Punk was never just London, New York or the Ramones.
While the best-known names were making headlines and filling magazine covers, hundreds of bands scattered across the globe were recording singles that were every bit as urgent, every bit as furious and, in many cases, far more obscure. Most of them barely survived long enough to release a single record before disappearing forever.
Cheap and Nasty #6 dives back into that vast underground world to rescue twenty-three bursts of electricity from Britain, the United States, France, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Short-lived bands, tiny independent labels and songs pressed onto 45 rpm singles that have become increasingly difficult to find.
Raw punk rock sits alongside excursions into power pop, new wave and art punk, proving that between 1977 and 1982 creativity knew no boundaries. From the explosive energy of The Chosen Few, Anti Social and The Crabs to the more idiosyncratic sounds of Units, Really Red, Glueams and Tsunematsu Masatoshi, every one of these recordings shares the same spirit:
make some noise...
before disappearing.
Twenty-three tracks rescued from the underground of international punk, reminding us that history wasn't written by the biggest bands alone.
Sometimes...
the best records were the ones almost nobody ever heard.
01- The Chosen Few – The Joke's On Us (1978, Australia)
02- The Crabs - Save My Skin (1978, UK)
03- The Doubt - Contrast Disorder (1980, UK)
04- Anti Social - Traffic Lights (1977, UK)
05- The Hoax - This Is My Life (1981, UK)
06- The Filth - Freedom (1980, UK)
07- Tsunematsu Masatoshi - き・を・つ・け・ろ (1979, Japan)
08- S.T.O. - Fais du bruit (1980, France)
09- The Reducers - We are normal (1978, UK)
10- A.D. 1984 - New Moon Falling (1979, UK)
11- The Pain - Man In The Front (1979, Sweden)
12- The Shitdogs - Reborn (1981, USA)
13- The Exit - Out In The Street (1979, USA)
14- The Enemy - Want Me (1978, USA)
15- The Steroids - Out of Control (1980, New Zealand)
16- The Dum Dum Boys - Let There Be Noise (1981, New Zealand)
17- Glueams - Mental (1979, Switzerland)
18- Stiphnoyds - Afraid Of The Russians (1980, USA)
19- Almen TNT - Ya nadie cree en la revolución (1979, Spain)
20- Tyranna - Back Off Baby (1979, Canada)
21- The Dots - Go Go (1979, USA)
22- Really Red - Corporate Settings (1979, USA)
23- Units - Cannibals (1979, USA)
