No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion | |
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Compilation album | |
Released | October 28, 2003 |
Genre | Punk rock, new wave, power pop, post-punk, proto-punk |
Label | Rhino |
Producer | Gary Stewart |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | link |
Blender | link |
Pitchfork Media | 10.0/10 February 10, 2004 |
No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion is a compilation album chronicling the punk rock movement of the 1970s. Released by Rhino Entertainment on October 28, 2003, the box set of four compact discs includes 100 tracks originally released between 1973 and 1980, performed by 75 artists from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland. In addition to punk rock, the collection touches upon the antecedent style of proto-punk and the related genres of new wave music, power pop, and post-punk.
Many artists are represented multiple times in the collection. The Buzzcocks have the most tracks of any single artist, with three of their songs included in the compilation. Johnny Thunders appears on five tracks: two by the New York Dolls, two by The Heartbreakers, and his 1978 solo song "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory". Notably absent from the compilation are the Sex Pistols, whose singer John Lydon refused Rhino Entertainment permission to include any of the band's tracks, allegedly because Rhino chose not to release the 2002 Sex Pistols boxed set in the United States. [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Lust for Life" (from Lust for Life , 1977) | Pop, David Bowie | Iggy Pop | |
2. | "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" (1977 single) | T. Smith | The Adverts | |
3. | "Sat'day Night in the City of the Dead" (from Ultravox! , 1977) | John Foxx | Ultravox | |
4. | "What Do I Get?" (1978 single) | Shelley | Buzzcocks | |
5. | "X Offender" (single version, 1976) | Gary Valentine, Debbie Harry | Blondie | |
6. | "Lookin' After No. 1" (from The Boomtown Rats , 1977) | Bob Geldof | The Boomtown Rats | |
7. | "Don't Dictate" (1977 single) | Gary Chaplin, Pauline Murray | Penetration | |
8. | "Bingo Master" (from Bingo-Master's Break-Out! , 1978) | Mark E. Smith, Una Baines | The Fall | |
9. | "Free Money" (from Horses , 1975) | P. Smith, Lenny Kaye | Patti Smith | |
10. | "The Modern World" (from This Is the Modern World , 1977) | Weller | The Jam | |
11. | "Chinese Rocks" (from L.A.M.F., 1977) | D. Ramone, Hell | The Heartbreakers | |
12. | "New Rose" (from Damned Damned Damned, 1977) | B. James | The Damned | |
13. | "Ambition" (1978 single) | Vic Godard | Subway Sect | |
14. | "See No Evil" (from Marquee Moon , 1977) | Verlaine | Television | |
15. | "Suspect Device" (single version, 1978) | Jake Burns, Gordon Ogilvie | Stiff Little Fingers | |
16. | "Mannequin" (from Pink Flag, 1977) | Gilbert, Lewis, Newman, Gotobed | Wire | |
17. | "Baby Baby" (from Pure Mania , 1977) | Knox | The Vibrators | |
18. | "Love Comes in Spurts" (from Blank Generation, 1977) | Hell | Richard Hell and the Voidoids | |
19. | "First Time" (from The Boys , 1977) | Honest John Plain | The Boys | |
20. | "Sonic Reducer" (from Young Loud and Snotty , 1977) | Stiv Bators, Johnny Blitz, Cheetah Chrome, Jeff Magnum, Thomas, Jimmy Zero | The Dead Boys | |
21. | "Shot by Both Sides" (from Real Life , 1978) | Devoto, Shelley | Magazine | |
22. | "Mystery Dance" (from My Aim Is True , 1977) | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | |
23. | "Trash" (from New York Dolls, 1973) | Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain | New York Dolls | |
24. | "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" (single version, 1978) | Styrene | X-Ray Spex | |
25. | "Do Anything You Wanna Do" (from Life on the Line , 1977) | Graeme Douglas, Ed Hollis | Eddie and the Hot Rods |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Ready Steady Go" (from Generation X, 1978) | Idol, T. James | Generation X | |
2. | "Teenage Kicks" (1978 single) | John O'Neill | The Undertones | |
3. | "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" (1977 single) | Ian Dury, Chaz Jankel | Ian Dury | |
4. | "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" (from Love Bites , 1978) | Shelley | Buzzcocks | |
5. | "Rocket U.S.A." (from Suicide , 1977) | Alan Vega, Martin Rev | Suicide | |
6. | "Mongoloid" (single version, 1977) | Gerald Casale | Devo | |
7. | "Homicide" (from Separates , 1978) | Nick Cash, Guy Days | 999 | |
8. | "Mr. Big" (from 198 Seconds of The Dils, 1977) | Chip Kinman, Tony Kinman | The Dils | |
