Indie Top 20, Vol. 18 (1993)

About this title: Each volume in Beechwood's Melody Maker-sponsored Indie Top 20 series acts as a fairly adequate time capsule of U.K. indie music. Initiated in 1987 and put to rest in 1996, the 23 volumes act as a more-discerning English equivalent of the monthly Certain Damage samplers that came with CMJ (College Music Journal) in the U.S. And since the U.K. definition of "indie" has a wider scope, this series has much more stylistic variety. The 18th volume, released in 1993, includes Blur's "Chemical World," Elastica's "Stutter," Swervedriver's "Duel," Verve's "Slide Away," the Boo Radleys' "Wish I Was ... read more

Tracks:

1. Chemical World [Albarn/Coxon/James/]
2. Venus as a Boy [Bjork]
3. Condemnation [Paris Mix] [Gore]
4. Today [Corgan]
5. Lean on Me I Won't Fall Over
6. R.S.V.P. [Crabb/Pance]
7. Stutter [Elastica/Frischmann]
8. Slide Away [Jones/Ashcroft/McCa]
9. Norman 3 [Blake]
10. Queen Jan
11. Wish I Was Skinny [Boo Radleys/Carr]
12. Big Love
13. We Are the Beautiful [Patman]
14. Missing Link [Garcia/Halliday]
15. Tilted
16. Duel [Swervedriver]
17. Kent
18. Jewel [Shaw/Shaw]
19. Airplane Gardens [Family Cat]
20. Enough Is Enough [Chumbawamba]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.