Saturday, July 1, 2023

VA - To The Outside Of Everything, A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977-1981 [2017] (5 x CD's)


UK POST PUNK

VA - To The Outside Of Everything, A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977-1981 [2017] (5 x CD's)


Named after a lyric from Magazine’s ground-breaking hit, ‘Shot By Both Sides’, TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING tells a musical story of how the UK’s post-punk scene evolved from the spirit of 1977 and the arrival of key labels such as Fast, Rough Trade, Zoo, Factory and Cherry Red.

This box set starts in in 1977 and takes you up to 1981 that still after 40 years of being a big fan sounds stupid! What was going on in the UK starting in 1977 was actually happening a few years earlier but prior to 1977 it was called GARAGE/ACID ROCK, anyway by 1977 there was so much going on in the UK outside of the damned and sex pistols there was just really no name to put on it, PUNK was the year in 1977 UK but there were a lot of other things happening as by 1977 I think many fans where getting tired of the prog rock situation that had dominated starting around 1968/69 as well as blues hard rock. I was time for something new and Punk was it but you also got a lot of other experimental bands coming along and the times were starting to change not just in the UK but New York, LA, Amsterdam & Stockholm, as I have many 45s and great punk or as they call it post punk records from that era. Regardless this great remastered cd box set sounds fantastic and gives you 5 discs of great Punk & Experimental rock bands that started in 1977 in the UK, there is so much great timeless music here and a wonderful book to go with this set. There are so many great NON household named bands here. If that was your thing 40 years back don't pass up on this Box Set. (Amazon)


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Track lists

CD1


 1. Young Savage - Ultravox!
  2. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
  3. I Am the Fly - Wire
  4. East Sheen - 'O' Level
  5. United - Throbbing Gristle
  6. T.V.O.D. - the Normal
  7. Puppet Life - Punishment of Luxury
  8. Bombers - Tubeway Army
  9. Repetition - the Fall
  10. Private Plane - Thomas Leer
  11. China's Eternal - the Tights
  12. Wax Dolls - Fischer-Z
  13. Skank Bloc Bologna - Scritti Politti
  14. Damaged Goods (LP Version) - Gang of Four
  15. Summertime Blues - the Flying Lizards
  16. Suicide a Go Go - Big in Japan
  17. Steady Eddie Steady - Fashion
  18. Hearts in Exile -The Homosexuals
  19. This Is Your Life - Glaxo Babies
  20. Sleeping Gas (Zoo 7" Version) - the Teardrop Explodes
  21. Needles and Pills - the Passions
  22. Fairytale in the Supermarket - the Raincoats

CD2  

  1. The Dignity of Labour Pt. 1 - Human League
  2. Lost in Room - Alternative T.V
  3. The Pictures on My Wall - Echo and the Bunnymen
  4. Death Disco - Pil
  5. Eine Symphonie Des Grauens - the Monochrome Set
  6. Courts or Wars - Second Layer
  7. Ideologically Unsound - Poison Girls
  8. Typical Girls - the Slits
  9. Soldier Soldier - Spizzenergi
  10. You - Au Pairs
  11. Transmission - Joy Division
  12. Back to Nature -Fad Gadget
  13. 16 Hours - the Passage
  14. We Are All Prostitutes - the Pop Group
  15. Spirit of Youth - the Last Gang
  16. This Week - the Adicts
  17. Turn to Red - Killing Joke
  18. Second Still - Modern Eon
  19. We Love You - the Psychedelic Furs
  20. White Mice - Mo-Dettes
  21. Emile Zola - the Deep Freeze Mice
  22. From the Cradle to the Grave - Crispy Ambulance
  23. Sketch for Summer - the Durutti Column

CD3


  1. Let's Build a Car - Swell Maps
  2. Warm - Family Fodder
  3. Cartrouble - Adam and the Ants
  4. Brigade - Clock Dva
  5. Warm Girls -Girls at Our Best!
  6. Ice Age - the Membranes
  7. Boots for Dancing - Boots for Dancing
  8. Lullaby Cheat - Ludus
  9. Swans on Glass - Modern English
  10. Squares and Triangles - Thompson Twins
  11. Mary Millington - the Disco Zombies
  12. Fire - Occult Chemistry
  13. Final Achievement -In Camera
  14. Girls Don't Count - Section 25
  15. Hard Objects - Art Objects
  16. Radio Drill Time - Josef K
  17. Controversial Subject - the the
  18. My Mother Was a Friend of An Enemy of the People - Blurt
  19. The Affectionate Punch - the Associates
  20. There Goes Concorde Again - and the Native Hipsters

CD4

  1. The Friend Catcher - the Birthday Party
  2. Precinct - the Cravats
  3. It's So Difficult - Dislocation Dance
  4. Do Different Dances - SPÖÖN Fazer
  5. B. - Colin Newman
  6. Disney Boys - Blue Orchids
  7. Cabbage - Mass
  8. Get Up and Use Me - Fire Engines
  9. Anonymity - Dance Chapter
  10. Overspreading Art Genius - Blancmange
  11. We Are All Animals - the Diagram Bros
  12. A Still Reflex - Repetition
  13. Ceremony - New Order
  14. Hungry, So Angry - Medium Medium
  15. 50 Years of Comparative Wealth - Steve Diggle
  16. Another Reason - Five or Six
  17. Clock - the Danse Society
  18. Sometimes I Wish - the Laughing Apple
  19. Raindance - the Past Seven Days
  20. Invisibility - Eyeless in Gaza
  21. Idiot Strength - the Nightingales
  22. Nothing - My Captains

CD 5

  1. Rebel Without a Brain - Theatre of Hate
  2. I Am the Bishop - Notsensibles
  3. Central Proposition - New Asia
  4. Life in Reverse - Marine
  5. Watching the Hydroplanes - Tunnel Vision
  6. Fading - Jah Wobble
  7. Snakes and Ladders - TV21
  8. Happy Feeling - the Sinatra's
  9. Tribes - Soul
  10. Storage Case - the Drowning Craze
  11. Imagination - Sad Lovers and Giants
  12. Hu - Dif Juz
  13. Animals - Spider King
  14. Vegas - Nico
  15. I Don't Want to Live with Monkeys - the Higsons
  16. I'd Like to Shoot You Down - Apb
  17. Nothing - René Halkett David Jay
  18. Stretch (7" Version) - Maximum Joy
  19. Afterwards - Artery
  20. Last Words (7" Version) - 23 Skidoo
  21. Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad - the Skodas
  22. Heart Disease - Biting Tongues
  23. 4 Countries - the Reflections
  24. Radio Prague - This Heat
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8 comments:

  1. What an incredible treasure ! Thanks a lot BB. Il reminds me some unknown territories on this vast territory that was post-punk. Blurt, Au Pairs, Theatre Of Hate, Dif Juz, Blue Orchids, the Pop Group... Wow.

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    1. Thanks Herve.
      Enjoy! Now and forever.
      Cheers.

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  2. I have this and it's amazing. Obscure treasures from the post-punk era. Pure gold here.

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    1. Thanks D.
      I hope others will pick it up and enjoy it as much as we do.
      Cheers.

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  3. Post-punk to french inspired jazz. BB, you've done it again! Thanks so much for your work. :)

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    1. It's all good music, g8rrick.
      I am glad that you are enjoying it. The eclectic nature of the site is to take us to places we may not venture.
      Cheers.

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  4. All the past decades gave us some great music. But it could be this was the best period.

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    1. Hi StoneRose.
      I really don't know which is the best decade for music. It's an everchanging environment for me. An I guess it also depends on the genres that are explored. But this set id really great.
      Cheers.

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