"Blitzkrieg Bop," Ramones"White Riot," The Clash"Heart Of The City," Nick Lowe"Boredom," Buzzcocks"(I'm) Stranded," The Saints"Neat Neat Neat," The Damned"In The City," The Jam"Final Solution," Pere Ubu"Roadrunner," The Modern Lovers"Little Johnny Jewel," Television"One Chord Wonders," The Adverts"Born To Lose," The Heartbreakers"Search And Destroy," Iggy & The Stooges"Let Me Dream If I Want To," Mink DeVille"Oh Bondage Up Yours!," X-Ray Spex"1 2 X U," Wire"Blank Generation," Richard Hell & The Voidoids"(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)," The Stranglers"Cherry Bomb," The Runaways"Personality Crisis," New York Dolls"Teenage Depression," Eddie & The Hot Rods"Two Tub Man," The Dictators"Hey Joe," Patti Smith"Your Generation," Generation X
Disc Two:
"Lust For Life," Iggy Pop"Gary Gilmore's Eyes," The Adverts"Saturday Night in the City of the Dead," Ultravox!"What Do I Get?," Buzzcocks"X Offender," Blondie"Lookin' After No. 1," The Boomtown Rats"Don't Dictate," Penetration"Bingo Master," The Fall"Free Money," Patti Smith"The Modern World," The Jam"Chinese Rocks," The Heartbreakers"New Rose," The Damned"Ambition," Subway Sect"See No Evil," Television"Suspect Device," Stiff Little Fingers"Mannequin," Wire"Baby Baby," The Vibrators"Love Comes In Spurts," Richard Hell & The Voidoids"First Time," The Boys"Sonic Reducer," Dead Boys"Shot By Both Sides," Magazine"Mystery Dance," Elvis Costello"Trash," New York Dolls"The Day The World Turned Day-Glo," X-Ray Spex"Do Anything You Wanna Do," Eddie & The Hot Rods
Disc Three:
"Ready Steady Go," Generation X"Teenage Kicks," The Undertones"Complete Control," The Clash"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," Ian Dury"Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)," Buzzcocks"Rocket U.S.A.," Suicide"Mongoloid," Devo"Homicide," 999"Mr. Big," The Dils"Warsaw," Joy Division"Where Were You?," The Mekons"Lexicon Devil," The Germs"(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures," The Rezillos"The Wait," The Pretenders"We Got the Neutron Bomb," The Weirdos"Pablo Picasso," The Modern Lovers"Action Time Vision," Alternative TV"2-4-6-8 Motorway," Tom Robinson Band"We Are the One," The Avengers"Borstal Breakout," Sham 69"Wasted," Black Flag"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker," Ramones"I Love Livin In The City," Fear"She's So Modern," The Boomtown Rats"Ghosts Of Princes In Towers," Rich Kids"We're Desperate," X"You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)," The Dickies"Dancing the Night Away," The Motors
― Truck Turner, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Truck Turner, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)
Disc Four:
"Hong Kong Garden," Siouxsie & the Banshees"Public Image," Public Image Ltd."Hanging On The Telephone," Blondie"Top Of The Pops," The Rezillos"Adult Books," X"The Sound Of The Suburbs," The Members"California Uber Alles," Dead Kennedys"Another Girl, Another Planet," The Only Ones"(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp," The Soft Boys"Radio, Radio," Elvis Costello & The Attractions"Typical Girls," The Slits"Human Fly," The Cramps"Psycho Killer," Talking Heads"Babylon's Burning," The Ruts"If The Kids Are United," Sham 69"Alternative Ulster," Stiff Little Fingers"Boys Don't Cry," The Cure"She Is Beyond Good And Evil," The Pop Group"Is She Really Going Out With Him?," Joe Jackson"Get Over You," The Undertones"Love Like Anthrax," Gang Of Four"Into The Valley," Skids"You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory," Johnny Thunders"Peaches," The Stranglers"Love Will Tear Us Apart," Joy Division
― Truck Turner, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Truck Turner, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)
It's a bit surprising, actually, as Rhino is generally pretty scrupulous in their work.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Single from his first album Look Sharp (1979)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Truck Turner, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)
That being said, it would still sound good put in a four disc player set on random.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)
This box is the same as the 1234 box, but with more US stuff like The Dils and X on there instead of the likes of Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Wasps and Johhny Moped. I heart the 1234 box very much indeed.
