Various Artists - Sensitive: an indie pop anthology

Double Album - Release Date: 14/02/25 - Black Vinyl

Genre: Indie

Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete
Paphides, is thrilled to announce the release of SENSITIVE the first ever vinyl anthology to cover the indiepop scene of the 1980s. SENSITIVE features 30 songs in total by artists who defined the indiepop aesthetic, among them The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Sea Urchins, Primal Scream, The Pastels, Talulah Gosh, Orange Juice, The Field Mice, The Primitives, The Wedding Present, Miaow, Razorcuts, Dolly Mixture, The Bodines, Shop Assistants, The Soup Dragons, The Loft, The Chills, That Petrol Emotion and The Railway Children.

SENSITIVE takes its name from the single released by The Field Mice, and marks the first time that The Field Mice have allowed one of their songs to be used on a compilation released by any label other than Sarah Records, who released all their records at the time.

Also features on SENSITIVE is Dying Day from Orange Juice’s hugely influential debut album You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever – marking the only time that Edwyn Collins and his wife and manager Grace Maxwell have given permission for an Orange Juice song to be featured on an anthology.

Many of the records featured on SENSITIVE have become highly sought-after collectors’ items since their original release. The Sea Urchins’ Pristine Christine changes hands for up to £400. Original mint copies of April Showers’ only single Abandon Ship command up to £380. If you were to try and individually buy all the records featuring the songs on SENSITIVE, you can expect to pay something around £1150.

SENSITIVE features 10,000 words of extensive track-by-track notes and an essay by Pete Paphides, who was and remains an avid proponent of the indiepop scene that this collection chronicles. All the songs on SENSITIVE have been newly mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell. 

SENSITIVE will be released on double LP and double CD Needle Mythology Records.

Tracklist

DISC 1
SIDE 1
1. Pristine Christine - The Sea Urchins
2. Get Out Of My Dream - The Clouds
3. Truck Train Tractor - The Pastels
4. Once More - The Wedding Present
5. Almost Prayed - The Weather Prophets
6. If She Doesn’t Smile (It’ll Rain) - Fantastic Something
7. Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh

SIDE 2
1. Crash - The Primitives
2. It’s A Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion

3. Hang-Ten! - The Soup Dragons
4. When It All Comes Down - Miaow
5. Kaleidoscope World - The Chills
6. Somewhere In China - Shop Assistants
7. I’ll Still Be There - Razorcuts
8. Abandon Ship - April Showers

DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Someone Stole My Wheels - Biff Bang Pow!
2. Dying Day - Orange Juice
3. Hammering Heart - Del Amitri
4. Why Does The Rain - The Loft
5. Yesterday - The Nivens
6. Ten Miles - Phil Wilson
7. Sensitive - The Filed Mice
SIDE 2
1. Brighter - The Railway Children
2. Adam’s Song (Pour Fenella) - The Sun And The Moon
3. She Looks Right Through Me - The Waltones
4. Therese - The Bodines
5. Velocity Girl - Primal Scream
6. Will He Kiss Me Tonight - Dolly Mixture
7. Some Candy Talking - The Jesus And Mary Chain
8. Candydiosis - Pop Will Eat Itself