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101 Punk & New Wave Anthems Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (7 Jun 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Emitv
  • ASIN: B003LZ38T6
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,412 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Going UndergroundJam 2:52£0.89
Listen  2. Turning JapaneseThe Vapors 3:43£0.89
Listen  3. Teenage KicksThe Undertones 2:25Album Only
Listen  4. One Way Or AnotherBlondie 3:26£0.89
Listen  5. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?Buzzcocks 2:40£0.89
Listen  6. Sound Of The SuburbsMembers 3:54£0.89
Listen  7. Another Girl Another PlanetThe Only Ones 3:00£0.89
Listen  8. No More HeroesThe Stranglers 2:56£0.89
Listen  9. Love SongThe Damned 2:04Album Only
Listen10. Babylon's BurningThe Ruts 2:35£0.89
Listen11. Dancing With MyselfGeneration X 3:46£0.89
Listen12. Lust For LifeIggy Pop 5:07£0.89
Listen13. God Save The Queen (Alternative Version)Sex Pistols 3:37Album Only
Listen14. (I'm) Stranded [Explicit]The Saints 3:31£0.89
Listen15. Alternative UlsterStiff Little Fingers 2:43£0.89
Listen16. Homicide999 3:41£0.89
Listen17. PeachesThe Stranglers 4:05£0.89
Listen18. Burning Down The House (Live)Talking Heads 4:04£0.89
Listen19. I Am The FlyWire 3:07£0.89
Listen20. Jocko HomoDevo 3:38£0.89
Listen21. Making Plans For NigelXTC 3:53£0.89


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Listen  1. Sex And Drugs & Rock & RollIan Dury & The Blockheads 3:12Album Only
Listen  2. Spanish StrollMink DeVille 3:37£0.89
Listen  3. Whole Wide WorldWreckless Eric 2:48Album Only
Listen  4. Psycho Killer (Live)Talking Heads 4:25£0.89
Listen  5. Ghost TownThe Specials 3:39£0.89
Listen  6. Evidently Chicken TownJohn Cooper Clarke 2:21£0.89
Listen  7. Money (Edit)Flying Lizards 2:30£0.89
Listen  8. (I Can't Get Me No) SatisfactionDevo 2:40£0.89
Listen  9. Happy HouseSiouxsie And The Banshees 3:52£0.89
Listen10. Because The NightPatti Smith Group 3:20£0.89
Listen11. Shake Some ActionThe Flamin' Groovies 4:32£0.89
Listen12. Senses Working OvertimeXTC 4:35£0.89
Listen13. Echo BeachMartha And The Muffins 3:33£0.89
Listen14. Hanging On The TelephoneBlondie 2:20£0.89
Listen15. I Don't MindBuzzcocks 2:19£0.89
Listen16. My SharonaThe Knack 4:00£0.89
Listen17. Dancing The Night Away (Edit)The Motors 3:13£0.89
Listen18. 2-4-6-8 MotorwayThe Tom Robinson Band 3:16£0.89
Listen19. Milk And AlcoholDr Feelgood 2:47£0.89
Listen20. Sixty Eight Guns (Single Version)The Alarm 3:16£0.89


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Listen  1. Blitzkreig BopRamones 2:14£0.89
Listen  2. Blank GenerationRichard Hell & The Voidoids 2:43£0.89
Listen  3. Rip Her To ShredsBlondie 3:18£0.89
Listen  4. Marquee MoonTelevision 4:31£0.89
Listen  5. Whip ItDevo 2:38£0.89
Listen  6. This Perfect DayThe Saints 2:10£0.89
Listen  7. She Does It RightDr Feelgood 3:15£0.89
Listen  8. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)The Stranglers 4:01£0.89
Listen  9. Ready Steady GoGeneration X 2:56£0.89
Listen10. The Saints Are ComingSkids 2:41£0.89
Listen11. What Do I Get?Buzzcocks 2:53£0.89
Listen12. Shot By Both SidesMagazine 3:59£0.89
Listen13. Public ImagePublic Image Ltd 2:57£0.89
Listen14. Damaged GoodsGang Of Four 3:27£0.89
Listen15. The Strange BoutiqueMonochrome Set 3:10£0.89
Listen16. Outdoor MinerWire 2:48£0.89
Listen17. Starry EyesThe Records 4:17£0.89
Listen18. Little GirlBanned 2:18£0.89
Listen19. Ghosts Of Princes In TowersRich Kids 3:32£0.89
Listen20. Statue Of LibertyXTC 2:24£0.89
Listen21. Being BoiledThe Human League 3:50£0.89


