105 TRACKS CHARTING THE BRITISH POST-PUNK EXPLOSION 1978-1981. A COMPENDIUM OF FAMILIAR NAMES, UNDERGROUND ODDITIES AND FRESHLY EXCAVATED HISTORICAL NUGGETS. BUZZCOCKS! ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN! THE FALL! KILLING JOKE! PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED! SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES! TEARDROP EXPLODES! SCRITTI POLITTI! THE CURE and many more. COMPILED BY THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT YOU ‘TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING’, THE ‘C86…’ SERIES, ‘ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE’, ‘SHAKE THE FOUNDATIONS’ AND MANY MORE IN-DEPTH BOX SETS. FEATURING BAND-BY-BAND BIOGRAPHIES AND DETAILED SLEEVENOTES BY MARK PAYTRESS.
“Life’s about as boring as a dole queue” – Mark Perry.
Punk rock attracted both dreamers and schemers. Many were simply fired up by the music. Some were motivated by manifestos and personal agendas. Others vanished the moment the novelty wore off and the hair dye washed out, leaving behind one or two fine records. Others, like The Clash, The Jam and The Cure, resolved to stay the course, giving themselves new challenges while carving out successful careers. Above all, the post-punk landscape was populated with cult heroes. ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’ takes a whistlestop trip through that landscape as the dust settled on the apocalyptic overhaul of 1977. Curated in chronological order to preserve that journey, and capturing key singles, deep album cuts and fan favourites, this is the story of a genuinely subversive underground about to erupt upon the mainstream, rendering everything that had gone before irrelevant overnight. Presented in extreme detail, with band-by-band biographies, sleeve imagery, release information and introductory essay by the widely published Mark Paytress, ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’ is an essential time capsule for veterans, collectors and newcomers alike.
1.1 The Soft Boys - Wading Through a Ventilator
1.2 Ultravox - Hiroshima mon amour
1.3 Metal Urbain - Paris maquis
1.4 Swell Maps - Black Velvet
1.5 Buzzcocks - Moving Away From the Pulsebeat
1.6 Vic Godard & Subway Sect - Dontsplitit
1.7 2-3 - All Time Low
1.8 The Lines - White Night
1.9 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Voices
1.10 Gang of Four - Armalite Rifle (Fast Product version)
1.11 Penetration - Movement
1.12 XTC - Crowded Room
1.13 pragVEC - Existential
1.14 Alternative TV - Life
1.15 Magazine - Give Me Everything
1.16 'O' Level - Everybody's on Revolver Tonight
1.17 Tubeway Army - Listen to the Sirens
1.18 The Crazies - Strontium
1.19 Spizzoil - Red and Black
1.20 The Teardrop Explodes - Camera Camera (Zoo Version)
1.21 Glaxo Babies - Stay Awake - Stay Awake
1.22 Stiff Little Fingers - Closed Groove
2.1 The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good and Evil
2.2 Scars - Adult/Ery
2.3 The Raincoats - Adventures Close to Home
2.4 The Outsiders - Touch and Go
2.5 Essential Logic - Wake Up
2.6 Joy Division - Disorder
2.7 Cult Figures - Playing With Toys
2.8 Toyah - Neon Womb
2.9 Disco Zombies - Greenland
2.10 Au Pairs - Kerb Crawler
2.11 The Revillos - The Fiend
2.12 The Slits - Ping Pong Affair
2.13 Helsinki 5 Below - Jennifer Darling
2.14 The Ruts - S.U.S.
2.15 The Passage - Time Delay
2.16 Lene Lovich - Bird Song
2.17 Apartment - The Alternative
2.18 The Associates - Mona Property Girl
2.19 The Artattacks - Rat City
2.20 The Human League - The Path of Least Resistance
2.21 Essential Bop - Chronicle
2.22 Killing Joke - Nervous System
3.1 Public Image Ltd - Poptones
3.2 Scritti Politti - Hegemony
3.3 Adam and the Ants - Tabletalk
3.4 John Cooper Clarke - Sleepwalk
3.5 The Electric Chairs - J’attends les marines
3.6 The Fall - Fiery Jack
3.7 The Insex - Inner Sanction
3.8 The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
3.9 The Flying Lizards - Her Story
3.10 Again Again - Co-Optimist
3.11 Expelaires - Kicks
3.12 The Cure - A Forest
3.13 The Flowers - The Ballad of Miss Demeanour
3.14 Occult Chemistry - Water
3.15 The The - Black and White
3.16 The Cravats - Who's in Here With Me?
3.17 Artery - Unbalanced
3.18 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Puppet
3.19 Diagram Brothers - There Is No Shower
4.1 The Jam - Scrape Away
4.2 Throbbing Gristle - Something Came Over Me
4.3 Furniture - Shaking Story
4.4 Mystere Five's - Heart Rules the Head
4.5 Theatre of Hate - Original Sin
4.6 Girls at Our Best! -It's Fashion
4.7 Boots for Dancing - Hesitate
4.8 The Sisters of Mercy - Watch
4.9 Restricted Code - First Night On
4.10 Normil Hawaiians - The Beat Goes On
4.11 Modern Eon - Waiting for the Cavalry
4.12 Ski Patrol - Agent Orange
4.13 Dead or Alive - I'm Falling
4.14 In Camera - Fragments of Fear
4.15 Avant Gardeners - Where Are My Hormones
4.16 Blah Blah Blah - Central Park
4.17 Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night Long)
4.18 New Order - In a Lonely Place (Original version)
4.19 Second Layer - Underneath the Gloss
5.1 The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
5.2 Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin
5.3 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go
5.4 Young Marble Giants - Click Talk
5.5 The Nightingales - Seconds
5.6 23 Skidoo - Another Babys Face
5.7 The Birthday Party - Dull Day
5.8 Josef K - Pictures
5.9 The Undertones - You're Welcome
5.10 Fire Engines - Meat Whiplash
5.11 Jah Wobble - Nocturnal (Edit)
5.12 Dislocation Dance - So Much Fault
5.13 Five or Six - Building Kind
5.14 Ludus - Mother's Hour
5.15 Section 25 - Je veux ton amour
5.16 Sad Lovers & Giants - Colourless Dream
5.17 Rip Rig + Panic - Go, Go, Go! (This Is It)
5.18 The Reflections - Tightrope Walker
5.19 Club Tango - FTN
5.20 The Outcasts - Programme Love
5.21 The Higsons - It Goes Waap!
5.22 Kan Kan - Changing Trains
5.23 Membranes - All Roads Lead to Norway
