[Music] British v American Punk

[Weststander]

I think the earliest album I can remember buying from Rounder was UFO's Misdemeanour; Rounder was a 'chart shop' and I got a signed copy. This was 1985. I didn't frequent the shop much when I lived in London but returned with a vengeance in 2003 when I moved to Hove. I loved that shop, Jonny and Steve were such lovely and enthusiastic people.

I have always said that when I win billions on the lottery I will re-instate Harrys English Restaurant, Rounder Records and pay for a tram system in Brighton. I have spent considerable time developing this plan; The Super Furry Animals will reform and perform Inaugural Trams at the opening ceremony.

I loved Harry’s, they kept that simple menu the same throughout. The tallish waiter/barman (your age) opened a deli near us in Eldred Avenue. Daily customers include Muzza and Paul Hayward.

Trams, I’ve thought for 35 years that a tram route from Shoreham High Street to East Brighton via Church Road and Western Road would be an amazing success. Commuters, shoppers, residents wanting to pop into the city all using it for sections. Negating the need for countless car journeys. You’d better than most how urban public transport can work.

 

[BN9 BHA]

If you watch the TOTP video I believe our Captain sings the C word…”I am such a lucky C- -T

Another Palace fan that lived amongst us
Not sure if he still lives in Brighton.

 

[aftershavedave]

Another Palace fan that lived amongst us
Not sure if he still lives in Brighton.

I had a surreal meeting with the Palace scum many years ago. We came out of Hove station and it was pissing down. There were no cabs. Ok Dave my new mate said the Captain, you look after my amps etc and I'll get the beers, which he did. We drank in the rain and said adios. I like him!

 

[BN9 BHA]

I had a surreal meeting with the Palace scum many years ago. We came out of Hove station and it was pissing down. There were no cabs. Ok Dave my new mate said the Captain, you look after my amps etc and I'll get the beers, which he did. We drank in the rain and said adios. I like him!

When I lived near the 7 Dials in the late 80s he lived in the next street.
Talking of pissing down, he did this to the crowd in front of the stage when I saw The Damned (1980)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Bored during a meeting today, I pulled out all my 7 inch singles. Punk (and reggae) singles took my interest from around 76 but I stopped buying singles entirely by 83. Not much American (shit) there Apologies if the past below is too big for your phone. I have blocked each year into alphabetic order. I think that if you squint you can see punk transition into 'New Wave' or (my preferred terms) 'alternative pop music' over time. I haven't listed all the soul music, early 60s trash pop. or any of my massive 12" singles collection. Something for another time. @Tom Hark Preston Park, just shut it, OK?

