Lew Lewis Reformer - Save The Wail (2002, compilation)

The lost legend of Pub Rock that is Lew Lewis. Founder member of Canvey Islands 'Southside Jugband' alongside Lee Brilleaux of Dr Feelgood. How more Proto-Punk can you get than that?
That very same Jugband spawned Eddie and the Hot Rods, who enticed Lew into its fold for the first two singles, then he formed The Reformer in 1977.
It gets better......In 1987 our Lew was given a seven-year jail sentence(Lucky seven eh?) for armed robbery, after holding up a post office with a fake pistol, stealing £5,000 and trying to escape on a shopping bike.
This guy walked the walk and Talked the talk......mental breakdown aside of course!
His weapon of choice was the Harmonica which he wielded like a chainsaw in the hands of Leatherface.
Again he was big in France, like most of the Pub Rock fraternity, but lost in his native land.
So, here's his entire recorded output (except the two tracks on the Hope and Anchor R&B album);and you may notice that his self-penned tunes tend to veer in the direction of Bars and Gambling as subject matter.......and why not?

Tracklist:

1 Do Just What You Want
2 Wait
3 Win Or Lose
4 High Temperature
5 Mr Bartender
6 Lucky Seven
7 Hometown Blues
8 Photo-Finish
9 Night Talk
10 Rider

Singles:

11 Boogie On The Street
12 Caravan Man
13 1-30 2-30 3-35
14 The Mood I'm In

Live 1977:

15 Watch Yourself
16 One Stop Town
17 Messin' With The Kid
18 Out For A Lark

Live 1979:

19 Shake & Fingerpop
20 Romance
21 Long Grey Mare

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The Dodgems - Anthology 1978-80

The complexity of modern politics was explored through the songs of the Dodgems, a late-'70s punk band based in Brighton, England. But their music took a more immediate approach. "We have been called political and we do have strong opinions about things," said drummer Charlie Zuber. "But we have to keep the message fairly simple because the music's so loud." Formed in 1978 as Jet-Slag,the Dodgems represented the vision of vocalist/bassist Gary Turner. Initially featuring guitarist/vocalist Doug Potter and lead guitarist/vocalist Dave Owen, the Dodgems expanded with the addition of Paul Birchall, a keyboard player they acquired through an ad. With their fiery delivery, the Dodgems burned out almost as soon as they hit the concert stage. Although they were heralded by influential British disc jockey/producer John Peel, and appeared several times on his radio show, they disbanded within a year. Turner briefly resurfaced, in 1980, with the Piranhas.

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Dr. John Cooper Clarke and Hugh Cornwell - This Time It's Personal (2016)

Dr. John Cooper Clarke and Hugh Cornwell album ‘This Time It’s Personal’ featuring classic tracks that Hugh and esteemed poet Dr. John Cooper Clarke grew up listening to, the album is the surprising duo’s first collaboration.

The fact that these two giants of punk and new wave are together on record for the first time is remarkable enough. But the album, which features ten hand-picked songs reflecting the pair's shared love of classic American and British pop they grew up with, has a knockout punchline. With not a spoken word in sight by Dr Clarke, nor a distinctive growling Cornwell vocal, This Time It's Personal’ announces John's debut, at the age of 67, as a lead vocalist, with Hugh playing all guitars and producing the album. The results are delightful.

“No one knew he could sing!” laughs Cornwell. “When you tell people they go 'You're kidding me.'”

So it is that Hugh and John are celebrating their musical education in 2016, and this time, just as they say, it really is personal. “It's going to be a complete voyage of discovery,” they agree. “These are great tunes,” says John, “and we've done our very best to respect them, and to bring them...” Hugh jumps in to complete the thought: “...back to life.”

With tracks by the likes of Lieber & Stoller, Jimmy Webb, Ricky Nelson, Richie Valens and Conway Twitty, ‘This Time It’s Personal’ sees the duo paying their respects to the music that had played such a part in their musical coming of age.

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Underground Life - The Fox (1982)

This is a really great debut LP by the Italian new wave band Underground Life. Highly recommended!

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June Brides - There Are Eight Million Stories (1985)

The June Brides are an English indie pop group, formed in London in 1983, by Phil Wilson and Simon Beesley of International Rescue. Influenced by Postcard-label bands such as Josef K and punk-era bands such as Buzzcocks, The Desperate Bicycles and The Television Personalities, their mix of guitar pop with viola and trumpet formed a blueprint for many of the indie pop bands that would follow.
Great classic album!

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Sudden Sway - Spacemate (12x2 LP) 1986

The band was formed in 1980 by Mike McGuire (vocals) and Steve Rolls (Guitar) after disbanding 1st generation punk band The Now. They recruited Pete Jostins (Bass), Shaun Foreman (Guitar & Keyboards) and Colin Meech (Drums), with various others contributing in their early days. They were initially influenced by bands such as A Certain Ratio and Shriekback.

Nobody understood Sudden Sway during their active period in the 1980’s, and it’s easy to see why. Heavily conceptual, always obscure, their career was marked by what seemed to be bizarrely self-defeating marketing initiatives that appeared to explode in their faces. What wasn’t apparent then, but is obvious now, is that Sudden Sway possessed an unusual prescience. During the dawn of neoliberalism, they had already seen through it, and into the incoherence that it masked.

Sudden Sway liked to portray themselves as a corporation. This was nothing new for a post-punk band of course. Public Image Limited and the British Electric Foundation adopted corporate veneers as a means of intimidatory self-aggrandisation; to project a kind of world-conquering invulnerability (however ironically).

"Space Mate" was a double album housed in a large, flimsy box that was purported to be a board game. The packaging, which seemed to be deliberately designed to inconvenience both WEA’s distributors and the record shops that sold it, came with a bewildering array of inserts, instructions, wall charts and stickers. I’ve no doubt that there are still warehouses in the south east of England that are full of them.

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Taste Of Decay – 1984-1986

Taste Of Decay, a post-punk band hailing from Harrislee, Germany is definitely worth to listen if you are a fan of post-punk / positive punk / gothic. Last known line up was Simon Pörksen (bass), Lenni Thomsen (drums), Felix Schultz (guitars) and Michael Scholz (vocals), and according to Michael Scholz’s website they have released two tapes and one 7″ EP (“Calling” EP) limited to 512 copies. Some people described their music as “Gothic” at that time, while they called it as “Cave Trash”. They got more “punkish” beat on some of their songs (listen to “Factory” for example), kinda like a mix of Play Dead, Vex and UK Decay! Existed from June 1984 to August 1986, their releases are nearly impossible to find these days I believe. But Mannequin (Label + Mailorder based in Rome, Italy) – collaborated with French label Infrastition – reissued their discography CD, released on May 28th 2010 and limited to 500 copies! Listen to the tunes, and enjoy!

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