Even in 1980 it had a retro feeling.



Side one:
1 Stiv Bators - A Million Miles Away
2 The Real Kids - Now You Know
3 The Dadistics - Modern Girls
4 Blake Xolton & The Martians - Merry Christmas
5 Jimmy Lewis & The Checkers - Think
6 The Nuns - Wild
7 Gary Charlson - Burnin' In You

Side two:
1 Rodney & The Brunettes - Little G.T.O
2 The "B" Girls - Fun At The Beach
3 The MnM's - I'm Tired
4 Paul Collins - Walking Out On Love
5 Nikki & The Corvettes - Just What I Need
6 Kathy & The Lawnmowers - Green Children
7 Prof. Anonymous - Somebody Touched Me

Side three:
1 The Sonics - Up To The Junction
2 The Weirdos - Jungle Rock
3 The Zantees - Cruisin'
4 Jon & The Nightriders - Super Jet Rumble
5 The Lipstick Killers - Hindu Gods (Of Love)
6 The Hypstrz - In The Midnight Hour
7 The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here
8 The Dead Boys - 3rd Generation Nation (Live)

Side four:
1 The Crawdaddys - There She Goes Again
2 The Martians - Baby Hold On
3 Pete Holly & The Looks - Look Out Below
4 The Wombats - Utter Frustration
5 Rainbow Red Oxidizer - When You Walk In The Room
6 Cheek - Do You Have A Soul?
7 The Romantics - Running Away

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Tom America bass, vocals
Pieter Bon vocals
Mark van Woerkom guitar
Antoine Kroes guitar


Photo: Conno van Wijk

1 You're The Other Side
2 Needekendekundekaa
3 Grond
4 Lust And Loathing
5 Pulled To The Earth
6 Slipping away

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I bought this because it was on sale and Earcom 2 had a good contribution of Joy Division.
But number 1 was something different.



Side one:
1 The Prats - Prats 2
2 The Blank Students - Fun At The Fair
3 Graph - Drowning
4 The Blank Students - Background Music

Side two:
1 The Prats - Inverness
2 The Prats - Bored
3 The Flowers - Criminal Waste
4 The Flowers - After Dark
5 Simon Bloomfield / Tim Pearce - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures

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Soundboard recording, from master.



01 Sato Sato
02 Alle Gegen Alle
03 Der Mussolini
04 Verlier Nicht Den Kopf
05 Als Wär's Das Letzte Mal
06 Mein Herz Macht Bum
07 Verschwende Deine Jugend
08 Ich Und Die Wirklichkeit
09 Ich Will
10 Muskel
11 Kebabträume
12 Knochen Auf Knochen
13 Greif Nach Den Sternen
14 Der Mussolini
15 Der Räuber Und Der Prinz
16 Sex Unter Wasser
17 Verschwende Deine Jugend
18 Alles Ist Gut

From the notes of Vince:
Due to the fact that the band played different lyrics to a same backing track, it is sometimes difficult to figure out the titles...

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A Dutch sampler of L.A. (Dennis Duck related) bands.



Side one:
1 Boyd Rice & Daniel Miller - Cleanliness And Order
2 Jad Fair - XXOO
3 Vetza - Stale Puppy-Dog Tails
4 The Rick Potts Band - Platform Swimfins
5 Monitor - Guardian
6 Doodooettes - Pork Had Better Behave
7 45 Grave - Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood
8 NON - Non-Watusi

Side two:
1 Foundation Boo - Nap
2 Airway - Perpendicular Thrust
3 Dennis Duck - Davey The Worm
4 Le Forte Four - The Lowest Form Of Music
5 Human Hands - I Got Mad
6 Bpeople - The Other Thing

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From the Valeri CD, 3 unknown songs.



Some of the accompanied notes:

In the grey days of late 1970s post-punk Manchester, youth culture was a serious affair: every musical performance was measured mostly by the conviction of its delivery. The term 'New Wave' opened up free vistas where acquired skills could once again be exercised after punk's monochrome blur. It could be applied to anything from a James 'Blood' Ulmer record to the latest Throbbing Gristle release, Magazine to Swell Maps. Move outside that terrain into Sun Ra, Parliament, Frank Sinatra and Martin Denny, and your options were suddenly without limit.

Then came Tony Wilson's Factory Club (at the Russell Club in Hulme) offering an open invitation to experiment that was taken up when Ken Hollings, Howard Walmsley, Eddie Sherwood and a few others decided to make some noise to accompany their 16mm silent epic Biting Tongues. A further performance followed a few weeks later, when Colin Seddon and Graham Massey disbanded their Post Natals project and joined up. The film itself, a flashing series of negative images, became a memory; the name remained.

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A Birmingham Compilation.
I bought this lp mainly for the Fashion contribution.



Side one:
1 Steel Pulse - Biko's Kindred Lament
2 Wide Boys - Forty Million
3 Fashion - Let Go
4 Dangerous Girls - Clinically Dead
5 Denizens - Small Wonder
6 UB40 - 25%

Side two:
1 Steve Gibbons Band - Sunny Day
2 Ferrari - Rio
3 Ricky Cool And The Icebergs - Wait A Minute Baby
4 Rainmaker - Cruisin'
5 Mean Street Dealers - I Don't Want To Die Young
6 Quads - In The Night

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