What up. Here's our take on the parlour game that's being occupying all other indieville losers, namely "what would you have put on CD86 ?"

Anyone reading this could easily have put together a twelve-CD box set… and so could we. Most of the bands here, as you know, had many many excellent songs, so we've gone for quite a few that just mean the most to us - very personal. And loads of the songs here are on every other compilation too, and do seem a bit self-selecting (mirroring any number of comps already): but while there are plenty of other great This Poison! songs, for example (seemingly a little known fact, unless you've got the great "Magazine" CD on Egg Records), the reality is that "Poised Over The Pause Button" is untouchably fine).

If you were wondering how close we got to including Napalm Death's "Scum" or Three Wize Men's "Urban Hell", the answer is this: Very close. They both ticked pretty much all the boxes, but we just ran out of space.

Finally, it wouldn't be called CD86.How about, "£1.30 to Martin Whitehead" ? Or, as we've been listening to EPMD again, "I don't smoke crack / I smoke MCs"...

Disc One

Bubblegum Splash! "Plastic Smile"

AR Kane "When You're Sad"

bIG*fLAME "Cat With Cholic"

Rosehips "Room In Your Heart"

Primitives "Crash" (BBC session)

Datblygu "Glwad Ar Fy Nghefn"

The Pastels "Crawl Babies"

Wolfhounds "Cruelty"

Mackenzies "New Breed"

BMX Bandits "The Cat From Outer Space"

Jasmine Minks "Forces Network"

The Shrubs "Mass Mental (Long Abusive Rental)"

Pooh Sticks "On Tape"

Sea Urchins "Solace"

1,000 Violins "Please Don't Sandblast My House"

Jackdaw With Crowbar "Crow"

Catapult "Sink Me"

Thrilled Skinny "So Happy To Be Alive"

June Brides "In The Rain"

Twang "Sharp"

This Poison! "Poised Over The Pause Button"

Mighty Lemon Drops "Like An Angel" (original single version !)

Jesus And Mary Chain "Upside Down"

Shop Assistants "Safety Net"

Disc Two