What is the best track on the Rough Trade compilation WANNA BUY A BRIDGE

Let's settle this once and for all

Mind's trying to make a case for several, heart says "Aerosol Burns, you dumbass!"

I only know the Stiff Little Fingers song!

i love a lot of these but it's gotta be the cabs

voted cabs.

The only song I don't know is the Robert Wyatt one, but I like all the others, have half of them on 7" and 8 of them are among my favourite songs OF ALL TIME. Impossible.

Between Cabs, Pop Group + Wyatt... Scritti + YMG not far behind... oh and Kleenex too.

Wyatt

It is one of the best things he's ever done.

... and now seems to be the time for ageing bearded lefties

love that cover

voted Mind Your Own Business

Lots of good-to-great stuff, Wyatt's is fantastic but the most depressing thing ever, have to go with 'Aerosol Burns'.

spizz energi has always struck me as a great/arcane monicker.
voted swell maps over wyatt and kleenex

I used to own this on vinyl w/ a green cover?

Anyway, The Pop Group.

yeah my record has a green cover, too

An old girlfriend of mine had this in blue, but here is the green cover.

according to discogs, there is a brown cover as well (also didn't realize this was US only).

I've only ever seen the blue one.

Mine's green. This is such a well curated comp imo. Diverse, yet flows together very well. Hard to choose a favorite.

YMG just over Scritti Politti.

Three all-time favourites: 1. "Alternative Ulster," 2. "Read About Seymour," 3. "Part-Time Punks." Green cover.

enough great stuff on here that even a curmudgeonly nostalgia-hating grimace like me has to enthuse. Wyatt does Chic is obviously gonna be one of my favourite things ever, i love him and them so much. on the other hand "Seymour" triggers a particular pleasure centre in me that never gets old. voting is bullshit anyway, so

Boo: I sold my copy recently.

Hray: Its one of the lps I made a cdr of with its own label and sleeve for. It owns!

wasn't someone here trying to get an expanded reissue with stuff like "jelly, babies" by epic soundtracks, "zip nolan" by the cult figures, "work" by blue orchids, "born in flames" by red krayola, etc. on it, but it fell through?

would like to see a poll re: best track on morgan fisher's "miniatures" comp, but am too lazy to type in all 50 or so tracks.

Each one would get one vote.

Man this is a tough choice.

Gut feeling says it's probably down to Read About Seymour vs. Mind Your Own Business vs. In Love. But there's not really any wrong answers here (though the Slits track might not be there best effort).

Just listened to Skank Bloc Bologna for the first time in aaages and it's much more compelling and accomplished than I remember it being. Think it might be time for me to give Scritti another shot, after being a bit 'meh' about them when I first investigated a couple of years ago.

until the last three this makes me feel "oh, yes, post-punk, that was a thing, for a while" and then the last three are are GOAT material so idk

I'm in the 'so much great stuff, but FFS it's NAGNAGNAG' camp.

Yeah, but "Don't look out!" is such a good line, and there's Final Day as well, I dunno

Delta 5

Ain't You Wanna Cut It Out over Ulster and a bunch more right there, too. Incredible album.

I think I'm judging unfairly because so many of these are really good songs that are from albums that also contain jaw-droppingly amazing songs.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

AEROSOL BU-URNS.

Was this like a C80? Similar to the C series of NME releases but before they hit on the cassette titling sequence? Which I think there were a few more annual ones of than the famous '86 edition.
Was it on vinyl?
Would the switch to cassette have anything to do with the appearance of the walkman and larger portable cassette players - ghetto blasters etc.
As far as I remember NME did quite a series of mailorder compilations in various styles. Not sure when that started & on what media.

If you're looking for Scritti Politti from the prepop period, there was a compi called Early released a few years ago that has a lot of their more d.i.y. stuff on it. Not sure if it's still in print though.

Nothing to do with the NME, it was put out by Rough Trade US, and it was on vinyl not cassette.

I have the Early Scritti comp, dunno if it's in print but it's v cheap used.

But valuable.

It blew my mind to realise that the same Tim Wright of DNA and Pere Ubu played with Essential Logic... I was sure it had to be a different, British Tim Wright but NO

Aerosol Burns all the way

Yeah, and similarly I thought that Red Crayola and Red Krayola were different bands, but.

Well, different but.

Yeah the crayon makers sued Mayo early on so its actually with a K from the 2nd 60s lp onwards I think.

Skank Bloc Bologna. Despite loving Scritti's later pop work, this track is a standout for me.

My head says Nag Nag Nag just over Read About Seymour, but every time I go to vote my heart reminds me of the giddy rush of Alternative Ulster's opening guitar

13 hours to fight it out

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

one of my fav albums ever -- impossible to choose but probably "mind your own business."

"Part Time Punks" shut out...I could have voted for it--brilliantly funny, a bridge between the Mothers' "Flower Punk" and Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta."

Our Alice used to love "Becoming A Monster" the most when she was four.

(it came eighth)

Voted Final Day after much agonising

alternative ulster was robbed IMO

still, this is the best compilation ever.

i agree. the wall to wall brilliance of the songs, the perfect sequencing, "at last i am free"