What is a C86 tape?
As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical genre characterized by jangling guitars and melodic power pop song structures, although other musical styles were represented on the tape.
When did C86 come out?
Jump to navigation Jump to search. C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time.
What do the 50 bonus tracks on C86 mean?
These 50 bonus tracks represent an additional fifty bands that Taylor claims should have been contenders to be on C86 in the first place, and his claim is correct. Not only does the expanded reissue provide context and insight, it’s packed to the back teeth with song after head-spinning song.
What’s the difference between C86 and Iced Bears?
The line between C86 ’s jangly, dreamy representatives and its more distortion-smothered counterparts is blurred by bands like 14 Iced Bears.
