Blank Generation: A Story Of Us - Canadian Punk Blank Generation: A Story Of Us - Canadian Punk CD

5CD set bringing a comprehensive, big-tent look at the early years of punk rock in the US and Canada. Over six hours of music. Includes benchmark tracks by the scene's most influential bands plus many rare singles making their first appearance on CD. Named after Richard Hell's epoch-defining anthem, 'Blank Generation' documents the emergence in North America of what came to be labelled punk rock. A year or two prior to punk exploding in the UK, bands who'd been playing live in venues like New York City's CBGB started releasing records, often on independent labels, as an antidote to the prevailing disco and corporate soft rock which dominated the US charts. This five CD reflects those influential NYC bands - Patti Smith Group, The Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Voidoids, etc. - as well as the scene's other pioneers such as Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys (both Cleveland, Ohio), Dead Kennedys and Crime (San Francisco), Devo (Akron, Ohio), The Germs and The Weirdos (Los Angeles) and Mission of Burma (Boston, Massachusetts). 'Blank Generation' offers a deliberately broad definition of punk, encompassing contributions from such outr? acts as Suicide, The Cramps and The Residents through to new wave/power pop combos (Sneakers, Chris Stamey & the dB's, etc. ). Also present are contemporary recordings by some of the mavericks who inspired punk - Destroy All Monsters (Detroit) boasted ex-members of The Stooges and The MC5 and The Heartbreakers and Killer Kane Band spun off the New York Dolls. While the US punk scene was arguably always more diverse musically than that of the UK, the music evolved quickly, as evinced by the choices heard on Discs 4 and 5. Many of the acts here such as X, The Replacements, The Feelies, Redd Kross, The Dream Syndicate, The Gun Club and Minor Threat would make an even greater impact as the 1980s wore on. It's hard to overestimate the seismic shocks caused by the music on 'Blank Generation', not only on everything in alternative music which followed in North American, from the 80s hardcore scene and the music heard on the whole alternative college radio network through to grunge and beyond. And yet this era has never before been treated to a comprehensive retrospective of this kind.

1. Richard Hell ; the Voidoids - Blank Generation 2. The Ramones - Rockaway Beach 3. Television - Friction 4. The Modern Lovers - Someone I Care About 5. The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks 6. The Dictators - Cars and Girls 7. The Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer 8. The Dogs - John Rock 9. The Brats - Be a Man 10. Crime - Hot Wire My Heart 11. Poly Styrene Jass Band - Drano in Your Veins 12. Pere Ubu - Final Solution 13. Killer Kane Band - Mr. Cool 14. Marbles - Red Lights 15. Sneakers - Condition Red 16. Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds 17. Suicide - Rocket USA 18. The Suicide Commandos - Match/ Mismatch 19. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River 20. Mirrors - Shirley 21. John Berenzy - Vice Verses 22. The Residents - Satisfaction 23. Devo - Come Back Jonee 24. Destroy All Monsters - Bored 25. The Avengers - We Are the One 26. The Twinkeyz - Aliens in Our Midst 27. The Mumps - Crocodile Tears 28. The Scruffs - My Mind 29. Tommy Hoehn - Blow Yourself Up 30. The Randoms - Let's Get Rid of New York 31. The Dils - Mr. Big 32. Chris Stamey ; the DB's - (I Thought) You Wanted to Know 33. The Quick - Pretty Please 34. Cigarettes - Gimme Cigarette 35. Electric Eels - Cyclotron 36. Mars - 3E 37. Howard Werth - Obsolete 38. Pointed Sticks - What Do You Want Me to Do? 39. Shock - This Generation's on Vacation 40. The Deadbeats - Let's Shoot Maria 41. The Bags - Survive 42. The Human Switchboard - No 43. Curtiss a - I Don't Wanna Be President 44. Alda Reserve - Cure Me 45. The Young Canadians - Hawaii 46. The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb 47. The Last - She Don't Know Why I'm Here 48. Tom Verlaine - Breakin' in My Heart 49. Pagans - Street Where Nobody Lives 50. The Dickies - Fan Mail 51. DMZ - Bad Attitude 52. The Germs - Lexicon Devil 53. The Cramps - TV Set 54. Really Red - Corporate Setting 55. The Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait 56. Blow Up - Tell It to the Judge 57. Nervus Rex - Don't Look 58. The Eyes - Topological Lies 59. Pylon - Cool 60. Zero Boys - I'm Bored 61. The Bizarros - Quiana Girls 62. Smart Alex - Chitter Chat 63. The Hits - All the Girls (Wanna Be in Gangs) 64. The Dishrags - I Don't Love You 65. Black Randy ; the Metro Squad - I Slept in An Arcade 66. Rhino 39 - Prolixin Stomp 67. Count Vertigo - I'm a Mutant 68. Testors - Time Is Mine 69. The Girls - Jeffrey I Hear You 70. The Urinals - I'm a Bug 71. Richard Lloyd - Blue and Grey 72. The Sleepers - Seventh World 73. The Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules 74. The Next - Cheap Rewards 75. Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song 76. The Flyboys - Theme Song 77. Dow Jones ; the Industrials -Can't Stand the Midwest 78. The Haskels - Taking the City By Storm 79. Pure Hell - Noise Addiction 80. Suburban Lawns - Janitor 81. Non Compos Mentis - Ultimate Orgasm 82. The Method Actors - Do the Method 83. Modernettes - Barbra 84. The Bureaucrats - Feel the Pain 85. Bush Tetras - Snakes Crawl 86. Chrome - New Age 87. The Cosmopolitans - How to Keep Your Husband Happy 88. The Customs - Long Gone 89. Epicycle - You're Not Gonna Get It 90. The Colors - Rave It Up 91. The Gizmos - Bible Belt Baby 92. The Demics - New York City 93. The Units - Work 94. The Suburbs - World War III 95. Chandra - Kate 96. The Suspects - Talking Loud 97. The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows 98. The Bongos - Telephoto Lens 99. Martin Rev - Mari 100. The Embarrassment - Sex Drive 101. The Necessaries - Detroit Tonight 102. MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King 103. Polyrock - Romantic Me 104. The Unknowns - Dream Sequence (September 1981) 105. Pell Mell - Spy Vs. Spy (Sept. '81) 106. Lyres - Buried Alive 107. Justin Trouble - Ponytail 108. The Speedies - Time 109. The Anemic Boyfriends - Fake 110. I.D. (August 1981) 111. The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me 112. The Slickee Boys - Here to Stay (January 1981) 113. Salvation Army - Mind Gardens 114. New Math - They Walk Among You 115. The Jetsons - Genetically Stupid 116. The Dream Syndicate - When You Smile (Ep Version) 117. Oil Tasters - That's When the Brick Goes Through the Window (August 1981) 118. Redd Kross - Clorox Girls 119. Middle Class - Last Touch 120. Wall of Voodoo - Call Box 1-2-3 121. Chiefs - Blues 122. X - White Girl 123. Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb 124. Adolescents - Amoeba 125. Flesh Eaters - Version Nation 126. The Replacements - I'm in Trouble 127. Sport of Kings - This City in Darkness 128. Get Smart! - This Is Style 129. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia 130. Romeo Void - Not Safe 131. Minor Threat - Minor Threat