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Auteur Labels: Factory Records 1987

Various Artists
1 disc

1. True Faith - New Order
2. Bootsy [Racic Remix] - A Certain Ratio (remix)
3. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
4. Bad Blood - Quando Quango (previously unreleased)
5. Compressor - Biting Tongues
6. Catos con Guantes - The Durutti Column
7. N'Sel Fik - Fadela
8. Come On - Arthur Baker
9. Salvation! [Nitro Dub Edit] - The Hood (remix)
10. So Good [Airwave Mix] - Pleasure Crew (remix)
11. Meat Mouth Is Murder - Meat Mouth
12. When It All Comes Down - Miaow
13. Furious Sea - The Wake
14. Bad News Week [The Cough Mix] - Section 25 (remix)
Code: QZZQ
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 2555
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Liner Note Author: James Nice.
Recording information: Park Lane; Strawberry Studios, Stockport.
At least when it came to the quality and relevance of the output from Factory, 1987 was no 1984. The liner notes to LTM's second year-specific roundup of the Manchester label's discography seem to admit as much, if without flatly stating it. There is a handful of enduring exceptions, highlighted by New Order's "True Faith" and Happy Mondays' "24 Hour Party People." Otherwise, the year was more about curiosities and one-off club flops, including a few that feature the fingerprints of label A&R chief and Hacienda DJ Mike Pickering, than classic or unjustly neglected releases. The most curious of the bunch is Meat Mouth's "Meat Mouth Is Murder" (yep), a cluttered rap 12" whose saving grace is a reference to bIG fLAME (the mightiest of the C-86 bands). Most definitely for the freakiest of the Factory freaks, exclusively so. ~ Andy Kellman