厂牌简介众所周知，伦敦是英国唱片工业的基地，不过我们今天不谈伦敦的唱片工业，也不谈那里的流行巨星。从伦敦一直往西，在Bristol海峡的东边，有一个同名港口小城Bristol。今日Bristol显赫的声名大概来自于上世纪90年代中后期的Trip-hop低调电子乐风潮。在那个出现了Massive Attack,Tricky,Portishead等Trip-hop三巨头的城市，还曾有过另一段另类音乐的传奇，这就是致力于制作独立流行音乐(Indie Pop)的唱片厂牌Sarah。
1987年，当Clare Wadd和Matt Haynes成立这个小唱片公司的时候，它还只是Clifton吊桥沿途的一个小地下室。关于Sarah公司在音乐本身之外的运作理念，说起来令人费解，当然它也许是某些社会学批评家感兴趣的话题，Sarah认为它的唱片发行到一百张之时，希望会有一场全球性的社会主义革命，而实际上，当Sarah 100真的出现时，除了资本主义全球一体化愈加变本加厉之外，地球依旧在我们心灵之外悲伤旋转，这个世界上什么激动人心的事情也没发生。
Sarah是个跛着腿奋力向左倾斜的堂吉科德，这往往是人们津津乐道的热点，而它音乐本身的美学姿态才是真正的妙不可言。Sarah在音乐上的成就非常简单明了，即是它从87年到95年发行的100张低成本高水准的独立流行乐唱片，包括专辑，单曲，EP和合辑。它很好的给别的唱片公司上了一课：即使不烧钱也能做出不是垃圾的流行乐。而且Sarah在唱片平面设计上更有独到美感，宁静唯美之势直逼另类圣殿4.A.D的专业美工小组。
1995年8月，Sarah公司发行了它第一百张也是最后一张专辑Sarah 100后宣布关闭。Sarah 100不能算是Sarah系列唱片中最出色的一张，但它集合了几乎所有Sarah旗下的知名乐队，既是Sarah音乐品味的精粹，亦可见证90'独立音乐之唯美传奇。
幸运的是，Sarah公司合伙人之一的Matt Haynes后来在伦敦创建另一独立厂牌Shinkansen，Shinkansen 继承了Sarah失落的音乐世界。众多Sarah的精华乐队,艺人也转入Shinkansen旗下，包括Trembling Blue Stars, Harvey Williams,Blueboy, Fosca，The Field Mice等等。
解散声明这是1995年8月，Sarah公司宣布解散之时在NME/Melody Maker发表的声明:
a day for destroying things...
...because when you were nineteen
didn't YOU ever want to create something beautful and pure
just so one day you could set it on fire
and then watch the city light up as it burned?
Didn't you want to do that every day of life?
Nothing should be forever.
Bands should do one single and then split up,
fanzines finish after one flawless issue,
lowers leave in the rain at 5am and never be seen again -
Habit and fear of change are the worst reasons for ever doing ANYTHNG.
Stopping a record label after 100 perfect releases
is the most gorgeous pop art-statement ever
and says more about pop-music than any two-part digipak
limited edition coloured vinyl 7''
grimly authentic lo-fi ten-track EP
(or any other marketing gimmick)
ever will.
Sarah Records is owned by no-one but us,
so it's OURS to create and destroy how we want
and we don't do encores.
We want to burn in bright colours and go pop,
to be giddy, impulsive and silly,
to kiss people in new places -
EXQUISITELY
- and DARE to tear things apart.
Sarah Records 1987 - 1995
august 28th 1995
一段时光的终结 ...
一切只因你曾在19岁...
