Following on from Sunday;s post, Side 2 of a punk and post-punk period piece, cramming eleven songs into twenty nine and a half minutes.
Another mix of the obvious and the obscure (at least in the UK), from X-Ray Spex (England) and The Boomtown Rats (Eire) to The Kids (Belgium) and Ebba Grön (Sweden).
I must have heard Sonic Reducer dozens of times before I was aware of or heard the original version by The Dead Boys as it was go-to crowd pleaser for any band with a bit of attitude on the Bristol live circuit in the last 1980s.
999 are the only representatives from Urgh! A Music War, whilst The Adverts have managed to to slip a song in on both sides, Gary Gilmore's Eyes yesterday and One Chord Wonders today. To be honest, it was supposed to be either/or but I couldn't choose and there was room for both.
And the collection closes with a classic that's less punk and more pop, but just had to be included. I can't name another song by Plastic Bertrand, but when the one song is this joyous, who cares?
Next Monday is a bank holiday. Today isn't, so I grit my teeth, gird my loins and prepare to enter the fray. See you on the other side!
1) Sonic Reducer: The Dead Boys (1977)
2) Fascist Cops: The Kids (1978)
3) Oh Bondage Up Yours!: X-Ray Spex (1977)
4) Wild Youth (Single Version): Generation X (1977)
5) Lookin' After No. 1: The Boomtown Rats (1977)
6) Emergency (Album Version): 999 (1978)
7) This Perfect Day (Album Version): The Saints (1977)
8) One Chord Wonders (Album Version): The Adverts (1977)
9) Mona Tumbas Slim Club: Ebba Grön (1979)
10) Lexicon Devil (Single Version): The Germs (1978)
11) Ça Plane Pour Moi: Plastic Bertrand (1977)
1977: An 1: 11
1977: Oh Bondage Up Yours! EP: 3
1977: The Boomtown Rats: 5
1977: Wild Youth EP: 4
1977: Young Loud And Snotty: 1
1978: Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts: 8
1978: Eternally Yours: 7
1978: Lexicon Devil EP: 10
1978: 999: 6
1978: The Kids: 2
1979: Prorock EP: 9
