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Track Listings
| 1. Into The Future |
| 2. Yeah Yeah Yeah |
| 3. Sweet Sweet Heart |
| 4. Keep It Clean |
| 5. Baby Baby |
| 6. No Heart |
| 7. She's Bringing You Down |
| 8. Petrol |
| 9. London Girls |
| 10. You Broke My Heart |
| 11. Whips & Furs |
| 12. Stiff Little Fingers |
| 13. Wrecked On You |
| 14. I Need A Slave |
| 15. Bad Time |
| 16. BONUS TRACKS London Girls (Live) |
| 17. Stiff Little Fingers (Live) |
| 18. We Vibrate |
| 19. Whips & Furs (Single Version) |
Product Description
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Pure Mania is a terrific relic of the punk era by a London band that owes much more to the Ramones than the Sex Pistols. Light on anger and nihilism but heavy on humor and fun, it's a blitz of twisted love songs ("Sweet Sweet Heart," Wrecked on You," etc.) with an ode to bondage thrown in for good measure. Label it music to shake your brains to. The Vibrators apparently thought they were playing pop music for the end of the decade (the '70s, that is), oblivious to the fact that the masses (especially in America) could never have been expected to catch on. That doesn't mean you shouldn't. --Mike Corrigan
CD Description
This is the brilliant debut LP by `77 Punk legends The Vibrators which reached No.49 in the UK album charts - Includes the singles Baby Baby and London Girls as well as the bonus of their 1976 debut 45 We Vibrate - Lyrics to all the songs and sleeve notes by drummer Eddie are a feature of the artwork which also includes pictures of the many foreign sleeves the band released at the time
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you've stumbled on this don't touch that BACK key. This is not just one of the great punk records, but one of the great knock out rock'n'roll records. 15 single strength tracks with only one that drops down the power pace (but not the quality).
Whilst the punk credentials of the Vibrators are not in doubt, it's now clear they also look back to the tradition of magically crafted pop song writing of England in the late sixties. Think the Spencer Davis Group's Give Me Some Loving, or the Small Faces's All Or Nothing. You know the formula - lay down a great original riff, follow with strong song line, then explosive chorus, and back to the great riff. If we're lucky pump it up with a surprise middle eight. Can a throw away punk outfit do this over a whole LP? You bet.
I bought this on vinyl when it came out in 1978. It got deleted. Mine got nicked. And I was Vibratorless for 20 years until the mercy of reissue CD's arrived. As soon as I put it on it in 2002 it jumped right back out off the grooves.
If the Vibrators haven't passed too strongly into the annals of punk mythology, it is maybe because they go beyond that cultural corner. Whilst they have punk attitood by the spadeful it's kinda twisted into a delicious misogyny and frustrated aggression. But don't worry, it's all in good taste - in fact, perfectly immaculate taste. What really corrupts their punk purity is what does the same thing for the early Ramones - musicianship, song quality, and by a great stroke of luck for rock posterity, great production.
Somehow, (here I go musical buff) Pure Mania got mixed in the USA. There are keyboard add-ins (we know how punks normally hate keyboards) which pump up the drive not soften it and I suspect other stuff but it all WORKS. And the balance is got right so every note counts. If the Vibes have been badly served by history they were blessed in the recording studio.
And the production shows off the all round musicianship, and when you play at this speed you gotta be as tight as stretch denim. The lead singer geezer is a natural to the role and he hasta to be with lines like
The way you carry on it just ain't fair
You really freak me out in your black underwear
Tell you man I'm gonna blow a fuse
I gotta rock'n'roll lady who's really bad news
OK, I see how he gets to the misogyny of
Gonna give you a
Bad time honey
Treat you any way I choose
Bad time honey
To make up for the days of school
All this, and then riffs the size of counties to put the Hives in the shade. If the ad or idem creators ever get hold of this like the other swarm they will have a field day.
You need this record now like never before. Keep to hand in case you accidentally catch Cold Play on the radio. Play immediately to put your head back together and know there are (or were) other hoomans out there just like you.
Whilst the punk credentials of the Vibrators are not in doubt, it's now clear they also look back to the tradition of magically crafted pop song writing of England in the late sixties. Think the Spencer Davis Group's Give Me Some Loving, or the Small Faces's All Or Nothing. You know the formula - lay down a great original riff, follow with strong song line, then explosive chorus, and back to the great riff. If we're lucky pump it up with a surprise middle eight. Can a throw away punk outfit do this over a whole LP? You bet.
I bought this on vinyl when it came out in 1978. It got deleted. Mine got nicked. And I was Vibratorless for 20 years until the mercy of reissue CD's arrived. As soon as I put it on it in 2002 it jumped right back out off the grooves.
If the Vibrators haven't passed too strongly into the annals of punk mythology, it is maybe because they go beyond that cultural corner. Whilst they have punk attitood by the spadeful it's kinda twisted into a delicious misogyny and frustrated aggression. But don't worry, it's all in good taste - in fact, perfectly immaculate taste. What really corrupts their punk purity is what does the same thing for the early Ramones - musicianship, song quality, and by a great stroke of luck for rock posterity, great production.
Somehow, (here I go musical buff) Pure Mania got mixed in the USA. There are keyboard add-ins (we know how punks normally hate keyboards) which pump up the drive not soften it and I suspect other stuff but it all WORKS. And the balance is got right so every note counts. If the Vibes have been badly served by history they were blessed in the recording studio.
And the production shows off the all round musicianship, and when you play at this speed you gotta be as tight as stretch denim. The lead singer geezer is a natural to the role and he hasta to be with lines like
The way you carry on it just ain't fair
You really freak me out in your black underwear
Tell you man I'm gonna blow a fuse
I gotta rock'n'roll lady who's really bad news
OK, I see how he gets to the misogyny of
Gonna give you a
Bad time honey
Treat you any way I choose
Bad time honey
To make up for the days of school
All this, and then riffs the size of counties to put the Hives in the shade. If the ad or idem creators ever get hold of this like the other swarm they will have a field day.
You need this record now like never before. Keep to hand in case you accidentally catch Cold Play on the radio. Play immediately to put your head back together and know there are (or were) other hoomans out there just like you.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you want lots of 3 minute tracks with catchy punk tunes & great lyrics - look no further.
A must for any punk collection.
A must for any punk collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
I purchased this album on vinyl when it first came out, downloaded this time for the MP3 player. A great album that seems to have sadly gone under the radar, I recall it was seen as a bit commercial when it came out hence its lowly chart placing at the time, but if in doubt give it a listen, it really is a highly enjoyable slice of well played, tuneful punk.
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I love this. Is it Punk? Is it Pop? Who cares! I wish I had seen them live in a small venue like the Hope & Anchor.One can only dream! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Redjazzty
Top notch
Bought the original vinyl album after seeing The Vibrators live several times in the punk hey-day. An all too brief moment in time, just glad I was there! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Possum Pie
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