Bo Jangles - "Prophesy Reveal"
The Damned - "Neat Neat Neat"
Prince Far I - "Heavy Manners"
The Boys - "Soda Pressing"
The Adverts - "Quick Step"
Ultravox! - "Young Savage"
Pere Ubu - "The Modern Dance"
Generation X - "Day By Day"
Giorgio - "Utopia - Me Giorgio"
Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"
John Cooper Clarke - "Suspended Sentence"
The Revolutionaries - "Bamba In Dub"
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - "No Bones For The Dogs"
Brian Eno - "King's Lead Hat"
Subway Sect - "Dontsplitit"
Buzzcocks - "Moving Away From The Pulsebeat"
The Normal - "Warm Leatherette"
The Undertones - "True Confessions"
The Human League - "Being Boiled"
The Lines - "White Night"
The Diodes - "Tired Of Waking Up Tired"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Voices"
Scritti Politti - "28/8/78"
Cabaret Voltaire - "The Set Up"
Talking Heads - "Found A Job"
The Middle Class - "Situations"
Nigel Simpkins - "Times Encounter"
The Members - "Handling The Big Jets"
X-Ray Spex - "Warrior In Woolworths"
Tubeway Army - "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
A Certain Ratio - "All Night Party"
The Monochrome Set - "Eine Symphonie Des Grauens"
Wire - "A Question Of Degree"
The Slits - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
Lipstick Killers - "Hindu Gods (Of Love)"
Sheila & B Devotion - "Spacer"
Review: Although most associated with punk thanks to his now canonical history of the movement, England's Dreaming, Jon Savage has always had far broader taste than most - not to mention an acute sense that the late 1970s were aa genuinely exciting musical free-for-all that paved the way for much of what came next. This excellent double-disc compilation gives a taste of what he was listening to in that period, moving between reggae, dub (the Revolutionaries, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals), throbbing Euro-disco (Space, Giorgio Moroder), American garage-rock (Iggy Pop), spaced-out spoken word eccentricity (John Cooper Clarke), formative new wave synth-pop (The Normal, The Human League), industrial (Cabaret Voltaire), punk (and lots of it), and much more besides.
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