Blank Generation A Story Of Us Canadian Punk & Its Aftershocks 1975 1981 And CD

Blank Generation A Story Of Us Canadian Punk & Its Aftershocks 1975 1981 And CD Box Set

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5CD set bringing a comprehensive, big-tent look at the early years of punk rock in the US and Canada. Over six hours of music. Includes benchmark tracks by the scene's most influential bands plus many rare singles making their first appearance on CD. Named after Richard Hell's epoch-defining anthem, 'Blank Generation' documents the emergence in North America of what came to be labelled punk rock. A year or two prior to punk exploding in the UK, bands who'd been playing live in venues like New York City's CBGB started releasing records, often on independent labels, as an antidote to the prevailing disco and corporate soft rock which dominated the US charts. This five CD reflects those influential NYC bands - Patti Smith Group, The Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Voidoids, etc. - as well as the scene's other pioneers such as Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys (both Cleveland, Ohio), Dead Kennedys and Crime (San Francisco), Devo (Akron, Ohio), The Germs and The Weirdos (Los Angeles) and Mission of Burma (Boston, Massachusetts). 'Blank Generation' offers a deliberately broad definition of punk, encompassing contributions from such outré acts as Suicide, The Cramps and The Residents through to new wave/power pop combos (Sneakers, Chris Stamey & the dB's, etc. ). Also present are contemporary recordings by some of the mavericks who inspired punk - Destroy All Monsters (Detroit) boasted ex-members of The Stooges and The MC5 and The Heartbreakers and Killer Kane Band spun off the New York Dolls. While the US punk scene was arguably always more diverse musically than that of the UK, the music evolved quickly, as evinced by the choices heard on Discs 4 and 5. Many of the acts here such as X, The Replacements, The Feelies, Redd Kross, The Dream Syndicate, The Gun Club and Minor Threat would make an even greater impact as the 1980s wore on. It's hard to overestimate the seismic shocks caused by the music on 'Blank Generation', not only on everything in alternative music which followed in North American, from the 80s hardcore scene and the music heard on the whole alternative college radio network through to grunge and beyond. And yet this era has never before been treated to a comprehensive retrospective of this kind.

- Disc 1 - 1 Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation 2 The Ramones - Rockaway Beach 3 Television - Friction 4 The Modern Lovers - Someone I Care About 5 The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks 6 The Dictators - Cars and Girls 7 The Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer 8 The Dogs - John Rock 9 The Brats - Be a Man 10 Crime - Hot Wire My Heart 11 Poly Styrene Jass Band - Drano in Your Veins 12 Pere Ubu - Final Solution 13 Killer Kane Band - Mr. Cool 14 Marbles - Red Lights 15 Sneakers - Condition Red 16 Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds 17 Suicide - Rocket USA 18 The Suicide Commandos - Match/ Mismatch 19 Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River 20 Mirrors - Shirley 21 John Berenzy - Vice Verses 22 The Residents - Satisfaction - Disc 2 - 1 Devo - Come Back Jonee 2 Destroy All Monsters - Bored 3 The Avengers - We Are the One 4 The Twinkeyz - Aliens in Our Midst 5 The Mumps - Crocodile Tears 6 The Scruffs - My Mind 7 Tommy Hoehn - Blow Yourself Up 8 The Randoms - Let's Get Rid of New York 9 The Dils - Mr. Big 10 Chris Stamey & the DB's - (I Thought) You Wanted to Know 11 The Quick - Pretty Please 12 Cigarettes - Gimme Cigarette 13 Electric Eels - Cyclotron 14 Mars - 3E 15 Howard Werth - Obsolete 16 Pointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me to Do? 17 Shock - This Generation's on Vacation 18 The Deadbeats - Let's Shoot Maria 19 The Bags - Survive 20 The Human Switchboard - No 21 Curtiss a - I Don't Wanna Be President 22 Alda Reserve - Cure Me 23 The Young Canadians - Hawaii 24 The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb 25 The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here 26 Tom Verlaine - Breakin' in My Heart 27 Pagans - Street Where Nobody Lives - Disc 3 - 1 The Dickies - Fan Mail 2 DMZ - Bad Attitude 3 The Germs - Lexicon Devil 4 The Cramps - TV Set 5 Really Red - Corporate Setting 6 The Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait 7 Blow Up - Tell It to the Judge 8 Nervus Rex - Don't Look 9 The Eyes - Topological Lies 10 Pylon - Cool 11 Zero Boys - I'm Bored 12 The Bizarros - Quiana Girls 13 Smart Alex - Chitter Chat 14 The Hits - All the Girls (Wanna Be in Gangs) 15 The Dishrags - I Don't Love You 16 Black Randy & the Metro Squad - I Slept in An Arcade 17 Rhino 39 - Prolixin Stomp 18 Count Vertigo - I'm a Mutant 19 Testors - Time Is Mine 20 The Girls - Jeffrey I Hear You 21 The Urinals - I'm a Bug 22 Richard Lloyd - Blue and Grey 23 The Sleepers - Seventh World 24 The Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules 25 The Next - Cheap Rewards 26 Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song 27 The Flyboys - Theme Song - Disc 4 - 1 Dow Jones & the Industrials -Can't Stand the Midwest 2 The Haskels - Taking the City By Storm 3 Pure Hell - Noise Addiction 4 Suburban Lawns - Janitor 5 Non Compos Mentis - Ultimate Orgasm 6 The Method Actors - Do the Method 7 Modernettes - Barbra 8 The Bureaucrats - Feel the Pain 9 Bush Tetras - Snakes Crawl 10 Chrome - New Age 11 The Cosmopolitans - How to Keep Your Husband Happy 12 The Customs - Long Gone 13 Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It 14 The Colors - Rave It Up 15 The Gizmos - Bible Belt Baby 16 The Demics - New York City 17 The Units - Work 18 The Suburbs - World War III 19 Chandra - Kate 20 The Suspects - Talking Loud 21 The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows 22 The Bongos - Telephoto Lens 23 Martin Rev - Mari 24 The Embarrassment - Sex Drive 25 The Necessaries - Detroit Tonight 26 MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King - Disc 5 - 1 Polyrock - Romantic Me 2 The Unknowns - Dream Sequence (September 1981) 3 Pell Mell - Spy Vs. Spy (Sept. '81) 4 Lyres - Buried Alive 5 Justin Trouble - Ponytail 6 The Speedies - Time 7 The Anemic Boyfriends - Fake 8 I.D. (August 1981) 9 The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me 10 The Slickee Boys - Here to Stay (January 1981) 11 Salvation Army - Mind Gardens 12 New Math - They Walk Among You 13 The Jetsons - Genetically Stupid 14 The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile (Ep Version) 15 Oil Tasters - That's When the Brick Goes Through the Window (August 1981) 16 Redd Kross - Clorox Girls 17 Middle Class - Last Touch 18 Wall of Voodoo - Call Box 1-2-3 19 Chiefs - Blues 20 X - White Girl 21 Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb 22 Adolescents - Amoeba 23 Flesh Eaters - Version Nation 24 The Replacements - I'm in Trouble 25 Sport of Kings - This City in Darkness 26 Get Smart! - This Is Style 27 Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia 28 Romeo Void - Not Safe 29 Minor Threat - Minor Threat