Various - To The Outside Of Everything - A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977 - 1981 (5 CD BOX) 2017

Post-Punk was a belated term adopted to describe the creative outpouring of largely independent music

which flourished in the wake of the Punk explosion.
Named after a lyric from Magazine’s ground-breaking hit, ‘Shot By Both Sides’, TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING tells a musical story of how the UK’s post-punk scene evolved from the spirit of 1977 and the arrival of key labels such as Fast, Rough Trade, Zoo, Factory and Cherry Red.

THE SLITS

Includes landmark singles by Joy Division, PiL, Wire, Gang Of Four, The Slits, Killing Joke, Echo And The Bunnymen, Scritti Politti, The Pop Group, Human League, The Fall, Alternative T.V., Tubeway Army, Adam And The Ants, Josef K, The Teardrop Explodes, Throbbing Gristle, The Psychedelic Furs, Theatre Of Hate, The Birthday Party, The Associates, Fire Engines, and Ultravox.

THEATRE OF HATE

Created by the same Cherry Red team behind such previous, acclaimed box sets as Scared To Get Happy, Millions Like Us, Still In A Dream, Action Time Vision, etc.

THE THE

The compilation has been put together by the same team at Cherry Read that compiled the Manchester North of England and Silhouettes and Statues boxsets and more! The compilation is full of many of the staples of the early UK Post-Punk scene, as well as lesson known and cult acts. Check out the 111-song tracklist below—tracks subject to change.

Great sounds from some of our favorite years of the British scene – those moments right after punk first exploded, and a generation of young English artists took off in so many different musical directions! The era's been labeled as post-punk, but what makes it really unique is that the label hardly does the music justice – as the time had such a rich array of sounds and styles, it would be impossible to sum of the vibe in just a few short words!

There's definitely some punk elements in the music, but there's also electronic moments, sweeter songs, noisy bits, compressed prog inspirations, and even some occasional witty elements – with songwriting that's really stood the test of time over the years. There have been other collections of post-punk work over the years, but we've never seen a package like this – as the 5CD set features 111 tracks in all, packaged inside a book-style cover that's overflowing with notes and images – all with a track selection that includes lots of lost gems.

THE POP GROUP

In other words, even if you're like us, and already love this period, you'll still find plenty of greatness here – as the whole thing's balanced well enough to please both newcomers and longtime collectors. Includes work by Dif Juz, Glaxo Babies, The Homosexuals, Ultravox, Swell Maps, Clock DVD, Maximum Joy, Section 25, The Cravats, Native Hipsters, Josef K, Art Objects, The Passions, Big In Japan, Fischer-Z, Family Fodder, Girls At Our Best, Ludus, Boots For Dancing, In Camera, The Disco Zombies, Medium Medium, Alternative TV, The Nightingales, My Captains, Five Or Six, Steve Diggle, Dance Chapter, Fire Engines, Spoon Fazer, and many others!  © 1996-2022, Dusty Groove, Inc.

[By Ed Whitelock / 5 December 2017

THE ASSOCIATES

In an age when the compact disc has been pushed aside by downloads and streaming, the time, effort, and expense of putting together a CD box set might seem like an exercise in futility, of blind nostalgia for a dying form. But there was a time, however brief, when a well-curated box-set was something that could actually shift the cultural zeitgeist and re-frame the conversations of popular music history and reception.

SCRITTI POLIITTI

The Complete Robert Johnson box set (1990), for example, brought household name status to that artist in a way that a hundred testimonies from Jimmie Page, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan could never do despite Johnson’s great influence upon them.

It did so by making Johnson a status purchase, a commodity. But the care in restoration and research that went into the collection transcended its existence as a product and served to revise popular history. That was the power of the box set in its heyday.

THE FALL

Cherry Red‘s John Reed hasn’t forgotten that, and To the Outside of Everything: A Story of UK Post Punk 1977 – 1981 is a box set that does everything right to a level that is capable of re-writing the common history.
                                                        

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS

Simply put, this is the definitive story in sound of post punk in the UK.
This is a collection that will stand alongside Simon Reynolds’ equally definitive history of the age, Rip It Up and Start Again.

PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY

We wait only for the comprehensive work that would collect America’s bold provocateurs of the period who were content to let New York and Los Angeles wallow in piss-filled punk while occupying outlying urban centers like Boston and Cleveland, which produced the mutated art of Mission of Burma, Human Sexual Response, and Pere Ubu, among dozens of others.

