Various Artists - C90 / Various (3CD Capacity Wallet) - COMPACT DISCS

Three CD set. Over a decade now since punk rocked the British musical scene to it's foundations and caused an eruption of independently produced records, the scene and a new generation of figurehead artists began to let ambition in and head overground, playing to increasingly large crowds, working with bigger budgets and selling more copies, finding a footing in the UK's Top Forty, venturing into the USA and, ultimately, creating a mainstream audience now primed for credible, guitar-tinged pop. Meanwhile, an underground revolution in clubland began to push towards the commercial same space, resulting in an inevitable fusion of songcraft and dancefloor aesthetics. C90 captures perfectly the moment these tribes began to coalesce. From the opening, club-friendly rendition of The Charlatans Polar Bear' to The La's knowingly backward looking 'Timeless Melody' and all in-between, this is the sound of a scene dropping the raincoats, dropping acid and aiming for domination. 1990 was the start of a new decade when the Indie scene was dominated by Madchester and the arrival of Shoegaze and with nods towards grunge and what would become known as Britpop, plus hints of a proto-laddism peering out from between the cracks in a post-Smiths aesthetic, the sound of 1990, it could be argued, set the tone for the remainder of the decade. Album Tracks 1. Polar Bear 2. Sway 3. Perfume 4. The Storm 5. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 6. It's on 7. Get Higher 8. My Rising Star 9. Wonderment 10. Thoughtforms 11. Anyway That You Want Me 12. Swansong 13. Juggernaut Rides 14. Avalyn I 15. Half-Life, Remembered 16. Something More (Ambient Version) 17. Can't Be Sure 18. She Sings Alone 19. Please Let Me Go 1. New Art Riot 2. Aim 3. Pop Song 4. Beam Me Up 5. To Kill a Slow Girl Walking 6. Welcome to Dead Town 7. Listen 8. Seems to Me 9. Big