Name: Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983) - Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983)
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Five Or Six: Portrait

The Monochrome Set: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens

Thomas Leer: All About You

Tracey Thorn: Plain Sailing

Ben Watt: Some Things Don't Matter

Kevin Coyne: Love In Your Heart

Piero Milesi: Modi 2 (Extract)

Joe Crow: Compulsion

Marine Girls: Lazy Ways

Felt: My Face Is On Fire

Eyeless In Gaza: No Noise

The Passage: Xoyo

Everything But The Girl: On My Mind

Attila The Stockbroker: A Bang And A Wimpy

The Misunderstood: I Unseen

The Nightingales: Don't Blink

Quentin Crisp: Stop The Music For A Minute

Five Or Six: Another Reason

Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk To Fuck

Medium Medium: Hungry So Angry

Soul: Tribes

Alan Burnham: Music To Save The World By 23 Thomas Leer: Letter From America

Second Layer: Fixation

Kevin Harrison: All Night Long

A Tent: No Way Of Knowing

Marine Girls: A Place In The Sun

Jane: It's A Fine Day

Kevin Hewick: Feathering The Nest

Fantastic Something: If She Doesn't Smile (It'll Rain)

Eyeless In Gaza: New Risen

The Monochrome Set: The Jet Set Junta

Morgan Fisher: Un Homme Et Une Femme

Felt: Penelope Tree

Maurice Deebank: The Watery Song

Grab Grab The Haddock: I'm Used Now

Swallow Tongue: Animation

The Nightingales: Paraffin Brain

The Reflections: 4 Countries

The Passage: Sharp Tongue

Red Box: Chenko

Creation Rebel: Love I Can Feel

Bodhi Beat Poets: Wake Up Unemployed

Martyn Bates: Cut Like Sunset

Jane And Barton: I Want To Be With You

Swallow Tongue: Hitch Up Honey

Patrick Macnee And Honor Blackman: Kinky Boots

The John Barry Seven And Orchestra: The Lolly Theme

No Artist: The Compassion And Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher (Extracts From...)

Thomas Leer: On The Wire

Five Or Six: Black Balloons Drop

Jane: Don't Say It

The Monochrome Set: I'll Scry Instead (Demo)

The Monochrome Set: Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners (Live In Oslo)

The Monochrome Set: Cast A Long Shadow (Live In Oslo)

The Passage: Man Of War

The Passage: Love Is As Is

The Passage: Empty Words

The Passage: Horseplay

Attila The Stockbroker: Death In Bromley

Attila The Stockbroker: A Bang And A Wimpy

Attila The Stockbroker: The Night I Slept With Seething Wells

Kevin Coyne: Tell The Truth

Kevin Coyne: Liberation

Kevin Coyne: You Won't Like It

Kevin Coyne: I Talk To Myself

The Nightingales: Joking Apart

The Nightingales: It Lives Again!

The Nightingales: Ok Corale / The Crunch

Attila The Stockbroker: England Are Back / Holiday In Albania

Attila The Stockbroker: Sawdust And Empire

Item UPC: 5013929185937

Date First Available: November 18, 2022

Label: CHERRY RED

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

The Classic 1982 Compilation Expanded To Celebrate It's 40th Anniversary. Featuring 'Pillows And Prayers' Vols 1 And 2, Selected Singles, Album Cuts And Rarities, Live Tracks And A Selection Of Contemporary Peel Session Recordings. Including 17 Previously Unreleased Tracks! With Extensive Sleevenotes Courtesy Of Will Hodgkinson (The Times/Mojo), The Artists, Mike Alway And Iain McNay. Originally conceived as a label sampler by A&R man Mike Alway, 'Pillows And Prayers' quickly became both an iconic compilation and a must-have artefact of early 80s Thatcherite Britain. Famously retailing at "No more than 99p", the album provided an accessible gateway to both the Cherry Red label and the independent scene. Over 100,000 people took up the offer, found a pound and became a part of something that resonated perfectly with it's own time and place. Four decades later, to celebrate it's 40th Anniversary, this extensive companion to that original release features the Japan-only 1984 'Pillows & Prayers Volume II', selected singles and album tracks, live recordings, demos sourced from the artists' own archives and the best of the Peel sessions recorded by Cherry Red artists at that time, this time capsule package both celebrates and revels in the eclectic, inclusive and downright unpredictable attitude of the label. From the hesitant lo-fi of Marine Girls, through the ranting verse of Attila The Stockbroker and the ethereal pop of Felt to The Passage's state-of-the-art synth pop and the brutalist avant-noise of Eyeless In Gaza, 'Pillows And Prayers' remains a fascinatingly eclectic brew, and something of a membership card to that world, standing alongside the NME's 'C86' cassette as an 80s indie time capsule which remains relevant and in demand today. Presented here in a deluxe hardbacked book format, and including no fewer than 17 previously unheard recordings, this edition of 'Pillows And Prayers' arrives complete with insight from the men who made it happen - Iain McNay and Mike Alway - the artists and The Times' Will Hodgkinson. All of which makes for a must have review to a time and place when the aftershocks of punk were still being felt, "indie" wasn't yet a genre and a pound could buy you entrance to a whole new way of thinking.

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