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... Uncut
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