Album · Compilation
Manchester North of England: A Story of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977-1993
Tracks
| # | Title | Sung by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Breakdown (demo) | Buzzcocks | 2:10 |
| 1.2 | Cranked Up Really High | Slaughter & the Dogs | 2:52 |
| 1.3 | Ain’t Bin to No Music School | The Nosebleeds | 2:56 |
| 1.4 | Just Want to Be Myself (LP version) | The Drones | 2:45 |
| 1.5 | Psycle Sluts Pts. 1 & 2 | John Cooper Clarke | 5:47 |
| 1.6 | Going Steady | Jilted John | 3:50 |
| 1.7 | Louie Louie (edit) | John the Postman | 3:29 |
| 1.8 | Heads Down, No Nonsense, Mindless Boogie | Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias | 2:42 |
| 1.9 | The Light Pours Out of Me | Magazine | 4:38 |
| 1.10 | The Kill | Spherical Objects | 3:29 |
| 1.11 | Up and About | Steve Miro | 2:40 |
| 1.12 | Man in the Box | V2 | 4:14 |
| 1.13 | Maybe It’s Love | The Distractions | 3:04 |
| 1.14 | Stay Awake | Grow-Up | 1:09 |
| 1.15 | Voice in the Dark | The Frantic Elevators | 2:01 |
| 1.16 | She’s Lost Control | Peter Hook, Ian Curtis | 3:52 |
| 1.17 | Baiser | Chris Sievey | 2:30 |
| 1.18 | To You | The Smirks | 3:08 |
| 1.19 | Manchester Boys | Salford Jets | 3:07 |
| 1.20 | Snap It Around | 48 Chairs | 3:35 |
| 1.21 | Downpour | Foreign-Press | 3:59 |
| 1.22 | Warren Row | She Cracked | 3:26 |
| 1.23 | English Black Boys (edit) | X-O-Dus | 4:45 |
| 1.24 | Dem a Sus (In the Moss) | Harlem Spirit | 3:39 |
| 2.1 | Rowche Rumble | The Fall | 4:02 |
| 2.2 | The Kids Just Wanna Dance | Fast Cars | 3:29 |
| 2.3 | Does It Matter Irene? | The Mothmen | 4:14 |
| 2.4 | Yesterday’s Love | Any Trouble | 2:50 |
| 2.5 | Big Noise in the Jungle | The Tiller Boys | 5:55 |
| 2.6 | No Forgetting | The Manchester Mekon | 2:56 |
| 2.7 | Faith | Manicured Noise | 3:30 |
| 2.8 | Edward Fox | Smack | 4:08 |
| 2.9 | Some Like It Hot | Bet Lynch’s Legs | 4:30 |
| 2.10 | Lips That Would Kiss | Durutti Column | 3:47 |
| 2.11 | The Flood | Blue Orchids | 4:19 |
| 2.12 | I’m in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk | The Freshies | 2:50 |
| 2.13 | Cloud of Flies | The Hamsters | 4:03 |
| 2.14 | Acid Tabla Dub | Suns of Arqa | 3:01 |
| 2.15 | The Fox | A Certain Ratio | 3:05 |
| 2.16 | Deaf | Crispy Ambulance | 3:58 |
| 2.17 | My Cherry Is in Sherry | Ludus | 2:40 |
| 2.18 | Bricks | The Diagram Bros | 2:44 |
| 2.19 | Subliminal | Eric Random | 4:41 |
| 2.20 | Valium Girls | Bee Vamp | 4:35 |
| 2.21 | In Shreds | The Chameleons | 4:08 |
| 3.1 | Temptation (7″ version) | New Order | 5:24 |
| 3.2 | Marking Time | Syncopation | 3:49 |
| 3.3 | Rosemary | Dislocation Dance | 2:48 |
| 3.4 | Sugar Daddy | Carmel | 3:09 |
| 3.5 | You’ve Got Me Beat | Swamp Children | 4:56 |
| 3.6 | Discipline | Gods Gift | 4:26 |
| 3.7 | Procession | Nico and the Invisible Girls | 4:50 |
| 3.8 | Cool as Ice (U.S. 7″ edit) | 52nd Street | 4:01 |
| 3.9 | Sharp Tongue | The Passage | 3:04 |
| 3.10 | Aair Care | Biting Tongues | 5:00 |
| 3.11 | Of All - Leaves Were Falling | Jane | 1:22 |
| 3.12 | Working and Shopping | Tools You Can Trust | 3:20 |
| 3.13 | Love Tempo (Benelux edit) | Quando Quango | 3:35 |
| 3.14 | Grunt Cadillac Hotel | Inca Babies | 2:38 |
| 3.15 | Reach for Love | Marcel King | 5:28 |
| 3.16 | Looking From a Hilltop | Section 25 | 4:33 |
| 3.17 | Tell Me | Life | 3:11 |
| 3.18 | All at Once | Stockholm Monsters | 2:56 |
| 3.19 | Spike Milligan’s Tape Recorder | The Membranes | 4:12 |
| 3.20 | Kitchen Sink Drama | A Witness | 4:17 |
| 3.21 | Love at the Haçienda | Graham Fellows | 2:35 |
| 4.1 | Chain Mail | James | 3:26 |
| 4.2 | Belle Vue | Miaow | 4:10 |
| 4.3 | Whistling in the Dark | Easterhouse | 3:42 |
| 4.4 | Scar Tissue | The Bodies | 3:39 |
| 4.5 | Why Popstars Can’t Dance | bIG fLAME | 1:59 |
| 4.6 | China Doll | The Weeds | 2:36 |
| 4.7 | Get High | Yargo | 5:21 |
| 4.8 | Sharp | Twang | 3:18 |
