Various Artists – Unbelievable Vol.1

As I have mentioned on previous posts, Britpop was the first era when I buying a good deal of the music that was being released. Remember folks, this was a time when if you wanted the music, you need to have it on some sort of physical media, even if that included copying the music onto a cassette. I am old enough the remember the ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’ campaign 

However, there was a period before this that went by many names. These included Baggy, Madchester and Indie, but there were others as well. I might not have been buying due to a lack of funds (I was at school at the time) but I was listening, soaking it all up. However, by the turn of the century, the first retrospective compilations of that time started to see the light of day. One of my favourites, and the inspiration for this compilation was released in 2001. ‘Unbelievable’, named after the song by EMF, covered all the big hitters from that era including a few who would continue into the Britpop era. 

Not only did I take songs from the ‘Unbelievable’ compilation, I have also included songs from around the same time that were on ‘The Best Album In The World Compilations’ that I was buying throughout the Britpop years and tunes that I heard from people I was at University..   

Disc 1

1. Surfin’ USM – Cater The Unstoppable Sex Machine
2. This Is Your Life – Banderas
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Saint Etienne
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing – U2
5. There’s No Other Way – Blur
6. One Way – The Levellers
7. The Size Of A Cow – The Wonder Stuff
8. Kinky Afro – Happy Mondays
9. Loaded – Primal Scream
10. Unfinished Sympathy (Nellee Hoper 7” Mix) – Massive Attack
11. Enjoy The Silence – Depeche Mode
12. Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
13. Shine On – The House Of Love
14. There She Goes – The La’s
15. Can You Dig It? – The Mock Turtles
16. Move Any Mountain – The Shaman
17. Hippy Chick – Soho
18. The Only One I Know – The Charlatans
19. This Is How It Feels – Insipral Carpets
20. Groove Is In The Heart – Dee-Lite

Disc 2

1. On 33 – Stereo MC’s
2. Feeling’ – The La’s
3. Where’s Me Jumper? – Sultans Of Ping F.C.
4. The Fly – U2
5. Unbelievable – EMF
6. Sit Down – James
7. Saturn 5 – Inspiral Carpets
8. Step On – Happy Mondays
9. Orange Crush – R.E.M. 
10. Monkeys Gone To Heaven – The Pixies
11. After All – Frank & Walters
12. Shall We Take A Trip – Northside
13. Then – The Charlatans
14. The Killing Moon – Echo & The Bunnymen
15. Ten Years Asleep – Kingmaker
16. How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
17. Sing – Blur
18. All Together Now – The Farm

The artwork is adapted from the compilation of the same name that came out in 2001.