VA - Shellshock Rock: Alternative Blasts From Northern Ireland 1977-1984 (2020)

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Title: Shellshock Rock: Alternative Blasts From Northern Ireland 1977-1984
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Cherry Red Records
Genre: Post-Punk, Garage Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:35:47
Total Size: 360 MB / 0.99 GB
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Tracklist:

CD1
1. Xdreamysts - Dance Away Love (1:58)
2. The Idiots - Parents (1:54)
3. BLUE STEAM - Lizard King (3:10)
4. Jumpers - Baby C'Mon (2:13)
5. Cobra - Looking For A Lady (3:06)
6. Tinopeners - I Don't Wanna Be (2:17)
7. Clive Culbertson - Busy Signal (1:49)
8. Clive Culbertson - Kiss Me (2:51)
9. Cramp - Suzy Lie Down (3:47)
10. The Androids - Nine To Five (1:55)
11. The Androids - Lipstick Heroes (2:26)
12. The Doubt - Contrast Disorder (Demo) (3:07)
13. The Doubt - Lookaway (Demo) (2:55)

CD2
1. Protex - Strange Things (2:43)
2. Protex - Strange Obsessions (4:00)
3. Ruefrex - One By One (4:09)
4. Ruefrex - Perfect Crime (3:37)
5. The Faders - In It For The Kicks (2:23)
6. THE ZIPPS - Don't Tell The Detectives (2:12)
7. The Outcasts - Magnum Force (2:35)
8. Victim - I Need You (3:31)
9. Victim - The Teen Age (2:58)
10. The Moondogs - Ya Don't Do Ya (3:01)
11. The Moondogs - She's Nineteen (2:48)
12. Rod Vey - Metal Love (3:09)
13. Rod Vey - Soldier Boy (2:48)
14. Stage B - Light On The Hillside (2:55)
15. The Tearjerkers - Heart On The Line (2:05)
16. Aftermath - Mixed Up Kid (3:35)
17. Male Caucasians - For The Night (3:52)
18. Reflex Action - Spies (3:56)
19. Reflex Action - Recession (2:37)
20. The Rattling Throntons - The Whistle Song (2:14)

CD3
1. Ex-Producers - The System Is Here (2:37)
2. The Defects - Dance (Until You Drop) (2:33)
3. The Defects - Guilty Conscience (3:21)
4. Strike - Radio Songs (2:35)
5. Strike - Teenage Rebel (2:42)
6. The Singles - TV Deceives (3:10)
7. The Singles - I'm Only Asking (Demo) (3:38)
8. Minor Classics - You'll Never Find Love (2:55)
9. Shock treatment - Mr Mystery Man (3:44)
10. The Nerves - Put It Around (2:52)
11. The Peasants - Here She Comes (2:28)
12. Acme - Jealousy (2:55)
13. Katmandu - Get My Act Together (2:44)
14. Control Zone - Bloody Bouncers (2:43)
15. Minor Classics - I Don't Like Girls (2:05)
16. Control Zone - Johnny Johnny (2:00)
17. PRETTY BOY FLOYD AND THE GEMS - Rough, Tough, Pretty Too (2:20)
18. Electro-Motive Force - Conscious (1:58)
19. Electro-Motive Force - Spidermen (2:04)
20. PRETTY BOY FLOYD AND THE GEMS - Sharon (2:08)
21. Dogmatic Element - Just Friends (3:06)
22. Dogmatic Element - Strange Passion (5:01)

The plight of Northern Ireland throughout the 1970s and 1980s is well documented. Less widely acknowledged, though, is the unifying impact that punk rock and everything that came in it's wake had on the country's youth. Whilst violence, disenchantment and danger became everyday obstacles, punk provided an outlet, a means of expression and something beyond the political landscape in a way few other cities on earth could have understood. The Shellshock Rock film first captured this in 1978, and we proudly extend that account with three discs of tracks recorded during a period that breathed new life into the country's musical culture. The bands of Belfast and beyond created a scene entirely of their own, without the aid of an existent network of venues and publications. Punk forged alliances that reached across sectarian boundaries, and pushed back against a culture of traditions and establishment which seemed to offer very little to the country's youth. Featuring in-depth sleeve-notes, essays by both Stuart Bailie and John T. Davis, unseen imagery and, for the first time outside of Japan, the seminal Shellshock Rock film, this latest addition to our series of deep, geographically focussed sets promises to be the most vital of them all. Nowhere was punk as necessary and as life-changing as it was in Northern Ireland.