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

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.

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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

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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"