想创造一些完美而纯粹的东西？
尽管有一天你会将他们付之一炬
注视着被它点亮的城市灯火渐起
然后让生命的每一天都凝结如此回忆
本来就没什么海枯石烂的事情，乐队做完一首歌就解散，你听到一首完美曲子，然后满意离开，
你的恋人转身走进凌晨5点的雨中，今生今世永不相逢……习惯和拒绝改变，才永远是你做任何事情的最大障碍。
所以要在100张精美的唱片完成后终结这个唱片厂牌，它们刻画了流行音乐最绚烂的痕迹，不止在于那些彩色的vinyl 7寸唱片，
低保真的十轨EP，或者任何的营销噱头。
Sarah只属于我们自己，它是我们想要创造出和毁灭掉的东西。我们永不旧话重提。
我们想在绚烂的色彩里燃烧，冲动，眩晕，痴狂；我们在崭新的地方亲吻人群，精致，敏感；我们敢于结束一切。
革命的首要行动就是破坏，第一个要销毁的是过去。这样的惊惶如同开始恋爱，它让我们感到自己的存在。
唱片目录附：Sarah Record所出的一百张唱片目录：
EP:
Sarah 001: The Sea Urchins - Pristine Christine
Sarah 002: The Orchids - I've Got a Habit
Sarah 003: Another Sunny Day - Anorak City
Sarah 004: Fanzines - Fanzine
Sarah 005: 14 Iced Bears - Come Get Me
Sarah 006: The Poppyheads - Cremation Town
Sarah 007: Another Sunny Day - I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist
Sarah 008: The Sea Urchins - Solace
Sarah 009: The Golden Dawn - My Secret World
Sarah 010: The Springfields - Sunflower
Sarah 011: The Orchids - Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink
Sarah 012: The Field Mice - Emma's House
Sarah 013: Christine's Cat - Your Love Is...
Sarah 014: Fanzines - Cold / Lemonade
Sarah 014a: Fanzines - Lemonade - A Fanzine
Sarah 014aa: Fanzines - Cold - A Lie
Sarah 015: St. Christopher - You Deserve More Than A Maybe
Sarah 016: Another Sunny Day - What's Happened?
Sarah 017: The Golden Dawn - George Hamilton's Dead
Sarah 018: The Field Mice - Sensitive
Sarah 019: Brighter - Around the World In Eighty Days
Sarah 020: St. Christopher - All Of A Tremble
Sarah 021: The Wake - Crush The Flowers
Sarah 022: Another Sunny Day - You Should All Be Murdered
Sarah 023: The Orchids - What Will We Do Next?
Sarah 024: The Field Mice - The Autumn Store Pt. 1
Sarah 025: The Field Mice - The Autumn Store Pt. 2
Sarah 026: Gentle Despite - Darkest Blue
Sarah 027: Brighter - Noah's Ark
Sarah 028: Action Painting! - These Things Happen
Sarah 029: The Orchids - Something For The Longing
Sarah 030: Heavenly - I Fell In Love Last Night
Sarah 031: Eternal - Breathe
Sarah 032: Fanzines - Sunstroke
Sarah 033: The Sea Urchins - A Morning Odyssey
Sarah 034: St. Christopher - Antoinette
Sarah 035: Another Sunny Day - Rio
Sarah 036: The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine
Sarah 037: Even As We Speak - Nothing Ever Happens
Sarah 038: The Field Mice - So Said Kay
Sarah 039: The Sweetest Ache - Tell Me How It Feels
Sarah 040: The Springfields - Wonder
Sarah 041: Heavenly - Our Love Is Heavenly
Sarah 042: The Orchids - Penetration
Sarah 043: Tramway - Maritime City
Sarah 044: The Field Mice - September's Not So Far Away
Sarah 045: Gentle Despite - Torment To Me
Sarah 046: St. Christopher - Say Yes To Everything
Sarah 047: The Sweetest Ache - Sickening
Sarah 048: The Wake - Major John
Sarah 049: Even As We Speak - One Step Forward
Sarah 050: Fanzines - Saropoly
Sarah 051: Heavenly - So Little Deserve
Sarah 052: Tramway - Sweet Chariot
Sarah 053: Secret Shine - After Years
Sarah 054: The Forever People - Invisible
Sarah 055: Blueboy - Clearer
Sarah 056: Brighter - Half-Hearted
Sarah 057: The Field Mice - Missing The Moon
Sarah 058: The Hit Parade - In Gunnersbury Park
Sarah 059: Even As We Speak - Beautiful Day
Sarah 060: Another Sunny Day - New Year's Honours
Sarah 061: Secret Shine - Ephemeral
Sarah 062: The Rosaries - Forever
Sarah 063: The Sugargliders - Letter From A Lifeboat
Sarah 064: The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World of Good
Sarah 065: Blueboy - Popkiss
Sarah 066: The Orchids - Thaumaturgy
Sarah 067: The Sugargliders - Seventeen
Sarah 068: The Harvest Ministers - Six O'Clock Is Rosary
Sarah 069: Brighter - Disney
Sarah 070: Blueboy - Cloud Babies
Sarah 070a: Fanzines - Just As Good As I Should Be
Sarah 070b: Fanzines - Nice Boys Prefer Vanilla
Sarah 070c: Fanzines - I Am Telling You Because You Are Far Away
Sarah 071: Secret Shine - Loveblind
Sarah 072: The Sugargliders - Ahprahran
Sarah 073: Action Painting! - Classical Music
Sarah 074: Blueboy - Meet Johnny Rave
Sarah 075: East River Pipe - Helmet On
Sarah 076: Boyracer - B Is For Boyracer ep.
