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SENSITIVE takes its name from the single released by The Field Mice, and marks the first time that The Field Mice have allowed one of their songs to be used on a compilation released by any label other than Sarah Records, who released all their records at the time.
Also features on SENSITIVE is Dying Day from Orange Juice’s hugely influential debut album You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever – marking the only time that Edwyn Collins and his wife and manager Grace Maxwell have given permission for an Orange Juice song to be featured on an anthology.
Many of the records featured on SENSITIVE have become highly sought-after collectors’ items since their original release. The Sea Urchins’ Pristine Christine changes hands for up to £400. Original mint copies of April Showers’ only single Abandon Ship command up to £380. If you were to try and individually buy all the records featuring the songs on SENSITIVE, you can expect to pay something around £1150.
SENSITIVE features 10,000 words of extensive track-by-track notes and an essay by Pete Paphides, who was and remains an avid proponent of the indiepop scene that this collection chronicles.
All the songs on SENSITIVE have been newly mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell.
 

Sensitive

LP
SIDE 1
Pristine Christine – The Sea Urchins
Get Out Of My Dream – The Clouds
Truck Train Tractor – The Pastels
Once More – The Wedding Present
 Almost Prayed – The Weather Prophets
 If She Doesn’t Smile (It’ll Rain) – Fantastic Something
 Talulah Gosh – Talulah Gosh
 
SIDE 2
Crash – The Primitives
It’s A Good Thing – That Petrol Emotion
Hang-Ten! – The Soup Dragons
When It All Comes Down – Miaow
Kaleidoscope World – The Chills
 Somewhere In China – Shop Assistants
’ll Still Be There – Razorcuts
 
SIDE 3
 Someone Stole My Wheels – Biff Bang Pow!
Dying Day – Orange Juice
Hammering Heart – Del Amitri
Why Does The Rain – The Loft
Yesterday – The Nivens
Ten Miles – Phil Wilson
Sensitive – The Filed Mice
 
SIDE 4
Brighter – The Railway Children
Adam’s Song (Pour Fenella) – The Sun And The Moon
 She Looks Right Through Me – The Waltones
Therese – The Bodines
Velocity Girl – Primal Scream
Will He Kiss Me Tonight – Dolly Mixture
Some Candy Talking – The Jesus And Mary Chain
Candydiosis – Pop Will Eat Itself
CD1
Pristine Christine – The Sea Urchins
Get Out Of My Dream – The Clouds
Truck Train Tractor – The Pastels
Once More – The Wedding Present
Almost Prayed – The Weather Prophets
If She Doesn’t Smile (It’ll Rain) – Fantastic Something
Talulah Gosh – Talulah Gosh
Crash – The Primitives
It’s A Good Thing – That Petrol Emotion
Hang-Ten! – The Soup Dragons
When It All Comes Down – Miaow
Kaleidoscope World – The Chills
Somewhere In China – Shop Assistants
 I’ll Still Be There – Razorcuts
Abandon Ship – April Showers
 
CD2
Someone Stole My Wheels – Biff Bang Pow!
Dying Day – Orange Juice
 Hammering Heart – Del Amitri
Why Does The Rain – The Loft
Yesterday – The Nivens
Ten Miles – Phil Wilson
Sensitive – The Filed Mice
Brighter – The Railway Children
Adam’s Song (Pour Fenella) – The Sun And The Moon
She Looks Right Through Me – The Waltones
Therese – The Bodines
 Velocity Girl – Primal Scream
Will He Kiss Me Tonight – Dolly Mixture
 Some Candy Talking – The Jesus And Mary Chain
Candydiosis – Pop Will Eat Itself

Sensitive - The Film

In the mid-1980s, a new wave of independent music emerged in the UK. 
Supported by fanzines and DJs such as John Peel and Janice Long, the musicians emerging from this scene were defiantly DIY in their outlook.
Record labels such as Creation, 53rd & 3rd, The Subway Organisation, and Sarah became synonymous with this emerging scene.
Fusing the vernacular of 60s girl groups, psych-pop and the poetic daredevilry of post-punk trailblazers like The Smiths, Altered Images and Orange Juice, these groups helped define the indie zeitgeist.
Forty years later, in central London, a very special concert took place to mark the release of ‘sensitive’ – an anthology celebrating this scene.
Playing with a very special “house band”, singers from these groups travelled from all over the UK to take part.
What ensued was an unforgettable evening. A emotional one-off celebration, featuring classic songs from the era, which can be heard in their original form on the ‘sensitive’ album.
‘sometimes i want to return’ is the film of that evening, directed by Tim Sidwell.
Featuring
Amelia Fletcher – Talulah Gosh
Rob Pursey – Talulah Gosh
James Roberts – The Sea Urchins
Sean Dickson – The Soup Dragons
Pete Astor – The Weather Prophets, The Loft
James Knox – The Waltones
Phil Wilson and Frank Sweeney – The June Brides
Claire Grogan – Altered Images
Beth Arzy

…and The Sensitivities:
Amelia Fletcher
Rob Pursey
Bob Collins
Ian Button

Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, is thrilled to announce the release of SENSITIVE the first ever vinyl anthology to cover the indiepop scene of the 1980s.
SENSITIVE features 30 songs in total by artists who defined the indiepop aesthetic, among them The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Sea Urchins, Primal Scream, The Pastels, Talulah Gosh, Orange Juice, The Field Mice, The Primitives, The Wedding Present, Miaow, Razorcuts, Dolly Mixture, The Bodines, Shop Assistants, The Soup Dragons, The Loft, The Chills, That Petrol Emotion and The Railway Children.