Funny you show that New wave lp, I had a nice evening watching Johnny moped with him on Saturday, Derek the lad spitting beer is still very active in the scene and sings with the Satellites.
That may have been the first compilation punk LP I think ?.
59, my sister was good friends with members of Johnny moped and the drummer from the uk subs so I was exposed to punk from about 13/14 in quite a big way.
I got heavily into bands like Crass, conflict, Flux of pink Indians and Brightons own poison girls by that stage , as far as I was concerned The clash had bugged off to the USA to become rock stars.
Having just seen Johnny moped last night you may not be surprised to hear me say English punk.
I have literally 1000s of punk records and CDs, but I doubt I have more than 20 from American bands, Dead Kennedys, Rancid, dead boys, Ramones, Dropkick Murphys and a couple NOTX LPs, the obvious...