NoMeansNo – Mr. Right and Mr. Wrong (Wrong Records, 1994)
Not a singles collection but a bizarre outtakes collection that covers the years 1979-1994 and might best some of their real albums.
(You STILL have to love that their url is ‘myspaceiswrong’)
The Wildhearts – Earth vs. The Wildhearts (Warner, 1992, Lemon, 2010)
Back in ’92 people struggled to describe the band (“Motorhead meets Jan and Dean” said the NME) but Ginger’s band remains one with few clear antecedents or subsequents.
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise (Columbia, 2010)
a double disc of outtakes from the lengthy “Darkness on the Edge of Town” sessions that can stand toe-to-toe with some of the official albums in the man’s mighty catalog.
Classics of Love – 7“– (Art of the Underground, 2010)
Jesse from Op Ivy (and Big Rig and Common Rider) is back in top form!
The Postelles – S/T (Capitol, 2010)
Skittery pop by a one of those New York bands who could just as well be from London.
The Buzzcocks Love Bites (EMI, 1978, 2010)
The album, the singles, the Peel sessions, the demos and the live tracks – this is how re-issues should be done!
New Model Army – Carnival (Attack, Attack, 2005)
Justin Sullivan continues to explore the darkness.
The Dads – Turn Back the Clock (???)
At a certain point the obsessiveness of the joke just kicks in.
The Expressos – Promises and Ties (WEA, 1979)
Criminally out-of-print album by a power-pop band who could’ve been the British Blondie.
Ain’t Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend by Lyle E. Style (Great Plains 2005)
An oral history of one of the most brilliant writers and performers in country music history.
