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Various Artists - The Entire History Of Punk (1989)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Holiday in Cambodia Dead Kennedys 4:39
  2. Black Sheep Vice Squad 2:38
  3. I Hate People Anti Nowhere League 2:22
  4. Homicide 999 4:07
  5. Chinese Rocks (LIVE) Johnny Thunders 2:51
  6. Four Minute Warning Chaos UK 2:19
  7. Bad Boy The Addicts 3:27
  8. GLC Menace 2:19
  9. How Much Longer? ATV 2:35
  10. Listen Stiff Little Fingers 4:20
  11. Alternative The Exploited 2:04
  12. Babylon's Burning The Ruts 2:34
  13. White Light, White Heat Slaughter And The Dogs 3:00
  14. Disco Man The Damned 3:22
  15. Another Dead Anti Pasti 2:36
CD2
  1. Catch GBH 2:53
  2. Evacuate Chelsea 3:11
  3. Jet Boy, Jet Girl Chron Gen 2:13
  4. Joker In The Pack The Adicts 2:48
  5. Thinking Of The USA Eater 3:01
  6. Bone Idol The Drones 1:53
  7. No Faith Suburban Studs 2:00
  8. Kill The Poor Dead Kennedys 3:06
  9. Hurry Up Harry Sham 69 3:03
  10. Chinese Takeaway The Adicts 2:41
  11. Help The Damned 1:40
  12. All My Friends Are Dead Patrick Fitzgerald 1:38
  13. I Live In A Car UK Subs 1:27
  14. Tough Shit Wilson Splodge 3:45
  15. Teenage Depression Eddie & The Hot Rods 2:52
CD3
  1. New Guitar In Town The Lurkers 2:25
  2. Peaches The Stranglers 4:03
  3. No Time To Be 21 The Adverts 2:33
  4. Misadventure Chron Gen 2:51
  5. New Rose The Damned 2:39
  6. Cut Your Head Off Electric Sex Circus 2:49
  7. The Mess Newtown Neurotics 4:15
  8. Machine Gun Kelly Angelic Upstairs 2:35
  9. Cum On Feel The Noise One Way System 3:07
  10. Baby Baby The Vibrators 3:04
  11. Upstart Angelic Upstairs 2:00
  12. Bullshit Crass Special Duties 2:27
  13. Flares And Slippers The Cockney Rejects 1:36
  14. Tommy Morgans 3:15
CD4
  1. Fight The Cuts The Mekons 2:03
  2. Unionize The Redskins 4:55
  3. It Stays Here Billy Bragg 4:13
  4. Don't Dictate Penetration 2:53
  5. Old Tart The Poison Girls 2:21
  6. Death Of The European The 3 Johns 4:07
  7. Spirit Of The Falklands New Model Army 3:43
  8. Paved With Gold Joolz 5:13
  9. Chemical Warfare Dead Kennedys 2:57
  10. Irrelevant Battles Partik Fitzgerald 1:55
  11. No Respect Newtown Neurotics 2:35
  12. Selfish Few Chaos UK 1:36
  13. Fuck Religion, Fuck Politics, Fuck The Lot Of You Chaotic Discord 2:55
  14. Hitler's In The Charts Again The Exploited 2:36
  15. Bye Bye England 999 2:31
CD5
  1. Submission The Sex Pistols 4:28
  2. Soldier Soldier Spizz 3:48
  3. (Im In Love With) Margaret Thatcher Not Sensibles 3:33
  4. Governments Stinks The Violators 2:18
  5. If The Kids Are United Sham 69 3:44
  6. Glad To Be Gay 94 Tom Robinson 3:21
  7. Between The Wars Billy Bragg 2:28
  8. Fascist Regime Uk Subs 2:54
  9. Streets Of London Anti Nowhere League 3:16
  10. Alternative Ulster (Live) Stiff Little Fingers 3:13
  11. Solidarity (Upstarts) Sign A Tune Angelic Upstarts 4:57
  12. Persons Unknow The Poison Girls 7:14
  13. Fruit Flies The 3 Johns 3:20
  14. Living With Unempoyement Newton Neurotics 5:08
  15. No Government Anti Pasti 2:10
CD6
  1. Class War The Exploited 1:20
  2. Protest and Survive The Varukers 2:15
  3. Politicians and Ministers The Threats 3:13
  4. Fuck The Tories Riot Squad 2:44
  5. How Sad The Adicts 2:23
  6. Rowche Rumble The Fall 4:02
  7. America The Au Pairs 5:25
  8. Fiasco Chron Gen 3:37
  9. Cop Cars The Boys 2:04
  10. Peasant In The Big Shitty The Stranglers 3:12
  11. Red Strike The Blues The Redskins 4:35
