Name: Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent - Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent
Brand: Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent
SKU: 5013929120785

Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent - Something For The Longing: Scottish Independent vinyl record cover

The Jesus and Mary Chain-You Trip Me Up

Shop Assistants - I Don't Wanna Be Friends with You

Rote Kapelle - These Animals Are Dangerous

The Soup Dragons - Soft As Your Face

The Motorcycle Boy - Big Rock Candy Mountain

Primal Scream - Gentle Tuesday

The Big Gun - Heard About Love

The Thieves - Talk Your Head Off

The Clouds - Get Out of My Dream

Biff Bang Pow! - He Don't Need That Girl

The Revolving Paint Dream - Stop the World

The Jasmine Minks - Cut Me Deep

Christine's Cat - She's Alive

Baby Lemonade - Much Too Late

The Golden Dawn - My Secret World

The Vaselines - Teenage Superstar

Dawson - Noel Edmonds

Stretchheads - a Freakout

Badgewearer - Buspass Conspiracy

Spirea X - Chlorine Dream

Fenn - Saint's Gate (Demo)

The Fizzbombs - Blue Summer

The Hardy Boys - Wonderful Lie

Whiteout - the Next Big Thing

The Vultures - You're Not Scared

The Orchids - Something for the Longing

The Wendys - Enjoy the Things You Fear

Pearlfishers - Sacred

BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs

Superstar - Don't Wanna Die

Long Fin Killie - the Lamberton Lamplighter

Whirling Pig Dervish - Whip

The Stanleys - Royal Blue

Lung Leg - Punk Pop Travesty

Glue - Modelling

Spare Snare - Wired for Sound

Pink Kross - Punk Outfit

Lugworm - Sweaty Says

The Blisters - Patrick Meets the Courgettes

Trout - Owl in the Tree

The Yummy Fur - Typical of Boys

The Poison Sisters - Chicane

Hee Haw - 6/26

Sally Skull - Bride of Frankenstein

The Luci Baines Band - Find a Lil Love (Extended)

Eska - Running on Sum Six Dew

Country Teasers - Last Bridge of Spencer Smith

Nostril - Token Song About Foreign Politics

Dick Johnson - Disposable

Arab Strap - the First Big Weekend

The Delgados - Monica Webster

Bis - Keroleen

Frank Blake - Plastic Bag

Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane

Urusei Yatsura - Hello Tiger

The Male Nurse - My Own Private P. Swayze

Starstruck - Orange

The Starlets - Tainted

El Hombre Trajeado - Logo (Album Version)

Gilded Lil - Last Tango in Tollkross

Camera Obscura - Your Sound

Huckleberry - Three-Speed Wilfred

King Creosote - a Little Paint

The Beta Band - Inner Meet Me

The Amphetameanies - Last Night

V-Twin - Thank You Baby

Mogwai - Christmas Steps

Item UPC: 5013929120785

Date First Available: May 01, 2026

Label: CHERRY RED

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

3CDs Compiled By Celebrated Author And Director Grant McPhee (Postcard From Scotland, Teenage Superstars, Etc). Tracing The Evolution Of The Scottish Indie Scene, From The Mid-80s Exploits Of The C86 Scene, Through Belshill And Into The Late 1990s Via Chemikal Underground And Fife's Diy Movement. Packed With Household Names, Essential Cuts, Underground Legends, Lesser-Known Indie Gems And Four Previously Unreleased Tracks. Complete With Archival Imagery, Band Biographies And Grant McPhee's Insightful First-Hand Account. Following it's blossoming in the post-punk era, by the mid-80s, the Scottish indie scene had become a sprawling, glorious network of bands, fanzines, club nights and record shops. When the NME issued it's now-mythic 'C86' cassette in 1986, Scottish music featured heavily, setting the tone for a couple of decades of brilliant and eclectic music. From the noise-pop of The Jesus And Mary Chain and the effortless retro cool of Primal Scream, through the kawaii stylings of Bis and the sophisticated pop of Belle And Sebastian, to the dour post rock of Arab Strap and the melting pot eclecticism of The Beta Band, 'Something For The Longing' pulls together a snapshot of that time and place. Compiled chronologically, this is a story whose narrative takes in familiar faces, mythical scenesters, bona fide rock gods, singularly minded labels and, above all, the inventive musical exploits of a nation punching well above it's weight. Complete with a sleevenote essay and band biographies by curator Grant McPhee, archival imagery and a handful of unreleased recordings provided especially by the artists, 'Something For The Longing' is a must-hear for fans and collectors of the '80s and '90s indie scenes, anybody who was there and then, and the Caledophile in your life.

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