Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop (1980-1989)

Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop (1980-1989)SCARED TO GET HAPPY (A Story Of Indie Pop 1980 1989) is the first box set ever to document the explosion of Indie Pop in Britain across the 1980s. Compiled in loosely chronological fashion, the five CDs chart Indie Pops development from the post punk era and the dominance of Scottish bands through to its genre defining C86 period and onto the end of the decade, with the arrival of Madchester and the shoegazing sound. Inspired by the Nuggets

On "Melt My Heart to Stone" and the bona fide hit "Chasing Pavements

don’t ask why

2-9 Scottie Stuart– Nightmare

at least in the USA

as well as remixed versions of ‘When Love Takes Over You’ and ‘Breakaway’

• 1976 saw Ricky Westfield leave the group to form his own band

6    Spaced Out (7' Edit)

Highlights include:

Pinky In The Daylight

2 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

But I was game to get involved

D6 –Genesis In The Beginning