We'll begin with the lead track from their debut album 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen', complete with 'Boredom' intro.
2. BLACK FLAG - 'Rise Above' - SST/Unicorn LP - USA - 1981
And then we crank it up a notch with our 'enry's debut in Black Flag, the legendary 'Damaged' LP. The distribution deal for the album was with Unicorn records who were affiliated with MCA, but when MCA president Al Bergamo heard the record he supposedly refused to distribute it because, as a parent, he found it an 'anti-parent record'. SST finally distributed the record themselves using the 'anti-parent' statement on a sticker which covered the MCA logo that was already on the sleeves of the first 25,000. Then Unicorn took SST to court and it all got ugly until Unicorn finally went bankrupt a few years later. Quite a soap opera. Meanwhile, the Target video is here.
3. SWELL MAPS - 'H.S. Art' - Rather/Rough Trade LP - UK - 1979
Opening track from debut album 'A Trip To Marineville'. 'Are you intent on making it, maybe even faking it?'
4. X - 'Suck Suck' - X - Australia - 1980
Opening track from their spiky and abrasive debut album 'X-Aspirations'.
5. HAI TEX - 'Reaganomics' - Four Dots 7" - USA - 1985
From the 6-track 'Private Dick' 7". Quite a hypnotic hook in this one.
'They call it progress, I call it social decay'.
6. THE CELIBATE RIFLES - 'Killing Time' - Hot LP - Australia - 1983
Opening track from debut album 'Sideroxylon', which is a type of tree. You'll have to ask the band.
7. THE BUZZCOCKS - 'No Reply' - United Artists LP - UK - 1978
Another track from 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen'.
8. THE ANDROIDSS - 'Auckland Tonight' - Ripper 7" - New Zealand - 1982
B-side of sole single 'Getting Jumpy' though there was a very limited 12" released in 2009 with an extra track.
9. SOGGY - '47 Chromosomes' - Self Released 7" - France - 1981
B-side of sole single 'Waiting For The War'. There was the obligatory retrospective with extra tracks released in 2008 and a double LP with a live disc in 2012. Looks and sounds like they wanted to be the Dictators. Proof is here.
10. THE SLICKEE BOYS - 'When I Go To The Beach' - Dacoit 7" - USA - 1983
Summer hit time now, so that us folks in the northern hemisphere can dream. The B-side is a Hamilton Streetcar (who?) cover. Video here.
11. BLACK FLAG - 'Spray Paint' - SST/Unicorn LP - USA - 1981
Another track from 'Damaged' - the shortest one.
12. THE STRIPES - 'Ecstasy' - CBS 7" - Germany - 1979
All I'm gonna say about this one is watch the high energy and slightly bizarre video here.
13. SWELL MAPS - 'Another Song' - Rather/Rough Trade LP - UK - 1979
Another track from 'A Trip To Marineville'. Boredom creates it's own art.
14. THE BUZZCOCKS - 'Get On Our Own' - United Artists LP - UK - 1978
A third track from 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen'.
15. ZERO ZERO - 'Tu Es Jetzt' - Null LP - Germany - 1981
From their self-titled debut album. The song translates as 'Do it now!' The sax was a nice surprise.
16. BLACK FLAG - 'Thirsty And Miserable' - SST/Unicorn LP - USA - 1981
A third from 'Damaged'. That Ginn guitar just wails on this album. Crucial, man, crucial.
17. THE REGENTS - '17' (Uncensored Version) - Rialto 7" - UK - 1979
Not sure this is good enough for the sampler, but I just had to include their high fashion Top Of The Pops performance here. The singer's top is actually stuck together with masking tape!
18. THE SICK THINGS - 'The Sounds Of Silence' - Shock LP - Australia - 1989
If you thought some of the Black Flag tracks were brutal, you'll shit your pants when you hear this one - the Sick Things absolutely destroying a Simon and Garfunkel classic. Recorded some time between 1980-1981.
19. THE BUZZCOCKS - 'Fiction Romance' - United Artists LP - UK - 1978
A fourth from 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen'.
20. BLACK FLAG - 'Padded Cell' - SST/Unicorn LP - USA - 1981
A fourth from 'Damaged'. See it in, their eyes, maniacs!'
21. X - 'It Must Be Me' - X - Australia - 1980
Another track from 'X-Aspirations'.
22. LUSTFINGER - 'She's My Love Gun' - Rat LP - Germany - 1984
From 'Harte Männer Tanzen Nicht', which means 'tough guys don't dance'. They don't write tacky love songs either.
23. SWELL MAPS - 'Vertical Slum' - Rather/Rough Trade LP - UK - 1979
A third track from 'A Trip To Marineville'. 'The weather, the leather, the weather, the leather, the weather, the leather, the weather, the leather . . .'
24. THE BUZZCOCKS - 'I Need' - United Artists LP - UK - 1978
A fifth track from 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen'.
25. BLACK FLAG - 'Life Of Pain' - SST/Unicorn LP - USA - 1981
And to end with a fifth from 'Damaged'. What, no 'Police Story'? Hell, I bet you've all got it anyway.
***BONUS TRACKS***
26. X - 'I Don't
Wanna Go Out'
27. BLACK FLAG - 'No
More'
28. THE BUZZCOCKS -
'Moving Away From The Pulsebeat'
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