V.A. Not Just Mandela (1986)

Thanks to BarrieB for donating this rip and scan which this re-up is built around.


Not Just Mandela is a 1986 anti-apartheid benefit L.P. on Davy's Lamp Records that features a rip-roarin' rarity called "Africa" by a Billy Bragg/Neurotics alliance as well as some good hard-to-find tracks by The Housemartins, The Internationalists and Attila The Stockbroker.It's another in a line of politically-inspired British compilations of the eighties we've discussed HERE and HERE.



Tracklist

A1     Billy Bragg With The Neurotics –  Africa           
A2     Real By Reel –  Fighting Talk       
A3     Porky The Poet –  Nobby        
A4     Paul Howard – We Will Win         
A5     Some Other Day –     Bury Your Sins        

B1     Attila The Stockbroker –  The Ballad Of Airstrip One
B2     The Sullivans  –  Falling For Nothing           
B3     Porky The Poet –   Beano  
B4     Internationalists –   Every Fifth Man Is Guilty    
B5     Housemartins –   You   

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The Neurotics: His Masters Voice (1979-1987)

The (Newtown) Neurotics began in the late seventies sounding like a politicized, Anglicized Ramones ( ("C'mon C'mon Don't be so slow, be like The Ramones - go man go!" they once sang) but gradually developed a sound they described as "good pop on a bad budget".



The Neurotics were an under-appreciated part of a loosely-affiliated anti-Thatcher/pro-pop music scene that included everyone from The Housemartins to The Redskins to Madness to the Style Council to Billy Bragg. Exactly when the band hit their peak is a subject of some debate, with some advocating for their early singles and others, such as yourS truly, arguing that they were a bit plain as a straight-up punk band and really found their most distinctive voice on releases like 1985 's "Repercussions".



While you should not judge this out-of-print collection by it's incomprehensibly dreadful packaging, you should realize that its merely a decent overview and far better releases (that don't leave off "Living With Unemployment" [!]) have superseded it and should be sought out via the links below.


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