Music from British Independent Record Companies
新星堂オリジナルUKインディーズ・コンピレーション3枚組CD-BOX。(当時いくらで買ったか不明。)
CD1枚に各20曲、全60曲収録。
80年代のニューウェーブ、ネオアコ系アーティストらによる、ラフ・トレード、ミュート、チェリーレッド、クリエーション、サラ、クレプスキュール、エル等レーベル枠を超えた名コンピレーション。
CD1(red)
- The Smiths / Hand in Glove
- Birthday Party / Jennifer's Veil
- The Rose of Avalanche / L.A. Rain
- Psychic TV / Godstar
- The Monochrome Set / The Mating Game
- The Sugarcubes / Birthday
- Wire / Eardrum Buzz
- Television Personalities / Part 1: Fulfilling the Contractual Obligations
- The Stone Roses / Sally Cinnamon
- Close Lobsters / I'm Going To Heaven
- My Bloody Valentine / You Made Me Realise
- Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / The Ship Song
- Kitchens of Distinction / Innocent
- Primal Scream / Ivy Ivy Ivy
- Blue Aeroplanes / UPS
- Revenge / Jesus, I Love You
- Galaxie 500 / Blue Thunder
- See See Rider / She Sings Alone
- Birdland / Hollow Heart
- The Heart Throbs / I Wonder Why
CD2(blue)
- Young Marble Giants / Colossal Youth
- Felt / Something Sends Me To Sleep
- Marine Girls / Lazy Ways
- Josef K / The Farewell Single
- Everything But The Girl / Night and Day
- Pale Fountains / Just a Girl
- Pastels / Somethings Going On
- Ben Watt / Some Things Don't Matter
- Weekend / A View from Her Room
- Eyeless In Gaza / Sunburts In
- The Go-Betweens / Cattle and Cane
- And Also the Trees / House of the Heart
- Mood Six / I Saw the Light
- Pacific / Sea of Sand
- Jasmine Minks / Cut Me Deep
- The Jazz Butchers / Southern Mark Smith
- Biff Bang Pow! / She Haunts
- Rodney Allen / Circle Line
- The Orchids / It's Onley Obvious
- The Hit Parade / Forever
CD3(yellow)
- Mazzy Star / Ride It On
- Antena / Seaside Weekend
- Shack / Emergency
- Jane Kelly Williams / What If
- King of Luxembourg / A Picture of Dorian Gray
- Louis Phillipe / Like Nobody Do
- Would Be Goods / The Camera Loves Me
- Momus / Lucky Like St. Sebastian
- Nitzer Ebb / Control I'm Here
- The Shamen / Omega Amigo
- Babyford / Children of the Revolution
- Tangerine / Sunburst
- Love Corporation / Fleshtones
- Durutti Column / Lips That Would Kiss
- Lightning Seeds / Pure
- Tha Band of Holy Joy / Read Beauty Passed Through
- Shelleyan Orphan / Cavalry of Cloud
- Robyn Hitchcock / Heaven
- Devine and Statton / Bizarre Love Triangle
- Robert Wyatt / Memories of You
3枚とも好きな曲ばかりだが、強いて挙げればCD3が一番好きだ。中でもドゥルッティ・コラムからラストのロバート・ワイアットまでの7曲みんな好きなんだなー。
(追記)
id:amiyoshida:20030903さんが1年以上も前に「はてなダイアリーが選ぶ名盤百選」という企画でこのCD-BOXを挙げているのを見つけました。5,000円だったんだね。