Various - Big Gold Dreams: Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 / Various [CD]
Big Gold Dreams: Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 / Various
Various
CD Rel Date: 2019-03-01
5013929106901
UK five CD set. Big Gold Dreams documents the vibrant independent music scene to emerge in Scotland across the late '70s and '80s. Initially ignited by punk, labels sprang up in Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere to give a voice to the explosion of new acts across the country. Named after Fire Engines' memorable single and Grant McPhee's recent TV and DVD documentary, Big Gold Dreams includes many of the Scottish music scene's most important names as well as countless obscurities. Includes landmark tracks by The Rezillos, Simple Minds, Altered Images, Skids, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Bluebells, The Waterboys, Cocteau Twins, Aztec Camera, The Soup Dragons, The Associates, Scars, Strawberry Switchblade, Josef K, BMX Bandits, Edwyn Collins, Del Amitri, The Vaselines, The Shamen, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie and many others. Boasts lengthy essays and band histories by Grant McPhee, Neil Cooper and Tim Barr, within a lavishly illustrated 70-page booklet.
Tracklist:
- I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible Version)
- - the Rezillos
- Hooked on You - the Exile
- Jerkin' - the Drive
- Robot Love - the Valves
- Put You in the Picture - P.V.C. 2
- Dead Vandals - Johnny ; the Self Abusers
- You Gotta Know Girl - Bee Bee Cee
- Gimme Your Heart - Subs 1
- Reasons - Skids 1
- Dancing with Myself - Fingerprintz 1
- Take Me Down - the Zips 1
- All the Boys Love Carrie 1
- - Another Pretty Face 1
- Electric Heat - Visitors 1
- See Saw - the Jolt 1
- Chelsea Girl - Simple Minds 1
- Culture Shock - Shake 1
- The Shape of Things to Come - the Headboys 2
- Time Wall - Fire Exit 2
- Paranoia - the Freeze 2
- Sylvia Clarke - the Fakes 2
- She's Too Clever for Me - Tpi 2
- Singing in the Showers - Fun 4 2
- Confessions - Flowers 2
- Playing with Fire - TV21 2
- Stay with Me Tonight - Alex Fergusson 2
- Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images 2
- Die Todten Reyten Schnell - the Prats 3
- Tous Les Soirs - Delmontes 3
- Walk on Water - the Cuban Heels 3
- More Than This - 35MM Dreams 3
- Out in the Open - the President's Men 3
- All About You - Scars 3
- Tell Me Easters on Friday - the Associates 3
- Sorry for Laughing - Josef K 3
- Event to Come - Article 58 3
- Love to Meet You - Restricted Code 3
- Don't - Thomas Leer 4
- Big Gold Dream - Fire Engines 4
- On Our Honeymoon - the Wake 4
- Ooh Bop Sh'bam - Boots for Dancing 4
- Puritans - the Happy Family 4
- Tightrope - Everest the Hard Way 4
- Palace Filled with Love - Apb 4
- Running Away - Paul Haig 4
- Pick Up the Rhythm - French Impressionists 4
- Eat Your Heart Out - Hey! Elastica 4
- Participate! - the Laughing Apple 5
- Feathers Oar-Blades - Cocteau Twins 5
- Out of Nowhere - the Twinsets 5
- Cath - the Bluebells 5
- A Girl Called Johnny - the Waterboys 5
- Lucky Star (Moonboot Version) - Friends Again 5
- Trees and Flowers (92 Happy Customers Version) - Strawberry Switchblade 5
- Sixteen Reasons - Jazzateers 5
- Stop the Rain - the Suede Crocodiles 5
- Flowers in the Sky - the Revolving Paint Dream 5
- Think! - Jasmine Minks 6
- There Must Be a Better Life - Biff Bang Pow! 6
- All I Need Is Everything - Aztec Camera 6
- Over Your Shoulder - Pop Wallpaper 6
- Dreaming - the Wee Cherubs 6
- Cathedral - Fini Tribe 6
- Upside Down - the Jesus and Mary Chain 6
- Baby Honey - the Pastels 6
- You Supply the Roses - Memphis 6
- Ain't That Always the Way - Paul Quinn 6
- Unamerican Broadcasting - Win 7
- Swallow - Blood Uncles 7
- All Fall Down - Primal Scream 7
- Don't Slip Up - Meat Whiplash 7
- Hammering Heart (Single Version) - Del Amitri 7
- Some Indulgence - the High Bees 7
- Big Blue Ocean - Jih 7
- Hotel Marquis de Sade - Momus 7
- Living in Hell - the Primevals 7
- Baby's Got a Brand New Brain - the Styng Rites 7
- Bully Beef - the Botany 500 8
- Whole Wide World - the Soup Dragons 8
- Strawberry Sunday - BMX Bandits 8
- Firestation Towers - Close Lobsters 8
- Face in a Crowd - the Green Telescope 8
- The Rattler (Original 12" Version) - 8
- Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie 8
- Penniless - the Wild Indians 8
- Somewhere in China (LP Version) - 8
- Shop Assistants 8
- Hollow Gut - Lowlife 9
- Slow Time and Temptation - Kevin McDermott 9
- Where Do I Stand? - the Incredible Blondes 9
- Sign on the Line... - the Fizzbombs 9
- Killer Bee Honey - the Beat Poets 9
- Don't Shilly Shally - Edwyn Collins 9
- I'm Not An American - the Dragsters 9
- Room at the Top - the Motorcycle Boy 9
- Hey Girl (Look What You've Done) - the Thanes 9
- Happy Days - the Shamen 9
- Mealy Mouths - MacKenzies 10
- She Said to the Driver - the McCluskey Brothers 10
- Jiffy Neckwear Creation - Baby Lemonade 10
- Girl of Your Dreams - the Bachelor Pad 10
- Jenny Nowhere - the Clouds 10
- Marathon Man - Rote Kapelle 10
- The Adam Faith Experience - 10
- Jesse Garon ; the Desperadoes 10
- Teenage Superstars - the Vaselines 10
- Tiny Words - the Orchids 10
- A Place Is So Hard to Find - the Groovy Little Numbers 11
- Good Thing - the Vultures 11
- The Great Divide - This Poison! 11
- Head Start - the Prayers 11
- Take Me Away - the Submarines 11
- Think Like a Girl - the Church Grims 11
- If You Love Him, Let Him Go - Wilderness Children 11
- Traffic Drone - the Cateran 11
- Hills O' New Galloway - Nyah Fearties 11
- Miss O'Grady - Dog Faced Hermans 11
- Groin Death - Stretchheads 12
- The Beginning of Wisdom - Cindytalk