What a collection, an incredible era to live through. Still can’t believe so many of my mates would rather listen than to Genesis to these bands. I know you mention Damned Damned Damned, but no 70’s selection should be without Machine Gun Etiquette. Timeless classic.
Really emjoyed this trip down memory lane. I bought pretty much every album you mention on first release. Slapped wrists for missing out 999's "999" and "Separates" and Wire's "Pink Flag", "Chairs Missing" and "154" - all top notch punk albums I still enjoy today.
So good to see you showing The Jam and the local band the Modern Lovers. Roadrunner is all about Boston Chris. Way back when AM terrestrial radio was hip. I used to listen to AM radio if you can believe that. I am showing my age. {smile} I still go food shopping at the Stop & Shop and I still drive on Route 128 regularly. A brilliant record indeed. Paul Weller and Jonathan Richman have never recorded together unfortunately. I am 95% sure that I have 75% of those albums in my collection. You should be proud of every one of them~ Rob/Boston
I love that Modern Lovers Lp and thank you for the informative reply. Virtually all of these artists I heard on AM radio back in the 70s. FM was a revelation. TBH I prefer early Jam to anything else Paul Weller did later on. The Style Council is a million miles from Art School and I have always steered clear of that part of his career. I was 14 in 77. The height of punk. It was so cool being a teenager in the late 70s. Cheers Rob, Chris
Chris, great bunch of albums. V2 is excellent, nice to see TRB shown, you must have my stencil my album didn't have one 😂 Adverts for the win, On Wheels, genius.
Cheers, my Man loved all the Albums you showcased.... And have every album you have but two and comps. Love this era. A job well done reviewing each LP👍😎✌️
Wow Chris what a trip. Some absolute classics of the genre in that lot. Rattus, Real Life, In The City…an exhaustive list of influential albums. Thanks for sharing.
An epic video Chris, great fun. Too many of these records I'm still looking for. Quite often with these type of bands, I've had one of their LPs in my collection for years but have just never found the other one! Btw, could be wrong but I suspect the reason why so many punk and new wave albums failed to include the hit single was that it was a throwback/tip of the hat to the pop music of the sixties, when bands like The Beatles would routinely release standalone singles in parallel with their albums in order to give their fans value for money.
Not sure it was that the LPs and singles were released in parallel really - many bands were really against making people pay for the same thing twice, and so deliberately didn't put singles on their LPs. It may be a little irritating today but back in the day (yep, I am old enough to have bough these - both LPs and 45s - at the time) it was widely praised.
@jonhall6681 I got most of these at time of release and found it irritating then as I do now. I started with the singles though as I was a teenager without loads of money
Radio bird man are very good. Need that. I have that cars debut. Love it. Struggle badly with Devi. Thanks for watching and thanks for comments. Cheers, Chris
I still have most of my vynils from 77/78. The song that first got me into punk was new rose by the Damned and I heard it first on the new wave compilation album and I've been a fan ever since. I went right out and bought the album then sexpistols then first clash lp. I still have a turn table and still play them and I'm 61 now. Used to listen to John Peel every night religiously and tape great bands like the Slits, Sham 69, the fall and the Adverts. Happy days. Still go to punk rock concerts too. 😊
That’s a phenomenal selection of records. I got the Dead Boys U.K. first press for £20.00 in Oxfam about 2 years ago. The New Wave Comp was everywhere in second hand shops in the late 80’s, now it’s becoming more desirable Lobe The New York Dolls track & ‘Hollywood’ by The Runaways. I can’t find any Wire under £60.00, ‘Chairs Missing would be my pick. That Pirates LP is one of the great live albums of all time, that version of ‘Peter Gunn’ is the one!
I bought most of the US versions when they came out. They were hard to find here ! I would add 1978 DEVO, The first Radio Birdman, and, here in the US, The Cars first album blew a lot of minds. The album. BUY by the Contortions made it to University radio stations, too. Thanks for sharing these.
I am no fan of Devo to be honest. Can’t bear them. Must look out for first Radio Birdman as I know it’s good. Love the first Cars Lp. I have it so could have shown that. Thank you so much for watching and commenting
Fantastic collection! Wire's first three albums are wonderful. No arguments with anything you showed. Off the top of my head, I might have added in Sham 69 from 77 or 78. Thanks for showing, that was epic! Cheers, Tom
I love the Lurkers album Fulham Fallout. I used to own it on vinyl. I picked up a remastered version on CD back in '97 and they added a whopping 12 Tracks to it including the brilliant Freak Show. Same with the Buzzcocks. Two great albums both of which got the Deluxe treatment on CD with a ton of bonus tracks, including the addition of the missing singles. Buzzcocks probably my fave band from that genre.
Hi Chris I subscribed to your channel after seeing your albums! I have all but one of them! A proper journey through the past! I was 16 in 1976 and listening to John Peel so got into punk and new wave! Great choices!
I always remember first seeing The Ramones in July 1976 at the Roundhouse, a venue I was going to regularly since early 1969, then The Damned in April 1977 and it was such a change in music and youth culture during those years. Both shows highlighted how the audience was changing, older hippies leaving and younger kids taking over the crowd, quite amazing to witness at the time! Glad you mentioned The Boys, I was on a cross channel ferry once with them, they were a great band, often overlooked! The Roundhouse is still a great venue to see live music to this day, Billy Strings has just played there, the great Bluegrass band!
Excellent collection! I own most of those LP's or at least records by those bands as well. Overall that period is my favorite period in music. I'll have to find those comps. Such a great time in music and mostly brilliant recordings. Punk/New Wave/Post Punk/Pub Rock/Goth...whatever silly label you want to tag to it, it was all mostly great music. I really loved the Pretenders first two albums as well. Cheers.
Many bands of that era deliberately left their singles out of albums - TRB, Dury, Siouxie et al, though some represses/rereleases shoehorned them back in
Excellent collection of records, I enjoyed that thoroughly (and added some to my discogs wantlist). The ship had sailed by the time I was old enough to notice, but 1982 MTV in the US was playing The Undertones (“It’s Going To Happen”), The Members, Squeeze, The Jam, Nick Lowe, Stranglers and Siouxie and The Banshees. No airplay for Wire, Magazine, The Damned, Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Joy Division or Ultravox! (but the Midge Ure era stuff was all over MTV). Fortunately I got caught up in the mid-80s and got to enjoy many bands of the era like The Fall, The Membranes, The Wedding Present, Television Personalities, etc. No doubt the era you cover here was hugely influential on what was to come in the 80s. Thank you!
