Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
2. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
3. Primitive Painters - Felt
4. Somewhere in China - Shop Assistants
5. My Biggest Thrill - The Mighty Lemon Drops
6. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
7. Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen
8. April Skies - Jesus & Mary Chain
9. Walkin' With Jesus (Sound of Confusion) - Spacemen 3
10. Crash - The Primitives
11. Unbearable - The Wonder Stuff
12. She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses
13. Only One I Know, The - The Charlatans U.K.
14. Step On - Happy Mondays
15. Loaded - Primal Scream (Single Version)
16. This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
17. Obscurity Knocks - The Trash Can Sinatras
18. There She Goes - The La's
19. Here's Where the Story Ends - The Sundays
DISC 2:
1. Vapour Trail - Ride
2. Sight of You - Pale Saints
3. Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine
4. For Love - Lush
5. Flying - The Telescopes
6. Pearl - Chapterhouse
7. I Want to Touch You - Catherine Wheel
8. Trip & Slide - Bleach 03
9. Coast Is Clear - Curve
10. You - Five Thirty
11. This River Will Never Run Dry - Moose
12. (Thought I'd Died) And Gone to Heaven - The Family Cat
13. (Don't Cut Me Down) Mary Quant in Blue - The Dylans
14. 0-0 A.E.T. (No Score After Extra Time) - Thousand Yard Stare
15. Grey Cell Green - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
16. Shoot You Down - Birdland
17. Stay Beautiful - Manic Street Preachers
18. Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
DISC 3:
1. Metal Mickey - Suede
2. Duel - Swervedriver (Radio Edit)
3. Breakfast - Eugenius
4. Barfly - Superstar
5. Regret - New Order
6. Laid - James
7. Kite - Nick Heyward
8. Lazarus - The Boo Radleys
9. You're in a Bad Way - Saint Etienne
10. Wow & Flutter - Stereolab
11. Tracy Jacks - Blur
12. Live Forever - Oasis
13. Common People - Pulp
14. Speeed King - These Animal Men
15. Wallflower - Mega City Four
16. Insomniac - Echobelly
17. Sleep Well Tonight - Gene
18. Sleeping In - Menswear
19. Alright - Supergrass
20. Alright - Cast
21. Stutter - Elastica
DISC 4:
1. In a Room - Dodgy
2. Girl From Mars - Ash
3. Sale of the Century - Sleeper
4. Sleep - Marion
5. Tattva - Kula Shaker
6. Riverboat Song, The - Ocean Colour Scene
7. You're Gorgeous - Babybird
8. Slight Return - The Bluetones
9. Something 4 the Weekend - Super Furry Animals
10. Something For the Weekend - The Divine Comedy
11. Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
12. Service - Silver Sun
13. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
14. Wide Open Space - Mansun
15. Step Into My World - Hurricane #1
16. Lucky Man - The Verve
17. Untouchable - Rialto
18. Mulder and Scully - Catatonia
19. You Don't Care About Us - Placebo
20. Oh Jim - Gay Dad
| | Details | | Playing time: | 312 min. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Issued in 2007, Rhino's BRIT BOX presents an impressively wide-ranging four-CD set that surveys the U.K. alternative pop/rock scene from 1984 to 1999. Disc One focuses on influential acts that predated the Britpop boom, offering up undisputed classics by the Smiths ("How Soon Is Now?") and the Cure ("Just Like Heaven") along with tracks by less-commercial groups such as Cocteau Twins (the majestic "Lorelei") and Felt (the shimmering "Primitive Painters," which features Cocteaus vocalist Liz Fraser). The shoegaze movement, as best exemplified by Ride's sweeping "Vapour Trail" and My Bloody Valentine's woozy "Only Shallow," gets its due on Disc Two, while the remaining CDs shine the spotlight on mid-to-late-'90s Britpop bands, nodding to both key ensembles (Oasis's ubiquitous "Live Forever" and Pulp's surging "Common People") and bit players (Menswear's driving "Sleeping In" and Sleeper's wiry "Sale of the Century"). Capping off the whole affair is a comprehensive booklet and (literally) flashy package, which makes for a bright and far-reaching overview of the era.
| | Editorial reviews | 3.5 stars out of 5 -- It's all here -- a slew of shoegazer fan faves, with the still-dizzying guitars of Ride, Curve, Lush and Swervedriver...
Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 5 -- It's a curious cultural history, mixing mod, punk, indie, shoegazing, baggy and Brit-pop....Disc 1 amounts to a history of '80s indie, from The Smiths to The Sundays...
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