SCARED TO GET HAPPY (A Story Of Indie Pop 1980-1989) was the first box set ever to document the explosion of Indie Pop in Britain across the 1980s. This Record Store Day release is a gatefold double vinyl of Cherry Reds seminal 2013 box set, charting Indie Pops development from the post punk era and the dominance of Scottish bands through to its genre-defining C86 period and onto the end of the decade, with the arrival of Madchester and the shoegazing sound. Inspired by the Nuggets compilations, the vinyl edition boasts 28 tracks spanning the Eighties, drawn from many of the key labels of the period. Many of the bands later tasted mainstream success: Pulp, Inspiral Carpets, the Primitives, Cud, the House Of Love, the Darling Buds. The gatefold details the history of this unique compilation while the two printed inner sleeves reveal more about each featured bands own story.
A**E
Great track selection and while I can see other peoples ...
Great track selection and while I can see other peoples gripes about the packaging I didn't experience any problems. Incredibly comprehnshive given licensing issues and good to hear my favourite band on disc 4
J**S
Immerse Yourself
Song after song of pure majesty. If you want to immerse yourself in songs of the period there are no equals. Even the unfamiliar won't stay that way for long. A trip down radio memory lane. Many styles clearly influence today's music. Relative and evocative.
F**A
The sum of Indie Pop Scene
Something is out from this compilation, but this is a remarkable effort to list the music of an era where music was the focus and DIY the dogma.
J**N
Five Stars
Exceptional great service. Highly reccomended! Defective disc arrived, new one shipped and plays perfect.
Y**H
A great box set covering the whole 80's indie set
In some ways the strength of this collection is also its weakness.Covering 'indie' music from the decade when it perhaps could be deemed to have really taken off is a broad remit, and for many of us living through the period we will have a favourite part of the decade often coupled with an illogical dislike of others, often bordering on fanatical.Song choices are good. There are cases where I would have preferred others by the same artists (Soup Dragons for example), many where the choice was perfect (Aztec Camera for example), and a few that are weird but presumably driven by the difficulty of licencing (Jesus & Mary Chain springs to mind, though it's still a great song).On any collection there are always a few you'd rather not have, and that's the case here, but these are few and far between.So, packaging... something of a bugbear for many here it seems.When I received the set I'd seen the reviews and at first could see exactly what they meant. It is an odd way of holding discs, and not one I'd like to be seen repeated. Having said that, I found that if each disc was pushed down against its retaining fully it did just about come out without flexing, and returns in a similar way. Still one of the most difficult things I've encountered in a CD package before though, but you do have to admit it looks great. For me the whole set is now digitised and unlikely to be often removed, so not so big an issue, but if you were taking them in and out regularly it would be easy to damage them.
F**Y
Cherry Red, please re-release this boxset with different packaging and over 6 cds (not 5)
This box should have been a five-star release. The selection of songs is impressive, no doubt. But be warned, the packaging will likely break when you try to take out the cds. Sure there are instructions on how to release the cds from this particular case, but frankly there is a wide gap between theory and what actually works when you fiddle with the box. Aware of this problem in advance and unable to release the cds from their holders, I simply decided to gently break the holders (meaning no bending of the cds). Did it help? Absolutely not! That means the pressure on the cds in my boxset had resulted in the cds being compromised before they were released from the case (the packaing was much too tight for the cds not to have received pressure). Had Cherry Red decided against maximising the number of songs on each cd (play time runs as close to the 80-minute limit as possible), this could have been avoided. The longer a cd plays, the more vulnerable it becomes to being compromised and one would think label professionals would be aware of this. In effect songs will begin to stutter from around track 20 on each cd, rendering around a fourth of the songs useless in this boxset, many of them gems. That, for me, ruins the listening experience. In order not to be annoyed by this and what could have been, I have simply stored the boxset out of sight. Problem solved!!!
L**D
stutters,doesnt play, some songs wont rip
waybrand new lap top with windows 8 and I'm struggling to rip this boxset on my new laptop...Disc 1 track 26 would wouldnt rip at all so I played the song and it stuttered and jumps likes crazy yet all the discs are squeaky clean no scratches nothing....There's a few songs on each disc that jumps and track 26 on disc 2 won't rip either...But I'm liking what I'm hearing... Obviously not everything is good...Do I buy another boxset or just bin this boxset cause it's jumping all over the placeIf I had my way this boxset would get a one star but it deserves 3 stars cause of the good music on it butI like the outer covering of boxset but once you open it up... I hate the way the cds are packed... Same as most of these identical boxset's... Cheap and nasty... The write up on songs are good (just like millions like us - The mod revival 77-89) yet the mod discs are in excellent condition and ripped perfectly ...
F**C
Scare to get happy????
This box is súper and extraordinaire. Buy It Now and joy this compilations. Classic and gorgeous to the new wave musicians.
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