Oh and they're allowing more than one track per artist unlike 1234.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)
I always preferred the Great Pop Things variant of this:
"Pretty gorillas walking down my street...Nylons! Gum!"
There's this wonderful and weird collection of hyperutterobscuro punk singles I have that was part of a series released in Germany in the early nineties -- stuff from Finland and Yugoslavia and all mixed in with English-language representatives nobody knew about. I think there was even one single from the band that eventually became Minny Pops!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)
etc etc... m.
― msp, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Boyer, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― dan (dan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeff K (jeff k), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Licensing problems, maybe?
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)
"Six Pack," Black Flag"Definitions," Minutemen"Dicks Hate the Police," The Dicks"Academy Fight Song," Mission of Burma "Complicated Fun," Suicide Commandos "Out of Step (With the World)," Minor Threat"Heartbeat," Big Boys"Bob Hope," Appliances-SFB"Potential Rapist," Naked Raygun"Feels Blind," Bikini Kill"Ack Ack Ack," the Urinals"Waiting Room," Fugazi"Mobile Home," Couch Flambeau "Suburban Home," Descendents "Life Sentence," Dead Kennedys "Hickley Had a Vision," The Crucifucks "Pay to Cum," Bad Brains"The Glory of Man," Minutemen"Red Tape," Circle Jerks"Mutiny in Heaven," The Birthday Party "Foggy Eyes," Beat Happening "All White," Die Kreuzen "Halloween," Dead Kennedys "Unsatisfied," The Replacements"History Lesson - Part II," Minutemen"Eight Miles High," Husker Du"The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave," The Butthole Surfers"My Red Self," Heavens to Betsy"Sex Bomb," Flipper
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
I have spotted a problem.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
That fifth disc looks pretty great, they should sell it by itself.
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)
"Licensing problems, maybe?"
Plenty of other people seem to have managed to get clearance and Rhino are supposed to be the experts at that sort of stuff aren't they?
Mind you they seem to have spent 3 years so far trying to organise a release of Lick My Decals Off Baby and the sodding thing's actually owned by their parent Company, Warners!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000065SXE.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
which I picked up from Amazon.fr recently.
All excellent stuff, there are several people here whose back catalogues I suspect I shall be exploring further in due course.
Oh and don't be misled by the inclusion of Plastic Bertrand btw - his contribution is hardly representative!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― scott m (mcd), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)
Rhino still managed to name the box "Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?"
― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Probably my first, and overwhelming, reaction is how much infinitely greater punk got from 1980 onward...
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)
My list of bands that fell within the mandate of the box and didn't show up on it:Adam & the AntsAngelic UpstartsCabaret VoltaireChelseaWayne CountyCrassEaterFeeliesGlaxo BabiesKleenexMenaceMetal UrbainThe Monochrome SetTubeway Army/Gary NumanPlastic BertrandThe PoliceRadiators from SpaceScritti PolittiSEX PISTOLSSkrewdriverSlaughter & the DogsSniveling ShitsSpizzSwell MapsThrobbing GristleUK SubsTV PersonalitiesXTC
Of those, I'd have loved to have seen, say, the first Police single ("Fall Out"), maybe something like Menace's "G.L.C.," of course I fetishize Swell Maps, etc. But, really, the Rhino box gives a satisfying roar when you actually put it on.
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Perhaps no stranger that the Vertigo comp. "New Wave" around the same time which included tracks by Flaming Groovies, Runaways, Skyhooks and Little Bob Storey alongside the more obvious Damned, Dead Boys, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, NY Dolls, Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and.... errrrr.... Boomtown Rats.
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA015644/img/NewwaveLP.jpg
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)
Could I just say how much I love 'Shake Some Action'.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 30 October 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 30 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.blindyouth.freeuk.com/1stYear.jpg
Apart from "Being Boiled" and "Where Were You?", none of this material's been released, although "Holdings AV" that's been talking shit about reissuing it (as Mutant Pop) this year.
THE MEKONS Never Been In A Riot THE MEKONS Heart And Soul THE MEKONS 32 Weeks SCARS Adult/ery SCARS Horror ShowTHE HUMAN LEAGUE Being BoiledTHE HUMAN LEAGUE Circus Of Death
2.3 All Time Low 2.3 Where To Now GANG OF FOUR Love Like Anthrax GANG OF FOUR Armalite Rifle GANG OF FOUR Damaged Goods THE MEKONS I'll Have To Dance Then [On My Own] THE MEKONS Where Were You
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)
ooh you lucky son of a...
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)