View Full Version : No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion - Box Set


Tydestra
10-29-03, 09:46 PM
Amazon Info (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DD539/qid%3D1067484127/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-2054134-8423113)

Just look at the track listing:

Disc: 1
1. Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
2. White Riot - The Clash
3. Heart Of The City - Nick Lowe
4. Boredom - Buzzcocks featuring Howard Devoto
5. (I'm) Stranded - The Saints
6. Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
7. In The City - The Jam
8. Final Solution - Pere Ubu
9. Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
10. Little Johnny Jewel - Television
11. One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
12. Born To Lose - The Heartbreakers
13. Search And Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges
14. Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) - Mink DeVille
15. Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
16. 1 2 X U - Wire
17. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
18. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
19. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
20. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
21. Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
22. Two Tub Man - The Dictators
23. Hey Joe (Version) - Patti Smith
24. Your Generation - Generation X
Disc: 2
1. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
2. Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts
3. Satday Night In The City Of The Dead - Ultravox!
4. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
5. X Offender - Blondie
6. Lookin' After No. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
7. Don't Dictate - Penetration
8. Bingo Master - The Fall
9. Free Money - Patti Smith
10. The Modern World - The Jam
11. Chinese Rocks - The Heartbreakers
12. New Rose - The Damned
13. Ambition - Subway Sect
14. See No Evil - Television
15. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
16. Mannequin - Wire
17. Baby Baby - The Vibrators
18. Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
19. First Time - The Boys
20. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
21. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
22. Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
23. Trash - New York Dolls
24. The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - X-Ray Spex
25. Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hot Rods
Disc: 3
1. Ready Steady Go - Generation X
2. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
3. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury
4. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - Buzzcocks
5. Rocket U.S.A. - Suicide
6. Mongoloid - Devo
7. Homicide - 999
8. Mr. Big - The Dils
9. Warsaw - Joy Division
10. Where Were You? - The Mekons
11. Lexicon Devil - The Germs
12. (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures - The Rezillos
13. The Wait - The Pretenders
14. We Got The Neutron Bomb - The Weirdos
15. Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
16. Action Time Vision - Alternative TV
17. 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
18. We Are The One - The Avengers
19. Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
20. Wasted - Black Flag
21. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
22. I Love Livin In The City - Fear
23. She's So Modern - The Boomtown Rats
24. Ghosts Of Princes In Towers - Rich Kids
25. We're Desperate - X
26. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) - The Dickies
27. Dancing The Night Away - The Motors
Disc: 4
1. Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
2. Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
3. Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos
4. Adult Books - X
5. The Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members
6. California =DCber Alles - Dead Kennedys
7. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
8. (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp - The Soft Boys
9. Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
10. Typical Girls - The Slits
11. Human Fly - The Cramps
12. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
13. Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
14. If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
15. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
16. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
17. She Is Beyond Good And Evil - The Pop Group
18. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
19. Get Over You - The Undertones
20. Love Like Anthrax - Gang Of Four
21. Peaches - The Stranglers
22. Into The Valley - Skids
23. You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory - Johnny Thunders
24. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

This is just flucking awesome!

BlueMolly2001
10-30-03, 12:44 AM
OMG, "Bondage Up Yours" has to be one of my favorite punk songs of all time. You're so right, Ty, this box set IS flucking awesome. This will definately be on my X-Mas list.
Oh and the Ultravox! song is pre Midge Ure. It was in the John Foxx era when they were punk.