Excellent watch, thank you, still play most of those albums to this day, Uk subs still going strong and it’s their lead singers eightieth birthday next year. Nice to see the only ones making an appearance, another girl another planet is probably the best single ever written. The pistols and the clash were on repeat for most of my formative years but personally the Buzzcocks were a firm favourite on my turntable but I always gravitated back to my Subs collection. 😉👍🧷🎶🎵
I loved this video. Very familiar with most of these albums. I think there are a few additions that cross over from this time. Graham Parker and the Rumour...any of their early albums, Any Trouble's first album, Wreckless Eric are some that come to mind. Thanks Chris. 😂
V2 was described by a reviewer on its release as 'the album the New Wave was invented for.' It's not only their finest hour, but one of the bona fide classic LPs of the first real punk wave.
"Rocket to Russia" was the 1st punk record i bought. It was 1992 when everyone was buying cds, so i got it for around $3. I still absolutely love it, plus it started my journey into punk!
Very lucky to have Power in the Darkness with stencil almost completely intact - there is a US press (Winchester Pressing) which I also have, which includes a 12" featuring the Rising Free EP, plus 2,4,6,8, I Shall Be Released and others; this is on the Harvest label - a stone cold punk classic for me!
Love this era of music even though i was born in 1978 so in my late teens and early 20s i started exploring this type of music with the Ramones, magazine, siouxsie and the banshees, the damned and the buzzcocks being my favourites
Watched again to make sure I had all the details of items from my collection. Just noted the title of the U.K Subs album (which I have), "ANOTHER KIND OF BLUES" was adopted as their name by a local Vancouver hardcore punk band in 1984. They released a rare collectible 5-track EP the next year. Not first wave punk style. From Discogs: "Screaming Neil Embo and Kicky McQuicky left HoC (House of commons - an excellent alternative punk band from Victoria BC who released a collectible full length album in 1982. Very different sound to AKOB) at the end of 1984 and got together with bassist Tony Ogasawara,and after one month of jamming already had released the first Undergrowth record on blue vinyl ,and rare black vinyl. The record went to the top ten on the Citr UBC radio charts". I can't see any other obvious links between the two. No shared tracks or covers etc. Perhaps he just liked the album a lot, the sound of the name or the ethos it conjures up. Either way, probably not a coincidence.
I like your taste in tunes! I've got about 95% of those albums in my collection, I've seen about 80% of those bands in the San Francisco Bay Area during those years, and I've got really good photographs of about 70% of them (I was a concert photographer in those days). I'm surprised you didn't mention Go4 and Magazine, among others, as being so influential to the whole 'post-punk' scene, which mostly started around '79... I wish I had a way of showing you some of my photos! Got great stories to go with them, too..
Great collection Chris...im a major ramones fan..and love em all first album and road to ruin are my fave of the first 4..leave home is brilliant its alive arrives folks!😅..great collection all in all saw the jam on all mod cons tour agree their best imo..shame you didn't mention the incredible shrinking dickies..or dawn of....!..but good stuff 👌 gazz
Transplanted Mancunian, now Canuck here. Great overview Chris. Quite pleased to see that Dead Boys, Saints (x2) and Eater snuck in towards the end. Also Radio Birdman mentioned below. IMHO missing classics ,probably omitted simply because they are not (yet) in your collection, include Monks (Bad Habits), Elton Motello (first self titled), Dickies (first 2) , "X" (Los Angeles - avoid the Aussie band of the same name)), Rubber City Rebels(same) and Jim Carroll Band (Catholic Boy). Hubble Bubble (from Belgium) and Telephone (not Telefon - both from France). Its now time for you to listen to some first wave (1976-1980) Canadian punk such as D.O.A., K-Tels, Modernettes, Young Canadians, Subhumans (not the boys from Wiltshire), Battered Wives, Demics, Diodes and all those on the Smash the State compilations. These are all linear, pounding first wave punk. I personally cannot abide the jagged, atonal , histrionic, caterwaully crap - sorry Siouxie...
Important and great albums that you omitted include Eater, The Album; The Fall, Live at the Witch Trials, Dragnet, and Grotesque, Wire, Pink Flag, and Cairs Missing; Plasmatics, New Hope For The Wretched; Tubeway Army debut album and Are Friends Elwctric?; The Dickies, Incredible Shrinking Dickies and Dawn of The Dickies; Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, F*ck Off; Devo, Are We Not Men?; Adam & The Ants, Dirk Wears White Sox: Penetration, Moving Targets; Chelsea, debut album; Johnny Moped, Cycledelic; The Cortinas, True Romances; Lene Lovich, Stateless; 999, debut and Separates, Slaughter & The Dogs, Do It Dog Style; Wreckless Eric, debut; The Soft Boys, A Can of Bees; The Pop Group, Y and How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, Sham 69, Tell Us The Truth; The Slits, Cut; Swell Maps, A Trip to Maineville; The Drones, Further Temptations; The Pork Dukes, Pink Pork; Th' Cigaretz, Crawl Right Out Of My Skin; The Sods, Minutes To Go; and, actually, I could probably sit here listing hundreds of other albums that were released between 1976 and 1979 or 1980, but with the ones I've mentioned plus the ones you've already cited, that should be a good start for anyone.
Have lots of those bands on 45 but not LP. Many of these featured on my two 45 videos. I missed Pretenders too. I do have Tubeway army but forgot them as well. Hate Devo. Thoroughly shite band. Dickies are a parody band for me. Hopeless and no cred. I love that Pork Dukes included two members of steeleye span
All my teenage years crammed into 34 minutes Was good friends with paul fox from the ruts who was taken far to young. You have a great collection,the slits and metal box both just make 79. Outside 79,I’d have the au pairs playing with a different sex. One of the best post punk albums
@@TheVinylOrchard wire were the first band I saw live in 1977 at Hammersmith odeon,they we’re supporting the tubes. Sadly for wire,the venue was half empty.
