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Latest f50 1986 tracks
The Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It’s still 1986, and we’ve reached the release of the third single, one which came out on 7″ and 12″…” on Oct 22nd, 2023 →
The Wedding Present - Once More
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “It took around nine months after the debut before the second 45 from The Wedding Present was available to buy.…” on Oct 15th, 2023 →
Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Talking With Taxman About Poetry – Billy Bragg (1986) The so-called ‘difficult’ third album. Billy Bragg had very quickly become…” on Mar 30th, 2023 →
Age Of Chance - Bible Of The Beats
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “A cover version came up on random play recently. Cue a desire to write about it. The thing is, two…” on Nov 10th, 2022 →
The Pastels - Truck Train Tractor
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “I’ve written about The Pastels a few times before, always owning up to the fact that not everything they have…” on Jul 8th, 2022 →
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “This is one of those songs where, no matter how hard I try, I can never come up with the…” on Nov 7th, 2021 →
The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “This week, a single that made it into the Top 75 in September 1986, thanks to a song that could…” on Oct 17th, 2021 →
The Fall - Living Too Late
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The sixteen-month period from October 1985 – December 1986 was a busy, yet reasonably stable one for the band. They…” on Oct 10th, 2021 →
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “53rd & 3rd Records, named after a Ramones song, was founded by David Keegan of the Shop Assistants and Stephen…” on Mar 30th, 2021 →
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “Life, like the video for The Shop Assistants Safety Net, can be a tad blurry around the edges. Now, you…” on Oct 27th, 2020 →
The Wedding Present - Felicity
Plain Or Pan?Follow “David Gedge introduced The Wedding Present’s breakneck run-through of Orange Juice‘s Felicity with those words, delivered in a perfectly-sighing, world-weary…” on Mar 29th, 2020 →
The Pogues - Body Of An American
Plain Or Pan?Follow “1985. 15 years old. Too young for pubs (I looked about 12) and too old for weans’ stuff like skating…” on Aug 8th, 2016 →
The Primitives - Really Stupid
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “The Primitives formed in the mid 80s, and while the music was pretty decent, it was the presence of an…” on Feb 7th, 2015 →
The Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed
THE VINYL VILLAINFollow “One of the worst album covers of all time and one of the most cheaply produced compilation LPs of all…” on Feb 19th, 2014 →
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
Largehearted BoyFollow “Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the…” on Sep 7th, 2013 →
The Pogues - The Body Of An American
Sirens of DecayFollow “The first time I heard this track was in one of the infamous memorial scenes in The Wire (if you…” on Aug 10th, 2013 →
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
The Mad MackerelFollow “It’s Top Ten time at Mackerel Headquarters, with all the usual suspects listening, compiling and scribing. It’s been a tickety…” on Dec 7th, 2012 →
The Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World
27 LeggiesFollow “I have to make a day trip to Edinburgh tomorrow. Unfortunately I won't have time to see anything other than…” on Sep 13th, 2012 →
The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist
yes please thank youFollow “ Hey Mr Pharmacist I’ll recommend you to my friends They’ll be happy in the end Mr Pharmacist can you help…” on Mar 27th, 2012 →