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DESCRIPTION
UK five CD set. Big Gold Dreams documents the vibrant independent music scene to emerge in Scotland across the late '70s and '80s. Initially ignited by punk, labels sprang up in Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere to give a voice to the explosion of new acts across the country. Named after Fire Engines' memorable single and Grant McPhee's recent TV and DVD documentary, Big Gold Dreams includes many of the Scottish music scene's most important names as well as countless obscurities. Includes landmark tracks by The Rezillos, Simple Minds, Altered Images, Skids, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Bluebells, The Waterboys, Cocteau Twins, Aztec Camera, The Soup Dragons, The Associates, Scars, Strawberry Switchblade, Josef K, BMX Bandits, Edwyn Collins, Del Amitri, The Vaselines, The Shamen, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie and many others. Boasts lengthy essays and band histories by Grant McPhee, Neil Cooper and Tim Barr, within a lavishly illustrated 70-page booklet.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible Version)
2 - the Rezillos
3 Hooked on You - the Exile
4 Jerkin' - the Drive
5 Robot Love - the Valves
6 Put You in the Picture - P.V.C. 2
7 Dead Vandals - Johnny & the Self Abusers
8 You Gotta Know Girl - Bee Bee Cee
9 Gimme Your Heart - Subs
10 Reasons - Skids
11 Dancing with Myself - Fingerprintz
12 Take Me Down - the Zips
13 All the Boys Love Carrie
14 - Another Pretty Face
15 Electric Heat - Visitors
16 See Saw - the Jolt
17 Chelsea Girl - Simple Minds
18 Culture Shock - Shake
19 The Shape of Things to Come - the Headboys
20 Time Wall - Fire Exit
21 Paranoia - the Freeze
22 Sylvia Clarke - the Fakes
23 She's Too Clever for Me - Tpi
24 Singing in the Showers - Fun 4
25 Confessions - Flowers
26 Playing with Fire - TV21
27 Stay with Me Tonight - Alex Fergusson
- Disc 2 -
1 Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images
2 Die Todten Reyten Schnell - the Prats
3 Tous Les Soirs - Delmontes
4 Walk on Water - the Cuban Heels
5 More Than This - 35MM Dreams
6 Out in the Open - the President's Men
7 All About You - Scars
8 Tell Me Easters on Friday - the Associates
9 Sorry for Laughing - Josef K
10 Event to Come - Article 58
11 Love to Meet You - Restricted Code
12 Don't - Thomas Leer
13 Big Gold Dream - Fire Engines
14 On Our Honeymoon - the Wake
15 Ooh Bop Sh'bam - Boots for Dancing
16 Puritans - the Happy Family
17 Tightrope - Everest the Hard Way
18 Palace Filled with Love - Apb
19 Running Away - Paul Haig
20 Pick Up the Rhythm - French Impressionists
21 Eat Your Heart Out - Hey! Elastica
22 Participate! - the Laughing Apple
- Disc 3 -
1 Feathers Oar-Blades - Cocteau Twins
2 Out of Nowhere - the Twinsets
3 Cath - the Bluebells
4 A Girl Called Johnny - the Waterboys
5 Lucky Star (Moonboot Version) - Friends Again
6 Trees and Flowers (92 Happy Customers Version) - Strawberry Switchblade
7 Sixteen Reasons - Jazzateers
8 Stop the Rain - the Suede Crocodiles
9 Flowers in the Sky - the Revolving Paint Dream
10 Think! - Jasmine Minks
11 There Must Be a Better Life - Biff Bang Pow!
12 All I Need Is Everything - Aztec Camera
13 Over Your Shoulder - Pop Wallpaper
14 Dreaming - the Wee Cherubs
15 Cathedral - Fini Tribe
16 Upside Down - the Jesus and Mary Chain
17 Baby Honey - the Pastels
18 You Supply the Roses - Memphis
19 Ain't That Always the Way - Paul Quinn
20 Unamerican Broadcasting - Win
21 Swallow - Blood Uncles
- Disc 4 -
1 All Fall Down - Primal Scream
2 Don't Slip Up - Meat Whiplash
3 Hammering Heart (Single Version) - Del Amitri
4 Some Indulgence - the High Bees
5 Big Blue Ocean - Jih
6 Hotel Marquis de Sade - Momus
7 Living in Hell - the Primevals
8 Baby's Got a Brand New Brain - the Styng Rites
9 Bully Beef - the Botany 500
10 Whole Wide World - the Soup Dragons
11 Strawberry Sunday - BMX Bandits
12 Firestation Towers - Close Lobsters
13 Face in a Crowd - the Green Telescope
14 The Rattler (Original 12" Version) -
15 Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie
16 Penniless - the Wild Indians
17 Somewhere in China (LP Version) -
18 Shop Assistants
19 Hollow Gut - Lowlife
20 Slow Time and Temptation - Kevin McDermott
21 Where Do I Stand? - the Incredible Blondes
22 Sign on the Line... - the Fizzbombs
23 Killer Bee Honey - the Beat Poets
24 Don't Shilly Shally - Edwyn Collins
25 I'm Not An American - the Dragsters
26 Room at the Top - the Motorcycle Boy
27 Hey Girl (Look What You've Done) - the Thanes
- Disc 5 -
1 Happy Days - the Shamen
2 Mealy Mouths - MacKenzies
3 She Said to the Driver - the McCluskey Brothers
4 Jiffy Neckwear Creation - Baby Lemonade
5 Girl of Your Dreams - the Bachelor Pad
6 Jenny Nowhere - the Clouds
7 Marathon Man - Rote Kapelle
8 The Adam Faith Experience -
9 Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes
10 Teenage Superstars - the Vaselines
11 Tiny Words - the Orchids
12 A Place Is So Hard to Find - the Groovy Little Numbers
13 Good Thing - the Vultures
14 The Great Divide - This Poison!
15 Head Start - the Prayers
16 Take Me Away - the Submarines
17 Think Like a Girl - the Church Grims
18 If You Love Him, Let Him Go - Wilderness Children
19 Traffic Drone - the Cateran
20 Hills O' New Galloway - Nyah Fearties
21 Miss O'Grady - Dog Faced Hermans
22 Groin Death - Stretchheads
23 The Beginning of Wisdom - Cindytalk
