"essential listening - includes 'ANARCHY IN THE UK', 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN', 'PRETTY VACANT', 'HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN' and most of the other songs that gave old hippies heart attacks in 1976-77...."
"includes their classic 45s 'NEW ROSE' and 'NEAT NEAT NEAT' - and the expanded edition also features the session recorded for John Peel's legendary punk special, aired on Radio 1 in December 1976.."
"the title track sums up what they were all about, but you also need to get 'ALL MOD CONS', 'SETTING SONS' and a collection of their singles (punk rock was more about great singles than albums)...."
"their original line-up which played at the 100 Club punk festival in 1976 included Sid Vicious on drums (nearly everything they released over the next 5 years is worth getting)...."
"ATV's Mark Perry was editor of the punk fanzine 'SNIFFIN' GLUE' - with this reissue of 'THE IMAGE HAS CRACKED' you also get their weird and wonderful early singles: 'LIFE', 'LOVE LIES LIMP' etc...."
"Elvis Costello's debut album was mainly a compilation of his early singles on the Stiff label - 'LESS THAN ZERO', 'WATCHING THE DETECTIVES', 'ALISON' etc...."
"the amphetamine rush of their first 2 Peel sessions still sounds extraordinary today (they'd smoked a lot of ganja and ditched drummer Palmolive by the time they recorded the 3rd one)...."
"released on their own New Hormones label in January 1977 (and therefore one of the first 'indie' records) - 'BOREDOM' is the perfect punk track and includes the best 2 note guitar solo of all time...."
"this expanded edition of Penetration's first album includes their early singles 'DON'T DICTATE' and 'FIRING SQUAD' - their second album 'COMING UP FOR AIR' is also worth getting...."
"a triumph of sheer energy and belief over musical inability on tracks like 'ONE CHORD WONDERS', 'GARY GILMORE'S EYES', 'THE GREAT BRITISH MISTAKE' etc...."
"Don Letts' suitably raw footage of the Sex Pistols, Clash, Slaughter & the Dogs, Generation X, Slits, Subway Sect, Alternative TV, X-Ray Spex etc...."