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Richard Hell ; the Voidoids - Blank Generation
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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
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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
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Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds
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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
23
Devo - Come Back Jonee
24
Destroy All Monsters - Bored
25
The Avengers - We Are the One
26
The Twinkeyz - Aliens in Our Midst
27
The Mumps - Crocodile Tears
28
The Scruffs - My Mind
29
Tommy Hoehn - Blow Yourself Up
30
The Randoms - Let's Get Rid of New York
31
The Dils - Mr. Big
32
Chris Stamey ; the DB's - (I Thought) You Wanted to Know
33
The Quick - Pretty Please
34
Cigarettes - Gimme Cigarette
35
Electric Eels - Cyclotron
36
Mars - 3E
37
Howard Werth - Obsolete
38
Pointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me to Do?
39
Shock - This Generation's on Vacation
40
The Deadbeats - Let's Shoot Maria
41
The Bags - Survive
42
The Human Switchboard - No
43
Curtiss a - I Don't Wanna Be President
44
Alda Reserve - Cure Me
45
The Young Canadians - Hawaii
46
The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb
47
The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here
48
Tom Verlaine - Breakin' in My Heart
49
Pagans - Street Where Nobody Lives
50
The Dickies - Fan Mail
51
DMZ - Bad Attitude
52
The Germs - Lexicon Devil
53
The Cramps - TV Set
54
Really Red - Corporate Setting
55
The Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait
56
Blow Up - Tell It to the Judge
57
Nervus Rex - Don't Look
58
The Eyes - Topological Lies
59
Pylon - Cool
60
Zero Boys - I'm Bored
61
The Bizarros - Quiana Girls
62
Smart Alex - Chitter Chat
63
The Hits - All the Girls (Wanna Be in Gangs)
64
The Dishrags - I Don't Love You
65
Black Randy ; the Metro Squad - I Slept in An Arcade
66
Rhino 39 - Prolixin Stomp
67
Count Vertigo - I'm a Mutant
68
Testors - Time Is Mine
69
The Girls - Jeffrey I Hear You
70
The Urinals - I'm a Bug
71
Richard Lloyd - Blue and Grey
72
The Sleepers - Seventh World
73
The Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules
74
The Next - Cheap Rewards
75
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
76
The Flyboys - Theme Song
77
Dow Jones ; the Industrials -Can't Stand the Midwest
78
The Haskels - Taking the City By Storm
79
Pure Hell - Noise Addiction
80
Suburban Lawns - Janitor
81
Non Compos Mentis - Ultimate Orgasm
82
The Method Actors - Do the Method
83
Modernettes - Barbra
84
The Bureaucrats - Feel the Pain
85
Bush Tetras - Snakes Crawl
86
Chrome - New Age
87
The Cosmopolitans - How to Keep Your Husband Happy
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The Customs - Long Gone
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Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It
90
The Colors - Rave It Up
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The Gizmos - Bible Belt Baby
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The Demics - New York City
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The Units - Work
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The Suburbs - World War III
95
Chandra - Kate
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The Suspects - Talking Loud
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The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows
98
The Bongos - Telephoto Lens
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Martin Rev - Mari
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The Embarrassment - Sex Drive
101
The Necessaries - Detroit Tonight
102
MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King
103
Polyrock - Romantic Me
104
The Unknowns - Dream Sequence (September 1981)
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Pell Mell - Spy Vs. Spy (Sept. '81)
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Lyres - Buried Alive
107
Justin Trouble - Ponytail
108
The Speedies - Time
109
The Anemic Boyfriends - Fake
110
I.D. (August 1981)
111
The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me
112
The Slickee Boys - Here to Stay (January 1981)
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Salvation Army - Mind Gardens
114
New Math - They Walk Among You
115
The Jetsons - Genetically Stupid
116
The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile (Ep Version)
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Oil Tasters - That's When the Brick Goes Through the Window (August 1981)
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Redd Kross - Clorox Girls
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Middle Class - Last Touch
120
Wall of Voodoo - Call Box 1-2-3
121
Chiefs - Blues
122
X - White Girl
123
Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb
124
Adolescents - Amoeba
125
Flesh Eaters - Version Nation
126
The Replacements - I'm in Trouble
127
Sport of Kings - This City in Darkness
128
Get Smart! - This Is Style
129
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
130
Romeo Void - Not Safe
131
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
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Blank Generation: A Story Of Us - Canadian Punk
Blank Generation: A Story Of Us - Canadian Punk
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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.
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