Band	A side	Year	Label	Pic sleeve
Max Romeo	Wet dream	1968	Unity	N
Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1972	Island	Y
Scotty and Lorna Bennett	Shakank in bed	1973	Island	N
Pluto Sheverington	Dat	1976	Opal	N
The 101ers	Keys to your heart	1976	Chiswick	Y
Tyla Gang	Suicide Jockey	1976	Skydog	Y
Tyla Gang	Styrofoam	1976	Dynamite	Y
Eddie and the Hotrods	96 Tears (Live at the marquee)	1976	Island	Y
Lea Nicholson	Lazy adternoon	1976	Virgin	N
999	Nasty Nasty/No pity	1977	United Artists	Y
Alternative TV	How much longer/you bastard	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Alternative TV	Life after life	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Buzzcocks	Spiral Scratch	1977	New Hormones	Y
Buzzcocks	Orgasm Addict	1977	United Artists	Y
Chelsea	Right to work	1977	Step Forward	Y
Dillinger	Cokane in my Brain	1977	Black Swan	Y
Dr Alimantado	Born for a purpose	1977	Greensleeves	Y
Eater	Thinkin of the U.S.A.	1977	The Label	Y
John Cooper Clark	Innocents e/p.	1977	Rabid	Y
Jonathan Richman	Roadrunner (twice)	1977	Beserkley	N
Models	Freeze	1977	Step Forward	Y
Sex Pistols	Holidays in the sun	1977	Virgin	Y
Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the UK	1977	Glitterbest	Y
Sex Pistols	God save the queen	1977	Virgin	Y
Sham 69	I don't wanna	1977	Step Forward	Y
Skids	Charles/Reasons/Test-tube babies	1977	No Bad	Y
The Banned	Little girl	1977	Harvest	N
The Boys	First Time	1977	Nems	Y
The Boys	I don't care	1977	Nems	Y
The Clash	Complete Control	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	White Riot	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	Capitol Radio	1977	CBS promo	Y
The Cortinas	Facist dictator	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Damned	Neat neat neat	1977	Stiff	Y
The Depressions	Living on Dreams	1977	Barn	Y
The electric Chairs	Stuck on you	1977	Illegal	Y
The Fall	Bingo Master's Breakout	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Lurkers	Shadow (Free admission)	1977	Beggar's Banquet	Y
The nosebleeds	Ain't bin to no music school	1977	Rabid	Y
The Now	Development corporation	1977	Ultimate	Y
The radiators from space	Enemies	1977	Chiswick	y
The Rezillos	Can't stand my baby	1977	Sensible	Y
The Rings	I wanna be free	1977	Chiswick	Y
The Soft Boys	Walking through a ventilator	1977	Raw	Y
Ultravox	Live EP	1977	Island	Y
Wire	I am the fly	1977	Harvest	Y
Adam and the Ants	young parisians	1978	decca	n
Bethnal	The Fiddler	1978	Promo (Viol)	Y
Cabaret Voltaire	Talkover/Here she comes now	1978	Rough Trade	Y
Elvis Costello	What's so funny bout peace love & understanding	1978	Radar	Y
Magazine	Shot by both sides	1978	Virgin	Y
Nick Low	I love the sound of breaking glass	1978	Radar	N
Patti Smith Group	Because the night	1978	Arista	Y
Prince Far I	No more war	1978	Virgin Front Line	Y
Public Image	Public Image	1978	Virgin	N
Reggae Regular	Back Star Liner	1978	Greensleeves	N
Sarr Band	Magic Mandrake	1978	Calendar	N
Stiff Little Fingers	Alternative Ulster	1978	Rough Trade	Y
The Cure	Killing and Arab	1978	Small Wonder	Y
The Gladiators	Dreadlocks the time is now	1978	Virgin Front Line	N
The Piranhas	Jilly	1978	Attrix	Y
The Skids	The saints are coming (Wide Open)	1978	Virgin	Y
The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Sire	N
Thomas Leer	Private Plane	1978	Oblique	Y
Xdreamysts	Right way home	1978	Good Vibrations	Y
Xray Spex	The day the wrld turned dayglo	1978	EMI	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Dance Stance	1979	Oddball	Y
Eddie Grant	Livin on the frontline	1979	Ensign	Y
Leyton Buzzards	Saturday night under the plastic palm trees	1979	Chrysalis	Y
Madness	One step beyond	1979	Stuff	N
Shrink	Valid or Void	1979	Oval	Y
The Clash	London Calling	1979	CBS	N
The Police	Walking on the moon	1979	A&M	N
The Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Real	N
The Regents	7 Teen	1979	Rialto	N
The Ruts	Babylon's Burning	1979	Virgin	Y
Wire	Our Swimmer	1979	Rough Trade	Y
Adam and the Ants	Kings of the wild fronteirs	1980	CBS	N
Athletico Spizz 80	Hot Deserts	1980	A&M	Y
Blondie	Atomic	1980	Chrysalis	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	There There my dear	1980	EMI	N
John Foxx	Underpass	1980	Virgin	Y
Joy Division	Love will tear us apart	1980	Factory	Y
Lori and the Chameleons	The Lonely Spy	1980	Korova	Y
Pretenders	Talk of the town	1980	Chrysalis	Y
Siouxie and the Banshees	Israel	1980	Polydor	Y
Stiff Little Fingers	At the edge	1980	Chrysalis	N
The Comsat Angels	Independence Day	1980	Polydor	Y
The Jam	Start	1980	Polydor	N
The Jam	Going underground	1980	Polydor	N
The Mekons	Teeth	1980	Virgin	Y
The Specials	Too much too young (The special a.k.a. live)	1980	2 Tone	Y
UB40	King	1980	Graduate	N
Angelic Upstarts	I understand	1981	EMI	Y
Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts	1981	Arista	N
Simple Minds	Promised you a miracle	1981	Virgin	Y
Soft Cell	Tainted Love	1981	Some Bizarre	N
Ultravox	Stood Still	1981	ChrysalisY	Y
Bauhaus	Kick in the eye (Searching for Satori)	1982	Beggar's Banquet	Y
B Movie	Nowhere girl	1982	some bizarre	n
Bow wow wow	Go wild in the country	1982	RCA	Y
Eddy Grant	walking on sunshine	1982	london	n
Mari Wilson	Baby it's true	1982	The compact organization	Y
Cinebar	Venus/Another fine day	1983	Rana	Y
The Alarm	Sixty Eight Guns	1983	I.R.S.	Y

 

[aftershavedave]

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[North of Robertsbridge]

Neat neat neat with an original Stiff picture cover in good nick should be worth upwards of a £100

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Seems to me that you are soooo very desperate to be cool. It doesn't work (especially with some of the trash in your list)

What makes you think that? I was trained to never argue motive when attempting criticize other people. You have no idea what I want

And why would I seek to be 'cool' by admitting I own 'trash'?