  12. Do You Believe In The Westword Theatre of Hate 5:18
  13. Stand Strong Stand Proud (Live) Vice Squad 3:00
  14. Vengence New Model Army 4:07
  15. In A Rut The Ruts 3:12
CD7
  1. Mania The Strike 2:21
  2. Five Minute Fashion Infa Riot 3:55
  3. Suburban Rebels (Live) The Business 3:03
  4. Two Pints Of Lager Splodgenessabounds 1:35
  5. Police Car The Cockney Rejects 1:23
  6. Blind Ambition The Partisans 3:44
  7. Time Bomb Blitz 2:01
  8. Rapist Combat 84 2:48
  9. Runnin' Riot (Live) Cock Sparrer 3:19
  10. Clockwork Skinhead The 4 Skins 2:18
  11. Violence In Our Minds Last Resort 3:00
  12. Give A Dog A Bone Sham 69 2:45
  13. Riot Riot Infa Riot 1:39
  14. Borstal Breakout Accident 2:04
  15. Get Outtta My 'Ouse The Business 2:31
  16. Two Little Boys Splodgenessabounds 3:13
  17. Such Fun The Blood 2:16
  18. Motorhead The Cockney Rejects 2:04
  19. Daily News (Live) The Exploited 2:33
  20. 4Q Blitz 1:38
  21. Poseur Combat 84 1:35
  22. Run For Cover Cock Sparrer 3:14
  23. Plastic Gangster The 4 Skins 3:25
  24. Leave Me Alone Angelic Upstarts 2:21
  25. Held Hostage Last Resort 3:02
CD8
  1. Joys Of Oi The Gonads 4:15
  2. Last Years Youth Menace 3:01
  3. Blitzkrieg Bop Accident 1:46
  4. Napalm Job The Blood 2:30
  5. Tell Us The Truth Sham 69 2:55
  6. Wiffy Woman Splodgenessabounds 1:59
  7. Change The Partisans 1:50
  8. Outlaw The Business 3:31
  9. Living Next Door To Alice Chron Gen 2:15
  10. Youth Blitz 2:01
  11. F82123 Combat 84 1:15
  12. Never Return To Hell Angelic Upstarts 2:56
  13. Teenage Heart Cock Sparrer 2:10
  14. Come Clean The Partisans 2:54
  15. Product (Live) The Business 2:28
  16. Smilling My Life Away Case 0:09
CD9
  1. On Yer Bike Frankie And The Flames 2:33
  2. You Kept Me Waiting The Crack 3:10
  3. I Wont Pay For Liberty Angelic Upstarts 2:33
  4. Soldier Crminal Class 2:21
  5. Cockney Kids Are Innocent (Live) Sham 69 2:03
  6. Schools Out Infa Riot 1:55
  7. Eat The Rich The Gonads 1:50
  8. Time Was Right The Partisans 2:52
  9. Chasing Rainbows The Business 2:58
  10. Transvetite (Live) Peter & The Test Tube Babies 3:18
  11. Computers Dont Blunder The Exploited 2:33
  12. Summer Holiday (Live) The 4 Skins 2:27
  13. Stark Raving Normal The Blood 3:19
  14. Twist And Turn Slaughter And The Dogs 2:13
  15. Brighton Bomb Angelic Upstarts 3:46
  16. Disco Girls The Business 2:09
  17. Oh Case 1:54
  18. Every Saturday Section 5 3:12
  19. Eight Pounds A Week Last Resort 2:31
  20. Im On Heat The Lurkers 1:51
  21. The Jinx (Live) Peter & The Test Tube Babies 2:59
  22. Cum On Feel The Noize The Crack 3:27
  23. It Will Only Ever Be The Cockney Rejects 3:15
  24. Dick Burton Frankie And The Flames 3:30
CD10
  1. Land Of Hope & Glory Ex-Pistols 4:20
  2. Splitting In Two ATV 5:11
  3. Woman In Disguise Angelic Upstarts 3:09
  4. Finger Up Bum Chaos UK 2:28
  5. Fuck Your Nationality Disorder 2:02
  6. G.L.O.R.I.A. Eddie & The Hot Rods 4:22
  7. Born To Lose Johnny Thunders 3:18
  8. Self Distruct UK Subs 2:27
  9. Judy Says (Knock You On The Head) Vibrators 2:13
  10. Fuck It Up Adicts 3:18
  11. Expensive Being Poor T.V. Smith 3:12
  12. Smash It Up Captain Sensible 3:15
  13. Goat Fuckin Virgin Killerz Chaotic Discord 2:33
CD11
  1. I Kill Children Dead Kennedys 2:06
  2. Get Raped Eater 2:35
  3. Dead And Buried Alien Sex Fiend 4:03
  4. Pass The Axe Gbh 2:25
  5. Boys In The Gang 999 2:46
  6. Stab The Judge One Way System 1:55