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Listen  1. Orgasm Addict (Explicit)Buzzcocks 2:02£0.89
Listen  2. Into The ValleySkids 3:10£0.89
Listen  3. If The Kids Are United (Live)Sham 69 3:17Album Only
Listen  4. Where's Captain KirkSpizzenergi 2:17Album Only
Listen  5. Suspect Device [Explicit]Stiff Little Fingers 2:43£0.89
Listen  6. Holiday In CambodiaDead Kennedys 4:38Album Only
Listen  7. WarheadUK Subs 3:03Album Only
Listen  8. I'm An Upstart (Live)Angelic Upstarts 2:35£0.89
Listen  9. Staring At The Rude BoysThe Ruts 3:13£0.89
Listen10. First TimeThe Boys 2:20Album Only
Listen11. Love & A Molotov CocktailThe Flys 2:32£0.89
Listen12. Emergency999 2:49£0.89
Listen13. King RockerGeneration X 2:17£0.89
Listen14. Swords Of 1000 MenTenpole Tudor 2:53Album Only
Listen15. I'm Forever Blowing BubblesCockney Rejects 3:24£0.89
Listen16. Oh Bondage Up Yours!X-Ray Spex 2:48£0.89
Listen17. C30 C60 C90 GoBow Wow Wow 2:59£0.89
Listen18. Don't DictatePenetration 2:53£0.89
Listen19. Five MinutesThe Stranglers 3:16£0.89


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Listen  1. Friday Night, Saturday MorningThe Specials 3:34£0.89
Listen  2. Once In A Lifetime (Live)Talking Heads 5:33£0.89
Listen  3. Golden BrownThe Stranglers 3:27£0.89
Listen  4. The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)Fun Boy Three 3:13£0.89
Listen  5. Deutscher GirlsAdam & The Ants 2:27£0.89
Listen  6. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, DearBlondie 2:42£0.89
Listen  7. Do Anything You Wanna Do (Live)Eddie & The Hot Rods 3:58Album Only
Listen  8. Tell That Girl To Shut UpHolly & The Italians 3:00£0.89
Listen  9. What I Like About You (2000 Digital Remaster)The Romantics 2:56£0.89
Listen10. Nervous WreckRadio Stars 1:58Album Only
Listen11. Der KommissarAfter the Fire 4:08£0.89
Listen12. Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)XTC 3:36£0.89
Listen13. Love Song (Edit)Simple Minds 3:52£0.89
Listen14. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove ThangHeaven 17 4:19£0.89
Listen15. Is Vic ThereDepartment S 3:04Album Only
Listen16. Up Against The WallThe Tom Robinson Band 3:34£0.89
Listen17. Rich KidsRich Kids 2:56£0.89
Listen18. Blazing ApostlesBe Bop Deluxe 4:29£0.89
Listen19. The One I LoveR.E.M. 3:16£0.89
Listen20. Everybody's Happy NowadaysBuzzcocks 3:12£0.89


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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
On first inspection this seems to be a reasonable attempt at covering the Punk and New Wave genre and indeed if one only hears the first disc on its own then someone might describe it as "Anthemic". There are some great surprising inclusions in the collection as well such as Richard Hell's "Blank Generation", The Flamin Groovies "Shake Some Action", The Flys "Love And A Molotov Cocktail" and Talking Heads "Psycho Killer".

That said I would have chosen alternate tracks for some of the bands ("Lovers Of Today" for the Only Ones, "Your Generation" for Generation X, "New Rose" or "Neat Neat Neat" or both for the Damned and "Love Goes to Building on Fire" for the Talking Heads)and in the subsequent discs some of the song choices (Human League - Being Boiled?) and bands (The Records?, Monochrome Set?) are by no means the best possible, in some cases quite obscure, certainly not anthems and as such, my own view is only half the tracks on this collection are actually "anthemic" in any sense of the word.

