Cherry Red Records : Make More Noise : Great UK CD Comps

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[@darrenlewis5403]

Cherry Red were (and still are) a very important part of my life. I'm 57 in a few weeks so I grew up with the label together with Rough Trade, Stiff etc....Pretty much mandatory for alternative listening as a UK based music fan. Iain McNay deserves full kudos for his efforts over the years.

[@mazzysmusic]

Yeah. I should have mentioned Iain McNay

[@darrenlewis5403]

@@mazzysmusic Have you heard the 3CD box 'Beyond The Pale Horizon'? Its a cracker, perfectly evokes 1972 in the UK.

[@talkingalbums]

I became aware of Cherry Red on my first visit to England in April 1983. I picked up a copy of Pillows & Prayers - a compilation of Cherry Red artists. The cassette had a sticker "Pay No More Than 99p". My favourite artists on the collection were Marine Girls and Felt. Listening to that compilation brings so many memories. Thanks for this video, Mazzy

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

The Manchester comp looks fantastic. Love that era and sound. I remember when it was really hard to get Cherry Red CDs. Back in the '90s before amazon and ebay you'd have to find a bank that issued the correct kind of international money order and then coordinate all that and send it to England and hope in two months the CDs would get to you. I got a really good Cherry Red comp by the British band, the Wolfhounds from the late '80s. A really underrated indie cult band. Glad to see you trying to broaden the horizons of your viewers who seem perpertually stuck in 1972 US rock.

[@dboy6896]

You make lots of people happy!... thank you!!

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

Tommy James came to western PA hunting for a band. And he came to Greensburg PA and hired the raconteurs History was made. My good friend Don was in a band called Battalion ( I was In briefly). They played the long version perfectly. My friend Donnie passed away at a young age. A true friend. Thanks for taking me back. The Electric Prunes were such a great band. Thanks again.

[@xiigodz]

Great tribute to a fabulous label!!.... ROCK ON Cherry Red!🎸💓🎸

[@paulshepherd9713]

Hi Norman. I'm a regular Cherry Red buyer, great label. I'm a Manchester area guy too and I've seen a lot of the bands on your Northern compilation. It's a small world!

[@Niels133]

Nice to see/ hear some cd's again on your channel.

[@marktubeie07]

Yes, Cherry Red is superb !

[@gavaxemanspins]

Great video - keep highlighting these great CD box sets - as a vinyl AND CD buyer it’s a shame the lack of love some of these great sets get

[@jc-mt8ot]

Holy cow.....I just updated my comment from your Beau Brummels video (from 3 years ago) early this morning....before watching this post. Had ordered the Beau Brummels box set and it arrived yesterday. I then was watching this and there you were with it in hand. I had no idea it was on Grapefruit. What a strange coincidence. Its a great set and very complete. I am now thinking of grabbing few of these others. Good stuff!

[@LanceB1960]

BGO is a pretty cool label as well.

[@patbarr1351]

Nice video, Mazzy. (I love getting a box in the post labelled "Royal Mail.") I don't believe you mentioned all the great interviews available on the Cherryred TV link on their homepage. Lots of those off-the-main-road British folks that I like, including Ant Phillips, Toyah, and Steve Hackett plus producers like John Leckie (XTC, BeBop Deluxe, Los Lobos).

[@robertpigram]

Great choice Mazzy 👋👋👋.... really enjoyed the show and although I'm in the UK I didn't know Cherry Red Records ... my credit card is going to get a real pasting 😂 .... many thanks for for highlighting ✌

[@leighgoldstein3119]

Cherry Red performs an amazing service for humanity. Sounds heavy but they protect and preserve art. Their Procol Harum boxed set on their Esoteric sub label is absolutely spectacular.

[@mazzysmusic]

Yes that is also a great set ✌🏼

[@djvinylvertigo]

Lene Lovich is amazing live!!!!

[@northcarolinavinylpicker]

First heard Tommy James around 67. My brother had great records. He was 6 yrs older than me. Doors, ccr, Beatles, etc.

[@blockssonicwafers]

You're gonna love "Bring The Family" by John Hiatt. His voice is an acquired taste so give it a chance.

