Every One a (Punk Rock) Classic Volume 3

To reiterate our first post, "The Every One A Classic series of bootlegs (now all out-of-print) are well-curated exhibits of U.K. obscurities of the late seventies. The series' pieces lie somewhere between the glorious wussiness of the Shake Some Action or Powerpearls series and the caustic primitiveness of the Killed by Death or Bloodstains series".

(Image courtesy of Deadbeats and No Ones)

Still splitting the difference between rocking power-pop and sing-along punk, Volume 3 does tilt towards the pop (as any compilation featuring the maudlin yet infectious "Nobody Loves Me" by the Letters must), making for a fine display of pop obscurica. Highlights of this wing include, the call and response beat-punk of Really 3rd's "Every Day, Every Way", and the brilliant Valves (when's their compilation coming?) with their power-punk anthem, "You Don't Mean Nothing at All", which ends in an avalanche of little hooks.

(image courtesy of The 5P)

Possible curios (odd, not bad) include Dansette Damage's hilarious N.M.E, which slams the trend-whoring of the New Musical Express, while repeating it's initials just shy of one million times at the song's end and the once-topical but still less than tuneful, "Idi Amin" by The K-9's.

1. Future bodies Terrorist
2. Beez Do the suicide
3. Letters Nobody loves me
4. Really 3rds Everyday, Everyway
5. G Squad In my mind
6. Dansette damage NME
7. Cybermen Where's the new wave
8. Blitzkrieg bop UFO
9. Buzzards We make a noise
10. A.V.O 8 Gone wrong
11. Push Cambridge stomp
12. Private Sector Just wanna stay free
13. Valves It mean nothin' at all
14. The K9's Idi Amin
15. Joe 9T & the Thunderbirds Joe 9T theme

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If you're enjoying these seventies mod-power-pop-punk compilations, you should surely check out MRML's Shake Some Action posts.