I may be wrong, but think you might be a bit of a twat

 

[Seagull58]

Incidentally Hendrix died in 1970 so I find it hard to imagine he rated this (below), one album by Taste, the sum total of stuff Gallagher had released in the US by 1970, as better than Hendrix's own lifetime output. There may be a banger in here, but . . . really?

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The interviewer asked him how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world and he replied "ask Rory Gallagher".

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Neat neat neat with an original Stiff picture cover in good nick should be worth upwards of a £100

There was a limited run of either the first Damned single with one of the Hot Rods in the photo, or the other way around. Can't remember which. Alas both my sleeves are the conventional ones

 

[aftershavedave]

What makes you think that? I was trained to never argue motive when attempting criticize other people. You have no idea what I want

And why would I seek to be 'cool' by admitting I own 'trash'?

I may be wrong, but think you might be a bit of a twat

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The interviewer asked him how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world and he replied "ask Rory Gallagher".

Strange thing to say. Sounds like faux modesty to me, or some sort of blurt. Gallagher didn't hit his stride till some years after 1970. Irish tour, 74. And even then....not even the best Irish guitarist for me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

well I certainly wouldn't collate my singles, that is just crapsville and v needy

Not if you're autistic, it isn't. Or if you're thinking of flogging them. Or simply feel like making a list.

Passing snide comments about my doing so, though, that, in my opinion, is being a twat. Other opinions are of course available

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Bored during a meeting today, I pulled out all my 7 inch singles. Punk (and reggae) singles took my interest from around 76 but I stopped buying singles entirely by 83. Not much American (shit) there Apologies if the past below is too big for your phone. I have blocked each year into alphabetic order. I think that if you squint you can see punk transition into 'New Wave' or (my preferred terms) 'alternative pop music' over time. I haven't listed all the soul music, early 60s trash pop. or any of my massive 12" singles collection. Something for another time. @Tom Hark Preston Park, just shut it, OK?