@@TheVinylOrchardGreat music at the time, Punks not dead ! You may have to do something about the Post Punk stuff like Crass ,Dirt,Poison Girls, Zounds,Flux of Pink Indians etc etc so much stuff😀
Hey Chris, Just to let you know: The US version of Power In The Darkness has both Glad To Be Gay and 2-4-6-8 Motorway. TRB were my gateway into Punk and New Wave back in the day, and I saw Tom Robinson and his band at the Palladium the year TRB 2 came out. I still have a soft spot for them. And I own a number of the albums you showed. Appreciate the video.
I need to get the Adverts and the Jam debuts. Interesting that you said you can only listen to a couple of X-Ray Spex songs at a time. I find it a bit annoying. I think Oi The Album is great.
There are very few punk LPs where I can listen to the whole Lp. XRay spex are a tough listen tbh. Oi lost em I’m afraid. I signed out there. My local record shop has a Ton of Crass, ANL, Discharge etc singles in at the moment. Not for me. Ditto Dead Kennedys et al. Cheers, Chris
I know I am biased as a Belfast man, but I think SLF are the most underrated punk band ever. For me, Hanx is the best live punk album ever produced and is a classic that is almost never referenced.
What a great in-depth review of all the important bands during this era and their best output. Interested in your comments on TRB. I have a double album on the Harvest label that was only issued in the US and Canada, containing both 2-4-6-8 and Glad to be Gay (live version). In addition there are 5 other tracks with two of them live. Issued in exactly the same sleeve as the UK single release so no additional notes or info and both released in 1978. This was the first one I bought, and from WH Smith according to the label. I subsequently bought the single album secondhand. According to Discogs Harvest originally released a T.R.B. Pre-Album for radio play, with 6 tracks on it. I'm Alright Jack was added on the double album.
Some great LP's there, not a duff one mentioned. Another Music, Germ Free Adolescents, Crossing the Red Sea, The Scream, Real Life, Inflammable Material, utterly wonderful stuff. Ramones first LP blew me away when I first heard it and I put Rattus alongside it in the pecking order but Bollocks is still my favourite after all these years, the power and Rotten's vocals, unbeatable to me.
Really great vid ! I’m also from day lucky enough to see all the punk bands real early it kinda came from pub Rock as u say n u could see 6 bands like 101ers feelgood on a good night in London Actually I think first punk band I see was maybe the saints they were real early My personal fav from the whole era was the only ones all albums are great and Suicide once I got the no guitars sound was pretty incredible But thnx really enjoyed
Love it or most of it. Never got Joy Division don't know why & hate the fakery of The Police. That Rezillos album is always a regular spin, William Mysterious what a bass player 👍 Love The Only Ones 2nd album Even serpents shine, a real belter & Joe Jackson's follow up I'm The Man , wow so much good stuff around back then 🤯 Value too you had to buy the singles not used as filler on the albums 👏👏
I remember John Peel loving the Fall. Never really got them. Got 3 singles by ATV but no LP. Got one single by JC. Devo - can’t bear them. I did include the Stooges. Straight after MC5 in fact. Thanks for watching!
REALLY good choices. Only missing The Undertones either of their first two albums, The Germs GI, The Avengers comp, The Pagans comp, GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats, Discharge Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing. That Ruts album is VERY great but their Complete Peel Sessions (all 3 sessions) is even better. t contains 3 of their greatest songs not on The Crack and the playing is just as good as on the album, which is saying A LOT. IMO the best punk album of the last 30 years Is Leatherface's Mush from 1991 BUT just realized you left out my ALL TIME FAVORITE PUNK ALBUM....Generation X's debut (the British version) Mate, that really hurts.
I showed both undertones LPs and generation x too!. Must have skipped past those when you watched. I generally didn’t come across much US punk as I live in England. Just the main acts really. Love the John Peel sessions. I grew up listening to those. My interests wanes after 1979. Not a fan of Oi. Thanks for watching and commenting Chris
@@TheVinylOrchard Oh sorry....my bad. I'm a big fan of Oi When I had my google plus channel I did a big survey of Oi covering over 40 bands. I think The Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits Vol 1 is a very great punk album. So is Vol 2. Interesting you don't like Oi. You obviously have god taste in punk. Is there a reason you don't like Oi? The Cockney Rejects gave a moribund punk scene filled with poseurs a good swift reality kick up the arse when they burst on the scene.
I’ve got CR vol 2. Not a fan of that era. Rock was huge in U.K. in 79 80 81 especially NWOBHM and I went in that direction. Punk was of its time. It finishes in 79. After that I fancy bands had missed the moment
@@TheVinylOrchard No accounting for taste but IMO there were MANY excellent Brit punk band in the second wave, called UK82 by some. Many older kids in Britain preferred these bands to the famous first wave bands. I guess cause they grew up with them. Thanks for replying.
@willieluncheonette5843 that’s the main point I think…bands you grew up with. Music is all about nostalgia for me. I started to go to so many concerts in 79 80 81 but with the odd exception they were rock bands. Cheers, Chris
Generation X are indeed very average. Live their first single and that’s it for me. So forgettable in comparison. I never really got the Fall at the time so never bought anything by them. John Peel used to love them. Although I do enjoy witch trials. Not seen it in the wild tbh either. I was moving away from Punk in 79. So another reason why they passed me by
@@TheVinylOrchard Thanks for your reply. I have seen the fall maybe 6 times even though I live in Ireland. Every lp is an absolute classic and I never ever tire of hearing any of them. Even up until present day the Fall sound so fresh and unique unlike virtually any other band I can think of. The clash blew me away when the first lp was released but boy did they fall away big style. Same with countless other outfits. The Fall continued to improve if that's the right word. Not just because peel loved them either they are unassailable. Another band not mentioned were the Cravats. In Toytown was another fantastic offering.
The Siouxsie guitarist was called John Mcgeoch (I think he played on The Scream not sure?) he was definitely in Magazine from the start, so maybe he played on Siouxsie’s third album onwards (after the signing incident in a Scottish record shop of which two members did a runner there and then!) love Squeeze can’t stand “Slap And Tickle” though! Awful record! It’s probably Jools Holland’s cheesy synth on it that really makes me hate it, cringeworthy for sure! If you were to buy all them records that you have now from a dealer (or anywhere for that matter) now it would cost you a fortune! Please tell me you bought all that back in the day and looked after them?!
