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Blank Generation: A Story Of US/Canadian Punk & Its Aftershocks 1975-1981


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• 5CD set bringing a comprehensive, big-tent look at the early years of punk rock in the US and Canada.

• Over six hours of music.

• Includes benchmark tracks by the scene’s most influential bands plus many rare singles making their first appearance on CD.

Tracklist

DISC ONE
1 Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Blank Generation
2 The Ramones – Rockaway Beach
3 Television – Friction
4 The Modern Lovers – Someone I Care About
5 The Heartbreakers – Chinese Rocks
6 The Dictators – Cars and Girls
7 The Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
8 The Dogs – John Rock
9 The Brats – Be a Man
10 Crime – Hot Wire My Heart
11 Poly Styrene Jass Band – Drano In Your Veins
12 Pere Ubu – Final Solution
13 Killer Kane Band – Mr. Cool
14 Marbles – Red Lights
15 Sneakers – Condition Red
16 Blondie – Rip Her to Shreds
17 Suicide – Rocket USA
18 The Suicide Commandos – Match/ Mismatch
19 Patti Smith Group – Pissing In a River
20 Mirrors – Shirley
21 John Berenzy – Vice Verses
22 The Residents – Satisfaction

DISC TWO
1 Devo – Come Back Jonee
2 Destroy all Monsters – Bored
3 The Avengers – We Are the One
4 The Twinkeyz – Aliens In Our Midst
5 The Mumps – Crocodile Tears
6 The Scruffs – My Mind
7 Tommy Hoehn – Blow Yourself Up
8 The Randoms – Let’s Get Rid of New York
9 The Dils – Mr. Big
10 Chris Stamey & the dB’s – (I Thought) You Wanted To Know
11 The Quick – Pretty Please
12 Cigarettes – Gimme Cigarette
13 electric eels – Cyclotron
14 Mars – 3E
15 Howard Werth – Obsolete
16 Pointed Sticks – What Do You Want Me To Do?
17 Shock – This Generation’s On Vacation
18 The Deadbeats – Let’s Shoot Maria
19 The Bags – Survive
20 The Human Switchboard – No
21 Curtiss A – I Don’t Wanna Be President
22 Alda Reserve – Cure Me
23 The Young Canadians – Hawaii
24 The Weirdos – We Got the Neutron Bomb
25 The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here
26 Tom Verlaine – Breakin’ In My Heart
27 Pagans – Street Where Nobody Lives

DISC THREE
1 The Dickies – Fan Mail
2 DMZ – Bad Attitude
3 The Germs – Lexicon Devil
4 The Cramps – TV Set
5 Really Red – Corporate Setting
6 The Swimming Pool Q’s – Rat Bait
7 Blow Up – Tell It to the Judge
8 Nervus Rex – Don’t Look
9 The Eyes – Topological Lies
10 Pylon – Cool
11 Zero Boys – I’m Bored
12 The Bizarros – Quiana Girls
13 Smart Alex – Chitter Chat
14 The Hits – All the Girls (Wanna Be In Gangs)
15 The Dishrags – I Don’t Love You
16 Black Randy & the Metro Squad – I Slept In an Arcade
17 Rhino 39 – Prolixin Stomp
18 Count Vertigo – I’m a Mutant
19 Testors – Time Is Mine
20 The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You
21 The Urinals – I’m a Bug
22 Richard Lloyd – Blue and Grey
23 The Sleepers – Seventh World
24 The Stimulators – Loud Fast Rules
25 The Next – Cheap Rewards
26 Mission of Burma – Academy Fight Song
27 The Flyboys – Theme Song

DISC FOUR
1 Dow Jones & the Industrials – Can’t Stand the Midwest
2 The Haskels – Taking the City By Storm
3 Pure Hell – Noise Addiction
4 Suburban Lawns – Janitor
5 Non Compos Mentis – Ultimate Orgasm
6 The Method Actors – Do the Method
7 Modernettes – Barbra
8 The Bureaucrats – Feel the Pain
9 Bush Tetras – Snakes Crawl
10 Chrome – New Age
11 The Cosmopolitans – How To Keep Your Husband Happy
12 The Customs – Long Gone
13 Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It
14 The Colors – Rave It Up
15 The Gizmos – Bible Belt Baby
16 The Demics – New York City
17 The Units – Work
18 The Suburbs – World War III
19 Chandra – Kate
20 The Suspects – Talking Loud
21 The Feelies – Raised Eyebrows
22 The Bongos – Telephoto Lens
23 Martin Rev – Mari
24 The Embarrassment – Sex Drive
25 The Necessaries – Detroit Tonight
26 MX-80 Sound – Someday You’ll Be King

DISC FIVE
1 Polyrock – Romantic Me
2 The Unknowns – Dream Sequence (September 1981)
3 Pell Mell – Spy Vs. Spy (Sept. ‘81)
4 Lyres – Buried Alive
5 Justin Trouble – Ponytail
6 The Speedies – Time
7 The Anemic Boyfriends – Fake I.D. (August 1981)
8 The Gun Club – She’s Like Heroin To Me
9 The Slickee Boys – Here To Stay (January 1981)
10 Salvation Army – Mind Gardens
11 New Math – They Walk Among You
12 The Jetsons – Genetically Stupid
13 The Dream Syndicate – When You Smile (EP Version)
14 Oil Tasters – That’s When the Brick Goes Through the Window (August 1981)
15 Redd Kross – Clorox Girls
16 Middle Class – Last Touch
17 Wall of Voodoo – Call Box 1-2-3
18 Chiefs – Blues
19 X – White Girl
20 Crash Course In Science – Cardboard Lamb
21 Adolescents – Amoeba
22 Flesh Eaters – Version Nation
23 The Replacements – I’m In Trouble
24 Sport of Kings – This City In Darkness
25 Get Smart! – This Is Style
26 Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia
27 Romeo Void – Not Safe
28 Minor Threat – Minor Threat