Punk Collection from Rhino looks interesting

Reported by MSNBC here

If you like punk, or want to learn more about it, seems like this could be a way. There have been a few threads where the book Please Kill Me: An Uncensored Oral History of Punk has been strongly recommended - this collection might be a good soundtrack for the book…

Damn, that sounds like a good introduction. I’m gonna check it out.

Another great book is American Hardcore. It’s a tribal history of the US Hardcore scene from 80-86

Track listing here:

http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=6688

Pretty ironic that they’re using a Sex Pistols quote for the title but there are no Pistols on the set!

Nice intro, good selection of tracks. Though what I’d really like to see from Rhino is a Nuggets-style compilation for the punk era: the really obscure, hard-to-find stuff, not a couple of well-known tracks from each of the Big Names. I have most of this stuff already (thanks in part to Rhino’s old DIY series.)

Good selection of bands, poor selection of tracks.

JOE JACKSON???

:confused:

Must… own… set…

Hmmm… On further observation, I think hazel-rah is right. There are some real winners on there, but “Human Fly” is the only entry from The Cramps? Heck, on that same album you’ve got “She Said” and “All Tore Up,” either of which is a far better song.

And there’s no Minor Threat! This is starting to look a little fishy.

Disc Four branches out into areas that certainly aren’t part of what I call “punk”: “Hanging On The Telephone” by Blondie, “Boys Don’t Cry” by The Cure (weird choice there), and the last track, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” from Joy Division. Also Siouxsie and the Banshees. Disc Four seems to be more about The Roots of Goth than about punk.

Still, there’s some great stuff on there. I may get it, though I’m not generally the box-set type.

Siouxsie & the Banshees started out as a bonafide punk band (and, if legend is to believed, Siouxsie was behind much punk fashion.) Though yes, clearly disc 4 is meant to be the “beginning the post-punk era” disc, with things like the Cure and Joe Jackson, and Love Will Tear Us Apart symbolically closing out the set.

The reason Minor Threat aren’t on there is because they’re latecomers. They weren’t even formed until 1980, the set’s end date.

Believe it or not, Joe Jackson had some good stuff. Check out “Got The Time” or “Pretty Boys”. He’s not out of place on a comp like this. Pre-hardcore punk wasn’t as stylisticly rigid as it became in the 80s.

Jon

Its been done. Check out the “Killed By Death” series and the “Bloodstains” comps. They feature all sorts of 77-82 punk obscurities.

Jon