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page 1Rough Trade Records compilation albums

Hatful of Hollow
1984 compilation album by The Smiths
C86
C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time. As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based music genre characterized by jangling guitars and melodic power pop song structures, although other musical styles were represented on the tape. In its time, it became a pejorative term for its associations with so-called "shambling" (a John Peel-coined description celebrating the self-conscious primitive approach of some of the music) and underachievement. The C86 scen

The World Won't Listen
compilation album by The Smiths

Louder Than Bombs
1987 compilation album by The Smiths