[@guidoerfen7944]

Of course that Chery Red EL label is marvelous, unearthing so many forgotten pop gems of all kind ... In the mid 80ies Cherry Red release very often could be found in the cut out. never expected they would grow like this. Yes, and my introduction to them was Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, what a monster of an album.

[@christopherrigby2798]

Crimson And Clover extended hmm I can hear where the Hollies Lullabye To Times vocal effects come from all right. Loved the whole video on Cherry Red. Regards Chris (Curiosity at SHtv), Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, The West Midlands of England.

[@bobdarlington4634]

Great video Mazzy, "Think I'm Going Weird" is top notch, and as a Manc how could I not love "Manchester North Of England". Takes me back to venues like The Boardwalk, and seeing characters like Bez, (pre-Happy Mondays), John Cooper Clarke, and MES just wandering around town.

[@iblamesummers]

Great segment, Mazzy. Long Love Compact Discs. 💿

[@keithwalker8090]

I've never heard of Cherry Red Records, so I went to their website and I find Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels and learned that they were not in the rock and roll hall of fame. How did that happen? (Does it matter?) Hearing Tommy James always makes me smile. I love the fact that you gave CDs a little love this time. Hopefully, it will keep the anti-vinyl people calm.

[@mazzysmusic]

There’s a CD whack A mole coming in a couple of days 😎🤠

[@sprachnroll]

Thanks for the recommendations, just ordered the Tommy James and Electric Prunes sets. Here's a rec not on Cherry Red: Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974. I bought it imagining it would be a distinct sound, and for once I was right: late 60's French/Asian/American influences blended to make a unique sound. It's on Sublime Frequencies label, which is based in Mazzy's home town of Seattle WA.

[@mazzysmusic]

I’ll check it out

[@markrezzano6395]

Great stuff. Watching in Manchester, England

[@mazzysmusic]

🎸🎶

[@rocky-o]

now i will have crimson and clover playing thru my mind all day.....love tommy james....when i did my overnite shift on the radio, the final song before my outro was 'crystal blue persuasion'...('look over yonder...what do you see...the sun is a risin...most definitely...')...then i would close out with van morrison's 'real real gone'....great memories my friend...peace always...rocky

[@brucybabyy7355]

hey! im not THAT guy!!! another label worth mentioning. ESOTERIC primarily a prog, 70s hard rock reissues. wonderfully done. through cherry red.

[@mazzysmusic]

Yeah they’re good too. But I don’t think I have any of their issues 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheWusster]

Esoteric is also a cherry red subsidiary. Fantastic reissues.

[@blockssonicwafers]

Cherry Red and Esoteric have a ton of great stuff, They did a box set for every Be Bop Deluxe album (I did a video on those ) and they do little boxes for Ant Phillips (Genesis), Barclay James Harvest and lots of prog bands that need some box sets and 5.1 mixes. Pleanty of great comps like you've shown, too. Good video.

[@christopheforest3388]

Very instructive video as always,cherry red records is a very important uk reissue label like ace records,very prolific,it's amazing;i advice you the jon savage comp or the pye records label comp,awesome ! kate moss ,she marked a new vision of the supermodel ,not very my kinda gurl lol,not feminine enough,she illustrated the olympia cover art record of bryan ferry & acted in the white stripes video:the cover of i dunno what to do with myself Crimson & glover was covered by joan jett & the blackhearts & also prince !

[@themoriartys2011]

Hi Mazzy, interesting that you highlight Kate Moss. She also will be forever linked with Pete Doherty. I’m not sure I’ve heard you talk about the Liberteens or Babyshambles? Love the Cherry Red label, especially their rare 60’s compilations.

[@mazzysmusic]

Probably don’t know enough to feature Pete but I’d love for someone else to

[@AdrianNicholls]

I still have the 1982 Pillows & Prayers comp from Cherry Red.

[@Labor_Jones]

Stiff Records, Before they Sold off were my Favorite Label. :)

[@baggyhi-fi8628]

Cherry Red is an amazing UK institution, especially some of its subsidiaries like Grapefruit. Quite hard to keep up with - so many fab gear releases!

