.C. Among Them.
And Many More Lesser-Known And Lost Treasures.
With Sleevenotes By Mojo’s Lois Wilson.
Produced By The Team That Brought You ‘Scared To Get Happy’, ‘Still In A Dream’, ‘Electrical Language’, ‘Musik Music Musique’ And Countless Other Critically Acclaimed Hit Box Sets.
1992 saw the British indie scene unwittingly poised to go overground and global in the wake of
the guitar’s revival in the early 1990s.
‘C92’ captures something of a no-man’s land moment in time, with the “baggy” scene brushed aside by American grunge and the artists who’d come to define the rest of the decade only beginning to emerge.
From the intensity of shoegaze pioneers Ride and Lush, through to melody-driven 60s revivalists Inspiral Carpets and The Stairs, in hindsight the year can be seen as a period of healthy transition and expansion which ultimately saw the scene pulled together by the music media under the umbrella term “Britpop”. Established names such as The Charlatans and Boo Radleys glided effortlessly over the landscape re-alignment, whilst soon-to-be household names like Radiohead and The Cranberries took their first tentative steps into a bigger world, enjoying the license to pursue their artistic persuasions with the luxury of major label financial backing.
A sea change was clearly coming.
Essential for collectors of the ‘C’ series, fans of that time and place and anybody interested in
the ongoing, mazy story of British pop music, ‘C92’ brings with it familiar favourites and
previously unknown gems, to sit alongside other titles in the series.

Tracklisting

DISC ONE
1 Radiohead - Prove Yourself
2 The Auteurs – Showgirl
3 Delicious Monster - Dull Dull Dull
4 Ride - Leave Them All Behind
5 Gallon Drunk - Bedlam
6 Swallow - Tastes Like Honey
7 Blind Mr Jones - Fading Fast
8 Adorable - Homeboy
9 Earwig - Safe In My Hands
10 Jacob's Mouse - Oblong
11 Kinky Machine - Going Out With God
12 White Town - Bewitched
13 Wonky Alice - Sirius
14 Moonshake - Secondhand Clothes
15 Swirl - Grass Harps (Sing For Me)
16 Some Have Fins - Watered Down
17 The Last Peach - Jarvis
18 The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World Of Good

DISC TWO
1 The Cranberries - Dreams
2 Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love (Edit)
3 The Charlatans - Weirdo
4 Scorpio Rising - Saturnalia (7" Version)
5 Boo Radleys - Lazy Day
6 Th' Faith Healers - My Loser
7 Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole
8 Submarine - Chemical Tester
9 Bleach - Shotgun
10 Catherine Wheel - Balloon
11 Poppy Factory - Stars
12 Dodgy - Worth The Blood
13 The Rosaries - Leaving
14 Hair & Skin Trading Co - Ground Zero
15 Levitation - World Around
16 The Exuberants - Who Knows How Many Tonight
17 The Stairs - Mr Joke Shop Owner
18 Sun Dial - I Don't Mind (EP Version)
19 Headcleaner - Bogieman
20 Egyptian Kings – A Matter Of Time
21 Thousand Yard Stare - Comeuppance

DISC THREE
1 Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down
2 Sweet Jesus - Real Babe
3 Lush - Superblast (Remix)
4 Revolver - Don't Ever Leave
5 Sultans Of Ping F.C - U Talk 2 Much
6 Daisy Chainsaw - Pink Flower
7 Teenage Filmstars - Kiss Me
8 Secret Shine - Secret Shine
9 Headtime - Being There
10 The Telescopes - You Set My Soul
11 The Revs - Julie Got A Raise
12 Mexico 70 - Wonderful Lie
13 Drop - Sorrow
14 The Wendys - Gobbledygook
15 The Suncharms - Tranquil Day
16 Medalark Eleven - I Call Your Name
17 Smashing Orange - Whenever
18 Greenhouse - Her Too
19 Spitfire - Wild Sunshine
20 The Moonflowers - Brothers And Sisters
21 Triple Blind - Stoke
22 Amelia Fletcher - Can You Keep A Secret?