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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
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album · Compilation
- Artist
- Various Artists
- First released
- 1986
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- Listeners
- 162
- Total plays
- 1,650
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Matt Lyon aka C86 ::: http://www.c8six.com <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/C86">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Key facts
- Album.name
- C86
- Album.type
- Compilation
- Album.artist
- various artists
- Album.cover
- NMEC86.jpg
- Album.released
- May 1986
- Album.length
- 61:11
- Album.label
- Rough Trade, NME
- Album.compiler
- Neil Taylor, Adrian Thrills, Roy Carr
- Album.prev_title
- Pogo A Go Go!
- Album.prev_year
- 1986
- Album.next_title
- Holiday Romance
- Album.next_year
- 1986
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- post-punk
- Performer
- various artists
- Record label
- NME
- Distribution format
- compact cassette
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- publication date
- 1986-00-00
- form of creative work
- compilation album
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