There is no doubt this was a popular mix of bands at the time, but to our ears it is all a bit lame compared to the raw energy and imagination of bands from the 1976-1984 period. We put it on here as it shows the transition from "Post Punk" to the "Indie" sound.

Here the tracklist plus loads of bonus titles :

1              Velocity Girl - Primal Scream

2              Happy Head - The Mighty Lemon Drops

3              Pleasantly Surprised - The Soup Dragons

4              Feeling So Strange Again - The Wolfhounds

5              Therese - The Bodines

6              Law - Mighty Mighty

7              Buffalo - Stump

8              Run To The Temple - Bogshed

9              Sharpened Sticks - A Witness

10           Breaking Lines - The Pastels

11           From Now On,This Will Be Your God - Age Of Chance

12           It's Up To You Shop - Assistants

13           Firestation Towers - Close Lobsters

14           Miaow - Sport Most Royal

15           Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nnerys Hughes (From The Heart)

16           The Servants - Transparent

17           Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's No Pubs In Heaven)

18           Big Flame - New Way (Quick Wash And Brush Up With Liberation Theology)

19           We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Console Me

20           Mccarthy - Celestial City

21           The Shrubs - Bullfighters Bones

22           The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait(A Bit Longer)

Disc: 2

1              Just The Same - The June Brides

2              Another Side To Mrs Quill - Yeah Yeah Noh

3              Lazy - The Primitives

4              Splashing Along - Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes

5              Rosemary Smith - The Band Of Holy Joy

6              Virginia M.C. - The Mctells

7              E102 - B.M.X. Bandits

8              Like One Thousand Violins - One Thousand Violins

9              Peppermint Dreams - The Dentists

10           Everything's Brilliant - The Membranes

11           Worm In My Brain - The Weather Prophets

12           Meet Me On Tuesdays - The Brilliant Corners

13           I Told You So - Talulah Gosh

14           Hedonist Hat - Pigbros

15           Inside - 14 Iced Bars

16           Go Ahead, Cry - St. Christopher

17           Captain Fantastic (Demo) - The Groove Farm

18           The Peacock Nose - Kilgore Trout

19           Inside Me - The Jesus And Mary Chain

20           You Didn't Love Me Then - The Hit Parade

21           Mine - That Petrol Emotion

22           One Breath - The Turncoats

23           Skink (Flexi Version) - A Riot Of Colour

24           Tune In. Turn On, Trip Out - Paul Groovy & The Pop Art Experience

25           Darkness And Colour - The Railway Children

Disc: 3

1              Sweet Revenge - The Chesterfields

2              World's No Place - The Jasmine Minks

3              Why - Stitched

4              Sad Kaleidoscope - Razorcuts

5              I Remember - Treebound Story

6              Part Time Moral England - The Nightingales

7              Strike Up Matches - Episode Four

8              Everything's Going Right - The Avons

9              Here It Comes - Meat Whiplash

10           Spider Psychiatry - King Of The Slums

11           Freaky Dancin' - Happy Mondays

12           Love's Going Out Of Fashion - Biff Bang Pow

13           Outback Jazz - Blue Areoplanes

14           Heartache - Lawrence & The Comfortable Society

15           Take Your Time, Yeah (Flexi Version) - Laugh

16           Billy Liar - North Of Cornwallis

17           Mesmerized - Pop Will Eat Itself

18           Hang Fire - Benny Profane

19           Real Life - Go! Service

20           Good To Be King - Janitors

21           Gullible's Travels - The Claim

22           Scoop - The Auctioneers

23           Perfect Cockney Hard - On

24           Hep Clothes - The Love Act

25           I Don't Need You - The Enormous