The Young Person's Guide To Glass Records 1981-89

Bron Area / Les Arbres

The Jazz Butcher / Big Saturday

And The Native Hipsters / Tenderly Hurt Me

Ciaran Harte / Love Is Strange (1980)

Schleimer K / Fugitive Kind (1982)

The Young Person's Guide To Glass Records 1980-89

Downy Mildew / Ocean Motorkid (1987)

Outskirts / Standing Together (1985)

English Subtitles / Tannoy (1981)

From the 1982 Glass Records Compilation 'The Pulse Of New York', and by far the best thing on it. Recorded in New Jersey, USA 1981-82.

"New York, New York" is an experimental bedroom production that hints at the origins of house and hip-hop.

Deekay Jones / New York, New York (1983)

Where's Lisse? / Tutorial

Glass Hymnbook 1980-82

Religious Overdose / Alien To You (1981)

Glass Records was one of the key London-based independent record labels of the 1980s. Early releases focused on artists from Northampton (Religious Overdose, Where's Lisse & The Jazz Butcher), and the Midlands (Bron Area & In Embrace). The label released several records by artists having later associations with other London-based indies: Creation Records (The Jazz Butcher and Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites); Fire Records (Spacemen 3 and The Perfect Disaster). The label also issued material by Bauhaus member David J, the first LP by The Pastels 'Up For A Bit With The Pastels', the first UK release by American punk band The Replacements, and the influential Liverpool Ur-grunge Walkingseeds.

Founder David Barker went on to work for Fire Records, creating the Paperhouse label, taking the Walkingseeds with him, and releasing the first Teenage Fanclub album there, then afterwards moved to Creation Records. Like Pacino in 3, he tried to get out but they kept dragging him back in.

Glass Records returned in 2015 as Glass Redux, and in 2018 as Glass Modern, for all the fucked up rock'n'rollers with one foot in the grave, reissuing some of its catalogue, unreleased material, rarities and new material from associated and former artists on the label, and cult figures from the International Rock'n'roll underground, past, present & future. Per aspera ad astra

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