No Thanks!!!!

I just received my last Xmas present…My wife gave me the Rhino “No Thanks!” 70s punk boxed set.

I have most of this stuff on vinyl, of course, and much of it on CD as well, but it’s nice to have it all in one place; although where the Sex Pistols have disappeared to in all this is hard to fathom…and Boston’s hot Seventies scene is woefully underrepresented. Where the hell is DYS, for instance? Or the Real Kids, or the Neighborhoods, or SS Decontrol, or…

Ah well, plenty to kvetch about on any compilation which bills itself as definitive.

1. Blitzkrieg Bop – Ramones
2. White Riot – The Clash
3. Heart Of The City – Nick Lowe
4. Boredom – Buzzcocks featuring Howard Devoto
5. (I’m) Stranded – The Saints
6. Neat Neat Neat – The Damned
7. In The City – The Jam
8. Final Solution – Pere Ubu
9. Roadrunner – The Modern Lovers
10. Little Johnny Jewel – Television
11. One Chord Wonders – The Adverts
12. Born To Lose – The Heartbreakers
13. Search And Destroy – Iggy & The Stooges
14. Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) – Mink DeVille
15. Oh Bondage Up Yours! – X-Ray Spex
16. 1 2 X U – Wire
17. Blank Generation – Richard Hell & The Voidoids
18. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) – The Stranglers
19. Cherry Bomb – The Runaways
20. Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
21. Teenage Depression – Eddie & The Hot Rods
22. Two Tub Man – The Dictators
23. Hey Joe (Version) – Patti Smith
24. Your Generation – Generation X
25. Lust For Life – Iggy Pop
26. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes – The Adverts
27. Satday Night In The City Of The Dead – Ultravox!
28. What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
29. X Offender – Blondie
30. Lookin’ After No. 1 – The Boomtown Rats
31. Don’t Dictate – Penetration
32. Bingo Master – The Fall
33. Free Money – Patti Smith
34. The Modern World – The Jam
35. Chinese Rocks – The Heartbreakers
36. New Rose – The Damned
37. Ambition – Subway Sect
38. See No Evil – Television
39. Suspect Device – Stiff Little Fingers
40. Mannequin – Wire
41. Baby Baby – The Vibrators
42. Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell & The Voidoids
43. First Time – The Boys
44. Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys
45. Shot By Both Sides – Magazine
46. Mystery Dance – Elvis Costello
47. Trash – New York Dolls
48. The Day The World Turned Day-Glo – X-Ray Spex
49. Do Anything You Wanna Do – Eddie & The Hot Rods
50. Ready Steady Go – Generation X
51. Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
52. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Ian Dury
53. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?) – Buzzcocks
54. Rocket U.S.A. – Suicide
55. Mongoloid – Devo
56. Homicide – 999
57. Mr. Big – The Dils
58. Warsaw – Joy Division
59. Where Were You? – The Mekons
60. Lexicon Devil – The Germs
61. (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures – The Rezillos
62. The Wait – The Pretenders
63. We Got The Neutron Bomb – The Weirdos
64. Pablo Picasso – The Modern Lovers
65. Action Time Vision – Alternative TV
66. 2-4-6-8 Motorway – Tom Robinson Band
67. We Are The One – The Avengers
68. Borstal Breakout – Sham 69
69. Wasted – Black Flag
70. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – Ramones
71. I Love Livin In The City – Fear
72. She’s So Modern – The Boomtown Rats
73. Ghosts Of Princes In Towers – Rich Kids
74. We’re Desperate – X
75. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) – The Dickies
76. Dancing The Night Away – The Motors
77. Hong Kong Garden – Siouxsie & The Banshees
78. Hanging On The Telephone – Blondie
79. Top Of The Pops – The Rezillos
80. Adult Books – X
81. The Sound Of The Suburbs – The Members
82. California =DCber Alles – Dead Kennedys
83. Another Girl, Another Planet – The Only Ones
84. (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp – The Soft Boys
85. Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
86. Typical Girls – The Slits
87. Human Fly – The Cramps
88. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
89. Babylon’s Burning – The Ruts
90. If The Kids Are United – Sham 69
91. Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers
92. Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
93. She Is Beyond Good And Evil – The Pop Group
94. Is She Really Going Out With Him? – Joe Jackson
95. Get Over You – The Undertones
96. Love Like Anthrax – Gang Of Four
97. Peaches – The Stranglers
98. Into The Valley – Skids
99. You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory – Johnny Thunders
100. Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division