5013929108301

Dreams To Fill The Vacuum ~ The Sound Of Sheffield 1978-1988: Bookpack Edition

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: CRCDBOX83

Release Date:  06 December 2019

Label:  Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929108301

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description


    • Extensive 4CD/book set exploring the punk and post-punk sound of the ‘steel city’.


     



    • Features classics, rarities, album tracks and TWELVE previously unreleased gems from The Human League, Pulp (and members thereof), Heaven 17, Thompson Twins, B.E.F., Artery, ABC, Clock DVA, Hula, The Danse Society, In The Nursery, Treebound Story and many more.


     



    • 4CD + hardback book format contains over 20,000 words of artists’ sleevenotes, essays and memoirs from key players in the city’s music scene.


     



    • Curated and designed by the people who brought you Manchester – North Of England, Revolutionary Spirit – The Sound Of Liverpool, Silhouettes And Statues, Electrical Language, Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream and many more critically acclaimed box sets.



    • Journey through the music of a generation in one of the UK’s most vibrant and creative cities.


     



    • Sheffield in the 1970s…. a city in decline, its steel mills and factories closing and its vast housing estates beginning to crumble. Even the city’s two football teams were both experiencing the worst form in their long histories. An unlikely setting, then, for a musical revolution, but aren’t they always? As it transpired, in the aftermath of punk this industrial backdrop, alive with frustrated young talent and peppered with accessible and affordable rehearsal and performance spaces, became a hotbed of uniquely informed new bands that challenged both the constraints of genre and the dominance of music from London, Liverpool and Manchester.


     



    • Dreams To Fill The Vacuum charts the revival of Sheffield and its music in the latter half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, from The Human League to Pulp, via Aardvark, Pax and Native Records, and onto the chart successes of Heaven 17, ABC, Thompson Twins and many others. Featuring cornerstone contributions from the city’s brightest stars – Oakey, Cocker, Ware, Marsh, Hawley, Newton and co - alongside many more lesser-known legends, this is a tale of a city and its people rediscovering itself.


     



    • Packed with first-hand artist sleevenotes, insightful essays, revealing imagery and brilliant, essential music, Dreams To Fill The Vacuum offers a story in need of telling.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Dancevision - The Human League
      • 2. Don't Try To Cure Yourself - They Must Be Russians
      • 3. Dreams To Fill The Vacuum - I'm So Hollow
      • 4. Modern Men - The Prams
      • 5. All Time Low - 2.3
      • 6. Metal Boys - Hobbies Of Today
      • 7. Track No. 5 - Mein Glas Fabrik *
      • 8. Help Me - Red Zoo *
      • 9. Avoid The Surgery (Demo) - I Scream Brothers
      • 10. Junior - B. Troop
      • 11. She's In Love With Mystery - Thompson Twins
      • 12. Say And Do - Repulsive Alien
      • 13. Torch - Veiled Threat
      • 14. Questions Of Gender - De Tian
      • 15. Unknown - Molodoy
      • 16. Social Psychology - Tv Product *
      • 17. Electric Waltz - Negatives
      • 18. End Of Act One - Y?
      • 19. The Maze - The Toy Shop
      • 20. A Girlfriend Is... - Vena Cava
      • 21. Drowning - Graph
      • 22. Men In The Mirrorshades - Rapid Eye Movements
      • 23. Llamas (Live At The Wimpy Bar) - A Major European Group
      • 24. Raindance - The Past Seven Days
      • 25. Living In Confusion - Pagan Bo

      Disc 2

      • 1. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (12 Mix) - Heaven 17
      • 2. Lucifer's Friend - Vision
      • 3. The Clown - Artery
      • 4. Twist - New Model Soldier
      • 5. Train - Surface Mutants
      • 6. 4 Hours (Remixed Single Version) - Clock Dva
      • 7. A Baby Called Billy - British Electronic Foundation
      • 8. War Games - Flying Alphonso Brothers *
      • 9. English Industrial Estate - Shy Tots
      • 10. Heavy Men - Disease *
      • 11. Deity's Lament - Stunt Kites
      • 12. Secret Society - Mau Maus
      • 13. Marcella Ball - The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor
      • 14. Corpse Creeper - Quite Unnerving
      • 15. Parking Boys - Acrobats Of Desire
      • 16. Man With A Luminous Head (Demo) * - The Blimp
      • 17. Scramble For Style - The Mirror Crack'd
      • 18. Real Life - Vital
      • 19. Psychokiller - Heroes Of The Beach
      • 20. Alphabet Soup - Abc

      Disc 3

      • 1. Everybody's Problem - Pulp
      • 2. Intruder In The Dust - Bass Tone Trap
      • 3. Just A Game - U.V. Pøp
      • 4. Danse/Move - The Danse Society
      • 5. Iskra - In The Nursery
      • 6. Dying Man, Faithful Priest - Dachau Choir
      • 7. Tex Mirror H - Out Of Reach
      • 8. No One Leaves The) Fever Car - Hula
      • 9. Quiet Type - Time In Motion
      • 10. Over - Siiiii
      • 11. Mannequin - Ipso Facto
      • 12. Worlds Apart - Fatales *
      • 13. Billingham's Island (Demo)* - Tsi Tsi
      • 14. Fish And Breadcake - Fish And Breadcake
      • 15. Late Nights (Demo) - Harriet *
      • 16. Out Of The Flesh (Mix 1) - Chakk
      • 17. The Distance From Koln - Native Europe
      • 18. Silicon Chip - Defective Turtles
      • 19. Persuasion - Vendino Pact
      • 20. In My Eyes (Demo)* - Typhoon Saturday

      Disc 4

      • 1. Kitchenette - Peter Hope And The Jonathan S. Podmore Method
      • 2. Winds Of Change - Scala Timpani
      • 3. You Ungrateful Bastard (Flexi Version) - One Thousand Violins
      • 4. Crayola - A.C. Temple
      • 5. Up The Hill - Sedition
      • 6. Message From A Dead Man - The Flight Commander
      • 7. Zulu - The Anti Group
      • 8. Chains - Chain
      • 9. Fix The Kitchen - Dig Vis Drill
      • 10. Children - Kilgore Trout
      • 11. Bottle Breast - Fishwives
      • 12. Treehouse - Mr Morality *
      • 13. Skin Scraped Back - Workforce
      • 14. Like A Fool - Treebound Story
      • 15. Wonderful Life - Nick Fish & The Seahorses
      • 16. Crow Bar - The Box
      • 17. Colorado Dead Man - The Midnight Choir
      • 18. The World Doesn't Turn - The Junk
      • 19. Lawnmower Woman (Live) - The Wacky Gardeners