VARIOUS ARTISTS - 1977 The Year Punk Broke
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Punk’s Year Zero was 1976 but very few punk records were actually released that year. The most significant musical developments happened in 1977, with a burgeoning, self-supporting network of clubs, performers, fanzines, indie labels and distributors creating an unstoppable groundswell that would revolutionise UK music and have an enduring impact on pop culture.
Many of the year’s major breakthrough acts and cult favourites are included in this three CD compilation, including The Jam, The Damned, The Boomtown Rats, Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, Generation X, Sham 69, The Only Ones, The Rezillos, Ultravox!, 999, X-Ray Spex, ATV, The Boys and The Vibrators.
Joined by sympathetic but more experienced acts, a welter of new, young bands created a sonic explosion, with sub three minute adrenalin rushes of raw excitement.
The older guard – variously labelled Pub Rock, New Wave or Art Rock – are represented by Doctors Of Madness, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Deaf School, The Tyla Gang, Graham Parker & The Rumour, The Gorillas, The Count Bishops, Radio Stars, Spider and Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias.
Other key names include Motörhead (Lemmy’s new venture after splitting with Hawkwind, a metal band loved by punks) and The Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders’ band who recorded in London. Also present are a host of obscure indie Punk 45s and other rarities.
The deluxe clamshell package includes a weighty booklet full of illustrations, with a 15,000 word sleeve-note and band-by-band biographies by compiler David Wells.
Format: Three CD box set
Label: Cherry Red
Release date: 3 May 2024
Tracklist:
Disc one:
- Buzzcocks - Boredom
- London Lady - The Stranglers
- The Gorillas - Gatecrasher
- The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
- Deaf School - Capaldi's C afé
- The Vibrators - Bad Time
- The Boys - I Don't Care
- The Jam - Away From The Numbers
- The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose
- Eater - Thinkin' Of The USA
- The Outsiders - On The Edge
- The Users - Sick Of You
- Chartreuse - You Really Got Me
- The Rings - I Wanna Be Free
- Models - Man Of The Year
- The Only Ones - Peter And The Pets
- Motörhead - Motörhead
- Celia And The Mutations - Mony Mony
- Cock Sparrer - Runnin' Riot
- The Count Bishops - I Need You
- Blitzkrieg Bop - Let's Go
- The Killjoys - Naive
- Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
- The Rezillos - I Wanna Be Your Man
- Radio Stars - No Russians In Russia
- The Nosebleeds - Fascist Pigs
- The Exile - Jubilee '77
Disc two:
- The Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1
- Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
- The Snivelling Shits - I Can't Come
- Slaughter & The Dogs - Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone
- The Valves - For Adolfs Only
- Doctors Of Madness - Bulletin
- Generation X - Day By Day
- The Vacants - Television Viewer
- Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Kill
- Puncture - You Can't Rock And Roll (In A Council Flat)
- Radiators From Space - Enemies
- The Drones - Just Want To Be Myself (7" Version)
- Sham 69 - Red London
- P.V.C.2 - Deranged Demented And Free
- X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
- Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
- 999 - Nasty, Nasty
- Ultravox- Rockwrok
- The Depressions - Family Planning
- Zeros - Radio Fun
- Tyla Gang - Pool Hall Punks
- The Stukas - Klean Living Kids
- The Lurkers - Freak Show
- Jerks - Hold My Hand
- The Unwanted - Bleak Outlook
- Some Chicken - Blood On The Wall
- Menace - Insane Society
- The Features - Drab City
- Spider - Back To The Wall
- New Hearts - Just Another Teenage Anthem
- The Pleasers - (You Keep On Tellin' Me) Lies
Disc three:
- John Cooper Clarke - Innocents
- Alternative TV - How Much Longer
- The Wasps - She Made Magic
- Neon Hearts - Regulations
- Graham Parker & The Rumour - New York Shuffle
- The Doll - Trash
- Maniacs - Ain't No Legend
- Satan's Rats - In My Love For You
- Larry Wallis - Police Car
- Eddie & The Hot Rods - Quit This Town
- The Now - Development Corporations
- Chelsea - High Rise Living
- Art Attacks - Arabs In 'Arrods
- Trash - Priorities
- The Method - Dynamo
- Public Zone - Naive
- Left Hand Drive - Jailbait
- Swell Maps - Ripped And Torn
- Acme Sewage Co. - I Can See You
- The Rats - First Mistake
- Brainiac Five - Natty Punko
- The Cortinas - Defiant Pose
- The Carpettes - Help I'm Trapped
- NEO - Tell Me The Truth (Live At The Vortex)
- Raped - Raped
- Fruit Eating Bears - Flies
- Hobbies Of Today - RU12
- Drug Squad - Left Right And Centre
- Norman And The Hooligans - I'm A Punk