JON SAVAGE’S 1977-1979 (2CD)
by VARIOUS ARTISTS
Compact Disc Double
CDTOP21610
Label: ACE RECORDS
The seventh in the series of Ace singles comps reaches the years 1977-79. Unlike the earlier 70s, when I’d been streamed into the rock world, I’d started to listen to a wider variety of music during that time – punk, obviously, but also the beginning of post-punk, early homegrown electronica, European synth disco, dub, a bit of new wave and unique one-offs such as Subway Sect’s ‘Dontsplitit’ or the Lines’ ‘White Night’ – that represents a turbulent, highly creative period which reflected a divided, increasingly harsh world outside. DISC ONE
1. PROPHESY REVEAL - Bo Jangles
2. NEAT NEAT NEAT - The Damned
3. HEAVY MANNERS - Prince Far I
4. SODA PRESSING - The Boys
5. QUICK STEP - The Adverts
6. YOUNG SAVAGE - Ultravox!
7. MAGIC FLY - Space
8. THE MODERN DANCE - Pere Ubu
9. DAY BY DAY - Generation X
10. UTOPIA - ME GIORGIO - Giorgio
11. THE PASSENGER - Iggy Pop
12. SUSPENDED SENTENCE - John Cooper Clarke
13. BAMBA IN DUB - The Revolutionaries
14. NO BONES FOR THE DOGS - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
15. EMERGENCY - 999
16. KING’S LEAD HAT - Brian Eno
17. DONTSPLITIT - Subway Sect
18. 52 GIRLS - The B-52’s
19. MOVING AWAY FROM THE PULSEBEAT - Buzzcocks
20. NEVER - Penetration
21. WARM LEATHERETTE - The Normal
22. I REMEMBER - Suicide
23. TRUE CONFESSIONS - The Undertones
DISC TWO
1. BEING BOILED - The Human League
2. WHITE NIGHT - The Lines
3. COME BACK JONEE - Devo
4. TIRED OF WAKING UP TIRED - The Diodes
5. VOICES - Siouxsie & The Banshees
6. 28/8/78 - Scritti Politti
7. THE SET UP - Cabaret Voltaire
8. HUMAN FLY - The Cramps
9. FOUND A JOB - Talking Heads
10. SITUATIONS - The Middle Class
11. TIMES ENCOUNTER - Nigel Simpkins
12. HANDLING THE BIG JETS - The Members
13. HIPPIE - Suzannes
14. 3.38 - The Pop Group
15. WARRIOR IN WOOLWORTHS - X-Ray Spex
16. ARE ‘FRIENDS’ ELECTRIC? - Tubeway Army
17. ALL NIGHT PARTY - A Certain Ratio
18. PAKMOVÄST - Telex
19. EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS - The Monochrome Set
20. A QUESTION OF DEGREE - Wire
21. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE - The Slits
22. HINDU GODS (OF LOVE) - Lipstick Killers
23. SPACER - Sheila & B Devotion
