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The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos (1978)

Track listing:
  1. Flying Saucer Attack 2:51
  2. No 2:23
  3. Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight 1:58
  4. Top Of The Pops 2:57
  5. 2000 A.D. 2:58
  6. It Gets Me 2:11
  7. I Can't Stand My Baby 2:24
  8. Glad All Over 2:07
  9. (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures 3:10
  10. I Like It 1:48
  11. Getting Me Down 2:09
  12. Cold Wars 2:56
  13. Bad Guy Reaction 2:19
  14. Destination Venus 3:37
  15. Mystery Action 2:52
  16. Top Of The Pops (Live) 2:54
  17. Mystery Action (Live) 2:46
  18. Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (Live) 1:48
  19. Thunderbirds Are Go (Live) 2:32
  20. Cold Wars (Live) 2:56
  21. Teenbeat (Live) 3:08
  22. No (Live) 2:15
  23. Land Of A Thousand Dances (Live) 2:14
  24. I Need You (Live) 1:49
  25. Culture Shock (Live) 3:11
  26. Getting Me Down (Live) 2:00
  27. Ballroom Blitz (Live) 4:47
  28. (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures (Live) 3:21

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Can't Stand The Rezillos was The Rezillos' first album, released in 1978 and including the UK hit, Top Of The Pops, part of which was used as a jingle on BBC Radio 1.

Unusually for a New Wave group, the album featured several sixties covers, "Glad All Over" (originally a hit for The Dave Clark Five), "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (original by Fleetwood Mac) and "I Like It", a Gerry & The Pacemakers track.

The record reached number 16 in the UK Albums Chart. Trouser Press called the band "a blast of fresh air compared to the more serious bands of new wave's first charge" and praised the album as "an action-packed document of their pop/camp approach".[1] In 1994, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music named Can't Stand the Rezillos one of the 50 best punk albums of all-time. The compilers claimed that the Rezillos were "exuberant almost to the point of hysteria" creating "a body of work full of verve, style and humour", which this album "encapsulates to perfection". Punk aficionados acclaimed the album. In March 2003, Mojo magazine ranked the LP in its 'Top 50 Punk Albums'.

Part of the beauty of punk rock was the idea that rather than just standing back in wonder at the spectacle of your favorite band, you could get up on stage and do what they did yourself. The only problem was that while it didn't seem all that hard to do what the Ramones were doing, hardly anyone was capable of doing it quite as well. Glasgow's the Rezillos, however, were that rare band who beat the odds, becoming quite simply the finest fake Ramones the world has ever known. Hyperactive tempos, raging guitar, abbreviated pop melodies, goofy and slightly off-kilter lyrics that display a fascination with junk culture and '60s pop — it's all there on Can't Stand the Rezillos, the band's only studio album, and they were able to work the formula every bit as well as the Ramones did on Rocket to Russia. Of course, it helps that the Rezillos were able to put their own spin on the template; they were a bit poppier, willing to get a few notches sillier, and sounded just a touch smarter (it figures a bunch of former art students would come up with a tune like "[My Baby Does] Good Sculptures"). But the real key to this album is its simple, good-hearted joie de vivre; funny-punk was rarely executed with the degree of skill, finesse, and pure delirious glee as the Rezillos summoned up on Can't Stand the Rezillos. It makes me smile more than any U.K. punk album ever made me, and it has the greatest Gerry & the Pacemakers cover ever committed to tape — what greater recommendation could you ask for? A triumph.

01."Flying Saucer Attack"
02."No"
03."Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight"
04."Top of the Pops"
05."2000 A.D."
06."It Gets Me"
07."Can't Stand My Baby"
08."Glad All Over"
09."(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures"
10."I Like It"
11."Getting Me Down"
12."Cold Wars"
13."Bad Guy Reaction"
+ Live Bonus