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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Release Date: Aug 4, 2017
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- Summary: The seven-disc box set features 146 tracks from such artists as 808 State, A Certain Ratio, The Charlatans, John Cooper Clarke, Durutti Column, The Fall, Happy Mondays, James, Joy Division, Morrissey, New Order, Oasis, and Stone Roses.
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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 22, 2017All in all, it’s an exhaustive trawl through this proud provincial stronghold’s extraordinary creative archive and arguably the definitive guide to our trends in the north.
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Aug 23, 2017Obviously seven CDs need a major investment of time, but the investment is certainly rewarded.
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MagnetAug 22, 2017The set is exhaustive, but it's not an overdose. [No. 144, p.60]
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Aug 22, 2017Hard to find fault with, and much to find pleasure with.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2017This 147-track box (plus 92-page booklet) is thankfully packed with predominately great music. [Oct 2017, p.113]
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UncutAug 22, 2017Often, the more oblique voices speak loudest from Manchester Mekons' pop-prog punk collectivism, through Durutti Column's moist-eyed melancholy, World Of Twist's epic pop oddness, to classic British hip-hop from Ruthless Rap Assassins. [Sep 2017, p.53]