9. | "Warsaw" (from An Ideal for Living , 1978) | Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Ian Curtis | Joy Division | |
10. | "Where Were You?" (1978 single) | Tom Greenhalgh, Jon Langford | The Mekons | |
11. | "Lexicon Devil" (from Lexicon Devil , 1978) | Darby Crash, Pat Smear | Germs | |
12. | "(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures" (single version, 1977) | Jo Callis | The Rezillos | |
13. | "The Wait" (from "Stop Your Sobbing" single, 1979) | Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon | The Pretenders | |
14. | "We Got the Neutron Bomb" (1978 single) | John Denney, Cliff Roman | The Weirdos | |
15. | "Pablo Picasso" (from The Modern Lovers, 1976) | Richman | The Modern Lovers | |
16. | "Action Time Vision" (from The Image Has Cracked , 1978) | Alex Fergusson, Mark Perry | Alternative TV | |
17. | "2-4-6-8 Motorway" (1977 single) | Tom Robinson | Tom Robinson Band | |
18. | "We Are the One" (from We Are the One , 1977) | Penelope Houston, Greg Ingraham, Danny O'Brien, James Calvin Wilsey | Avengers | |
19. | "Borstal Breakout" (1978 single) | Dave Parsons, Jimmy Pursey | Sham 69 | |
20. | "Wasted" (from Nervous Breakdown , 1979) | Greg Ginn | Black Flag | |
21. | "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" (single version, 1977) | Joey Ramone | Ramones | |
22. | "I Love Livin' in the City" (single version, 1978) | Lee Ving | Fear | |
23. | "She's So Modern" (from A Tonic for the Troops , 1978) | Geldof, Johnnie Fingers | The Boomtown Rats | |
24. | "Ghosts of Princes in Towers" (from Ghosts of Princes in Towers , 1978) | Glen Matlock, Steve New | Rich Kids | |
25. | "We're Desperate" (from "Adult Books" single, 1978) | John Doe, Exene Cervenka | X | |
26. | "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)" (from The Incredible Shrinking Dickies , 1978) | Stan Lee, Chuck Wagon | The Dickies | |
27. | "Dancing the Night Away" (single version, 1977) | Nick Garvey, Andrew McMaster | The Motors |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Hong Kong Garden" (1978 single) | Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, John McKay, Kenny Morris | Siouxsie and the Banshees | |
2. | "Hanging on the Telephone" (originally performed by The Nerves; from Parallel Lines , 1978) | Jack Lee | Blondie | |
3. | "Top of the Pops" (single version, 1978) | Callis | The Rezillos | |
4. | "Adult Books" (1978 single) | Doe, Cervenka | X | |
5. | "The Sound of the Suburbs" (1979 single) | JC Carroll, Nicky Tesco | The Members | |
6. | "California über alles" (single version, 1979) | Jello Biafra, John Greenway | Dead Kennedys | |
7. | "Another Girl, Another Planet" (from The Only Ones , 1978) | Peter Perrett | The Only Ones | |
8. | "(I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp" (1978 single) | Robyn Hitchcock | The Soft Boys | |
9. | "Radio Radio" (from This Year's Model , 1978) | Costello | Elvis Costello and The Attractions | |
10. | "Typical Girls" (from Cut , 1979) | Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt, Ari Up, Palmolive | The Slits | |
11. | "Human Fly" (1978 single) | Lux Interior, Poison Ivy | The Cramps | |
12. | "Psycho Killer" (from Talking Heads: 77 , 1977) | David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth | Talking Heads | |
13. | "Babylon's Burning" (from The Crack , 1979) | Paul Fox, Malcolm Owen, Dave Ruffy, John Jennings | The Ruts | |
14. | "If the Kids Are United" (1978 single) | Parsons, Pursey | Sham 69 | |
15. | "Alternative Ulster" (from Inflammable Material , 1979) | Burns, Ogilvie | Stiff Little Fingers | |
16. | "Boys Don't Cry" (1979 single) | Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Michael Dempsey | The Cure | |
17. | "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" (1979 single) | Gareth Sager, Bruce Smith, Mark Stewart, Simon Underwood, John Waddington | The Pop Group | |
18. | "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" (single version, 1978) | Joe Jackson | Joe Jackson | |
19. | "Get Over You" (1979 single) | O'Neill | The Undertones | |
20. | "Love Like Anthrax" (from "Damaged Goods" single, 1978) | Andy Gill, Jon King, Hugo Burnham, Dave Allen | Gang of Four | |
21. | "Peaches" (from Rattus Norvegicus, 1977) | Cornwell, Burnel | The Stranglers | |
22. | "Into the Valley" (from Scared to Dance , 1979) | Richard Jobson, Stuart Adamson | Skids | |
23. | "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (single version, 1978) | Thunders | Johnny Thunders | |
24. | "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (1980 single) | Sumner, Hook, Morris, Curtis | Joy Division |
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