Every One a (Punk Rock) Classic Volume 4

To belabor our original 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".



While once again on Volume 4, anthemic punk and hummable power-pop vie for dominance but with the addition of a batch of S-related mod bands (Seventeen, Squire and Smart Alec) the pop continues its ascension. Further highlights of this wing include the The top-tappin', head-boppin' "Language School" by the Tours, the the Hoax's punked-up Evis Costello-ish "Nice Girls", and the short, sharp shock of Dyak's "Gutter Kids" and last but likely most, UXB's "Crazy Today", which melds the angry passion of Stiff Little Fingers to the pop flourishes of the Records - a stone clasic of this or any era. This series just keeps getting better as it goes.


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(Attention all fans of that wonderful seventies Irish variant of pop-punk: please visit MRML's previous Moral Support post here.)

Possible curios (odd, not bad) in this exhibit include, the uber lo-fi Anorexia with their arty-punk track, "Pets" and the devoutly Christian Moral Support whose "Just Where It's At Tonight" is full of loud handclaps and shouted exhortations (but as mentioned above, do check out their superior album).

1. The Cigarettes They're back again,here they come
2. Hoax Nice girls
3. Dyaks Gutter kids
4. Shag Nasty Looking for love
5. Victimize Where did the money go?
6. U.X.B Crazy today
7. 3rd men Your so fashionable
8. Moral support Just where it's at tonight
9. Seventeen Bank holiday weekend
10. Tours Language school
11. Squire Get ready to go
12. Private sector Just (wanna) stay free
13. Valves It don't mean nothing at all
14. The Jump Shake up
15. Smart Alec Scooter boys

Download Every One A Classic Volume 4 CD


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