NDEPIEN EDITED BY ANDY STRICKLAND

The Oyster Band are going to end contains four tracks, including a version SINGLES up hugely famous if they carry on like of Billy Bragg's 'Between The Wars' as this. Already acclaimed as Britain's top well as some fine dance business on (1) Crackers International Erasure (Mute) roots band via two very successful 'McLeod's Reel', recorded live at last 2 (2) Can't Be Sure the Sundays (Rough Trade) , the band have teamed up with year's Cambridge Folk Festival. Roots 3 (3) Fine Time New Order (Factory) producer Kevin Moloney on the single music is one of the fastest growing 4 (5) Hearts And Minds Nitzer Ebb (Mute) 5 (—) Alive Not Dead EP Sun And The Moon (Midnight Music) 'The Lost And Found' that pays areas of this great old business and we 6 (4) If Love Was ATrain Michelle Shocked (Cooking Vinyl) testimony to their growing stature in reckon before the end of this year 7 (6) A Little Respect Erasure (Mute) the songwriting stakes. A value for you'll know more folk acts than just the 8 (7) Blue Monday '88 New Order (Factory) money release this, for the B-side Pogues and the Spinners. 9 (8) Oh L'Amour Erasure (Mute) 10 (11) John Kettley Is AWeatherman ATribe Of Toffs (Completely Different) 11 (19) Destroy The Heart House Of Love (Creation) 12 (9) Ship Of Fools Erasure (Mute) 13 (10) Chains Of Love (Rernix) Erasure (Mute) 14 (15) It Doesn't Have To Be Erasure (Mute) 15 (—) Revolution Spacemen 3(Fire) 16 (20) True Faith New Order (Factory) 17 (17) The Peel Sessions Jimi Hendrix (Strange Fruit) 18 (13) Kansas Wolfgang Press (4AD) 19 (12) Victim Of Love Erasure (Mute)

20 (18) Sometimes Erasure (Mute) 21 (—) Black Sun Loop (Chapter 22) 22 (—) Heavenly Adios Erasure (Mute) 23 (21) The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit) 24 (—) Preacher Man Fields Of The Nephilim (Situation Two) 25 (—) Del Con One Pop Will Eat Itself (Chapter 22) 26 (30) The Circus Erasure (Mute) 27 (27) Motorcycle EP Love And Rockets (Beggars Banquet) 28 (—) William It Was Really Nothing the Smiths (Rough Trade) OPEN MIND = EMPTY MIND 29 (26) Nighttracks the Wedding Present (Strange Fruit) 30 (14) They'll Need A Crane They Might Be Giants (One Little Indian) Welcome back McCarthy and their fabulous single 'Keep An Open Mind Or Else', which is currently nestling at the top of the singles reviews page and at the same time is glued to the Independents' record deck here in hell corner. The band have signed a new deal with groovy Midnight Music and ALBUMS are about to release the LP 'The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth', which will surely catapult the band to the heights they deserve, as long as we all keep Technique New Order (Factory) very hush hush about the fact they're a bunch of mad lefties looking to bring 2 The Innocents Erasure (Mute) down the government with a guitar and a pop song. You want a bet? You 3 Circus Erasure (Mule) bet! 4 Wonderland Erasure (Mute) 5 Short Sharp Shocked Michelle Shocked (Cooking Vinyl) 6 Substance New Order (Factory) 7 In Gorbachev We Trust the Shamen (Demon) 8 The Man — Best Of Elvis Costello Elvis Costello (Demon) 9 Hunkpapa Throwing Muses (4AD) 10 The Whitey Ciccone Youth (Blast First) 11 Fade Out Loop (Chapter 22) 12 the Smiths (Rough Trade) 13 the Smiths (Rough Trade) 14 Bummed (Factory) 15 Rank the Smiths (Rough Trade) 16 1977-1980; Substance (Factory) 17 House Of Love House Of Love (Creation) 18 Surfer Rosa Pixies (4AD) 19 Life's Too Good the Sugarcubes (One Little Indian) 20 the Smiths (Rough Trade)

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