Year Released: 2007 Label: Universal Year Bought: 2007 If you came across this collection of songs today, it would be as a Spotify playlist marked "Indie Barbecue". It's easy to be dismissive of compilations, but in the days before streaming they were a good way of hoovering up scenes or moments in time, and sometimes would introduce you to bands you'd not paid much attention to or even heard of. The theme of this seems to be "chartable guitar music", which is why you get Fall Out Boy's 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race' on the same disc as Happy Monday's 'Kinky Afro'. There's bands you'd expect to hear – Oasis, Stone Roses, Kaiser Chiefs – alongside some songs that have become indie staples – 'Chelsea Dagger' by the Fratellis, for example. There are some tunes and bands I'd completely forgotten about. Remember The Automatic and their single 'Monster'? Well this compilation has their other tu...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)