Band	A side	Year	Label	Pic sleeve
Max Romeo	Wet dream	1968	Unity	N
Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1972	Island	Y
Scotty and Lorna Bennett	Shakank in bed	1973	Island	N
Pluto Sheverington	Dat	1976	Opal	N
The 101ers	Keys to your heart	1976	Chiswick	Y
Tyla Gang	Suicide Jockey	1976	Skydog	Y
Tyla Gang	Styrofoam	1976	Dynamite	Y
Eddie and the Hotrods	96 Tears (Live at the marquee)	1976	Island	Y
Lea Nicholson	Lazy adternoon	1976	Virgin	N
999	Nasty Nasty/No pity	1977	United Artists	Y
Alternative TV	How much longer/you bastard	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Alternative TV	Life after life	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Buzzcocks	Spiral Scratch	1977	New Hormones	Y
Buzzcocks	Orgasm Addict	1977	United Artists	Y
Chelsea	Right to work	1977	Step Forward	Y
Dillinger	Cokane in my Brain	1977	Black Swan	Y
Dr Alimantado	Born for a purpose	1977	Greensleeves	Y
Eater	Thinkin of the U.S.A.	1977	The Label	Y
John Cooper Clark	Innocents e/p.	1977	Rabid	Y
Jonathan Richman	Roadrunner (twice)	1977	Beserkley	N
Models	Freeze	1977	Step Forward	Y
Sex Pistols	Holidays in the sun	1977	Virgin	Y
Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the UK	1977	Glitterbest	Y
Sex Pistols	God save the queen	1977	Virgin	Y
Sham 69	I don't wanna	1977	Step Forward	Y
Skids	Charles/Reasons/Test-tube babies	1977	No Bad	Y
The Banned	Little girl	1977	Harvest	N
The Boys	First Time	1977	Nems	Y
The Boys	I don't care	1977	Nems	Y
The Clash	Complete Control	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	White Riot	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	Capitol Radio	1977	CBS promo	Y
The Cortinas	Facist dictator	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Damned	Neat neat neat	1977	Stiff	Y
The Depressions	Living on Dreams	1977	Barn	Y
The electric Chairs	Stuck on you	1977	Illegal	Y
The Fall	Bingo Master's Breakout	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Lurkers	Shadow (Free admission)	1977	Beggar's Banquet	Y
The nosebleeds	Ain't bin to no music school	1977	Rabid	Y
The Now	Development corporation	1977	Ultimate	Y
The radiators from space	Enemies	1977	Chiswick	y
The Rezillos	Can't stand my baby	1977	Sensible	Y
The Rings	I wanna be free	1977	Chiswick	Y
The Soft Boys	Walking through a ventilator	1977	Raw	Y
Ultravox	Live EP	1977	Island	Y
Wire	I am the fly	1977	Harvest	Y
Adam and the Ants	young parisians	1978	decca	n
Bethnal	The Fiddler	1978	Promo (Viol)	Y
Cabaret Voltaire	Talkover/Here she comes now	1978	Rough Trade	Y
Elvis Costello	What's so funny bout peace love & understanding	1978	Radar	Y
Magazine	Shot by both sides	1978	Virgin	Y
Nick Low	I love the sound of breaking glass	1978	Radar	N
Patti Smith Group	Because the night	1978	Arista	Y
Prince Far I	No more war	1978	Virgin Front Line	Y
Public Image	Public Image	1978	Virgin	N
Reggae Regular	Back Star Liner	1978	Greensleeves	N
Sarr Band	Magic Mandrake	1978	Calendar	N
Stiff Little Fingers	Alternative Ulster	1978	Rough Trade	Y
The Cure	Killing and Arab	1978	Small Wonder	Y
The Gladiators	Dreadlocks the time is now	1978	Virgin Front Line	N
The Piranhas	Jilly	1978	Attrix	Y
The Skids	The saints are coming (Wide Open)	1978	Virgin	Y
The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Sire	N
Thomas Leer	Private Plane	1978	Oblique	Y
Xdreamysts	Right way home	1978	Good Vibrations	Y
Xray Spex	The day the wrld turned dayglo	1978	EMI	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Dance Stance	1979	Oddball	Y
Eddie Grant	Livin on the frontline	1979	Ensign	Y
Leyton Buzzards	Saturday night under the plastic palm trees	1979	Chrysalis	Y
Madness	One step beyond	1979	Stuff	N
Shrink	Valid or Void	1979	Oval	Y
The Clash	London Calling	1979	CBS	N
The Police	Walking on the moon	1979	A&M	N
The Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Real	N
The Regents	7 Teen	1979	Rialto	N
The Ruts	Babylon's Burning	1979	Virgin	Y
Wire	Our Swimmer	1979	Rough Trade	Y
Adam and the Ants	Kings of the wild fronteirs	1980	CBS	N
Athletico Spizz 80	Hot Deserts	1980	A&M	Y
Blondie	Atomic	1980	Chrysalis	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	There There my dear	1980	EMI	N
John Foxx	Underpass	1980	Virgin	Y
Joy Division	Love will tear us apart	1980	Factory	Y
Lori and the Chameleons	The Lonely Spy	1980	Korova	Y
Pretenders	Talk of the town	1980	Chrysalis	Y
Siouxie and the Banshees	Israel	1980	Polydor	Y
Stiff Little Fingers	At the edge	1980	Chrysalis	N
The Comsat Angels	Independence Day	1980	Polydor	Y
The Jam	Start	1980	Polydor	N
The Jam	Going underground	1980	Polydor	N
The Mekons	Teeth	1980	Virgin	Y
The Specials	Too much too young (The special a.k.a. live)	1980	2 Tone	Y
UB40	King	1980	Graduate	N
Angelic Upstarts	I understand	1981	EMI	Y
Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts	1981	Arista	N
Simple Minds	Promised you a miracle	1981	Virgin	Y
Soft Cell	Tainted Love	1981	Some Bizarre	N
Ultravox	Stood Still	1981	ChrysalisY	Y
Bauhaus	Kick in the eye (Searching for Satori)	1982	Beggar's Banquet	Y
B Movie	Nowhere girl	1982	some bizarre	n
Bow wow wow	Go wild in the country	1982	RCA	Y
Eddy Grant	walking on sunshine	1982	london	n
Mari Wilson	Baby it's true	1982	The compact organization	Y
Cinebar	Venus/Another fine day	1983	Rana	Y
The Alarm	Sixty Eight Guns	1983	I.R.S.	Y

