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I suppose if you never bought a record in your life from this period it may be interesting! (Note how the Boomtown Rats are on the cover and not the Clash!). As usual Mondays is chosen.
The tracklisting on Amazon was wriiten by someone who never heard these songs...
Two Pints Of Lager & A Bag Of Crisps Please - Splodgeness Abounds
69 Guns - The Alarm
My Reward - Teardrop Explodes
Swords Of A Thousand Men - Slodgeness Abounds(oh dear, poor Ten Pole Tudor, his only hit as well)
Damned, Undertones & Sham get two tracks, but it is pretty much the usual suspects.
boring that they chose mondays again, but if this compilation can generate some interest for the rats, or any of the other bands, then it´s great news...
quote: Originally posted by: ArrGee Swords Of A Thousand Men - Slodgeness Abounds (oh dear, poor Ten Pole Tudor, his only hit as well) Damned, Undertones & Sham get two tracks, but it is pretty much the usual suspects."
Correction. He also had hits with "Who Killed Bambi?" & "Rock Around The Clock" (albeit as joint Double A side singles with the Sex Pistols), and with "Wunderbar" - which was a number one in Belgium & a Top 10 hit over Europe. "The Hayrick Song" and "Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater" also did better abroad than they did in the UK, but by then Eddie was already doing a Max Splodge & frittering a lot of time away on a potential career treading the boards/on the silver screen instead of consolidating his musical one - the result being most of his band leaving to other things, such as the far more successful King Kurt (in terms of longevity, at any rate!).
A man of considerable talent which to date he's wasted. Shame.
Wonderful to see the Toy Dolls on it - as Olga would say "more money for old rope!"
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quote: Originally posted by: Mark Boyle " Correction. He also had hits with "Who Killed Bambi?" & "Rock Around The Clock" (albeit as joint Double A side singles with the Sex Pistols), and with "Wunderbar" - which was a number one in Belgium & a Top 10 hit over Europe. "The Hayrick Song" and "Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater"
Ah, I forgot about Wunderbar. But the point was they didn't acknowledge he did it at all.
Very interesting that The Jam and The Clash tracks are two or three years after the majority of the others. The history of Punk/New Wave has been rewritten post-1982 (or maybe post Levi ad circa 1990).
1 Going Underground - Jam 2 Message In A Bottle - Police 3 My Girl - Madness 4 Cool For Cats - Squeeze 5 Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag 6 Denis - Blondie 7 Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy 8 Boys Keep Swinging - Bowie, David 9 Money - Flying Lizards 10 Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats
11 Swords Of A Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor 12 Jimmy Jimmy - Undertones 13 Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69 14 Walls Come Tumbling Down - Style Council 15 Tears Of A Clown - Beat 16 Three Minute Hero - Selecter 17 Egyptian Reggae - Richman, Jonathan 18 Identify - X-Ray Spex 19 Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen 20 Love Cats - Cure
Disc 2
Track Listings
1 Ghost Town - Specials 2 Golden Brown - Stranglers 3 I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Costello, Elvis 4 Is She Really Going Out With Him - Jackson, Joe 5 Jackie Wilson Said - Dexys Midnight Runners 6 Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 - Dury, Ian & The Blockheads 7 2 4 6 8 Motorway - Robinson, Tom Band 8 68 Guns - Alarm 9 Baby I Love You - Ramones 10 Sesnes Working Overtime - XTC
11 Promises - Buzzcocks 12 It's Gonna Happen - Undertones 13 Back Of My Hand - Jags 14 D a a ance - Lambrettas 15 Love Song - Damned 16 Is Vic There - Department S 17 Borstal Breakout - Sham 69 18 Milk And Alcohol - Dr. Feelgood 19 Pretty Vacant (demo) - Sex Pistols 20 Ace Of Spades - Motorhead