Optimism / Reject: Punk & Post-Punk Meets D-I-Y Optimism / Reject: Punk & Post-Punk Meets D-I-Y CD

UK four CD set. The highly anticipated companion to 2017's 'To The Outside Of Everything'. Extensive set containing over a hundred self-released missives, lo-fi manifestos, boutique label offerings and expressions from the edge of punk and the post-punk explosion. Features classics, rarities, album tracks and unearthed gems from The Fall, Subway Sect, Sisters Of Mercy, Thompson Twins, Blancmange, Young Marble Giants, Marine Girls, John Cooper Clarke, Alternative TV, Scritti Politti, 23 Skidoo, The Raincoats, Thomas Leer and many others. 64pp A5 book format includes extensive essay From Mojo's Mark Paytress plus track-by-track band biographies.

1. Michael's Monetary System - Eater 2. You'll Lose - the Drones 3. Love Lies Limp - Alternative TV 4. Freeway - the Outsiders 5. Suspended Sentence - John Cooper Clarke 6. O Levels - 'O' Level 7. Black Velvet - Swell Maps 8. Optimism/Reject - Patrik Fitzgerald 9. Hard Times - Attrix 10. Nobody's Scared - Subway Sect 11. Washed Up - the Freshies 12. Charles - Skids 13. Police Oppression - Angelic Upstarts 14. Neutron Bomb - the Art Attacks 15. Mixed Up World - Victim 16. Aerosol Burns - Essential Logic 17. It - the Tights 18. The Demon - Punishment of Luxury 19. Bingo-Master - the Fall 20. Situations Vacant - the Cravats 21. Is and Ought the Western World - Scritti Politti 22. Wolf - Prag Vec 23. Cool - the Jerks 24. He's Frank - the Monochrome Set 25. International - Thomas Leer 26. Fruitless - Devil's Dykes 27. 01-01-212 - Vice Creems 28. Times Encounter - Nigel Simpkins 29. H-Eyes - the Ruts 30. Lord Lucan Is Missing - the Dodgems 31. The Competition - Passage 32. Girl Gets Nervous - Nicky ; the Dots 33. I Don't Want to Work for British Airways - Scissor Fits 34. Cold City - Spizzoil 35. (I Saw) Batman (In the Launderette) - the Shapes 36. Stereo Love - Proles 37. Commuter Man - the Molesters 38. Heathen - the Pack 39. In Love - the Raincoats 40. Sing Song - the Tea Set 41. Mother Moon - Artery 42. The Ultimate System - Murder the Disturbed 43. Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling) - the Family Fodder 44. Every Day I Die - Frantic Elevators 45. Nagasaki's Children - They Must Be Russians 46. Metal Sheet - Second Layer 47. Cold Rebellion - Metrophase 48. I Don't Believe - Disturbed 49. Subculture Fashion Slaves - the Door and the Window 50. God's Got Religion - the Steppes 51. Christine Keeler - Gl*Xo Babies 52. Boys Keep Swinging - the Associates 53. Beautiful Pictures - 'Fatal' Microbes 54. Top of the Pops - Disco Zombies 55. Domestic Departure - Au Pairs 56. Reconstruction - English Subtitles 57. Them or Me (Edit) - Medium Medium 58. Choreography - Modern Eon 59. Chance Meeting (Absolute Version) - Josef K 60. On the Air - the Lines 61. Masochistic Opposite - Mo-Dettes 62. Minstrel Radio Yoghurt - Deep Freeze Mice 63. You Get Everywhere - the Chefs 64. Bloody - the Golinski Brothers 65. Hey Operator - the Lillettes 66. Art Nouveau - the Bodies 67. Shangri-La - Nightmares in Wax 68. Oscar Automobile - Weird Strings 69. Self Employed - Again Again 70. Fashionable Junkies - the Membranes 71. Autophagous - Manic Jabs 72. Modichy in Aneration - Blancmange 73. Mystere V's - No Message 74. The Feelings Mutual - Eyeless in Gaza 75. Lean on Me - Distributors 76. Chimneys - Tagmemics 77. Short Time - Rhythm Clicks 78. Get - Blurt 79. Final Day - Young Marble Giants 80. You Get What You Deserve - Charge 81. The Damage Done - Sisters of Mercy 82. Politics! - Girls at Our Best 83. Justice Not Vengeance - a Popular History of Signs 84. Could Be Her, Could Be You - Thompson Twins 85. Everything's Roses - Fire Engines 86. Motorway - Emma Sharpe 87. The Russians Are Coming - the Red Squares 88. Motion - the Room 89. Should Be More Ideal - the 49 Americans 90. I Remember - Cult Figures 91. Insect Love - the Higsons 92. Chips for Tea - the Laughing Apple 93. Defeated - the Legendary Pink Dots 94. Holiday Song - Marine Girls 95. The Return - Normil Hawaiians 96. Zigzagging - the Reflections 97. When I See You - Sad Lovers and Giants 98. Domino Theory - to the Finland Station 99. Launderette - Vivien Goldman 100. Ethics - 23 Skidoo 101. Shades of Black - Screen 3 102. Plan 9 from Outer Space - the Happy Few 103. Break the Ice at Parties - the Tesco Bombers 104. I Wanna Be Around (Paul) -... And the Native Hipsters