I'm voting for 1978

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Bored during a meeting today, I pulled out all my 7 inch singles. Punk (and reggae) singles took my interest from around 76 but I stopped buying singles entirely by 83. Not much American (shit) there Apologies if the past below is too big for your phone. I have blocked each year into alphabetic order. I think that if you squint you can see punk transition into 'New Wave' or (my preferred terms) 'alternative pop music' over time. I haven't listed all the soul music, early 60s trash pop. or any of my massive 12" singles collection. Something for another time. @Tom Hark Preston Park, just shut it, OK?

Band	A side	Year	Label	Pic sleeve
Max Romeo	Wet dream	1968	Unity	N
Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross	1972	Island	Y
Scotty and Lorna Bennett	Shakank in bed	1973	Island	N
Pluto Sheverington	Dat	1976	Opal	N
The 101ers	Keys to your heart	1976	Chiswick	Y
Tyla Gang	Suicide Jockey	1976	Skydog	Y
Tyla Gang	Styrofoam	1976	Dynamite	Y
Eddie and the Hotrods	96 Tears (Live at the marquee)	1976	Island	Y
Lea Nicholson	Lazy adternoon	1976	Virgin	N
999	Nasty Nasty/No pity	1977	United Artists	Y
Alternative TV	How much longer/you bastard	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Alternative TV	Life after life	1977	Deptford Fun City	Y
Buzzcocks	Spiral Scratch	1977	New Hormones	Y
Buzzcocks	Orgasm Addict	1977	United Artists	Y
Chelsea	Right to work	1977	Step Forward	Y
Dillinger	Cokane in my Brain	1977	Black Swan	Y
Dr Alimantado	Born for a purpose	1977	Greensleeves	Y
Eater	Thinkin of the U.S.A.	1977	The Label	Y
John Cooper Clark	Innocents e/p.	1977	Rabid	Y
Jonathan Richman	Roadrunner (twice)	1977	Beserkley	N
Models	Freeze	1977	Step Forward	Y
Sex Pistols	Holidays in the sun	1977	Virgin	Y
Sex Pistols	Anarchy in the UK	1977	Glitterbest	Y
Sex Pistols	God save the queen	1977	Virgin	Y
Sham 69	I don't wanna	1977	Step Forward	Y
Skids	Charles/Reasons/Test-tube babies	1977	No Bad	Y
The Banned	Little girl	1977	Harvest	N
The Boys	First Time	1977	Nems	Y
The Boys	I don't care	1977	Nems	Y
The Clash	Complete Control	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	White Riot	1977	CBS	Y
The Clash	Capitol Radio	1977	CBS promo	Y
The Cortinas	Facist dictator	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Damned	Neat neat neat	1977	Stiff	Y
The Depressions	Living on Dreams	1977	Barn	Y
The electric Chairs	Stuck on you	1977	Illegal	Y
The Fall	Bingo Master's Breakout	1977	Step Forward	Y
The Lurkers	Shadow (Free admission)	1977	Beggar's Banquet	Y
The nosebleeds	Ain't bin to no music school	1977	Rabid	Y
The Now	Development corporation	1977	Ultimate	Y
The radiators from space	Enemies	1977	Chiswick	y
The Rezillos	Can't stand my baby	1977	Sensible	Y
The Rings	I wanna be free	1977	Chiswick	Y
The Soft Boys	Walking through a ventilator	1977	Raw	Y
Ultravox	Live EP	1977	Island	Y
Wire	I am the fly	1977	Harvest	Y
Adam and the Ants	young parisians	1978	decca	n
Bethnal	The Fiddler	1978	Promo (Viol)	Y
Cabaret Voltaire	Talkover/Here she comes now	1978	Rough Trade	Y
Elvis Costello	What's so funny bout peace love & understanding	1978	Radar	Y
Magazine	Shot by both sides	1978	Virgin	Y
Nick Low	I love the sound of breaking glass	1978	Radar	N
Patti Smith Group	Because the night	1978	Arista	Y
Prince Far I	No more war	1978	Virgin Front Line	Y
Public Image	Public Image	1978	Virgin	N
Reggae Regular	Back Star Liner	1978	Greensleeves	N
Sarr Band	Magic Mandrake	1978	Calendar	N
Stiff Little Fingers	Alternative Ulster	1978	Rough Trade	Y
The Cure	Killing and Arab	1978	Small Wonder	Y
The Gladiators	Dreadlocks the time is now	1978	Virgin Front Line	N
The Piranhas	Jilly	1978	Attrix	Y
The Skids	The saints are coming (Wide Open)	1978	Virgin	Y
The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	1978	Sire	N
Thomas Leer	Private Plane	1978	Oblique	Y
Xdreamysts	Right way home	1978	Good Vibrations	Y
Xray Spex	The day the wrld turned dayglo	1978	EMI	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Dance Stance	1979	Oddball	Y
Eddie Grant	Livin on the frontline	1979	Ensign	Y
Leyton Buzzards	Saturday night under the plastic palm trees	1979	Chrysalis	Y
Madness	One step beyond	1979	Stuff	N
Shrink	Valid or Void	1979	Oval	Y
The Clash	London Calling	1979	CBS	N
The Police	Walking on the moon	1979	A&M	N
The Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	1979	Real	N
The Regents	7 Teen	1979	Rialto	N
The Ruts	Babylon's Burning	1979	Virgin	Y
Wire	Our Swimmer	1979	Rough Trade	Y
Adam and the Ants	Kings of the wild fronteirs	1980	CBS	N
Athletico Spizz 80	Hot Deserts	1980	A&M	Y
Blondie	Atomic	1980	Chrysalis	N
Dexy's Midnight Runners	There There my dear	1980	EMI	N
John Foxx	Underpass	1980	Virgin	Y
Joy Division	Love will tear us apart	1980	Factory	Y
Lori and the Chameleons	The Lonely Spy	1980	Korova	Y
Pretenders	Talk of the town	1980	Chrysalis	Y
Siouxie and the Banshees	Israel	1980	Polydor	Y
Stiff Little Fingers	At the edge	1980	Chrysalis	N
The Comsat Angels	Independence Day	1980	Polydor	Y
The Jam	Start	1980	Polydor	N
The Jam	Going underground	1980	Polydor	N
The Mekons	Teeth	1980	Virgin	Y
The Specials	Too much too young (The special a.k.a. live)	1980	2 Tone	Y
UB40	King	1980	Graduate	N
Angelic Upstarts	I understand	1981	EMI	Y
Haircut 100	Favourite Shirts	1981	Arista	N
Simple Minds	Promised you a miracle	1981	Virgin	Y
Soft Cell	Tainted Love	1981	Some Bizarre	N
Ultravox	Stood Still	1981	ChrysalisY	Y
Bauhaus	Kick in the eye (Searching for Satori)	1982	Beggar's Banquet	Y
B Movie	Nowhere girl	1982	some bizarre	n
Bow wow wow	Go wild in the country	1982	RCA	Y
Eddy Grant	walking on sunshine	1982	london	n
Mari Wilson	Baby it's true	1982	The compact organization	Y
Cinebar	Venus/Another fine day	1983	Rana	Y
The Alarm	Sixty Eight Guns	1983	I.R.S.	Y