In a number of cases (Stranglers, Blondie, Buzzcocks and Talking Heads etc) they use too many of a band's songs detracting from their real anthems. Yet, at the same time, other seminal Punk and New Wave Bands such as the Jam and the Sex Pistols only get one outing (others get no outing at all - a point I will return to). Where is "Anarchy" and "Pretty Vacant"? Where is "In The City", "All Around the World", "Down in The Tube Station", "When You're Young", "A Bomb", "Eton Rifles", "Strange Town", "A Town Called Malice" and so forth. Whilst there are many good New Wave tracks in this collection, the number of "Anthems" declines disc by disc until the final disc, where well over half the tracks can hardly be described as Punk or New Wave at all. As great as some of the bands were, bands like Simple Minds (who were previously the punk band 'Johnny and The Self Abusers', the Alarm (who were previously the Mod Revival Band 'Seventeen'), Be Bop Deluxe (who pre dated New Wave), the Knack (a rock band), and R.E.M. (who only started recording when the Punk/New Wave period was pretty much over) are simply not Punk or New Wave per se. Basically, it seems like the compilers ran out of authentic punk and new wave bands before they got to the end of the collection.

This is the strangest aspect of this collection (that they seem to have run out of authentic punk and new wave bands) for when you look at who and what is missing from this collection you begin to realise that as many, if not more Punk and New Wave 'Anthems' are missing than are included.

So off the top of my head here are some of the major punk and new wave bands and some of their anthems that don't appear - The Clash("White Riot","Capitol Radio", "White Man in Hammersmith", "Should I Stay", "London Calling" etc), The Police ("Fall Out","Roxanne", "Can't Stand Losing You" etc), Squeeze ("Take Me I'm Yours","Cool For Cats" etc), Joy Division ("Love Will Tear Us Apart"), Elvis Costello ("Alison", "Red Shoes", "Chelsea", "Oliver's Army", "Girls Talk" etc), Nick Lowe ("Breaking Glass, "Peace Love And Understanding" etc), Joe Jackson ("Sunday Papers","Is She Really Going Out With Him", "It's Different For Girls" etc), Chelsea ("Right To Work"), The Cortinas ("Fascist Dictator"), The Boomtown Rats ("Lookin' After No. 1", "Rat Trap", "I Don't Like Mondays" etc), The Slits ("Typical Girls"), Billy Bragg ("New England"), The Cure ("Boys Don't Cry" etc), Dictators ("Search & Destroy"), Runaways ("Cherry Bomb"), Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ("American Girl", "Anything That's Rock N' Roll" etc), Rezillos ("Can't Stand My Baby","Top Of The Pops", "Destination Venus" etc), Graham Parker & The Rumour ("Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions" etc), Cock Sparrer ("Runnin' Riot"), Ultravox ("Young Savage", "RockWrok" etc), Tubeway Army ("Cars", "Are Friends Electric" etc), Slaughter & The Dogs ("Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone?"), Pretenders ("Brass In Pocket", "Stop Your Sobbin"), Tourists ("Loneliest Man In The World"), Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers ("Roadrunner").....and that's not even considering the host of material from Mod revival and Ska bands (Madness, Chords, Purple Hearts, The Beat, Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, Lambrettas, Secret Affair, Squire, Back To Zero, Low Numbers, Dexy's Midnight Runners etc) that including The Specials in this collection brings into scope.

Of course arguably the inclusion of the Specials is another example of a band that isn't strictly 'New Wave' but given their association with the Mod Revival they do have a far better case than some of the bands included.

So, all in all, either the compilers should not have been quite so ambitious and cut the number of discs in the collection to a maximum of three or they should have been far more careful in selecting the bands and tracks because as it stands this falls well short of being the '101 Punk and New Wave Anthems' that it claims to be on the packaging........

And talking of 101 - thats another anthem that's missing - where's the '101'ers' "Keys To Your Heart"?
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Over 100 tracks 23 April 2012
By blotto
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was surprised to find a compilation with such a broad sampling of punk tracks, many of which I would have wanted, and 'new wave' and a general pick of mixed bands from 1977 to 1981. Billy Hunt's review is spot on. There are omissions, selections that are not the best example of a band's work and strange entries; the Knack, in particular. For Clash, buy their albums, for Ian Dury buy New Boots and Panties. Early Albums from Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson still sound great. I've given this 5 stars for value and breadth. It might lead you to follow up some acts. I saw a lot of these acts live and still play the records. Clash and Ian Dury were amazing live.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By chris
Format:Audio CD
About 95 Punk and New Wave anthems would be a better title but for the price it's worth getting
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