[@aboutsoundandvision]

Had no idea about the Prunes box, might have to get that to have all of their albums and the different mixes in one place! How is the packaging on that box? I have been looking for the Beau Brummels box set which I heard has nice mini LP sleeves, is the Prunes box made similar?

[@reidarsamuelsen6318]

Hey, dear Mazzey, now I know what I'll be looking for in the second hand stores I'll be visiting during the summer: albums by Tommy James and the Shondells and The Beau Brummels. Thanks.

[@alb8390]

Mazzy you are hard on my bank account!! (already hurts being a Canadian account ;) )

[@SDsailor7]

Tommy James and the Shondells with the Hawaiian music👍😃 haven't heard that song in ages!

[@christopheriacono9091]

I have not bought a CD in years. Heck, I only have a CD player in my car now. But now I’m really interested in that I Think I’m Going Weird set.

[@guidoerfen7944]

My most recent Grapefruit purchase: The Electric Banana - The Complete De Wolfe Sessions. For some odd (maybe legal) reason, the liner notes avoid naming The Pretty Things (who are the Electric banana) directly but mention all group members. It is so amazing, that besides SF Sorrow and all those brilliant singles they still had enough music left for these library soundtrack releases. And of cause highly recommended are these 3 CD sets: - Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds - British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 - Looking at the Pictures in ther Sky - British Psychedelic Sounds of 1968 ... songs one is familiar with from the Rubble Series etc. are mostly represented by alternate versions and surprisingly great ones.

[@ashrobinson4604]

Thanks Mazzy. I will be checking out Cherry Red. Great ending to your video-love those colours. Unless I am having a stroke of course!

[@mazzysmusic]

😵‍💫😬😎

[@TheWusster]

Mazzy - Art is basically Spooky Tooth before a name change.

[@mazzysmusic]

Thanks. Haven’t dived into the book in detail yet ✌🏼

[@gazriley624]

i hope Cherry Red do a Liverpool comp that would be interesting

[@jettlightning]

If you read the liner notes, Art became Spooky Tooth right after that record. I think Cherry Red does a great job with their compilations.

[@mazzysmusic]

Yeah I read it afterwards 🤔😎

[@marktrickett5081]

Trivia: Sal Valentine / Stoneground performed 2 songs in the Hammer Film Dracula '72.

[@markspooner1224]

I still have a Cherry Red sampler LP, on the cover it says 'Pay No More Than 99p'. Those were the days!

[@darrenlewis5403]

Pillows & Prayers?

[@markspooner1224]

@@darrenlewis5403 That's the one, the first time I heard Tracy Thorn.

[@johnbarnicoat9423]

A quite famous cover, too

[@cosmic_psych_out_oz3629]

Have you checked out the “I’m a Freak, Baby” series, also on Grapefruit…more great stuff 🇦🇺 Mazzy!

[@mazzysmusic]

I have not. Will do. ❣️

[@calummcgregor3662]

Cherry Red have some fantastic re,-issue box sets that sets an exemplary standard ... the "full fat" deluxe multi CD sets for all the Be Bop Deluxe studio albums are just majestic .... including signed card(s) by Bill Nelson ... fabulous .... includes both original and alternative up to date remix of each album plus contemporary in concert and BBC session material .... and all the sets are even fairly priced ... NOT rip-off city ... (I think the Al Stewart and Renaissance deluxe sets are also on Cherry Red) .... you also need to be signed up to the Burning Shed mailing list (separate company) for all things Marillion. Jethro Tull, Wishbone Ash, Steve Hillsge, Bill Bruford, etc, etc ... I buy a lot from both Cherry Red and Burning Shed ... on CD no less (no faff with pops, scratches, needle fluff, dust, changing sides .... not anti vinyl but CDs (or Qoboz for HiRes streaming if I don't need a physical copy) just works for me .... each to his own. CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland .... .... p.s. saw Lene Lovich on her break out tour as a solo artist at a packed, late night, Aberdeen University student union gig in January or February 1979 ... immediately after attending an earlier packed UFO gig at the Capitol theatre in the city ... good times .... oh to have a time machine ... p.p.s. do check out both Cherry Red and Burning Shed catalogues .... and try out Qoboz (with a DAC) v Spotify ... you will enjoy it

