Released in 1993, Rhino Records D.I.Y. Series is a nine-disc set that covered the British and American power-pop and Punk scene of the mid 1970's to the early 1980's.
Rhino Records started as a record store in 1973 in Westwood California, U.S.A., founded by Richard
Foos. The first recording was released in 1975, "Go To Rhino Records" by Wild Man Fischer which was a small success. In 1985 the label made a distribution deal with Capitol Records, which lasted until 1992. As part of the deal, they had access to the Capitol back catalog, and they started releasing reissues of the old Capitol albums. In addition, in 1989, EMI and Rhino acquired the Roulette family of labels. In 1992, when the deal with Capitol was ending, Rhino got an offer from Time-Warner. By entering this deal, half of the label was sold to Time-Warner, and WEA became the new distributor of the label. Warner put Rhino in charge of reissuing the Atlantic back catalog. In 1998, Time-Warner bought the remaining 50% of the label, but returned the record store back to Richard Foos.
Currently Rhino Records operates as a part of the Rhino Entertainment Company, which is a part of the Warner Music Group. The label specializes in reissues, compilations and anthologies.
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION CONSISTS OF:
CD1 - Anarchy in the UK - UK Punk I (1976-77) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
CD2 - The Modern World - UK Punk II (1977-78) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
CD3 - Teenage Kicks - UK Pop I (1976-79) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
CD4 - Starry Eyes - UK Pop II (1978-79) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
CD5 - Blank Generation - The New York Scene (1975-78) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
CD6 - We’re Desperate - The L.A. Scene (1976-79) [ABR ~190 St]
CD7 - Come Out and Play – American Power Pop I (1975-78) [CBR 320 JSt]
CD8 - Shake It Up! – American Power Pop II (1978-80) [ABR ~250 JSt]
CD9 - Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene (1975-83) [CBR 192 St]
This series provides an exceptional summary of what was happening musically between 1975-1983 in pop music.
Conspicuous by their absence are groups like Talking Heads, The Clash, and Elvis Costello & The Attractions, but this was chiefly due to contractual issues that fell upon Rhino.
Few of the groups featured in Rhino’s D.I.Y series ever achieved main stream acceptance or success, but all helped to facilitate the shape of today’s music.
As a historical document, the D.I.Y series provides a snapshot of the chaotic, but stimulating beginnings of punk and new wave.
Throughout the nine disc series, power-pop and punk diamond in the roughs are featured by undervalued artists such as The Nerves, Pezband, The Undertones, Chris Stamey & The db’s, The Beat, and The Motels.
Although most of the artists featured in the D.I.Y have fallen into dusty album crates of obscurity, the D.I.Y series also features popular artists such as The Jam, Blondie, XTC, Nick Lowe, The Germs, The Romantics, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Buzzcocks.
Today, the Rhino D.I.Y series is out of print, virtually absent from record stores, and difficult to
find online. Maybe You can find the D.I.Y series online, but many of the MP3 rips are of poor fidelity. In this post, here are the first 3 CDs. Coming soon all the CDs.
CD1 - ANARCHY IN THE UK - UK PUNK I (1976-77) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
01 - Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK (Demo) 00:04:37
02 - The Damned - New Rose 00:03:34
03 - The Saints - (I'm) Stranded 00:04:27
04 - Eddie & the Hot Rods - Teenage Depression 00:03:39
05 - Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (Demo) 00:03:51
06 - The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 00:04:37
07 - The Damned - Neat Neat Neat 00:03:58
08 - The Jam - In The City 00:03:22
09 - The Adverts - One Chord Wonders 00:03:35
10 - The Vibrators - Baby, Baby 00:03:26
11 - The Only Ones - Lovers Of Today 00:04:15
12 - The Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1 00:04:01
13 - The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes 00:03:08
14 - Generation X - Your Generation 00:03:58
15 - The Stranglers - No More Heroes 00:04:27
16 - X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 00:03:04
17 - Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict 00:02:23
18 - Penetration - Don't Dictate 00:03:35
19 - Wire - 12XU 00:02:48
MP3 @ 320 Size: 136 MB
Flac Size: 410 MB
CD2 - THE MODERN WORLD - UK PUNK II (1977-78) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
01 - The Jam - The Modern World 00:03:43
02 - Generation X - Wild Youth 00:03:20
03 - The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculpture 00:03:36
04 - 999 - Emergency 00:02:52
05 - Sham 69 - (There's Gonna Be A) Borstal Breakout 00:02:32
06 - Magazine - Shot by Both Sides 00:04:55
07 - Buzzcocks - What Do I Get 00:04:01
08 - Wire - I Am The Fly 00:03:32
09 - X-Ray Spex - The Day the World Turned Day-Glo 00:04:03
10 - Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device 00:03:42
11 - The Lurkers - Ain't Got A Clue 00:02:34
12 - The Soft Boys - (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp 00:03:24
13 - Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United 00:05:15
14 - Alternative TV - Action Time Vision 00:02:54
15 - The Fall - Bingo Master 00:03:07
16 - Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster 00:03:26
17 - Siouxie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden 00:03:37
18 - 999 - Homicide 00:04:41
19 - Subway Sect - Ambition 00:03:04
MP3 @ 320 Size: 130 MB
Flac Size: 374 MB
CD3 - TEENAGE KICKS - UK POP I (1976-79) [VBR V1 ~240 JSt]
01 - Nick Lowe - So It Goes 00:03:21
02 - Eddie & the Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do 00:04:45
03 - Nick Lowe - Mary Provost 00:03:36
04 - Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World 00:03:28
05 - The Motors - Dancing the Night Away 00:04:18
06 - Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway 00:04:13
07 - Kursaal Flyers - Television Generation 00:03:26
08 - Squeeze - Take Me, I'm Yours (Single Version) 00:03:17
09 - The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 00:03:50
10 - XTC - This Is Pop (Single version) 00:03:02
11 - The Boys - Brickfield Nights 00:04:04
12 - The Motors - Airport 00:04:51
13 - Jilted John - Jilted John 00:03:42
14 - The Rezillos - Top of the Pops 00:03:26
15 - Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers 00:04:56
16 - The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 00:03:01
17 - Yachts - Look Back in Love (Not in Anger) 00:03:08
18 - The Pleasers - A Girl I Know (Precis of a Friend) 00:04:19
19 - Skids - Into the Valley 00:04:28
Many thanks, your site is great and your rips & scans fantastic. Many thanks for this fantastic Rhino series, int eh early 90s Rhino was THE reissue label. My best wishes
ReplyDelete@ gnihtytterp: Many thanks for your comment. Cheers from Athens, Greece
DeleteWow! Thanks! - Stinky
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Albums! Will you be uploading the missing six volumes too?
ReplyDeleteYes I will
DeleteThank you! I'm looking forward to hearing the this complete series for the first time. Good stuff!
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