On our latest love affair with all things from the C86-extended family of pop music, we feature McCarthy (pictured), Meat Whiplash, The Orchids, Orange Juice, Let’s Active, Nothing Painted Blue, The Wake, The Clean, The June Brides, Sloan, Prefab Sprout, Rain Parade, and much more.

Playlist

1. Sloan — I Am The Cancer
2. Meat Whiplash — Don’t Slip Up
3. The Siddeleys — What Went Wrong This Time?
4. R.E.M. — Gardening At Night
5. Let’s Active — Make Up With Me
6. The McTells — Side By Side
7. The June Brides — We Belong
8. Marine Girls — Tonight?
9. Young Marble Giants — Include Me Out
10. McCarthy — Red Sleeping Beauty
11. The Clean — Anything Could Happen
12. The Wake — Sail Through
13. Prefab Sprout — Bonny
14. Rain Parade — I Look Around
15. Tall Dwarfs — Shade For Today
16. Nothing Painted Blue — Rock And Roll Friend
17. Lowlife — River Of Woe
18. The Orchids — It’s Only Obvious
19. Orange Juice — Felicity
20. Cleaners From Venus — Stay On
21. Vic Goddard & The Subway Sect — Stop That Girl