| 4.9 | Me and My Mini | Edward Barton | 2:31 |
| 4.10 | D’You Think I Look Like Elvis Presley? | Big Ed & His Rocking Rattlesnakes | 3:06 |
| 4.11 | Garage Full of Flowers (Flexi version) | Inspiral Carpets | 3:45 |
| 4.12 | Days of the Week | The Danny Boys | 3:11 |
| 4.13 | Let Go | Thirst! | 3:27 |
| 4.14 | Drive Drive Drive (Twenty Two and Still in Love with You) | The Man From Delmonte | 2:30 |
| 4.15 | Falling Upstairs | The Monkey Run | 4:18 |
| 4.16 | Spend My Whole Life Loving You | Metro Trinity | 3:44 |
| 4.17 | Take Me Down | Mirrors Over Kiev | 3:14 |
| 4.18 | This Is How I Feel | The Paperboys | 3:46 |
| 4.19 | A Peck on the Cheek À La Politiqué | The Great Leap Forward | 3:23 |
| 4.20 | Kill All the Boys | TOT | 3:31 |
| 4.21 | Meat Mouth Is Murder | Meat Mouth | 4:40 |
| 4.22 | Cariño | T-Coy | 5:16 |
| 5.1 | 24 Hour Party People | Shaun Ryder | 4:39 |
| 5.2 | Man in a Suit | Ambitious Beggars | 3:17 |
| 5.3 | Skin Storm | Bradford | 3:15 |
| 5.4 | Time to Lose It (John Peel radio session version) | Laugh | 3:13 |
| 5.5 | Hurry On Down (When Will I See You Again) | Too Much Texas | 2:43 |
| 5.6 | Pessimistic Man | Fallover 24 | 3:30 |
| 5.7 | The Deepest | The Waltones | 4:12 |
| 5.8 | Nice Time at the Disco | Raintree County | 4:46 |
| 5.9 | Subway Life | Johnny Dangerously | 2:26 |
| 5.10 | In Salford the Sun Doesn’t Shine | Jean Go Solo | 2:43 |
| 5.11 | Passion in the Afternoon | The Desert Wolves | 3:37 |
| 5.12 | The Last of the Famous International Playboys | Morrissey | 3:38 |
| 5.13 | Fanciable Headcase | King of the Slums | 4:58 |
| 5.14 | C’est la vie | The Sun and the Moon | 4:34 |
| 5.15 | Chorus of the Lost | The Reegs | 5:24 |
| 5.16 | The Man With the Golden Arm | Barry Adamson | 4:05 |
| 5.17 | Ooh! This Feeling | The Jazz Defektors | 4:20 |
| 5.18 | All This and Heaven Too (radio edit) | Chapter and the Verse | 4:42 |
| 5.19 | Voodoo Ray | A Guy Called Gerald | 4:27 |
| 5.20 | Born in the North | Us | 5:15 |
| 6.1 | What the World Is Waiting For | The Stone Roses | 3:53 |
| 6.2 | Vein | What? Noise | 4:35 |
| 6.3 | Swerve | Dub Sex | 2:59 |
| 6.4 | Hold On | The Train Set | 3:21 |
| 6.5 | Waterskin | The Jerks | 3:56 |
| 6.6 | And Then She Smiles | Martin Coogan | 3:17 |
| 6.7 | 7 Reasons (demo) | Revenge | 3:59 |
| 6.8 | Getting Away With It | Electronic | 4:17 |
| 6.9 | How Sleep the Brave (jazz mix vocal edit) | MC Buzz B | 5:53 |
| 6.10 | The Only Rhyme That Bites | MC Tunes vs 808 State | 4:31 |
| 6.11 | Big (edit) | New Fast Automatic Daffodils | 4:07 |
| 6.12 | Shall We Take a Trip | Northside | 4:23 |
| 6.13 | Get Ready | The Rainkings | 2:35 |
| 6.14 | Perfume | Paris Angels | 4:12 |
| 6.15 | Box Set Go | The High | 4:03 |
| 6.16 | 18 Daze | The Cygnet Ring | 3:23 |
| 6.17 | Dazed | Asia Fields | 4:08 |
| 6.18 | And It Wasn't a Dream | Ruthless Rap Assassins | 3:01 |
| 6.19 | Coming Through Clear | Krispy 3 | 4:34 |
| 6.20 | Let Off (7″ mix) | Kiss AMC featuring Ruthless Rap Assassins | 3:37 |
| 7.1 | Sproston Green | The Charlatans | 5:13 |
| 7.2 | Giant Sea | Swirl | 4:22 |
| 7.3 | Sons of the Stage | World of Twist | 5:10 |
| 7.4 | Dream Beam (7″ edit) | Hypnotone | 4:06 |
| 7.5 | Cubik (original mix) | 808 State | 3:22 |
| 7.6 | Space Face | Sub Sub | 6:47 |
| 7.7 | Camper Van | The Adventure Babies | 4:45 |
| 7.8 | Fly | The Days | 3:15 |
| 7.9 | Murder | Kill Laura | 1:51 |
| 7.10 | Caterpillars | Wonky Alice | 5:03 |
| 7.11 | Soup | Robinson | 3:19 |
| 7.12 | Lionrock | Lionrock | 5:12 |
| 7.13 | Song to the Siren | The Chemical Brothers | 4:32 |
| 7.14 | Can You Fly Like You Mean It (Gungadin) | Intastella feat. Shaun Ryder | 4:20 |
| 7.15 | Offshore | Puressence | 3:25 |
| 7.16 | Dirt and Soul | Bandit Queen | 3:25 |
| 7.17 | Barny | Molly Half Head | 3:18 |
| 7.18 | Columbia (demo) | Oasis | 5:28 |
Member reviews
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