Track Listings
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| 1. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu | |||
| 2. Boredom - Buzzcocks | |||
| 3. Fisherman - The Congos | |||
| 4. Nag Nag Nag | |||
| 5. T.V.O.D. - The Normal | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. There Goes Concorde Again - ...And the Native Hipsters | |||
| 2. Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti | |||
| 3. Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt | |||
| 4. Cums Bleed | |||
| 5. Hand in Glove - The Smiths | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Bone Machine - Pixies | |||
| 2. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney | |||
| 3. Revolution - Spacemen 3 | |||
| 4. Different Dru - The Lemonheads | |||
| 5. Furthur Back and Faster | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. 6 A.M. Jullandar Shere - Cornershop | |||
| 2. Presha III - Studio Pressure | |||
| 3. Everything You Do Is a Balloon - Boards of Canada | |||
| 4. Flashlegs (Suite) - Echoboy | |||
| 5. As the Rain [Adrian Sherwood on-U Sound Remix] - Jeb Loy Nichols | |||
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The very idea of a "Greatest Hits" of Rough Trade (the store, not the label)--the very indiest of all of London's independent record shops--should have seemed, in theory, about as risible as the compiling of a Led Zeppelin singles collection. In practice, though, this anniversary compilation is nigh on essential. After 25 years of catering to London's most clued-up punters, Rough Trade has achieved a respectable legacy of eclecticism; while other lesser independent record shops have tended more toward the traditional, guitar-led music that's come to epitomize modern indie, this compilation offers a laudably impressive scope, collecting together a number of the chain's most popular sellers and sequencing them in a loosely chronological order. It certainly throws up some interesting juxtapositions: the caustic riot grrrl of Huggy Bear's "Her Jazz" rubbing up against futuristic avant-pop of Stereolab's "The Light That Will Cease to Fail"; the super-political anarcho-punk of Crass's "Reality Asylum" mere moments from the twee jangle pop of the Raincoats' "Fairytale in the Supermarket"; or the cobwebbed dub of Lee "Scratch" Perry's "Jungle" that's a massive cultural leap from the loopy Icelandic pop explosion of the Sugarcubes' "Birthday." Taking risks, but seldom putting a foot wrong--really, it doesn't matter if you've ever browsed the rack of Rough Trade, as this compilation is as good an alternative pop encyclopedia as you're likely to find. --Louis Pattison
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