Posted on 07/30/2003 12:06:05 PM PDT by weegee
Rhino Records will release a four-disc punk box set, Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? The '70s Punk Rebellion, on October 28th. Following in the footsteps of the garage-rock anthology Nuggets, the set is designed to serve as a punk rock primer, spanning 1973 to 1980. "I'm not doing this set for people who were there the first time or to 'give the kids a history lesson,'" says the collection's producer Gary Stewart. "I'm hoping that somebody new to rock & roll who just picked up albums by the White Stripes, Good Charlotte or Radiohead will find much to love here."
The 100-track compilation features songs from punk headliners like the Clash, the Ramones, Elvis Costello, the Pretenders and the Cure as well as outer-limits bands like Suicide, the Ruts and Mink DeVille -- but no song from the Sex Pistols, whose frontman Johnny Rotten gave the collection its title when he asked the audience the same question at the end of the band's 1978 farewell show.
"I wanted to turn people on to some of the great nooks and crannies of early punk," Stewart says. "If you're buying this set, you're probably aware of the Buzzcocks and the Ramones, but I want you to know about the Rezillos, the Rich Kids and the Heartbreakers."
"I wanted the listener to see how the artfulness of Patti Smith, and the pop revisionism of early Blondie, Nick Lowe and the Motors, and the humor of Ian Dury all came from the same place," Stewart continues, "and belong alongside the Ramones, the Clash and the more obvious practitioners."
Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? track listing:
Disc One:
"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
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
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for those guys.
There's not a lot of politics in "Please Kill Me" the oral history of New York's punk scene (by way of Detroit, Boston, Cleveland and LA). The MC5 were politicized but not political. Their manager was a White Panther who co-opted the band and got them in a lot of trouble with real leftists who saw through their phoney image. Their manager was the only true believer in the lot. Not a lot of politics in the rest of the book (not even about Watergate). Covers from The Velvet Underground to the retirement of Patti Smith. (1960s-1980).
This is not the only music that I listen to by the way (it isn't even the only type of rock music).
What sort of rock and roll do you listen to so that we may critique your tastes.
I would say to be careful of criticizing punk music because of drug use by its' performers. "Classic rock" and disco were widely associated with drug use too. Even country music has its share of addicts.
Scratch out the commie folk singers.
We could listen to some nice orchestral music like Wagner.
The band has about 40 songs under their belt and almost all of them are on this list.
For the record, I sang Road Runner (1,2,3,4,5,6...) but then again I went to college up in Boston and found myself in the midst of liberals. I did run into a few other conservatives; one of whom I may have run into on this site.
I've also sung back up vocals on some of the Ramones songs.
They may hust be your favorite new band.
Gearhead Records was the same label to first import the Hives and the Hellicopters.
King of Garage Punk - Tim Kerr - produced the new album (the Mooney Suzuki would like to have him back to do their third album).
Something to Crow About (available on LP and CD)
I am glad to have them playing my birthday (coincedently) at this festival (many fine friends are on the bill): Rockaround.net
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Sam Phillips dead
The Cramps recorded their first album at Sun Studios (possibly including the take of Human Fly that appears on this boxed set). The Cramps also notably covered such Sun rockabilly songs as "Domino", "Her Love Rubbed Off", and "Bop Pills". Lux Interior has had a complete set of Sun singles since the early 1970s (he and his wife, Poison Ivy, visited the Sun Warehouse when singles were being closed out at something like 12/$1).
Norton has reissued all sorts of early rock and roll, garage cuts from the 1960s, and even some punk like the Dictators and Real Kids. And yes, Norton has issued some rare Sun recordings (as 45s on vinyl).
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