Was there ever a good or particular reason why anybody cared what label a record was released on?

 

[aftershavedave]

Not if you're autistic, it isn't. Or if you're thinking of flogging them. Or simply feel like making a list.

Passing snide comments about my doing so, though, that, in my opinion, is being a twat. Other opinions are of course available

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm voting for 1978

It is decidedly more interesting than 77, isn't it.

(Neither year match my favorite of years 20+ ago though: 1983; for albums and 12" remixes rather than 7" singles, obvs).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'll stick to you being a twat, all other excuses ignored. WTF would make anyone want to do that? Ultimate attention seeking

Well it has certainly caught your attention.

And no, you can't be my mate

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The interviewer asked him how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world and he replied "ask Rory Gallagher".

Much as I love Rory Gallagher, I am still suspicious that there doesn't appear to be any actual evidence or record of Hendrix ever saying this.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Was there ever a good or particular reason why anybody cared what label a record was released on?

Good question. The independent labels were regarded (rightly or wrongly) as indicative of authenticity. If it was on a major label it was treated with suspicion. But most importantly, if you were browsing and came across a new release on a label you knew had released stuff you'd bought and liked, you might be more likely to risk your 70p. For me. Step Forward, Rough Trade and Beggars Banquet were promising (as was Sire, an American lable), but Stiff had a lot of recycled pub rockers (among gems like Elvis Costello) so a bit more caution was in order. 70P was a lot of money in 77.