ImSoooSure
10-30-03, 01:15 AM
:lol: At first I thought you were saying, NO Thanks! You don't want it. I thought you were insane for a sec. there. :goofy: It looks great. Thanks for posting the track list! :D

djdaffy1227
10-30-03, 09:03 AM
Talk about PUNK!! The only song that sticks out like a sore thumb is "Is she really going out with him" from Joe Jackson, how is that song punk??? This will be a nice compliment to the 20 CD box set I have called "The complete history of punk". Which I reviewed here:

http://www.80sxchange.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=11107


Here's an interesting fact about this box set:

from www.usatoday.com:

Johnny Rotten disturbs release of punk rock box set
NEW YORK (AP) — You've got to admit there's some poetic justice to it: a company feuding with Johnny Rotten over the release of a vintage punk rock box set.
Rhino Records is releasing a four-CD, 100-song punk retrospective on Oct. 28, titled No Thanks!: The '70s Punk Rebellion.

The company wanted to call the box, Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? For music trivia buffs, those were the words spoken into the microphone by Johnny Rotten as the Sex Pistols left the stage after their final concert before breaking up in 1978.

Then Rotten, born John Lydon, found out about Rhino's plans when he was interviewed this summer by a reporter from The Washington Post.

"It's a (expletive) insult to be using my quote to back up product that I have nothing to do with," he told the Post. "To my mind, that's fraudulent marketing, plain and simple. I don't care how much homage they pay to me in the liner notes. They want to use me from a distance and I find that just unacceptable."

Lydon conveyed the same message to Rhino, said Marc Salata, product manager of the box set.

Rhino was already disappointed because the Sex Pistols wouldn't license any of their songs for the project. The box includes the Clash, Ramones, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, the Jam and Patti Smith — with the Pistols a major hole.

The title, No Thanks!, has dual meanings, Salata explained. At the time, the punk bands were saying, "no thanks" to the popular music of the day. And although many of the musicians are revered today, they received relatively little public support at the time.

Left unspoken is a "no thanks" to the Sex Pistols.

Rhino has launched an ad campaign that lists all the bands appearing on their box, and "bands that just said, 'no thanks:' the Sex Pistols.

"Here are 100 tracks to tell 99% of the story," Rhino says. "For the rest, dust off your copy of Never Mind the Bollocks," the first Sex Pistols album.

Even Salata admits that Lydon showed a certain punk rock spirit in telling Rhino to get lost.

"We didn't want to pick a fight with John Lydon," he said. "But it doesn't seem too difficult to pick a fight with John Lydon."

LOSTNTHE80S
10-30-03, 09:37 AM
Eddie and the Hot Rods...that name stood out. I got a box of sealed 8 track tapes one time and there was one in there with that name.

I recognize some of these...sounds good but I probably won't purchase it.

PG
10-30-03, 09:48 AM
Awesome! So many great bands and tracks included. Yeah, is does seem incomplete without The Sex Pistols, but hey - I can hear the Pistols anytime I want. It's the more rare artists and tracks that makes me want to buy this set. :)

BrandyBlue
10-30-03, 10:45 AM
Originally posted by LOSTNTHE80S
Eddie and the Hot Rods...that name stood out. I got a box of sealed 8 track tapes one time and there was one in there with that name.

I recognize some of these...sounds good but I probably won't purchase it.

Unless you find it at a swap meet for a buck :lol:

It sounds great, though!

BlueMolly2001
10-30-03, 11:58 AM
A little bit of trivia with Eddie and the Hot Rods is that Mark Hollis's (Talk Talk) Eddie was their manager of the group.

Tydestra
11-02-03, 07:07 PM
I read that too Daffy. Screw the Pistols, they're so over rated in the punk scene like Nirvana was to rock.

Caligula
11-03-03, 11:44 AM
Rhino Records should have pissed Johnny Rotten off by adding one song by Avril Levigne :lol:

XXX
11-03-03, 12:49 PM
Nick Lowe is in this set??? The same dude who sang the radio-friendly, "Cruel To Be Kind" and looks like he has cotton for hair?! THAT Nick Lowe? :D

Tydestra
11-03-03, 09:57 PM
Originally posted by Caligula
Rhino Records should have pissed Johnny Rotten off by adding one song by Avril Levigne :lol:

There's no way in hell that would have ever happened.