The Wild Poppies - Heroine: The Complete Wild Poppies Collection (1986-1989) (2015)

Tracklist

01. What Is Mine
02. Colourdrift
03. I Don't Need You
04. Walkabout
05. Canon over a Grey Sea
06. Here Nor There
07. Fearless Man
08. This Person
09. Talking to Myself Again
10. Introduction
11. Where Is Wellington?
12. Stare at the Sun
13. Out of Mind
14. The Kiwi Song
15. A Long Way There
16. Colours and Forms
17. Subconsciousness
18. Islands
19. The Last Thing
20. The D Song


Originating from Wellington, New Zealand and arriving in the U.K. at the back end of the '80s, The Wild Poppies and their "Warm Wall of Sound" resided somewhere between the jangle pop of other indie scene favorites such as The Rain Parade and The Church and the proto-shoegaze of Loop, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine. Basing themselves in Oxford, and touring with well-known contemporaries such as Ride and Swervedriver (their housemates), The Wild Poppies forged a name for themselves and enjoyed a "1001 night" season as a touring favorite, before dissolving in the face of the impending U.K. rave culture. After that, as guitarist Nick Taylor states, "Nobody ever saw The Wild Poppies... Very few at least, and I suspect that those few that did can actually remember it now. I certainly can't, and I was IN the Wild Poppies." This collection compiles their long out-of-print "Heroine" LP, the "Stare at the Sun" 7", the "Out of Time" EP as well as demos for many latter-day tracks (both released and unreleased).

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