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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Between Cabs, Pop Group + Wyatt... Scritti + YMG not far behind... oh and Kleenex too.
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Wyatt
― rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
It is one of the best things he's ever done.
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
... and now seems to be the time for ageing bearded lefties
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
love that cover
voted Mind Your Own Business
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 August 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
Lots of good-to-great stuff, Wyatt's is fantastic but the most depressing thing ever, have to go with 'Aerosol Burns'.
― Grilled Floam In A Gak Reduction (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 August 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
spizz energi has always struck me as a great/arcane monicker.voted swell maps over wyatt and kleenex
― cilantropist (outdoor_miner), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
I used to own this on vinyl w/ a green cover?
Anyway, The Pop Group.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah my record has a green cover, too
― mizzell, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
An old girlfriend of mine had this in blue, but here is the green cover.
― The Tony Hart Land (Tom D.), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
according to discogs, there is a brown cover as well (also didn't realize this was US only).
― mizzell, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
I've only ever seen the blue one.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
Mine's green. This is such a well curated comp imo. Diverse, yet flows together very well. Hard to choose a favorite.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 August 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
YMG just over Scritti Politti.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 14 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Three all-time favourites: 1. "Alternative Ulster," 2. "Read About Seymour," 3. "Part-Time Punks." Green cover.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 August 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
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
― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 August 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
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!
― Mark G, Friday, 14 August 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― rushomancy, Friday, 14 August 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Each one would get one vote.
― Mark G, Saturday, 15 August 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Man this is a tough choice.
― SPOILER: Everyone Is A Robot (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 15 August 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
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).
― SPOILER: Everyone Is A Robot (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 15 August 2015 09:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― SPOILER: Everyone Is A Robot (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 15 August 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 15 August 2015 10:24 (eight years ago) link
I'm in the 'so much great stuff, but FFS it's NAGNAGNAG' camp.
― emil.y, Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, but "Don't look out!" is such a good line, and there's Final Day as well, I dunno
― It empowers them, he jokes (albvivertine), Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:11 (eight years ago) link
Delta 5
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
Ain't You Wanna Cut It Out over Ulster and a bunch more right there, too. Incredible album.
― timellison, Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Grilled Floam In A Gak Reduction (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 August 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 27 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
AEROSOL BU-URNS.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 August 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 August 2015 08:12 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 August 2015 08:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 27 August 2015 08:32 (eight years ago) link
But valuable.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 August 2015 08:52 (eight years ago) link
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
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, and similarly I thought that Red Crayola and Red Krayola were different bands, but.
Well, different but.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah the crayon makers sued Mayo early on so its actually with a K from the 2nd 60s lp onwards I think.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:32 (eight years ago) link
Skank Bloc Bologna. Despite loving Scritti's later pop work, this track is a standout for me.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 27 August 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 28 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
one of my fav albums ever -- impossible to choose but probably "mind your own business."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
"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."
― clemenza, Friday, 28 August 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
Our Alice used to love "Becoming A Monster" the most when she was four.
(it came eighth)
― Mark G, Friday, 28 August 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
Voted Final Day after much agonising
― paolo, Friday, 28 August 2015 09:49 (eight years ago) link
alternative ulster was robbed IMO
still, this is the best compilation ever.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 3 March 2016 09:22 (eight years ago) link
i agree. the wall to wall brilliance of the songs, the perfect sequencing, "at last i am free"
― adam, Thursday, 3 March 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link