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Machine Gun Etiquette [25th Anniversary Edition]

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: Damned

Release Date November 08, 2004
How MatherFacker can slag this brilliant album amazes me, its a classic album, I saw The Damned at Southampton a few weeks ago and they were astounding, `coffin dodgers` dont talk rubbish, they are still the best live band around-the new album is brilliant too, enjoy .
Every track on MGE has an energy and fun feel that no other band can match .

CD-Charts Position 32
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Live Jam

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

Release Date April 22, 2002
Its 12 or 13 years ago now since I bought this album but its one I keep coming back to. It was my introduction to the Jam. I'd gotten into Weller in the Wildwood era and vaguely new something about the jam and him being in the band. It was about the time I was becoming obsessed with all things mod. My dad's old Who and Small Faces records used to go on every day after school. Then I heard Live Jam! Wow! The power, the aggression, the sheer energy coupled with Weller's musical genious had me hooked right away. All these years later and The Jam and The Style Council are still two of my favourite bands.
Buy it!

CD-Charts Position 33
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The Sound of the Jam

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

Release Date May 06, 2002
This has all of the best Jam tracks on and is a brilliant album to have as it has got a lot of tracks all of which are great. Another great rock compilation.

CD-Charts Position 34
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Marquee Moon: Remastered & Expanded

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: Television

Release Date October 06, 2003
First note: if you're very picky about vocals you might not like Tom Verlaine's voice. He sounds like a yodeller who's been punched in the throat. I actually think it has character, but a lot of my friends detest Television because of how the vocalist sings. If you like weird vocalists, though, you might like him.

But where Television really come to the front is their guitar work. Make no mistake, these aren't Eric Clapton-type guitarists. Although they have the big solos they're not blues based: using more jazzy scales (which is very odd for a band considered at the forefront of punk), Television craft 8 unique, very powerful songs that redefine how the guitar can be used. When I first bought this album I just found it very pleasurable to listen ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 35
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle: Highlights

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by: Sex Pistols

Release Date May 10, 1993
I would seriously reccommend the 12-track highlights album as opposed to the 24-track sprawling mess. Firstly when dealing with erratic material like this, the sequencing makes or breaks the album. The highlights album begins with Malcolm McLaren's voiceover and then crashes into Rock n Roll Swindle - a good start. It includes all the best of the rock n roll songs like Something Else and Lonely Boy but none of the dross like Johnny Be Good and Road Runner where Johnny Rotten struggles to remember any of the words and consequently swears a lot! The Ten Pole Tudor songs are completely insane but seem to fit in better on the 12-track album than on the longer version.
However, the lyrics are still shocking, yet have none of the political oomph of the first pistols ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 36
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Greatest Hits 1977-1990

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by: Stranglers

Release Date November 19, 1990
Indeed, look at all those peaches. Each and every one is oozing precious juice that will slake your thirst for fine and innovative rock fruit.

There's a couple ("Something Better Change" and "All Day & All of the Night") that are not as ripe as the others, but the rest are firm and brightly coloured with brilliant hooks, imaginative arrangements, and marvellous lyrics. Make sure that you choose the most tasty peach of all, by lucky chance called "Always The Sun".

Tracks one to seven cover the EMI/United Artists years, whilst the remainder cover the band's move to Epic.

CD-Charts Position 37
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Suite XVI

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: Stranglers

Release Date September 18, 2006
My love of the stranglers has never died from the day I saw them live first in 1977, it was all great stuff and even the departure of Hugh could not deminsh my fire for them, Paul Roberts did well over the years giving some good showings on Stranglers in the night and About time, but there it stopped, Written in Red was a band lost and Coup De Grace showed that time had run out for Roberts, I skipped Norkfolk Coast even though the reviews raved on and on. Then came Suite 16, why did I buy it 9 months after its release I can't tell, but the first listen with a bottle of Jack Daniels late one night blew me away, this was the Stranglers I had missed for 16 years, the reason we all dress in black..
Spectre of Love lives along side the Stranglers great 45s of 77/78 and my other ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 38
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Teenage Kicks: The Best Of The Undertones

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by: The Undertones

Release Date February 26, 2008
The best songs on this CD are Jimmy Jimmy, My Perfect Cousin and the superb Teenage Kicks, which as the late John Peel said is probably the best pop song ever written.

The Undertones showed that punk wasn't just about thrashing and spitting - they wrote and played good tunes and knew how long a song should last and how to finish it with a flourish.

CD-Charts Position 39
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Peepshow

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: Siouxsie And The Banshees

Release Date December 03, 2007
All bands/soloists make at LEAST one masterpiece album and this has to be Siouxsie & The Banshees'crowning moment.

BRILLIANT from start to finish - my ultimate fave track has to be Scarecrow.

CD-Charts Position 40
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The Stooges

CD-Charts > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Stooges

Release Date November 08, 1993
How to write and record an album in less than 24 hours. You don't get albums like that anymore. You certainly don't get a band covered with pimples in a studio with a producer in the calibre of John Cale.

Even more so when the songs are only half baked ideas. Back then, however, it was revolutionary. Nowdays, even with tons of pimples on your face, you're still expected to sound polished to death, and worse, with no pimples at all.

The great thing in writing and recording within 24 hours - like this one was - is that you can capture a very specific mood and sound. The benefits: it makes the album homogenous, and the improvisations help in making the result intersting even after 20 listens.

Immediate and raw - 'I Want To Be Your Dog' and 'No Fun' are easily ... Read More: