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

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

I Wanna Hate It

Ireland’s Andy McCarroll was one of a thousands folkies turned “new wavers” like Debbie Harry, John Hiatt and Tom Robinson. In 1980 Andy McCarroll and Moral Support made a new wave power-pop gem that remains buried in the Christian rock ghetto. That sucks. Zionic Bonds is a rippling record; witness the punk rock sturm and drang of “How the Kids Are Feelin’, the power-pop backing vocals on “Sin”, the new wave synth-beeps on “Slippin’ and Slidin’” plus the obligatory reggata de blanc of “In Control”. This album fits in perfectly with the whole punky power-pop sound of the Undertones and all the Good Vibrations bands (Rudi, Protext, Moondogs etc.) that briefly dominated Ireland . The lyrics, particularly the accusatory “I Am Human”, may annoy but they follow the same sort of “Society’s messed up – let’s rock” attitude so common at the time. Who'da guessed this would influence U2 so much?

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The obscurity-lovin’ series Every One A Classic (Punk Mod Powerpop) included “Just Where It's At Tonight” on Vol.4, which has been added as a bonus track for your ed-if-i-cation.

This link implies that a CDR of this album is available. I’ll order a copy and report back on its quality. My hope is that maybe we’ll steer some new customers their way. If necessary this link will be removed...

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UPDATE: 'Unofficial' remix available HERE!!