1 2 3 4 PUNK AND NEW WAVE 1976-1979

VARIOUS ARTISTS
1 2 3 4 Punk and New Wave 1976-1979

Universal
MCD 60066 (1999)

	A 5-CD boxed set compilation of punk/new wave songs. Probably the most comprehensive and definitive punk collection - certainly the most lavishly packaged. The 100 tracks are spread over 5 CDs, each in its own cardboard envelope. The 5 envelopes can be put together to make one big picture. There is a booklet with a general introduction, followed by one page for each of the 100 tracks, containing information on the artist and recommendations of which of their records to buy. The booklet has 4 silver badges on the cover, and they poke through the front of the box to provide the title ("1 2 3 4"). The packaging is so well-produced and -designed that it could almost be a Pink Floyd CD - until you play it. And its not just me who thinks its great: Q magazine gave this 4 stars and said "With Rock'n'Roll now settling down to venerable middle age, this exhaustive document provides a timely reminder of its sneeringly vital adolescence.

Tracks
Disc one
	Complete Control The Clash Anarchy In The UK Sex Pistols New Rose The Damned The Blitzkrieg Bop Ramones Shadow The Lurkers Thinkin' of the USA Eater Ain't Bin To No Music School The Nosebleeds Borstal Breakout Sham 69 I Hate School Suburban Studs G.L.C. Menace One Chord Wonders The Adverts Right To Work Chelsea Johnny Won't Get To Heaven The Killjoys Bone Idol The Drones Wher Have All The Boot Boys Gone Slaughter and The Dogs C.I.D. UK Subs I Can't Wait 'Til '78 The Wasps Ambition Subway Sect (I'm) Stranded The Saints Orgasm Addict Buzzcocks
Disc two
	In The City The Jam Your Generation Generation X First Time The Boys (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) The Stranglers Don't Dictate Penetration In A Rut The Ruts Big Time Rudi Don't Ring Me Up Protex Justa Nother Teenage Rebel The Outcasts Solitary Confinement The Members Emergency 999 19 & Mad Leyton Buzzards I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher Not Sensibles Romford Girls Riff Raff Sick Of You The Users Gabrielle The Nips Where Were You? The Mekons Murder Of Liddle Towers Angelic Upstarts Oh Bondage Up Yours! X-Ray Spex Sweet Suburbia Skids Television Screen The Radiators From Space Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers Teenage Kicks The Undertones
Disc three
	Teenage Depression Eddie And The Hot Rods Rich Kids Rich Kids Baby Baby The Vibrators Suffice To Say Yachts Roadrunner Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Don't Care Klark Kent Nervous Wreck Radio Stars Up Against The Wall Tom Robinson Band So It Goes Nick Lowe Police Cars Larry Wallis Hard Lovin' ManJohnny Moped Love And A Molotov Cocktail The Flys Where's Captain Kirk? Spizzenergi Sonic Reducer Dead Boys Search & Destroy The Dictators Born To Lose The Heartbreakers Modern Dance Pere Ubu Fuck Off The Electric Chairs California Uber Alles Dead Kennedys
Disc four
	(I Belong To The) Blank Generation Richard Hell & The Voidoids 10:15 Saturday Night The Cure Rip Her To Shreds Blondie I Can't Stand My Baby The Rezillos All I Want Snatch Looking After No. 1 The Boomtown Rats Take Me I'm Yours Squeeze Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Ian Dury And The Blockheads Spanish Stroll Mink Deville Is She Really Going Out With Him? Joe Jackson Whole Wide World Wreckless Eric Part Time Punks Television Personalities Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart Patrik Fitzgerald You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory Johnny Thunders Psycle Sluts (Part 1) John Cooper Clarke Jilted John Jilten John Kill Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias Paranoid The Dickies
Disc five
	Public Image Public Image Ltd. Warsaw Joy Division The Staircase (Mystery) Siouxie And The Banshees Damaged Goods Gang Of Four You Au Pair How Much Longer Alternative TV Read About Seymour Swell Maps Young Parisians Adam & The Ants The Monochrome Set The Monochrome Set We Are All Prostitutes The Pop Group Typical Girls The Slits Mannequin Wire Shot By Both Sides Magazine Science Friction XTC Do The The Standing Still The Table Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones Young Savage Ultravox! Puppet Life Punishment Of Luxury Jocko Homo Devo Marquee Moon Television