THINKING OUT OF THE BOX SET WEEK (MARCH 8 - 14, 2020)*
*In which I've lost/misplaced/can't find/never had one or more CDs in a multi-disc set.
Disc 3 of a 4 disc box set.
Another stellar compilation from Rhino (but, honestly, not as good as Disc 2). Lots of good stuff including some artists with which I was previously unfamiliar. I certainly wasn't listening to punk singles in the late '70s - I would guess I began my punk education around 1982 or so. I can just imagine 13 year old Mark bringing home an album like The Incredible Shrinking Dickies in 1979 and watching my mother faint upon seeing the title.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks:
| Song | Artist | |
| Ready Steady Go (from Generation X, 1978) | Generation X | |
| Teenage Kicks (1978 single) | The Undertones | |
| Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (1977 single) | Ian Dury |
✔
|
| Have You Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) (from Love Bites, 1978) | Buzzcocks |
✔
|
| Rocker U.S.A. (from Suicide, 1977) | Suicide | |
| Mongoloid (single version, 1977) | Devo |
✘
|
| Homicide (from Separates, 1978) | 999 | |
| Mr. Big (from 198 Seconds of The Dils, 1977) | The Dils | |
| Warsaw (from An Ideal for Living, 1978) | Joy Division |
✔
|
| Where Were You? (1978 single) | The Mekons | |
| Lexicon Devil (from Lexicon Devil, 1978) | The Germs |
✔
|
| (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures (single version, 1977) | The Rezillos | |
| The Wait (from Stop Your Sobbing single, 1979) | The Pretenders |
✔
|
| We Got The Neutron Bomb (1978 single) | The Weirdos | |
| Pablo Picasso (from The Modern Lovers, 1976) | The Modern Lovers | |
| Action Time Vision (from The Image Has Cracked, 1978) | Alternative TV |
✔
|
| 2-4-6-8 Motorway (1977 single) | Tom Robinson Band |
✔
|
| We Are The One (from We Are the One, 1977) | The Avengers | |
| Borstal Breakout (1978 single) | Sham 69 | |
| Wasted (from Nervous Breakdown, 1979) | Black Flag |
✘
|
| Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (single version, 1977) | Ramones |
✔
|
| I Love Livin' In The City (single version, 1978) | Fear |
✘
|
| She's So Modern (from A Tonic for the Troops, 1978) | The Boomtown Rats |
✔
|
| Ghosts of Princes in Towers (from Ghosts of Princes in Towers, 1978) | Rich Kids | |
| We're Desperate (from Adult Books single, 1978) | X | |
| You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) (from The Incredible Shrinking Dickies, 1978) | The Dickies |
✘
|
| Dancing The Night Away (single version, 1977) | The Motors |
✔
|
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: At some point in 2018, I was killing time one work day (shhhh, don't tell The Man) by perusing the bins at one of the local used CD joints. The red oval Rhino logo caught my eye:
Without doing any investigating, I immediately purchased the thing because of said logo and the words "'70s Punk." It wasn't until I returned home and snooped a bit online that I discovered the disc was part of a box set. No matter, it's still an excellent compilation. Still, I wish I had the liner note booklet.
I'm also reminded that I need to listen to more Buzzcocks.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Disc 2
(yeah, it's very lazy to mostly cut-and-paste from yesterday's post, but it's spring break and I'm feeling lazy. The thing is, when you're an adult, "spring break" translates to "mandatory five unpaid days off" so there's that bitterness, too. And this year, the spring break is a week or two too early, but nobody asked me. Regardless of my bellyachin', I'm enjoying myself and spinning a lot of discs. Was considering heading up I-35 to Austin to catch some SXSW but that's been cancelled over coronavirus fears.)
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