Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983): Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983) / Various - Expanded Edition
Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983): Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983) / Various - Expanded Edition
Format: CD
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Artist: Pillows & Prayers (Cherry Red Records 1982-1983)
Label: Cherry Red
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929185937
Genre: Rock
Three CDs. Digitally remastered and expanded 40th Anniversary edition. 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Five Or Six: Portrait
1.2 The Monochrome Set: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
1.3 Thomas Leer: All About You
1.4 Tracey Thorn: Plain Sailing
1.5 Ben Watt: Some Things Don't Matter
1.6 Kevin Coyne: Love In Your Heart
1.7 Piero Milesi: Modi 2 (Extract)
1.8 Joe Crow: Compulsion
1.9 Marine Girls: Lazy Ways
1.10 Felt: My Face Is On Fire
1.11 Eyeless In Gaza: No Noise
1.12 The Passage: Xoyo
1.13 Everything But The Girl: On My Mind
1.14 Attila The Stockbroker: A Bang And A Wimpy
1.15 The Misunderstood: I Unseen
1.16 The Nightingales: Don't Blink
1.17 Quentin Crisp: Stop The Music For A Minute
1.18 Five Or Six: Another Reason
1.19 Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk To Fuck
1.20 Medium Medium: Hungry So Angry
1.21 Soul: Tribes
1.22 Alan Burnham: Music To Save The World By 23 Thomas Leer: Letter From America
1.23 Second Layer: Fixation
1.24 Kevin Harrison: All Night Long
1.25 A Tent: No Way Of Knowing
2.1 Marine Girls: A Place In The Sun
2.2 Jane: It's A Fine Day
2.3 Kevin Hewick: Feathering The Nest
2.4 Fantastic Something: If She Doesn't Smile (It’ll Rain)
2.5 Eyeless In Gaza: New Risen
2.6 The Monochrome Set: The Jet Set Junta
2.7 Morgan Fisher: Un Homme Et Une Femme
2.8 Felt: Penelope Tree
2.9 Maurice Deebank: The Watery Song
2.10 Grab Grab The Haddock: I'm Used Now
2.11 Swallow Tongue: Animation
2.12 The Nightingales: Paraffin Brain
2.13 The Reflections: 4 Countries
2.14 The Passage: Sharp Tongue
2.15 Red Box: Chenko
2.16 Creation Rebel: Love I Can Feel
2.17 Bodhi Beat Poets: Wake Up Unemployed
2.18 Martyn Bates: Cut Like Sunset
2.19 Jane And Barton: I Want To Be With You
2.20 Swallow Tongue: Hitch Up Honey
2.21 Patrick Macnee And Honor Blackman: Kinky Boots
2.22 The John Barry Seven And Orchestra: The Lolly Theme
2.23 No Artist: The Compassion And Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher (Extracts From...)
3.1 Thomas Leer: On The Wire
3.2 Five Or Six: Black Balloons Drop
3.3 Jane: Don't Say It
3.4 The Monochrome Set: I'll Scry Instead (Demo)
3.5 The Monochrome Set: Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners (Live In Oslo)
3.6 The Monochrome Set: Cast A Long Shadow (Live In Oslo)
3.7 The Passage: Man Of War
3.8 The Passage: Love Is As Is
3.9 The Passage: Empty Words
3.10 The Passage: Horseplay
3.11 Attila The Stockbroker: Death In Bromley
3.12 Attila The Stockbroker: A Bang And A Wimpy
3.13 Attila The Stockbroker: The Night I Slept With Seething Wells
3.14 Kevin Coyne: Tell The Truth
3.15 Kevin Coyne: Liberation
3.16 Kevin Coyne: You Won’t Like It
3.17 Kevin Coyne: I Talk To Myself
3.18 The Nightingales: Joking Apart
3.19 The Nightingales: It Lives Again!
3.20 The Nightingales: Ok Corale / The Crunch
3.21 Attila The Stockbroker: England Are Back / Holiday In Albania
3.22 Attila The Stockbroker: Sawdust And Empire