  7. Angel Of Death The Screaming Dead 2:57
  8. Up Yer Bum Peter & The Test Tube Babies 2:02
  9. Massacred Millions The Varukers 2:25
  10. New Blood Vice Squad 3:45
  11. Locked In A Room With Betty P. Paul Fenech 2:43
  12. Babys Got A Gun The Only Ones 2:21
  13. Psychowoman Kirk Brandon 4:07
CD12
  1. Belsen Was A Gas Sid Vicious 2:56
  2. Because The Night Beki Bondage 3:33
  3. Murder In The Subway Attak 3:23
  4. Burn In Your Own Flame Anti Pasti 2:39
  5. Razors In The Night Blitz 1:54
  6. Sick On You The Boys 2:47
  7. 17 The Partisans 2:49
  8. Ive Got A Gun Channel 3 2:00
  9. Rape And Pillage Chaotic Discord 2:30
  10. Riot In The City Riot Squad 1:46
  11. Jst Thirteen The Lurkers 1:42
  12. Rock N Roll Nigger Brix Smith 3:48
CD13
  1. Anarchy In The UK Sex Pistols 3:53
  2. Codeine The Barracudas 3:47
  3. 50 Years of Comparative Wealth Steve Diggle & The Flag of Convenience 3:44
  4. Victim of the NHS Disorder 1:35
  5. I Believe in Anarchy The Exploited 1:49
  6. George Patrick Fitzgerald 1:43
  7. Absolution 999 3:03
  8. Silent Night The Only Ones 2:12
  9. (She's Got) Big Boots Last of The Teenage Idols 3:23
  10. 8 Days a Week The Runaways 3:33
  11. I'm The Leader of the Gang Peter & The Test Tube Babies 2:44
  12. Personality Crisis Johhny Thunders 2:50
  13. Smart Alex The Adicts 2:27
  14. Police Oppression Angelic Upstarts 3:09
  15. Action Time Vision Alternative TV 2:33
  16. Take No Heros Red Skins 5:38
CD14
  1. No Fun Iggy Pop 9:22
  2. Christian Militia New Model Army 3:27
  3. Right To Work (live) Chelsea 2:57
  4. Get Up & Fight Newtown Neurotics 3:22
  5. Should I Stay Or Should I Go Long Tall Texans 2:51
  6. Pretend Chron Gen 4:04
  7. Gun Fury The Damned 2:58
  8. First Time The Boys 2:21
  9. Hersham Boys Sham 69 3:23
  10. Firing Squad Penetration 2:42
  11. Spanner Badge Electric Sex Circus 2:59
  12. Happy Talk Captain Sensible 3:29
  13. No War No Hate Red London 4:40
  14. Great Rock `n` Roll Swindle Chaotic Dischord 4:31
CD15
  1. Ballroom Blitz Long Tall Texans 3:06
  2. So What (live) Anti Nowhere League 2:52
  3. Living Dead UK Subs 1:48
  4. Fascist Dictator The Cortinas 2:38
  5. Gernerals The Damned 3:26
  6. I Wanna Be Qour Dog Anti Pasti 2:32
  7. Ode To Joy The Adicts 1:29
  8. Teenile Dementia Morgans 3:05
  9. Go Buddy Go (live) The Stranglers 3:50
  10. Who Killed ET? Chaotic Discord 1:18
  11. Last Night Another Soldier Angelic Upstarts 2:48
  12. Kick Out The Jams MC5 1:34
  13. The Bomb Blast The Varukers 1:40
  14. Harry May The Business 2:15
CD16
  1. Argy Bargy Cock Sparrer 2:35
  2. Borstal Breakout Sham 69 2:11
  3. Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers 2:54
  4. Low Life The 4 Skins 3:06
  5. I Don`t Care The Boys 2:12
  6. Warriors Blitz 2:56
  7. Jackanory Joolz 3:14
  8. Gary Gilmore`s Eyes (live) The Adverts 2:05
  9. Where Have All The Bootboys Gone Slaughter and the Dogs 3:12
  10. Police State Special Duties 1:10
  11. Streetheat Knox 3:40
  12. Search & Destroy Iggy Pop 7:09
  13. Atishoo Morgans 2:48
  14. Shake Rattle Bang Your Head The Adicts 3:35
CD17
  1. Ray Gun The Bomb Party 4:04
  2. Ha Ha Scarehead 3:27
  3. Blitz Krieg Bop Newtown Neurotics 2:07
  4. Chronic Generation Chron Gen 2:22
  5. Wot (live) Captain Sensible 6:14
  6. Rebel Without A Brain Theatre Of Hate 3:53
  7. CND Red London 2:18
  8. Coming For You Ligotage/Beki Bondage 3:16
  9. California Über Alles Dead Kennedys 3:04
  10. Mr X. Pauline Murray 4:28