Indeed, To the Outside of Everything offers hours of discovery and renewed acquaintance with a time when, disrupted by the slash and burn of punk but also disaffected by it, anything seemed possible. Neil Taylor has composed an enlightening collection of liner notes for the set, from the extensive opening essay through the informative write-ups on each of the performers compiled, often with their first-hand input.

KILLING JOKE

Taylor smartly refuses to argue for any kind of stylistic consistency to post-punk while also avoiding the romance of calling its period of dominance an era, akin to, say, the ’60s. Rather, for Taylor post-punk is “neither a genre nor an era, but an approach, one where innovation and playfulness, the deliberately odd and the purposefully unconventional meet.” It is, he continues, “an approach to creativity that has always been here and always will be here.”

MODERN ENGLISH

Taylor describes how the next wave of artists learned from punk’s disappointingly quick commodification and descent into scenester prescriptivism and chose to be inspired by its DIY anything-goes spirit and distaste for nostalgia. This aligns with Reynolds’ take on the transitory period following punk’s quick decline: “By the summer of 1977, punk had become a parody of itself.

” For Reynolds, the first wave of post-punk artists defined punk as “an imperative to constant change” and “dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk’s uncompleted musical revolution, exploring new possibilities by embracing electronics, noise, jazz and the classical avante-garde, and the production techniques of dub reggae and disco.” Post-punk, it becomes plain, is an amalgam comprised of anything that seemed to fit together, or better still, did not fit but could be hammered into a justifiable framework.

IN CAMERA

The 111 cuts from as many distinct performers argue for the adventurousness of the times while capturing a captivating collection of the known, the vaguely familiar, the rumored, and the forgotten. Numerous among the groups collected here would go on to commercial success, though most would have to go through significant reorganization of members (and vision) in order to coordinate a successful assault on the charts.

JAH WOBBLE

Future UK pop sensations who appear here in earlier, less mass-appeal iterations include Adam and the Ants, Ultravox!, Thompson Twins, Human League, and Modern English.

Others who would burn bright but briefly earning early critical praise and growing into legendary status over time such as PiL, Wire, Joy Division, Raincoats, Birthday Party, Gang of Four, and Josef K. Still more, like Au Pairs, Crispy Ambulance, and Pop Group would become the focus of apocryphal legend and cult followings. And a few, like The Fall, The The, and Killing Joke would stubbornly forge singular and surprisingly long-term careers.

JOY DIVISION

Possibly most fascinating here are those collectives whose raw visions echoed or shaped those of others while being overlooked by the masses. These are among the most vivid, exciting, and important inclusions on the anthology. Consider Art Objects whose track “Hard Objects” captures cold war malaise in brilliant succinctness: “The nuclear bomb is a blunt instrument in the hands of disturbed children.

” Then there’s Glaxo Babies whose “This is Your Life” offers up a British perspective of the kind of existential urban paranoia mastered by Talking Heads. The Last Gang’s lone single “Spirit of Youth” grinds forward with a Gang of Four-like aggression while throwing shade on the spastic if sincere passions of youth. The excavation of lost or forgotten tracks like this is what makes a box set of such imposing reach special.

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

Another particularly refreshing element of the collection is the way in which the compilers clarify and acknowledge the role of women in the music of this time. The feminine perspective is an often under-examined element of the post-punk stew of influence, but To the Outside of Everything serves to emphasize the fact that female artists were actively influencing from the inside of the agglomerative movement.

FISCHER - Z

Indeed, some of the best and defining cuts of the set, and the time, come from female-fronted bands. Of course Raincoats, The Slits, and Throbbing Gristle (whose Cosi Fanni Tutti deserves equal visionary credit with Genesis P’Orridge) are all represented here, but so too are important contributions from Poison Girls, Family Fodder, Mo-dettes, Ludus, Occult Chemistry, and Blue Orchids (featuring Una Barnes, a founding member of the Fall).

While still greatly outnumbered by the boys, some of the most refreshing and important tracks among the five discs collected here are shaped by a feminine vision.

BLUE ORCHIDS

In all, To the Outside of Everything is a challenging and enlightening listen from start to finish, and it is a triumph of curatorship that provides near-encyclopedic insight into this important chapter of UK popular music history. From the punk hangover of O’ Level and The Addicts, to the cold war paranoid drone of The Membranes and Tubeway Army, to the art-noir funk of Spoon Fazer and 23 Skidoo, the proto-goth of The Birthday Party, and the ever-forming dark-pop sensibility of bands like Human League and Psychedelic Furs that would come to dominate the charts under the banner of new wave: To the Outside of Everything captures its age in full.]