I bought most of these albums when I came out and nearly all of them now sound terribly dated. Punk when it lasted was great and it was needed but there was a lot of dross released especially in 78. There are still a small number of bands that are contemporary even today. You picked up on Joy Division. When UP came out you could only buy this in independent record stores and nobody outside of the music paper readership had ever heard of this band. I had to buy via mail order - July 79 I think it was. But you missed two other important bands. The Fall. We know who they are but they had already released Live At The Witch Trials and Dragnet by the end of the 70's. And also Wire who released three magnificent albums . I still listen to these albums and they haven't dated one bit. And the rest of your list doesn't hold a candle to JD, The Fall or Wire. Possible exceptions are the Ramones, Talking Heads and Television. Most of the others deserve to be forgotten.
IS IT ME OR IS LONG HAIR THE MOST "PUNK" THING TO DO SINCE THE 50'S STARTING WITH ELVIS THEN THE BEATLES.... ETC MANY BANDS THAT PEOPLE MENTION FROM THE 60'S AND 70'S THAT WERE "PROTO PUNK" HAD LONG HAIR.
@@TheVinylOrchard I mean it in the most rebellious way ofcourse, because most men were "clean cut" and had short hair (non musicians) back in those days. Many male musicians had longer than usual hair length and was considered pretty wild, outrageous etc.
The American Release of THE CLASH was a Lot Better than the Ingerlish Album . White Man In Hammersmith Palais ,,, Still my Favourite Song after all these years . Not on the Original Ingerlish Album ....
@@TheVinylOrchard A 1977 Early Compilation ,, YES I Agree ........ It's Because it wasn't Released in America till years later .......... God Only Knows Why ?????
No Devo? They were the only US band I'd give the time of day to.. Having Rezillos, stranglers, SLF For me the record not here that was a punk watershed.. Public Image.. and I still prefer The Great Rock n Roll Swindle to that other one
To be honest I couldn’t stick Devo. Thought they were shite. Therefore I possess nothing by them bar a single on stiff records. Have never seen PiL metal box. So couldn’t show that one.
I was referring to public image the 45, when that was released was the watershed of punks death Although notwithstanding this was about albums.. Why don't you own First Issue or metal box? Also Devo could blow away most of your selections American or not.. Presumably that single might be Be Stiff which is proof of their quality.. Good day sir
@libre-tad6283 never seen either in the wild although I’m sure I could get online. Must investigate. Have got Be Stiff. Can’t see them joining my collection any time soon TBh. Just not for me.
Which is the politically correct punk? There's The Boys and Lurkers to name but two in this video who weren't averse to a fruity lyric that would blow apart any safe space. 😂
Of course punk at the beginning was the opposite of every politically correct propaganda but then with bands like Tom Robinson and the clash and even worse green day it became just another tool in the hands of the system to brainwash young people's minds
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What a collection, an incredible era to live through. Still can’t believe so many of my mates would rather listen than to Genesis to these bands. I know you mention Damned Damned Damned, but no 70’s selection should be without Machine Gun Etiquette. Timeless classic.
Great LP!
I had the first two Damned albums but never bought that one even though there are some cracking tracks on it, particularly anti pope. 😊
Really emjoyed this trip down memory lane. I bought pretty much every album you mention on first release. Slapped wrists for missing out 999's "999" and "Separates" and Wire's "Pink Flag", "Chairs Missing" and "154" - all top notch punk albums I still enjoy today.
Looking out for Wire. Always very expensive. Will seek out 999. I own one the rarest of all 999 singles. Nasty nasty promo on 78rpm. 50 made!
Agreed, along with Buzzcocks, 999 released two LPs on United Artists both in '78, easily their finest.
@@TheVinylOrchardThink l have "Emergency 'single by 999 but have an album as well.
So good to see you showing The Jam and the local band the Modern Lovers. Roadrunner is all about Boston Chris. Way back when AM terrestrial radio was hip. I used to listen to AM radio if you can believe that. I am showing my age. {smile} I still go food shopping at the Stop & Shop and I still drive on Route 128 regularly. A brilliant record indeed. Paul Weller and Jonathan Richman have never recorded together unfortunately. I am 95% sure that I have 75% of those albums in my collection. You should be proud of every one of them~
Rob/Boston
I love that Modern Lovers Lp and thank you for the informative reply. Virtually all of these artists I heard on AM radio back in the 70s. FM was a revelation. TBH I prefer early Jam to anything else Paul Weller did later on. The Style Council is a million miles from Art School and I have always steered clear of that part of his career. I was 14 in 77. The height of punk. It was so cool being a teenager in the late 70s. Cheers Rob, Chris
Great, very similar almost to mine!!!
Some crackers there!
Chris, great bunch of albums. V2 is excellent, nice to see TRB shown, you must have my stencil my album didn't have one 😂 Adverts for the win, On Wheels, genius.
All great albums!
I always remember the late Annie Nightingale always playing Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric when she had her Radio 1 show on Sundays.
She was great
I have been going through my old vinyl this week, so many of these are in my collection.
Cheers, my Man loved all the Albums you showcased.... And have every album you have but two and comps. Love this era. A job well done reviewing each LP👍😎✌️
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment. Cheers, Chris
Wow Chris what a trip. Some absolute classics of the genre in that lot. Rattus, Real Life, In The City…an exhaustive list of influential albums. Thanks for sharing.
Thank YOU for watching!
An epic video Chris, great fun. Too many of these records I'm still looking for. Quite often with these type of bands, I've had one of their LPs in my collection for years but have just never found the other one! Btw, could be wrong but I suspect the reason why so many punk and new wave albums failed to include the hit single was that it was a throwback/tip of the hat to the pop music of the sixties, when bands like The Beatles would routinely release standalone singles in parallel with their albums in order to give their fans value for money.
You could be right about the single thing to be honest. It’s annoying though! Thanks for watching and commenting James. Chris
Not sure it was that the LPs and singles were released in parallel really - many bands were really against making people pay for the same thing twice, and so deliberately didn't put singles on their LPs. It may be a little irritating today but back in the day (yep, I am old enough to have bough these - both LPs and 45s - at the time) it was widely praised.
