Here is another of the rare NME cassettes released with the magazine in the early 80s, a number of which you can find elsewhere on this blog. These tapes featured a variety of styles from jazz, pop, reggae, even african, to punk, which is what they tape is. Each of them has a lot of tracks from bands that are quite obscure and impossible to find elsewhere. This one has unreleased tracks from the Sex Pistols and The Clash that are not released. Even though this compilation came out on CD, the unreleased tracks were not included. So this is the only place you can find them.
Unfortunately, the cassette quality is not so amazing. Some of the last tracks on the B side, such as the Buzzcocks track have a slight waiver in the pitch and the Sex Pistols track has a bit of a buzz in it now and then. But it's great to hear the Sex Pistols guy say something at the end of the demo recording. And the tracks by The Fall, Elvis Costello and The Slits are all good quality and also fantastic tracks. "Part Time Punks" is also great for its tale (even when punk was big) about people who do Punk for the aesthetic, not for the principle. Aesthetic is my principle, though, and I'm not ashamed of it. I'm a punk in other ways.
A1 Sex Pistols - Satellite (Suburban Kid) (unreleased version)
A2 Undertones - True Confessions
A3 Nipple Erectors - King Of The Bop
A4 Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
A5 Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
A6 The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby
A7 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Watching The Detectives
A8 The Stranglers - Choosey Susie
A9 Victim - Strange Thing By Night
B1 The Clash - 1977 (demo)
B2 Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
B3 Slits - Typical Girls
B4 Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp
B5 Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
B6 The Jam - In The City
B7 The Fall - Bingo Master's Breakout
B8 Subway Sect - Ambition
B9 Wire - Dot Dash
B10 Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
10 comments:
Boom my selector!
wow, for once, i actually have something you posted. i found a copy of this tape when i was a student on exchange in London, 1994. it never left my boombox, except for the tapes my mates there made me. this was my soundtrack. thanks for posting!
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awesome compilation. still sounds great years later.
Ha. I just Googled the Pogo a Go Go! collection and found this post. Had mine stolen, I think, by a discerning friend. Ahem. Anyway, thanks for making the tracks available. Incidentally, I showed the tape to Elvis Costello a few years back, and he could not for the life of him recall what version of Watching the Detectives that is, a timing different from any other he's seen.
Merci, mon vieux !
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I had this one too a long time ago, on cassette. I do believe there's a song that's missing from this playlist. The Stranglers' "Peaches".
Great comp, thanx for sharing!
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Wow. You don't know how happy posting this colledtion has made me. My tapes were stolen ages ago, and this was the one I missed the most. I has a happy now!
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