CD86 (album)
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| CD86 | |
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| Compilation album | |
| Released | 2006 |
| Genre | Indie pop Post-punk Indie rock |
| Label | Sanctuary |
CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop is a compilation album of artists from the original C86 era, released in 2006 by Sanctuary Records. It is compiled by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne.
To coincide with its release, the Institute of Contemporary Arts hosted "C86 - Still Doing It For Fun",[1] an exhibition and two nights of gigs celebrating the rise of British independent music.
Released in 1986, the original compilation album C86 became very influential, and is today credited as the birth of indie pop. Stanley notes: "It was the beginning of indie music. It's hard to remember how underground guitar music and fanzines were in the mid-'80s. DIY ethics and any residual punk attitudes were in isolated pockets around the country, and the C86 comp and gigs brought them together".[2] For the original's twentieth anniversary in 2006, Stanley compiled the set of songs that was released as CD86.[3]
