No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion Box CD1 Poll

i think this is the only old thread about this box set on ILM: Rhino Records' 3-Disc Punk Rock Set

Blank Generation

tough call, but i too am going with blank generation.

going to have to listen to this a few times before voting, as of right now this is impossible. so much good stuff!

torn between final solutiona and 12XU

12xu over i'm stranded

Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex

Wait what happened to the Nuggets 2 stuff???

Wait what happened to the Nuggets 2 stuff???

it will be back next week.

Final Solution

12XU

Oh Bondage Up Yours! So fuckin clever. And so fuckin funny!!!!

"Boredom". Hilarious guitar solo and lyrics, breakthrough vocal delivery, fascinatingly deadpan production. Also, among the earliest DIY discs.

SOLUTION!

S SS S SOLUTION!

One chord wonders!

This could be any one of 95% or these tracks. (Some I haven't heard, some I dont 'love', but....)

It has to be Little Johnny Jewel.

(short or long on the CD?)

Very hard indeed, but One Chord Wonders just shades Neat Neat Neat and (I'm) Stranded.

The picks are magnificently representative in that they have picked the most "punky" tracks by bands that are not necessarily usually very "punk". This means they are less likely for me to vote for, but sure, it fits in.

"In The City" is great though, so thus my vote went there.

I'm Stranded, ahead of Neat Neat Neat, 1 2 X U and Teenage Depression

"Boredom". "Heart Of The City" is the only other one I would've gone for.

I don't know the Nick Lowe or Mink DeVille songs but I love every single other song on this. Some more than others obviously but this is still impossible!

Roadrunner Once, Roadrunner Twice, Roadrunner always.

Easy decision: Roadrunner.

I would normally vote for "Final Solution" over just about anything, but on this box I think it's a little incongruous so I voted for "One Chord Wonders" which fits in just fine and is so fucking hot

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Interesting track list. Roadrunner, I guess.

Next, someone's got to do a poll for the songs on Rhino's 80s compilation, Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Underground (a great comp, BTW).

was going to do that one in time.

I always preferred 'Breakdown'to 'Boredom' yet they always seem to trot this one out for these rather ubiquitous collections which seem to all feature the same tracks - with the Pistols usually missing for contractual reasons?

'Blank Generation' for me

ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-CHERRY BOMB!

in spite of, you know, Roadrunner, Final Solution, Search & Destroy, etc.

Impossible. It's at least a 12-way tie for first...

Search and Destroy carpet bombs everything else here

xpost - Followed by a 5-way tie for second. I abstain.

Plus points for Search and Destroy in my book. It was 1973?

I heard this for the first time, mid 80s and was blown away . I was 'What the fuck' Blown away, mainly cos of the year it was released.

There was a three /four year gap til this energy rose again?

stop, check, turn and double back.

this is impossible

Why can't all box sets have track listings this good?

I went with "One Chord Wonders," just edging out "Neat Neat Neat"

Boredom, although Search and Destroy fought hard.

Voting Blitzkrieg Bop. A friend once told me, "you only need one Ramones record," as if the first record was a complete statement of their concept and could only be denigrated with further releases. I told him that was like saying you only need Hiroshima, not Nagasaki; anyway, you can't fault them for perfecting the form the first time out. My scorecard:

1. Pure assault. 2. Flashy hot-button pushing as politics. Which I enjoy, but to each their own. 3. Great song! But not punk. 4. Terminal stasis. 5. Scorched earth policy. 6. A full throttle onslaught played as slick as glam. 7. Great song! But not punk. 9. One two three four five six! Unmitigated joy. 10. Stretched out like canvas, guitars as palette, feels like anything could happen - and then it does. 11. Hold on, this has chord changes. 12. This track sounds like a Dolls cast-off. 13. First person shooter. 14. Also ran. 15. Subjugation's theme song. 16. Keeps breaking down to expose its constituent elements & still uses them to ratchet up tension, like a magician revealing the trick as it catches you. 17. Killer band, but claiming to speak for a generation feels wrong when everyone else in this bunch is all me me me. 18. Keys & horns & all on speed. 19. Exploits all meanings of "cherry" and "bomb." 20. Glam but non-slick, with all the loose ends showing, strung out and nuts and in love with its own desperation, sound and subject perfectly matched. 21. The '50s revved up. 22. It cracks me up that this band had theoretical underpinnings. Even funnier: they're good ones! 23. 60's rock as template for beat poetry - nice inversion! 24. Feh.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i love dad a's breakdown of songs on box sets, thanks!

anyways i finally decided on "Search And Destroy" but this was really difficult. can't wait to see the results tomorrow.

Anything other than "(I'm)Stranded" is a wrong answer.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i just listened to one chord wonders for the first time. it's good!

You should pick up that first Adverts album, it's like that all the way through.