@jonhall6681 I got most of these at time of release and found it irritating then as I do now. I started with the singles though as I was a teenager without loads of money
Radio bird man are very good. Need that. I have that cars debut. Love it. Struggle badly with Devi. Thanks for watching and thanks for comments. Cheers, Chris
I still have most of my vynils from 77/78. The song that first got me into punk was new rose by the Damned and I heard it first on the new wave compilation album and I've been a fan ever since. I went right out and bought the album then sexpistols then first clash lp. I still have a turn table and still play them and I'm 61 now. Used to listen to John Peel every night religiously and tape great bands like the Slits, Sham 69, the fall and the Adverts. Happy days. Still go to punk rock concerts too. 😊
We have so much in common my friend. Cheers, Chris
some belters in there, love that ruts and skids debut albums. I own a lot of those
I love them!!
That’s a phenomenal selection of records. I got the Dead Boys U.K. first press for £20.00 in Oxfam about 2 years ago. The New Wave Comp was everywhere in second hand shops in the late 80’s, now it’s becoming more desirable Lobe The New York Dolls track & ‘Hollywood’ by The Runaways. I can’t find any Wire under £60.00, ‘Chairs Missing would be my pick. That Pirates LP is one of the great live albums of all time, that version of ‘Peter Gunn’ is the one!
Must seek out Wire. Never got them first time. Would like that dead boys Lp. Love a bit of pub rock too.
Thanks for watching Harris. Cheers, Chris
I bought most of the US versions when they came out. They were hard to find here ! I would add 1978 DEVO, The first Radio Birdman, and, here in the US, The Cars first album blew a lot of minds. The album. BUY by the Contortions made it to University radio stations, too. Thanks for sharing these.
I am no fan of Devo to be honest. Can’t bear them.
Must look out for first Radio Birdman as I know it’s good. Love the first Cars Lp. I have it so could have shown that.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting
Great list. A lot I’m not familiar with here, but I’m looking forward to exploring these titles. Thanks for making the video!
Thanks for watching Brian!
Fantastic collection! Wire's first three albums are wonderful. No arguments with anything you showed. Off the top of my head, I might have added in Sham 69 from 77 or 78. Thanks for showing, that was epic!
Cheers, Tom
Thank you so much for watching!
I love the Lurkers album Fulham Fallout. I used to own it on vinyl. I picked up a remastered version on CD back in '97 and they added a whopping 12 Tracks to it including the brilliant Freak Show. Same with the Buzzcocks. Two great albums both of which got the Deluxe treatment on CD with a ton of bonus tracks, including the addition of the missing singles. Buzzcocks probably my fave band from that genre.
Both were great bands. Lurkers - Fulham’s answer to the Ramones
Hi Chris I subscribed to your channel after seeing your albums! I have all but one of them! A proper journey through the past! I was 16 in 1976 and listening to John Peel so got into punk and new wave! Great choices!
John peel. Where I found out about all these bands. Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!
I always remember first seeing The Ramones in July 1976 at the Roundhouse, a venue I was going to regularly since early 1969, then The Damned in April 1977 and it was such a change in music and youth culture during those years. Both shows highlighted how the audience was changing, older hippies leaving and younger kids taking over the crowd, quite amazing to witness at the time! Glad you mentioned The Boys, I was on a cross channel ferry once with them, they were a great band, often overlooked! The Roundhouse is still a great venue to see live music to this day, Billy Strings has just played there, the great Bluegrass band!
Excellent collection! I own most of those LP's or at least records by those bands as well. Overall that period is my favorite period in music. I'll have to find those comps. Such a great time in music and mostly brilliant recordings. Punk/New Wave/Post Punk/Pub Rock/Goth...whatever silly label you want to tag to it, it was all mostly great music. I really loved the Pretenders first two albums as well. Cheers.
Could have easily included the Pretnders. Forgot about them. First two are classics
Many bands of that era deliberately left their singles out of albums - TRB, Dury, Siouxie et al, though some represses/rereleases shoehorned them back in
They certainly did.
Excellent collection of records, I enjoyed that thoroughly (and added some to my discogs wantlist). The ship had sailed by the time I was old enough to notice, but 1982 MTV in the US was playing The Undertones (“It’s Going To Happen”), The Members, Squeeze, The Jam, Nick Lowe, Stranglers and Siouxie and The Banshees. No airplay for Wire, Magazine, The Damned, Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Joy Division or Ultravox! (but the Midge Ure era stuff was all over MTV). Fortunately I got caught up in the mid-80s and got to enjoy many bands of the era like The Fall, The Membranes, The Wedding Present, Television Personalities, etc. No doubt the era you cover here was hugely influential on what was to come in the 80s. Thank you!
Hugely influential era. I loved it personally! Thank you so much for watching
Excellent collection worth the wait
Thanks James. Some classics there for sure. Cheers, Chris
We have the exact same musical taste! (And record collection)
Good taste you have sir!
Excellent watch, thank you, still play most of those albums to this day, Uk subs still going strong and it’s their lead singers eightieth birthday next year. Nice to see the only ones making an appearance, another girl another planet is probably the best single ever written. The pistols and the clash were on repeat for most of my formative years but personally the Buzzcocks were a firm favourite on my turntable but I always gravitated back to my Subs collection. 😉👍🧷🎶🎵
80?!?! Wowsers!
A great era!
Thanks for watching.
I loved this video. Very familiar with most of these albums. I think there are a few additions that cross over from this time. Graham Parker and the Rumour...any of their early albums, Any Trouble's first album, Wreckless Eric are some that come to mind. Thanks Chris. 😂
Some fab choices there Tim
V2 by the Vibrators is one of the most underrated punk albums ever.
It’s very good. More consistent than the first although I prefer some of the songs from the first.
V2 was described by a reviewer on its release as 'the album the New Wave was invented for.' It's not only their finest hour, but one of the bona fide classic LPs of the first real punk wave.
@@blackjockofmangertonpele absolutely, great post 👍
@alanknotts1844 cheers Alan
"Rocket to Russia" was the 1st punk record i bought. It was 1992 when everyone was buying cds, so i got it for around $3. I still absolutely love it, plus it started my journey into punk!
It was either that or Never Mind The Bollocks for me. Both at the tail end of 1978. Love them. RtR is a superb album
Good video, got most of these brought at the time, but a couple of glaring omissions, the Killing Joke dbuut LP and the Cure's debut LP
Yep. Sadly don’t own either. Never seen them for cheap enough. Cheers, chris
Very lucky to have Power in the Darkness with stencil almost completely intact - there is a US press (Winchester Pressing) which I also have, which includes a 12" featuring the Rising Free EP, plus 2,4,6,8, I Shall Be Released and others; this is on the Harvest label - a stone cold punk classic for me!
A great Lp. For some strange reason I have two stencils! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
Cheers, Chris
@@TheVinylOrchard There's a very annoyed old graffiti artist wandering around trying to locate his stencil...
@guybarritt8632 😂😂
Love this era of music even though i was born in 1978 so in my late teens and early 20s i started exploring this type of music with the Ramones, magazine, siouxsie and the banshees, the damned and the buzzcocks being my favourites
I was 14 in 77. What a time to be alive….musically
@@TheVinylOrchard sounds totally awesome so much new music coming your way
Watched again to make sure I had all the details of items from my collection.
Just noted the title of the U.K Subs album (which I have), "ANOTHER KIND OF BLUES" was adopted as their name by a local Vancouver hardcore punk band in 1984. They released a rare collectible 5-track EP the next year. Not first wave punk style. From Discogs:
"Screaming Neil Embo and Kicky McQuicky left HoC (House of commons - an excellent alternative punk band from Victoria BC who released a collectible full length album in 1982. Very different sound to AKOB) at the end of 1984 and got together with bassist Tony Ogasawara,and after one month of jamming already had released the first Undergrowth record on blue vinyl ,and rare black vinyl. The record went to the top ten on the Citr UBC radio charts".
I can't see any other obvious links between the two. No shared tracks or covers etc. Perhaps he just liked the album a lot, the sound of the name or the ethos it conjures up. Either way, probably not a coincidence.
Interesting stuff Tim! Cheers, Chris
The first album i ever bought with my pocket money was "Piledriver" by Status Quo still one of my favourites
First gig was quo. Love them
@@TheVinylOrchardMy first single was "Caroline" by Quo.
"Avon Calling" is one of the best punk/nw comps out there
All bands from my area I guess. I live 30 miles from Bristol
I like your taste in tunes! I've got about 95% of those albums in my collection, I've seen about 80% of those bands in the San Francisco Bay Area during those years, and I've got really good photographs of about 70% of them (I was a concert photographer in those days). I'm surprised you didn't mention Go4 and Magazine, among others, as being so influential to the whole 'post-punk' scene, which mostly started around '79... I wish I had a way of showing you some of my photos! Got great stories to go with them, too..
I showed Gang Of Four and Magazine. You must’ve skipped past that bit. Seems like you saw some great gigs back in the day! Cheers, Chris
I did see them, I just missed the 'post-punk' nomenclature that is usually applied to them.... Cheers!
@larsman9169 oh got you. Think I said they were influential in what followed. TBh ‘post punk’ kind of passed me by I think
Great collection Chris...im a major ramones fan..and love em all first album and road to ruin are my fave of the first 4..leave home is brilliant its alive arrives folks!😅..great collection all in all saw the jam on all mod cons tour agree their best imo..shame you didn't mention the incredible shrinking dickies..or dawn of....!..but good stuff 👌 gazz
Dickies were always a bit of a novelty act for me. Have a few singles of their of course. Love the ramones too
Transplanted Mancunian, now Canuck here. Great overview Chris. Quite pleased to see that Dead Boys, Saints (x2) and Eater snuck in towards the end. Also Radio Birdman mentioned below. IMHO missing classics ,probably omitted simply because they are not (yet) in your collection, include Monks (Bad Habits), Elton Motello (first self titled), Dickies (first 2) , "X" (Los Angeles - avoid the Aussie band of the same name)), Rubber City Rebels(same) and Jim Carroll Band (Catholic Boy). Hubble Bubble (from Belgium) and Telephone (not Telefon - both from France).
Its now time for you to listen to some first wave (1976-1980) Canadian punk such as D.O.A., K-Tels, Modernettes, Young Canadians, Subhumans (not the boys from Wiltshire), Battered Wives, Demics, Diodes and all those on the Smash the State compilations.
These are all linear, pounding first wave punk. I personally cannot abide the jagged, atonal , histrionic, caterwaully crap - sorry Siouxie...
That’s given me plenty to do. cheers my friend
Great stuff, Enjoyed It!
Thanks Thomas! Love that part of my record collection. Cheers, Chris
Important and great albums that you omitted include Eater, The Album; The Fall, Live at the Witch Trials, Dragnet, and Grotesque, Wire, Pink Flag, and Cairs Missing; Plasmatics, New Hope For The Wretched; Tubeway Army debut album and Are Friends Elwctric?; The Dickies, Incredible Shrinking Dickies and Dawn of The Dickies; Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, F*ck Off; Devo, Are We Not Men?; Adam & The Ants, Dirk Wears White Sox: Penetration, Moving Targets; Chelsea, debut album; Johnny Moped, Cycledelic; The Cortinas, True Romances; Lene Lovich, Stateless; 999, debut and Separates, Slaughter & The Dogs, Do It Dog Style; Wreckless Eric, debut; The Soft Boys, A Can of Bees; The Pop Group, Y and How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, Sham 69, Tell Us The Truth; The Slits, Cut; Swell Maps, A Trip to Maineville; The Drones, Further Temptations; The Pork Dukes, Pink Pork; Th' Cigaretz, Crawl Right Out Of My Skin; The Sods, Minutes To Go; and, actually, I could probably sit here listing hundreds of other albums that were released between 1976 and 1979 or 1980, but with the ones I've mentioned plus the ones you've already cited, that should be a good start for anyone.
Have lots of those bands on 45 but not LP. Many of these featured on my two 45 videos. I missed Pretenders too. I do have Tubeway army but forgot them as well.
Hate Devo. Thoroughly shite band. Dickies are a parody band for me. Hopeless and no cred. I love that Pork Dukes included two members of steeleye span
What a gob of great records! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻sub’d
Cheers. A nostalgic bunch for me. Reminds me of being a teenager. I think that’s a good thing?!?!
@@TheVinylOrchard I vote yes on any positive that makes us feel the joys of youth😎👍🏻
All my teenage years crammed into 34 minutes Was good friends with paul fox from the ruts who was taken far to young.
You have a great collection,the slits and metal box both just make 79. Outside 79,I’d have the au pairs playing with a different sex. One of the best post punk albums
Need PIL and slits. And Wire. Have a couple of Au Pairs singles but will investigate further. Thank you for watching!
@@TheVinylOrchard wire were the first band I saw live in 1977 at Hammersmith odeon,they we’re supporting the tubes. Sadly for wire,the venue was half empty.
I agree RE The Clash, I think London calling is 3rd after 1st and Give em enough
I find LC a bit overblown as an album. The first is their best by miles for me
@@TheVinylOrchardThink "Sandinista" being a triple album was overblown! Even had kids singing on it.
Great collection. We have a lot of the same records. I include some artists from the early 80’s in my collection too, because they are Post Punk.
It was an exciting time. Especially being a teenager!
What are your post punk recommendations?
@@TheVinylOrchardGreat music at the time, Punks not dead ! You may have to do something about the Post Punk stuff like Crass ,Dirt,Poison Girls, Zounds,Flux of Pink Indians etc etc so much stuff😀
Hey Chris,
Just to let you know: The US version of Power In The Darkness has both Glad To Be Gay and 2-4-6-8 Motorway. TRB were my gateway into Punk and New Wave back in the day, and I saw Tom Robinson and his band at the Palladium the year TRB 2 came out. I still have a soft spot for them. And I own a number of the albums you showed. Appreciate the video.
Didn’t know that. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I need to get the Adverts and the Jam debuts. Interesting that you said you can only listen to a couple of X-Ray Spex songs at a time. I find it a bit annoying. I think Oi The Album is great.
There are very few punk LPs where I can listen to the whole Lp. XRay spex are a tough listen tbh. Oi lost em I’m afraid. I signed out there. My local record shop has a Ton of Crass, ANL, Discharge etc singles in at the moment. Not for me. Ditto Dead Kennedys et al. Cheers, Chris
I know I am biased as a Belfast man, but I think SLF are the most underrated punk band ever. For me, Hanx is the best live punk album ever produced and is a classic that is almost never referenced.
Have never seen Hanx in the wild
What a great in-depth review of all the important bands during this era and their best output. Interested in your comments on TRB. I have a double album on the Harvest label that was only issued in the US and Canada, containing both 2-4-6-8 and Glad to be Gay (live version). In addition there are 5 other tracks with two of them live. Issued in exactly the same sleeve as the UK single release so no additional notes or info and both released in 1978. This was the first one I bought, and from WH Smith according to the label. I subsequently bought the single album secondhand.
According to Discogs Harvest originally released a T.R.B. Pre-Album for radio play, with 6 tracks on it. I'm Alright Jack was added on the double album.
Interesting stuff. They cocked up not including 2468
Some great LP's there, not a duff one mentioned. Another Music, Germ Free Adolescents, Crossing the Red Sea, The Scream, Real Life, Inflammable Material, utterly wonderful stuff. Ramones first LP blew me away when I first heard it and I put Rattus alongside it in the pecking order but Bollocks is still my favourite after all these years, the power and Rotten's vocals, unbeatable to me.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting
Great list of albums, London Calling though is the greatest album of all time.
For me there are hundred above it
Really great vid !
I’m also from day lucky enough to see all the punk bands real early it kinda came from pub Rock as u say n u could see 6 bands like 101ers feelgood on a good night in London
Actually I think first punk band I see was maybe the saints they were real early
My personal fav from the whole era was the only ones all albums are great and Suicide once I got the no guitars sound was pretty incredible
But thnx really enjoyed
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I love the Saints! Would have loved to have seen them.
Remember 90% of the featured albums. Thanks
Thanks for watching
The Gordon's future shock album is special. From new Zealand
Will check it out. I moved on from punk after 79 tbh. Cheers, Chris
Great stuff
Thanks for watching!
Lord John Peel !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed. Great programme. Cheers David
Love it or most of it. Never got Joy Division don't know why & hate the fakery of The Police.
That Rezillos album is always a regular spin, William Mysterious what a bass player 👍 Love The Only Ones 2nd album Even serpents shine, a real belter & Joe Jackson's follow up I'm The Man , wow so much good stuff around back then 🤯
Value too you had to buy the singles not used as filler on the albums 👏👏
Such a great time for music
I pretty much have all those albums.
They’re great aren’t they!
@@TheVinylOrchard formed my life.
"Too good to be true" 😆
It’s a lovely collection for sure
The Fall? ATV? Pere Ubu? Wayne/Jayne County? Devo? And if you include The MC5 then you must include The Stooges. Otherwise thanks for the vid.
I remember John Peel loving the Fall. Never really got them. Got 3 singles by ATV but no LP. Got one single by JC. Devo - can’t bear them. I did include the Stooges. Straight after MC5 in fact. Thanks for watching!
you have some corkers there
Love them!!
REALLY good choices. Only missing The Undertones either of their first two albums, The Germs GI, The Avengers comp, The Pagans comp, GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats, Discharge Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing.
That Ruts album is VERY great but their Complete Peel Sessions (all 3 sessions) is even better. t contains 3 of their greatest songs not on The Crack and the playing is just as good as on the album, which is saying A LOT.
IMO the best punk album of the last 30 years Is Leatherface's Mush from 1991
BUT just realized you left out my ALL TIME FAVORITE PUNK ALBUM....Generation X's debut (the British version) Mate, that really hurts.
I showed both undertones LPs and generation x too!. Must have skipped past those when you watched. I generally didn’t come across much US punk as I live in England. Just the main acts really. Love the John Peel sessions. I grew up listening to those. My interests wanes after 1979. Not a fan of Oi.
Thanks for watching and commenting
Chris
@@TheVinylOrchard Oh sorry....my bad. I'm a big fan of Oi When I had my google plus channel I did a big survey of Oi covering over 40 bands. I think The Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits Vol 1 is a very great punk album. So is Vol 2.
Interesting you don't like Oi. You obviously have god taste in punk. Is there a reason you don't like Oi? The Cockney Rejects gave a moribund punk scene filled with poseurs a good swift reality kick up the arse when they burst on the scene.
I’ve got CR vol 2. Not a fan of that era. Rock was huge in U.K. in 79 80 81 especially NWOBHM and I went in that direction. Punk was of its time. It finishes in 79. After that I fancy bands had missed the moment
@@TheVinylOrchard No accounting for taste but IMO there were MANY excellent Brit punk band in the second wave, called UK82 by some. Many older kids in Britain preferred these bands to the famous first wave bands. I guess cause they grew up with them.
Thanks for replying.
@willieluncheonette5843 that’s the main point I think…bands you grew up with. Music is all about nostalgia for me. I started to go to so many concerts in 79 80 81 but with the odd exception they were rock bands. Cheers, Chris
No Fall? Unforgivable in my estimation. Live at the witch trials is an absolute classic. Generation x are total garbage.
Generation X are indeed very average. Live their first single and that’s it for me. So forgettable in comparison. I never really got the Fall at the time so never bought anything by them. John Peel used to love them. Although I do enjoy witch trials. Not seen it in the wild tbh either. I was moving away from Punk in 79. So another reason why they passed me by
@@TheVinylOrchard
Thanks for your reply.
I have seen the fall maybe 6 times even though I live in Ireland.
Every lp is an absolute classic and I never ever tire of hearing any of them. Even up until present day the Fall sound so fresh and unique unlike virtually any other band I can think of. The clash blew me away when the first lp was released but boy did they fall away big style.
Same with countless other outfits. The Fall continued to improve if that's the right word. Not just because peel loved them either they are unassailable.
Another band not mentioned were the Cravats. In Toytown was another fantastic offering.
The clash peaked on first LP. Saw them on Combat rock tour. Thought they were shite.
Great collection but whatever they charge for Wire is worth it specifically their first three albums
I will add one of them one day for sure
I once saw the 45 of 'I Am The Fly' in the window of my local Oxfam, priced at over a hundred quid.
The Siouxsie guitarist was called John Mcgeoch (I think he played on The Scream not sure?) he was definitely in Magazine from the start, so maybe he played on Siouxsie’s third album onwards (after the signing incident in a Scottish record shop of which two members did a runner there and then!) love Squeeze can’t stand “Slap And Tickle” though! Awful record! It’s probably Jools Holland’s cheesy synth on it that really makes me hate it, cringeworthy for sure! If you were to buy all them records that you have now from a dealer (or anywhere for that matter) now it would cost you a fortune! Please tell me you bought all that back in the day and looked after them?!
The vast majority were bought 77-90ish. I wouldn’t pay todays prices. John Mcgeoch first with Siouxsie was in 1980. Cheers, Chris
I bought most of these albums when I came out and nearly all of them now sound terribly dated. Punk when it lasted was great and it was needed but there was a lot of dross released especially in 78. There are still a small number of bands that are contemporary even today. You picked up on Joy Division. When UP came out you could only buy this in independent record stores and nobody outside of the music paper readership had ever heard of this band. I had to buy via mail order - July 79 I think it was. But you missed two other important bands. The Fall. We know who they are but they had already released Live At The Witch Trials and Dragnet by the end of the 70's. And also Wire who released three magnificent albums . I still listen to these albums and they haven't dated one bit. And the rest of your list doesn't hold a candle to JD, The Fall or Wire. Possible exceptions are the Ramones, Talking Heads and Television. Most of the others deserve to be forgotten.
Great comment. Thanks
Dates possibly but all of their time. Love them
Alternative TV?
Made 78 list
IS IT ME OR IS LONG HAIR THE MOST "PUNK" THING TO DO SINCE THE 50'S STARTING WITH ELVIS THEN THE BEATLES.... ETC MANY BANDS THAT PEOPLE MENTION FROM THE 60'S AND 70'S THAT WERE "PROTO PUNK" HAD LONG HAIR.
Probably more to it than a hair cut but good point
@@TheVinylOrchard I mean it in the most rebellious way ofcourse, because most men were "clean cut" and had short hair (non musicians) back in those days. Many male musicians had longer than usual hair length and was considered pretty wild, outrageous etc.
The American Release of THE CLASH was a Lot Better than the Ingerlish Album . White Man In Hammersmith Palais ,,, Still my Favourite Song after all these years . Not on the Original Ingerlish Album ....
US one felt like a compilation to me. UK zone every time
@@TheVinylOrchard A 1977 Early Compilation ,, YES I Agree ........ It's Because it wasn't Released in America till years later .......... God Only Knows Why ?????
Sex Pistols the king's of Punk Rock Forever. Johnny Rotten The king punk's of world.
Great frontman
No Devo? They were the only US band I'd give the time of day to..
Having Rezillos, stranglers, SLF
For me the record not here that was a punk watershed..
Public Image.. and I still prefer The Great Rock n Roll Swindle to that other one
To be honest I couldn’t stick Devo. Thought they were shite. Therefore I possess nothing by them bar a single on stiff records.
Have never seen PiL metal box. So couldn’t show that one.
I was referring to public image the 45, when that was released was the watershed of punks death
Although notwithstanding this was about albums.. Why don't you own First Issue or metal box?
Also Devo could blow away most of your selections American or not.. Presumably that single might be Be Stiff which is proof of their quality.. Good day sir
@libre-tad6283 never seen either in the wild although I’m sure I could get online. Must investigate.
Have got Be Stiff. Can’t see them joining my collection any time soon TBh. Just not for me.
This is the politically correct punk I don't like
Fair enough. I love it.
Which is the politically correct punk? There's The Boys and Lurkers to name but two in this video who weren't averse to a fruity lyric that would blow apart any safe space. 😂
Of course punk at the beginning was the opposite of every politically correct propaganda but then with bands like Tom Robinson and the clash and even worse green day it became just another tool in the hands of the system to brainwash young people's minds
There's something rather distasteful about old men slobbering over pop music.
don't watch then. Cheers
Good job this isn't pop music then, cloth-ears. 😂
@@blackjockofmangertonpeleHe probably likes Taylor Swift 😊
Popmusic is wasted on the young
What the hell are you doing with my record collection???
Sorry 😂😂
Agree with you on the Ramones, prefer leave home to their first , and after road to ruin i dont think i bought another Ramones Lp
Road to ruin was my last