Sarah 077: The Sugargliders - Trumpet Play
Sarah 078: East River Pipe - She's A Real Good Time
Sarah 079: Even As We Speak - Blue Eyes Deceiving Me
Sarah 080: Blueboy - Some Gorgeous Accident
Sarah 081: Heavenly - P.U.N.K. Girl
Sarah 082: Heavenly - Atta Girl
Sarah 083: The Sugargliders - Will We Ever Learn?
Sarah 084: The Harvest Ministers - If It Kills Me And It Will
Sarah 085: Boyracer - From Purity To Purgatory
Sarah 086: The Sugargliders - Top 40 Sculpture
Sarah 087: Action Painting! - Mustard Gas
Sarah 088: Blueboy - River
Sarah 089: Secret Shine - Greater Than God
Sarah 090: The Hit Parade - Autobiography
Sarah 091: Ivy - Wish You Would
Sarah 092: Ivy - Avenge
Sarah 093: Aberdeen - Byron
Sarah 094: Northern Picture Library - Paris
Sarah 095: Northern Picture Library - Last September's Farewell Kiss
Sarah 096: Boyracer - Pure Hatred 96
Sarah 097: Aberdeen - Fireworks
Sarah 098: Shelley - Reproduction Is Pollution
Sarah 099: Blueboy - Dirty Mags
10" LPs
Sarah 401: The Orchids - Lyceum
Sarah 402: The Field Mice - Snowball
Sarah 403: St. Christopher - Bacharach
Sarah 404: Brighter - Laurel
Sarah 405: East River Pipe - Goodbye California
Sarah 406: Harvey Williams - Rebellion
Sarah 407: East River Pipe - Even The Sun Was Afraid
12" LPs
Sarah 601: The Field Mice - Skywriting
Sarah 602: The Wake - Make It Loud
Sarah 603: Heavenly - Heavenly Vs. Satan
Sarah 604: Talulah Gosh! - They've Scoffed The Lot
Sarah 605: The Orchids - Unholy Soul
Sarah 606: The Field Mice - Coastal
Sarah 607: The Field Mice - For Keeps
Sarah 608: The Sweetest Ache - Jaguar
Sarah 609: The Sea Urchins - Stardust
Sarah 610: Heavenly - Le Jardin De Heavenly
Sarah 611: The Orchids - Epicurean - A Soundtrack
Sarah 612: Blueboy - If Wishes Were Horses
Sarah 613: Another Sunny Day - London Weekend
Sarah 614: Even As We Speak - Feral Pop Frenzy
Sarah 615: Secret Shine - Untouched
Sarah 616: The Harvest Ministers - Little Dark Mansion
Sarah 617: The Orchids - Striving For The Lazy Perfection
Sarah 618: The Wake - Tidal Wave of Hype
Sarah 619: The Sugargliders - We're All Trying To Get There
Sarah 620: Blueboy - Unisex
Sarah 621: East River Pipe - Poor Fricky
Sarah 622: The Hit Parade - The Sound Of The Hit Parade
Sarah 623: Heavenly - The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly
Compilations
Sarah 587: Various Artists - Shadow Factory
Sarah 376: Various Artists - Temple Cloud
Sarah 545: Various Artists - Air Balloon Road
Sarah 501: Various Artists - Glass Arcade
Sarah 583: Various Artists - Fountain Island
Sarah 628: Various Artists - Engine Common
Sarah 530: Various Artists - Gaol Ferry Bridge
Sarah 359: Various Artists - Battery Point
Sarah 100: Various Artists - There And Back Again Lane
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