Savage
I have this one. The best punk album in the world.
–Sex Pistols | Anarchy In The U.K. | |
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–The Buzzcocks* | Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) | |
–The Undertones | Teenage Kicks | |
–The Skids* | Into The Valley | |
–The Damned | New Rose | |
–The Ruts | Babylon’s Burning | |
–Ramones | Sheena Is A Punk Rocker | |
–The Members | The Sound Of The Suburbs | |
–The Jam | All Around The World | |
–The Only Ones | Another Girl, Another Planet | |
–Iggy Pop | The Passenger | |
–XTC | Making Plans For Nigel | |
–The Stranglers | Peaches | |
–Ian Dury & The Blockheads* | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | |
–Elvis Costello & The Attractions | (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea | |
–Blondie | Denis | |
–Tom Robinson Band | 2-4-6-8 Motorway | |
–Dr. Feelgood | Milk & Alcohol | |
–The Boomtown Rats | Lookin’ After No. 1 | |
–Adam & The Ants* | Deutscher Girls | |
–Siouxsie And The Banshees* | Christine | |
–X-Ray Spex | Identity | |
–Bow Wow Wow | C30, C60, C90 | |
–Public Image Ltd.* | Public Image | |
–Sid Vicious | My Way | |
–Sex Pistols | God Save The Queen | |
–The Damned | Neat Neat Neat | |
–The Adverts | Gary Gilmore’s Eyes | |
–Rezillos* | Top Of The Pops | |
–The Motors | Dancing The Night Away | |
–The Buzzcocks* | What Do I Get? | |
–Jilted John | Jilted John | |
–Wire | I Am The Fly | |
–Devo | Mongoloid | |
–Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Roadrunner | |
–Tubes* | White Punks On Dope | |
–Richard Hell & The Voidoids | Blank Generation | |
–Television | Marquee Moon | |
–Talking Heads | Psycho Killer | |
–Pretenders* | Stop Your Sobbing | |
–Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him? | |
–Generation X (4) | Ready Steady Go | |
–The Stranglers | (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) | |
–Magazine | Shot By Both Sides | |
–Stiff Little Fingers | Alternative Ulster | |
–Killing Joke | Eighties | |
–Flying Lizards* | Money | |
–John Cooper Clarke | Kung Fu International |
Versions (5)
I remember when I was 10/11 I took my mother’s walkman for my own as she wasnt really using it – I had no tapes so I used to listen to the radio at night in bed when I was supposed to be asleep for school. I used to listen to century fm - it was a forerunner for Today Fm - it went bust. They used to have a love letter segment at night - with loads of ‘I cant express my love for x’ etc. etc … Great music too, it was the first time I heard The Smiths … but one song I heard on it was like nothing I heard before in my short life and the memory always stuck with me over the years.
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Wax that the “this is dedicated to the one I love’ segment or was that on 2fm?
We composed a letter for that in school that was read out one night, something about a girl who had been through an awful lot, she may have ended up paralysed but we couldn’t pluck up the courage to say how much we loved her, can’t remember the details but it was some buzz to be read out
There’s a great yarn about that inflatable pig floating above Battersea power station in the album photo
His greatest moment
An oldie that belongs in the 1980s thread really. Start of the tour after Remain in Light was released, most of the early audiences would barely have heard it. Tina Weymouth, my God. The intro from Adrian Belew is as good as you will ever hear.
Ed Smith plays great music on todayfm Monday’s to Thursdays 7pm - 10pm. I do a listen back the following day to get me thru the work morning.
He has some decent playlists on spotify.