wot? no NUGGETS of EARLY UK PUNK SINGLES?

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is there already a compilation out there of cortinas/eater/jilted john type stuff?

we need a name for it, a track listing, and a record label to put it out.

who's in?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the killed by death stuff all U.S. hardcore, right?
http://www.lipstickkillers.com/comphell/kbd1.html

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cortinas / Eater / Jilted John type stuff" = everyone's already heard it (or at very least, everyone had heard it at the time) = positively mainstream = doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what's out there.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Killed By Death covers punk stuff from 75-83ish from all over the world, not just the US although some volumes are US/Canada only.

Most of them are pretty patchy but I think all the ones I've heard have had some great songs on.

Other bootleg comps that cover this kind of thing: Bloodstains Across The UK, England Belongs To Me, Bored Teenagers etc.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They don't come much better than this.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

not many people outside the UK heard this stuff

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I reckon most of the existing comps try to be too inclusive and so are a bit patchy. If the really awesome unknown stuff was compiled for outside the UK they could probably still fill 10 cds easily.

― everything, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There was one. It was called Seeds. It was compiled by James Kylo for Cherry Red. There were several volumes and they all covered late 70s/early 80s UK indie 7"s. There was one volume of Punk, one of Pop, one of Art, one of Electronic, and one of Rock and another of one of those, I can't remember.

But the real nuggets of early UK Punk was the Cherry Red 2xLP Burning Ambitions.

Granted BA has many of the hits, but like, how many of them became the "hits" because of Burning Ambitions.

There's a lot of punk on the Hyped2Death Messthethics series, but of the more DIY/arty side.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

I picked up the 3 "Burning Ambitions" CDs this year along with the 2CD expanded "Live From The Roxy" and "Farewell To The Roxy" comps. The occasional duff track is easy to ignore in light of all the great one-off punk tracks from 2nd and 3rd tier bands.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago)

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