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The Very Best Of The Jam

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

June 18, 1999
Whatever people tell me about the ramones: i always say that these guys defined punk music. Still today The Jam is a classic band that will always have a place in my album collection. This CD however is overdoing everything. Punk rock albums are usually very short and having to listen to 20 songs that do all sound extremely simmilar can get tedious. More than this I believe that punk bands very designed for live performances: they had a great attitude to live acts which made them amazing to listen to. The CD takes the heart out of this genre and for that i mark it down. Also there are a few songs could have done without.
81/100

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Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: Sex Pistols

May 10, 1993
With its lurid fluorescent sleeve N.M.T.B. is one of rock `n' roll's greatest debut albums. Johnny Rotten's lyrics and sneering vocals fizz with youthful angst (`Liar', `Problems' and `No Feelings) and sizzle with rebellious messages (`God Save The Queen', `Anarchy In The UK' and `EMI'). On the mordant `Bodies', the terrace-chant taunt of `Seventeen' and the exhilarating `Holidays In The Sun' the Pistols make obvious their love of the simple, primal, effective three-chord rock which Chuck Berry, The Stooges and the New York Dolls produced. These songs are all tightly structured and well-considered; they never venture far beyond 180 seconds and are sharp and snappy in sentiment and expression.

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Setting Sons

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

August 04, 1997
..this was the trio at their best, my fave album by them..contains excellent tracks (thick as thieves, smithers jones and the most underrated jam track ever wasteland) go and buy it at this price it`s a steal!! and then buy all their other albums.

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The Very Best of the Stranglers

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: Stranglers

June 12, 2006
As the title of the review says, if you dont have many stranglers albums in your collection buy this now, i have been a fan for 25 years so i know,and have many versions of all the songs on this album.
However if you are thinking of buying a gift for christmas , the recipient will love this album , and why not buy the stranglers latest album SUITE XVI, a true return to form to please any fan that has an interest in probably one of the best bands to come out of the uk.
BUY NOW

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Rattus Norvegicus: IV

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: Stranglers

August 20, 2001
Title says it all really. This is my favourite album ever.

I bought it in 1977 and have played it ever since. Have been to see the Stranglers 14 times and they were superb pre-Hugh leaving.

The 7 1/2 minute Down in the Sewer is my favourite track of all time.

This CD also has the extra free EP tracks on it - excellent vfm!

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Sound Affects

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

August 04, 1997
So, this is the penultimate album by The Jam. Of course it's fantastic, in my opinion it's their best. In eschewing the rather more slightly bombastic elements of the overall miraculous "Setting Sons" LP from the previous year The Jam here create an aural landscape which refines their obsessive opinions on English life.

It should be said that this album is one of the many miletones in (what is commonly known) as post-punk. Although the most impressive moments come from Paul Weller's nagging realisation that The Jam need to stay one step ahead of any prevailing fashions.

A few random highlights include the sub-funk bassline of the opener "Pretty Green", & the startingly brilliant "Set The House Ablaze" wherein Weller attempts & succeeds ... Read More:

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Smash It Up: the Anthology 1976-1987

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Damned

February 26, 2008
This is the Damned album that all fans should have especially if they are more into the old styles of Punk with more resmblance to that of The Clash and Sham 69 to name a couple, which is definitley more to my liking. With great songs like New Rose,Smash it up, Neat Neat Neat and Love Song that break through into your head like a demon that just won't go away.Great guitar work and vocals that help echo the words "Pure Punk" and it is nothing less...The Damned hepled bring Classic Punk kicking and screaming into many peoples lives, and this double Cd covering probably the best years of this fantastic band is a definite Must Buy for the "Punk Obsessed".

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Raw Power

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Stooges

April 28, 1997
This record is brutal. This record comes smashing up through the floor boards. This record is essential.

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Inflammable Material

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: Stiff Little Fingers

October 22, 2001
I first heard this album in 1982 it was a punk rock masterpiece then and has stood the test of time to this day. Anyone with even a passing interest in punk rock needs to own this album , its as simple as that.

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All Mod Cons

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Classic Punk
by: The Jam

August 04, 1997
Or when The Jam took off and really started fulfilling the potential they had shown with a string of singles and intermittently on their previous albums In The City And This Is The Modern World. All Mod Cons see's Paul Weller embracing a more English stance to his song-writing , with undercurrents of 1960,s pop like The Kinks - so much so they even cover the Kinks song "David Watts". The albums title also alludes playfully to the bands prevalence in the Mod revival.
The songs on All Mod Cons are often about ordinary people , or places but viewed through Weller's coruscating filter . He scorns the 9-5 existence of "Mr Clean" ( "If I get the chance ill f**k up your life") while seemingly revelling in the indestructible qualities of "Billy Hunt" right down to it's terrace chant chorus. "In ... Read More: