5013929107403

Optimism / Reject ~ Punk And Post-punk Meets D-i-y Aesthetic 1977-1981

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: CRCDBOX74

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Format Details: Deluxe Bookpack Edition /

Release Date:  26 July 2019

Label:  Cherry Red Ada / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929107403

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    The Highly Anticipated Companion To 2017'S 'To The Outside Of Everything'. Extensive 4Cd/Book Set - Over A Hundred Self-Released Missives, Lo-Fi Manifestos, Boutique Label Offerings And Expressions From The Edge Of Punk And The Post-Punk Explosion. Features Classics, Rarities, Album Tracks And Unearthed Gems From The Fall, Subway Sect, Sisters Of Mercy, Thompson Twins, Blancmange, Young Marble Giants, Marine Girls, John Cooper Clarke, Alternative Tv, Scritti Politti, 23 Skidoo, The Raincoats, Thomas Leer And Many More. 4Cd + 64Pp A5 Book Format Includes Extensive Essay From Mojo'S Mark Paytress Plus Track-By-Track Band Biographies. Curated And Designed By The People Who Brought You Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream, Manchester – North Of England, Revolutionary Spirit, Electrical Language, The Close To The Noise Floor Series And Many More Critically Acclaimed Box Sets. In The Wake Of Punk, Musicians In The Uk Found Themselves Suddenly Liberated Artistically And Free To Think In New Terms Commercially. The Outcome Was The Independent Label Boom, And Beyond That A Certain Do It Yourself Aesthetic. Overnight, The Possibility Arose Of Recording Your Own Music And Releasing Your Own Record, Or, If You Weren'T Musical Yourself, Setting Up Your Own Label To Release Records By People Who Were. Enabled By A New Independent Distribution Network, Classified Ads In The Nation'S Music Press And The Enthusiasm Of Record Shop Owners Countrywide, A New Kind Of Musician Leapt Into The Spotlight, Free Of The Shackles Of Commercial Aspirations And The Conformist Musical Approaches They Necessitated. New Sounds Were Delivered Every Week, Pressed Onto Cheaply Produced 7" Singles And Ambitious Compilations By Bedroom Based Labels. Among The Photocopied Sleeves And Inserts, Hand-Stamped Labels And Sae Addresses, Not To Mention The Eclectic Range Of Sounds They Accompanied, A Common Ground Appeared: It Didn'T Matter What You Did, So Long As You Did It Yourself. "Optimism/Reject" Captures A Snapshot Of That Time And Place. One Of Many Possible Views On A Period Of Freedom Of Expression Like No Other. From Scratchy Lo-Fi Guitar Pop To Ambitious Home Productions And Experimental Meanderings, This Is The Sound Of An Underworld Beneath The Underground. A Place So Far From The Mainstream Only Those With A Keen Imagination Figured Out How To Get There. A Time When Doing Nothing Was A Crime, And Doing Anything Was Possible.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Eater - Michaell's Monetary System
      • 2. The Drones - You?Ll Lose
      • 3. Alternative Tv - Love Lies Limp
      • 4. The Outsiders - Freeway
      • 5. John Cooper Clarke - Suspended Sentence
      • 6. ?O? Level - O Levels
      • 7. Swell Maps - Black Velvet
      • 8. Patrik Fitzgerald - Optimism/Reject
      • 9. Attrix - Hard Times
      • 10. Subway Sect - Nobody'S Scared
      • 11. The Freshies - Washed Up
      • 12. Skids - Charles
      • 13. Angelic Upstarts - Police Oppression
      • 14. The Art Attacks - Neutron Bomb
      • 15. Victim - Mixed Up World
      • 16. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns
      • 17. The Tights - It
      • 18. Punishment Of Luxury - The Demon
      • 19. The Fall - Bingo Master
      • 20. The Cravats - Situations Vacant
      • 21. Scritti Politti - Is And Ought The Western World
      • 22. Prag Vec - Wolf
      • 23. The Jerks - Cool
      • 24. The Monochrome Set - He?S Frank
      • 25. Thomas Leer - International
      • 26. Devil'S Dykes - Fruitless
      • 27. Vice Creems - 01-01-212
      • 28. Nigel Simpkins Disc - Times Encounter

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Ruts - H Eyes
      • 2. The Dodgems - Lord Lucan Is Missing
      • 3. Passage - The Competition
      • 4. Nicky & The Dots - Girl Gets Nervous
      • 5. Scissor Fits - I Don't Want To Work For British Airways
      • 6. Spizzoil - Cold City
      • 7. The Shapes - (I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)
      • 8. Proles - Stereo Love
      • 9. The Molesters - Commuter Man
      • 10. The Pack - Heathen
      • 11. The Raincoats - In Love
      • 12. The Tea Set - Sing Song
      • 13. Artery - Mother Moon
      • 14. Murder The Disturbed - The Ultimate System
      • 15. The Family Fodder - Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling)
      • 16. Frantic Elevators - Every Day I Die
      • 17. They Must Be Russians - Nagasaki'S Children
      • 18. Second Layer - Metal Sheet
      • 19. Metrophase - Cold Rebellion
      • 20. Disturbed - I Don'T Believe
      • 21. The Door And The Window - Subculture Fashion Slaves
      • 22. The Steppes - God's Got Religion
      • 23. Gl*Xo Babies - Christine Keeler
      • 24. The Associates - Boys Keep Swinging
      • 25. 'Fatal' Microbes - Beautiful Pictures
      • 26. Disco Zombies - Top Of The Pops
      • 27. Pneumania Disc - Exhibition

      Disc 3

      • 1. Au Pairs - Domestic Departure
      • 2. English Subtitles - Reconstruction
      • 3. Medium Medium - Them Or Me (Edit)
      • 4. Modern Eon - Choreography
      • 5. Josef K - Chance Meeting (Absolute Version)
      • 6. The Lines - On The Air
      • 7. Mo Dettes - Masochistic Opposite
      • 8. Deep Freeze Mice - Minstrel Radio Yoghurt
      • 9. The Chefs - You Get Everywhere
      • 10. The Golinski Brothers - Bloody
      • 11. The Lillettes - Hey Operator
      • 12. The Bodies - Art Nouveau
      • 13. Nightmares In Wax - Shangrila
      • 14. Weird Strings - Oscar Automobile
      • 15. Again Again - Self Employed
      • 16. The Membranes - Fashionable Junkies
      • 17. Manic Jabs - Autophagous
      • 18. Blancmange - Modichy In Aneration
      • 19. No Message - Mystere V's
      • 20. Eyeless In Gaza - The Feelings Mutual
      • 21. Distributors - Lean On Me
      • 22. Tagmemics - Chimneys
      • 23. Rhythm Clicks - Short Time
      • 24. Blurt Disc - Get

      Disc 4

      • 1. Young Marble Giants - Final Day
      • 2. Charge - You Get What You Deserve
      • 3. Sisters Of Mercy - The Damage Done
      • 4. Girls At Our Best - Politics!
      • 5. A Popular History Of Signs - Justice Not Vengeance
      • 6. Thompson Twins - Could Be Her, Could Be You
      • 7. Fire Engines - Everything's Roses
      • 8. Emma Sharpe - Motorway
      • 9. The Red Squares - The Russians Are Coming
      • 10. The Room - Motion
      • 11. The - Should Be More Ideal
      • 12. Cult Figures - I Remember
      • 13. The Higsons - Insect Love
      • 14. The Laughing Apple - Chips For Tea
      • 15. The Legendary Pink Dots - Defeated
      • 16. Marine Girls - Holiday Song
      • 17. Normil Hawaiians - The Return
      • 18. The Reflections - Zigzagging
      • 19. Sad Lovers And Giants - When I See You
      • 20. To The Finland Station - Domino Theory
      • 21. Vivien Goldman - Launderette
      • 22. 23 Skidoo- Ethics
      • 23. Screen - Shades Of Black
      • 24. The Happy Few - Plan
      • 25. The Tesco Bombers - Break The Ice At Parties
      • 26. ...And The Native Hipsters- I Wanna Be Around (Paul)