[@mazzysmusic]

Thanks for the reccos. Streaming just doesn’t interest me for the long haul

[@calummcgregor3662]

@@mazzysmusic Absolutely, I get that (I had over 1,300 LPs but moved them on .... clearly some I "should" have kept ... more as pieces of art (I think that was in one of your previous videos) ... but space was a challenge and the cash was "ok" (not awesome)) .... nowadays I find it helpful to check things out aurally before going physical (CD or box sets) ...e.g. I listened to David Crosby's new album (For Free) before immediiately going straight to HMV for a copy ... ditto for Doobie Brothers Liberte ... didn't do that though for Van Morrison's new release ...or Clapton's ... music was "ok" but not a must have for me .... today's Qoboz listen is the Tedeschi Trucks new one "I am the Moon" which looks like it will need a few listens to get into ... there are a few recent releases that, without Qoboz new release info. would have not been on my radar (Tash Sultana Live looks interesting as does the new one from Brian Jackson) .... I like having a physical copy 'cause it's "mine" .... but I do then rip almost everything I have (more than 150,000 tracks on my PC) so I can listen instantly to my tunes at any time (was using MediaMonkey but now using MusicBee since last MediaMonkey revision "killed" its ease of use) and I also likr to have a revolving set of albums to enjoy offline on my portable players when travelling and out / about. I do also like the listening experience when listening to HiRes 48/24, 96/24. 192/24 , etc that you get on Bluray (or Qoboz et al) 'cause (for me) it does just sound wonderful (e.g. Kansas' Absence of Presence, Weltschmerz (by Fish), remix of Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason, etc ..... the only extra kit needed is a USB DAC for your PC (and USB audio player pro app for your [Android] phone) .... I enjoy your channel and its interesting content a lot ... p.s. my "most product" artists are Dylan, CSN and Y (plus offshoots), Wishbone Ash. Barclay James Harvest, Yes, Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Allman Brothers plus offshoots, Beatles (Wings / McCartney / Harrison / Lennon), Foreigner .... Happy listening CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland ...

[@mazzysmusic]

@@calummcgregor3662 thanks for the info and tips. A few friends have tried to get me into streaming but I have so much music ….. I do preview artist via KZbin if they are new to me but simply to hear and see what they are about. Cheers. ✌🏻

[@johnbarnicoat9423]

Cherry Red fan since the 80s. Own tons of their records and CDs. Unfortunately some of their comps/re-releases suffer from some poor remastering decisions IMHO. Still love the music though.

[@superlove35]

Fresh Fruit FOR Rotting Vegetables

[@djvinylvertigo]

The Selecter. Pauline Black.

[@paulgreen6302]

Lene lovich have on 45 yellow stiff label.

[@jackwezesa1081]

New toy?

[@paulgreen6302]

K tel comps 1970 1982.

[@Labor_Jones]

You should warn folks that K-Tel and other like ALBUM companies who sold Records had the WORSEST sounding versions of Popular music. It's a terrible way to be introduced to older tunes when the Mastering was a Mess.

[@SDsailor7]

K-krap!

[@trevordixon1427]

Music was spoilt by cramping tracks to get more music on..60 minutes .when 45 was safest max.

[@Labor_Jones]

LPs are 'Music Canvis' is sort of a way I've seen the media since I 1967 and I just turn 14. Nashville Skylines has only 28 mins and Quicksilver's Happy Trail album has about 48 mins and both of them are some of my favorite music. ..... I Honestly believe 30-to-40-minute albums are ideal for a 'Music Canvis' - These 70-minute albums are ridiculous, because not everyone can write a 'TOMMY' by Peter Townsend. Even John Winters knew his LIMITS were 3 Side of on 2 records because he didn't have the cohunes to go 4 sides. ..... I knew that was going to be a problem by forcing songs that weren't up to the challenge being add just to fill the space....

[@stephendutch1760]

Sub Sub became 'Doves' later on.