  11. Jumpin Jack Flash The Vibrators 2:47
  12. Fifteen Eater 1:28
  13. Be My Baby The Drones 3:17
  14. Cyanide The Lurkers 1:43
  15. Atom Drum Bop The 3 Johns 4:11
CD18
  1. The Mudder Of Liddle Towers (Live) Angelic Upstarts 4:45
  2. Pretty Vacant (Live) The Sex Pistols 2:59
  3. Rality Chron Gen 2:22
  4. The Last Time (Live) Chelsea 2:54
  5. Motor City Is Burning Mc5 4:21
  6. Lets Break The Law Anti Nowhere League 3:08
  7. Do What I Do The Resurrection Experience 3:16
  8. King Of The Jungle Last Resort 4:04
  9. Kill Your Baby Cahos Uk 2:03
  10. Youll Never Walk Alone The Adicts 2:05
  11. Nagasaki Sauce The Macc Lads 2:27
  12. I Got Nothing Iggy Pop 4:19
  13. I Lost My Love To A Uk Sub The Gonads 3:20
  14. One Law For Them The 4 Skins 2:47
CD19
  1. For What It`s Worth Hugh Cornwell 2:58
  2. My Way Sid Vicious 2:54
  3. Space Oddity Brix Smith 4:38
  4. I Fought The Law Gene October 2:52
  5. Teenage Kicks Public Menace 2:17
  6. As Tears Go By Sex Gang Children 3:46
  7. Summertime Hazel O`Conner 4:14
  8. Barbed Wire Skalette O`Hara 2:24
  9. Heartbreaker Spike 4:44
  10. Free Money Pauline Murray 3:30
  11. 50 ft Queenie Kork 2:17
  12. A Hard Rain`s Gonna Fall Arthur Brown 6:07
CD20
  1. Slammers King Kurt 3:24
  2. See Through Guana Batz 3:29
  3. Transvestite Blues Demented Are Go 3:26
  4. Lts Go Somewhere Frantic Flintstones 2:50
  5. Wooly Bully (Live) The Highliners 2:33
  6. Whip It Up The Deltas 1:41
  7. Coffin Nails Coffin Nails 2:21
  8. Jhonny Cynic Scared Stiff 2:57
  9. Should I Stay Or Should I Go The Tailgators 3:22
  10. Bambooland (Live) Batmobile 3:07
  11. Militant Tendency The Stingrays 3:32
  12. Raisin Hell The Batfinks 2:21
  13. Im On Fire Guana Batz 2:24

Notes

The Entire History of Punk is not one of those meticulously compiled and annotated box sets that comprehensively survey a portion of musical history. Instead, it is a randomly organized collection of tracks with virtually no annotations beyond song titles, group names, and a brief introduction by former Vice Squad singer Beki Bondage. That may seem appropriate to punk music, a style that incorporated the suggestion of a rip-off as part of its essence, but the result is scattershot. Dressed to Kill has not licensed tracks from any of the major labels, so whenever an important song by a prominent artist turns up, a hit by the Sex Pistols or the Stranglers, for instance, it's a live performance or outtake, not the original recording. And although by this method some of the major names in British punk are included, along with legendary progenitors like Iggy Pop and the MC5, many others are missing. There is nothing here by the Clash or the Ramones, except for remakes of their songs by lesser known performers. So, the set does not live up to its ambitious title. But it does contain 151/2 hours of punk music (which could have fit onto 13 CDs instead of being spread across 20), 314 tracks by 127 different artists, three dozen of them successful enough to make the U.K. charts. Most of those performers are second- or third-division punk acts, and many are second or third generation as well, with the recordings stretching from the mid-1970s until well into the 1980s. The real stars of the box are raucous, political British groups like the Angelic Upstarts (who have 12 cuts), the Adicts (nine), and Sham 69 (seven). As long as the listener doesn't expect a complete portrait of punk, there are many discoveries to be made.