This, as the title on the image above can attest, is the first volume of two chronicling the outrageously fertile post-punk period that was so authoritatively and lovingly curated by John Peel. The title also says 1977-1982, but really this is from the years 1978-1980. It is amazing how vibrant and current these thirty year old songs sound.
01. Electricity – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
02. Other Boys – Wah! Heat
03. At Home He’s A Tourist – Gang Of Four
04. Heart Of Song – Joseph K
05. Stool Pigeon – Vic Godard & The Subway Sect
06. Me I Disconnect From You – Gary Numan
07. You – Delta 5
08. Give Me Everything – Magazine
09. Sound Of Music – Joy Division
10. La Grande Illusion – Television Personalities
11. Hollow Inside - Buzzcocks
12. Flight – A Certain Ratio
13. Regal Zone – Siouxsie & The Banshees
14. Uomo-Sex-Al-Apache – Bow Wow Wow
15. Like Clockwork – Boomtown Rats
16. Eine Symphony Des Grauens – Monochrome Set
17. Fatal Flaw – Sound
18. A Forest – Cure
19. Poptones – Public Image Limited
5 comments:
I'm slavering with anticipation. Or, to quote musically, 'I think I love you'. I hope my music club mule (that would be the nororious JKH) is already picking mine up.
looks great.
ja...ja...joseph K.
No Undertones? That's just not right.
This is only the first of two volumes, so the Undertones could have made it, but they did not.
They actually had two peel sessions songs make it far along the process: "Here comes the summer" and "luxury", but in the end "summer" beat out "luxury" and then I decided that this/these was/were NOT punk mixes, but post-punk mixes, and then the Undertones hit the can, along with bands I like even more such as the Stiff Little Fingers and Adverts. In case you're wondering why the Buzzcocks got in, well, "Hollow Inside" has more in common with Wire than the Damned, hence it fit right in the post-punk theme.
The really "not right" is the exclusion of X-Ray Spex from either mix, but in the end their Peel sessions were half-assed and I couldn't include them, no matter how much I love them in general.
John Peel always said "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones was his favorite single of all time, although perhaps it's more punk than post-punk.
I also think of The Fall when I think of John Peel. Will they make it on Vol II?
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