This is the opening track from American Art Punk band, Pere Ubu's acclaimed debut album, The Modern Dance...
The title track from The Who's final album with their classic line up, Who Are You (Keith Moon died later on in the year)...
This is Tom Robinson's gloomy vision of the immediate future from his stonking debut, Power in the Darkness (as it transpired it was far worse, Maggie Thatcher became PM in '79!)...
This has been posted at least three times now it's always good to hear it again.One of the best intros ever.
Sat here with Mrs SR getting drunk drinking wine and started singing this song for no reason............ Forgot what a great tune this is....
Right, on to 1979..the year that I became a Mod and was the proud owner of a '64 Lambretta completely covered in blue gloss household paint which I bought for the princely sum of £5!. A lot of my spare income was going on mohair and two-tone tonic suits, but I still had some to keep buying cherished music recordings and unlike my mates who were only listening to The Jam, Secret Affair etc I was taking in the full range of the multitude of genres about at that time, here are some of them.. This is from the brilliant debut album, Entertainment! from Leeds Post Punk band, Gang of Four...
LA band, Germs were sowing the seeds of a new louder, heavier and even faster kind of Punk called Hardcore with their debut album (GI)...
This one is from Tom Verlaine's eponymous debut album, the first after Television had split the previous Summer (Bowie covered it later)...