Streets (punk album)

Infobox Album
Name = Streets
Type = Compilation
Artist = Various


Released = End of 1977
Genre = Punk rock
Label = Beggars Banquet Records
Producer =

"Streets" is a compilation album of early British punk rock bands from a variety of independent record labels cite web |url=http://www.trakmarx.com/2004_01/13_comp.htm |title=Punk Rock Compilation classics |Publisher=trakMARX (issue13) |author=Johnny Forgotten |year=2004 |month=Jan |accessdate=2007-11-30 ] . It was an attempt at an end of year ‘round up’ [ [http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/members1.htm The Members page on www.punk77.co.uk] ] and, significantly, was the first album released on Beggars Banquet Records (catalogue number BEGA1). [ [http://www.beggars.com/banquet/index.htm?../history/index.htm&0 Beggars Banquet Records - Biffy Clyro, Calla, Devastations, The Early Years, Film School, Mark Lanegan, The National, Tindersticks ] ]

The sleeve notes stated that: "1977 was the year that the music came out of the concert halls & onto the streets; when independent labels sprang out of the woodwork to feed new tastes; when rock music once again became about energy & fun; when the major’s boardrooms lost control. Suddenly we could do anything".

The Members’ contribution to "Streets" was their debut on vinyl , and its impact was such that it contributed to a record deal with Stiff Records.cite book |title= "Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk"|last= Joynson|first= Vernon|year= 2001|publisher= Borderline Publications|location= Wolverhampton|isbn= 1-899855-13-0|pages= 244] It was also The Doll’s recording debut. [cite book |title= "Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk"|last= Joynson|first= Vernon|year= 2001|publisher= Borderline Publications|location= Wolverhampton|isbn= 1-899855-13-0|pages= 127] Within 14 months of the release of this compilation, both bands went on to have UK Top 30 hit singles; the Members with "The Sound of the Suburbs" (number 12 in January 1979) and the Doll with "Desire Me" (number 28 in December 1978). [cite book |title= "The Great Indie Discography"|last= Strong|first= M.C.|year= 2003|publisher= Canongate|location= Edinburgh|isbn= 1-84195-335-0|pages= p.99 & p.57]

In 2004, the record was included in a trakMarx review of "Classic Punk Rock Compilation LPs", where it was described as "the first real collection of ‘highlights from independent British labels’ ever undertaken… Streets was utterly groundbreaking stuff.". The Punk77 website described it as an "excellent" compilation. [ [http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/artattacks.htm The Art Attacks page on www.punk77.co.uk] ] Two of the tracks – Slaughter & the Dogs’s "Cranked Up Really High" and The Nosebleeds' "Ain’t Bin To No Music School" - were included in "Mojo" magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time. [Mojo (October 2001) - "100 Punk Scorchers ", Issue 95, London] . Another track, The Drones’ "Lookalikes", was similarly acclaimed in an all-time best list by Steve Gardner of NKVD Records. [ [http://www.hiljaiset.sci.fi/punknet/top100si.htm Steve Gardner (1996) “Hiljaiset Levyt: 100 Best Punk singles”] ]

Track listing

ide one

# "Trash" by The Doll
# "Fear on the Streets" by The Members
# "Be My Prisoner" by The Lurkers
# "Isgodaman" by Arthur Comics
# "Arabs in ‘Arrads" by The art attacks
# "19" by Dogs
# "Talk Talk Talk Talk" by Reaction
# "College Girls" by Cane

ide two

# "Cranked Up Really High" by Slaughter & the Dogs
# "Ain’t Bin To No Music School" by The Nosebleeds
# "Lookalikes" by The Drones
# "Hungry" by Zeros
# "Bend and Flush" by The Puke Dukes
# "Disaster Movie" by Exile
# "Jerkin" by Drive
# "Innocents" by John Cooper Clarke
# "No More Rock ‘n’ Roll" by Tractor

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