VA - Pillows And Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 (40th Anniversary Edition) (2022)

Originally conceived as a label sampler by A&R man Mike Alway, ‘Pillows And Prayers’ quickly became both an iconic compilation and a must-have artefact of early 80s Thatcherite Britain.
Tracklist
CD1
1. Five Or Six - Portrait (2:54)
2. The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (2:22)
3. Thomas Leer - All About You (Single Version) (3:46)
4. Tracey Thorn - Plain Sailing (2:00)
5. Ben Watt - Some Things Don't Matter (4:29)
6. Kevin Coyne - Love In Your Heart (2:53)
7. Piero Milesi - Modi 2 (Extract) (1:03)
8. Joe Crow - Compulsion (4:18)
9. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways (2:43)
10. Felt - My Face is on Fire (3:07)
11. Eyeless In Gaza - No Noise (2:50)
12. The Passage - XOYO (3:54)
13. Everything But The Girl - On My Mind (3:08)
14. Attila The Stockbroker - A Bang And A Wimpy (1:42)
15. The Nightingales - Don't Blink (3:58)
16. Quentin Crisp - Stop The Music For A Minute (1:01)
17. Five Or Six - Another Reason (3:18)
18. Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to Fuck (2:41)
19. Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry (3:59)
20. Soul - Tribes (3:17)
21. Alan Burnham - Music to Save the World By (3:49)
22. Thomas Leer - Letter from America (4:03)
23. Second Layer - Fixation (6:20)
24. Kevin Harrison - All Night Long (1:38)
25. A Tent - No Way Of Knowing (6:41)

CD2
1. Marine Girls - A Place In The Sun (2:35)
2. Jane - It's A Fine Day (2:47)
3. Kevin Hewick - Feathering the Nest (3:57)
4. Fantastic Something - If She Doesn't Smile (3:14)
5. Eyeless In Gaza - New Risen (2:50)
6. The Monochrome Set - The Jet Set Junta (2:06)
7. Morgan Fisher - Un homme et une femme (2:45)
8. Felt - Penelope Tree (4:15)
9. Maurice Deebank - The Watery Song (4:56)
10. Grab Grab The Haddock - I'm Used Now (2:26)
11. Swallow Tongue - Animation (4:18)
12. The Nightingales - Paraffin Brain (2:57)
13. The Reflections - 4 Countries (2:06)
14. The Passage - Sharp Tongue (3:03)
15. Red Box - Chenko (3:30)
16. Creation Rebel - Love I Can Feel (3:49)
17. The Bodhi-Beat Poets - Wake Up Unemployed (3:38)
18. Martyn Bates - Cut Like Sunset (2:38)
19. Jane and Barton - I Want To Be With You (3:44)
20. Eyeless In Gaza - Bright Play of Eyes (3:30)
21. NO ARTIST - The Compassion And Humanity Of Margaret Thatcher (Extracts From...) (1:02)

CD3
1. Thomas Leer - On The Wire (4:40)
2. Five Or Six - Black Balloons Drop (2:20)
3. Jane - Don't Say It (1:56)
4. The Monochrome Set - I'll Cry Instead (Demo, 1981) (2:55)
5. The Monochrome Set - Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners (Live, Chateau Neuf, Oslo, 13 November 1982) (2:47)
6. The Monochrome Set - Cast A Long Shadow (Live, Chateau Neuf, Oslo, 13 November 1982) (3:24)
7. The Passage - Man Of War (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 14 October 1981) (2:13)
8. The Passage - Love Is As (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 14 October 1981) (3:39)
9. The Passage - Empty Words (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 7 June 1982) (4:39)
10. The Passage - Horseplay (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 7 June 1982) (4:36)
11. Attila The Stockbroker - Death In Bromley (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 30 June 1982) (1:35)
12. Attila The Stockbroker - A Bang And A Wimpy (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 30 June 1982) (1:44)
13. Attila The Stockbroker - The Night I Slept With Seething Wells (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 30 June 1982) (1:13)
14. Kevin Coyne - Tell The Truth (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 8 July 1982) (3:28)
15. Kevin Coyne - Liberation (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 8 July 1982) (4:18)
16. Kevin Coyne - You Won't Like It (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 8 July 1982) (3:38)
17. Kevin Coyne - I Talk To Myself (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 8 July 1982) (3:38)
18. The Nightingales - Joking Apart (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 28 July 1982) (2:10)
19. The Nightingales - It Lives Again! (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 28 July 1982) (3:11)
20. The Nightingales - OK Corale / The Crunch (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 28 July 1982) (6:22)
21. Attila The Stockbroker - England Are Back / Holiday In Albania (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 29 March 1983) (3:37)
22. Attila The Stockbroker - Sawdust And Empire (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel Show, Broadcast 29 March 1983) (6:00)