When the human race is on the brink of
inevitable extinction in a hundred years or so, and a database of
all great human achievements is launched into space to preserve this
culture for some lucky nascent alien race? To maybe learn from,and
hopefully avoid the same fate. The person who has the job of
including the greatest ever record labels has to include Raw Records
in the top three or four!? (perm any two from Ron Johnson, Fuck Off,
Factory,ESP,Impulse,Rough Trade,Deleted,etc to make up the remainder
of top places).
There ain't a shit track on either “Raw
Deal” or “Oh No! It's More From Raw”,and I played these to
death back in 77-78.
I remember taking my flares wearing
Australian cousin 'down town' to go record buying during the height
of Punk Rock. Visiting the UK for the first time since 1968, it was
like he'd arrived on another planet; Punk Rock was not such a huge
phenomenon back in Oz, where the Beatles and Abba still ruled supreme
with da yoot. Strange from a land that gave us The Saints, The
Victims, and Radio Birdmen!?
After enduring a rendition of The Users
“Sick of You” played at ear bleeding volume,he told my Mother
that he'd “never felt so old!”.Outside of the UK,certain North
East coast US cities, parts of California and Sweden(?), it was the
same story everywhere.
This is the punk sound I prefer, no
charlie big potatoes here; punk from the provinces. Even the
laughable cockney-isms of the young Kevin Rowland from the Killjoys, who came from Birmingham.
This is Outsider punk;a melange of Chuck Berry
riffs, pub rock, teen angst,glue,speed and lager; the spawn of
hopelessness. Forget chart friendly unit shifters like The
Buzzcocks,these tunes were unlikeable;unless you understood
,emotionally,where they were coming from. Having a future wasn't good
enough for these kids.
The fucking problem is, give 'em (the
modern thoroughly brainwashed 'facebook' generation) a couple of quid
in the back pocket, a steady income, new television and X-Box and
they (who the fuck are 'They' anyway?), could do any atrocity and no
fucker would complain. This was the problem with Punk Rock ,before
Joy Division and industrial music; too much focus on the smaller
picture, unemployment, boredom, and lack of money. When the real
problem was this illusory system with fake goals, carrot and stick
slavery, and the unelected controllers behind a fraudulent one party
democracy. The current situation is one of an Orwellian Reality that
we have been stealthily manipulated into accepting with almost zero
dissent. Where's the punk rock today?............its here on “Raw
Deal”, kids with No Future from 1977; how right they were after
all? We've got a future but we don't fucking want it!
Musically, we've got all the Sick
Things tracks that never existed, an errant Users studio track, and
the Psycho's muttering the taboo about being British and ,gasp,
White! Its all good,if not great.
Tracklist:
| A1 |
–Users, The |
I'm In Love With Today |
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| A2 |
–Acme Sewage Co. |
I Don't Need You |
|
| A3 |
–G.T.'s, The |
Millionaire |
|
| A4 |
–Bloodclots |
Louie, Louie |
|
| A5 |
–Sick Things |
Bondage Boy |
|
| A6 |
–Psycho's |
Soul Train |
|
| A7 |
–Killjoys |
Recognition |
|
| A8 |
–Sick Things |
Anti Social Disease |
|
| B1 |
–Sick Things |
Kids On The Street |
|
| B2 |
–Killjoys |
At Night |
|
| B3 |
–Psycho's |
Young British & White |
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| B4 |
–Acme Sewage Co. |
I Can See You |
|
| B5 |
–G.T.'s, The |
Move On |
|
| B6 |
–Zhain |
Get Ready |
|
| B7 |
–Sick Things |
Sleeping With The Dead |
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