Various - To The Outside Of Everything - A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977 - 1981
Label: Cherry Red – CRCDBOX44
Format:    5 x CD, Compilation, Box Set
Country: UK & Europe
Released: Dec 8, 2017
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Electro

CD1.

                                           

01. Ultravox! –   Young Savage    2:59
02. Magazine  –  Shot By Both Sides    3:59
03. Wire  – I Am The Fly    3:07
04. 'O' Level  –    East Sheen    3:03
05. Throbbing Gristle  –  United    4:04
06. The Normal – T.V.O.D.    2:53
07. Punishment Of Luxury –  Puppet Life    3:03
08. Tubeway Army –  Bombers    3:53
09. The Fall –  Repetition    4:55
10. Thomas Leer – Private Plane    4:00
11. The Tights – China's Eternal    4:57
12. Fischer-Z –  Wax Dolls    2:46
13. Scritti Politti – Skank Bloc Bologna    5:55
14. Gang Of Four – Damaged Goods (LP Version)    3:28
15. The Flying Lizards – Summertime Blues    3:34
16. Big In Japan – Suicide A Go Go    2:26
17. Fàshiön – Steady Eddie Steady    3:36
18. The Homosexuals – Hearts In Exile    2:24
19. Glaxo Babies – This Is Your Life    3:06
20. The Teardrop Explodes – Sleeping Gas (Zoo 7" Version)    4:40
21. The Passions – Needles And Pills    3:48
22. The Raincoats – Fairytale In The Supermarket  2:59

MP3 @ 320 Size: 191 MB
FLAC  SIZE: 499 MB

CD2.

                                 

01. The Human League – The Dignity Of Labour Pt. 1    4:26
02. Alternative T.V. – Lost In Room    4:55
03. Echo And The Bunnymen – The Pictures On My Wall    2:55
04. Pil – Death Disco    4:17
05. The Monochrome Set – Eine Symphonie des Grauens    2:23
06. Second Layer –  Courts Or Wars    3:49
07. Poison Girls – Ideologically Unsound    2:42
08. The Slits –  Typical Girls    3:56
09. Spizzenergi – Soldier Soldier    3:51
10. Au Pairs – You    2:51
11. Joy Division – Transmission    3:36
12. Fad Gadget – Back To Nature    5:49
13. The Passage – 16 Hours (EP Version)    3:35
14. The Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes    3:14
15. The Last Gang – Spirit Of Youth    2:53
16. The Adicts – This Week    1:02
17. Killing Joke – Turn To Red    3:57
18. Modern Eon – Second Still    2:48
19. The Psychedelic Furs – We Love You    3:27
20. Mo-dettes –  White Mice    3:38
21. The Deep Freeze Mice – Emile Zola    3:30
22. Crispy Ambulance – From The Cradle To The Grave    3:20
23. The Durutti Column – Sketch For Summer    3:01

MP3 @ 320 Size: 191 MB
FLAC  SIZE: 532 MB

CD3.

                                           

01. Swell Maps – Let's Build A Car    3:08
02. Family Fodder – Warm    3:49
03. Adam And The Ants –    Cartrouble    3:25
04. Clock DVA –  Brigade    3:26
05. Girls At Our Best! – Warm Girls    4:04
06. The Membranes – Ice Age    3:24
07. Boots For Dancing –  Boots For Dancing    5:33
08. Ludus – Lullaby Cheat    4:39
09. Modern English – Swans On Glass    4:35
10. Thompson Twins – Squares And Triangles    3:19
11. The Disco Zombies –  Mary Millington    4:19
12. Occult Chemistry – Fire    2:10
13. In Camera –  Final Achievement    4:52
14. Section 25 – Girls Don't Count    4:29
15. Art Objects – Hard Objects    3:10
16. Josef K – Radio Drill Time    4:06
17. The The –  Controversial Subject    2:53
18. Blurt –  My Mother Was A Friend Of An Enemy Of The People    3:15
19. The Associates – The Affectionate Punch    3:30
20. ...And The Native Hipsters – There Goes Concorde Again    6:43

MP3 @ 320 Size: 189 MB
FLAC  SIZE: 509 MB

CD4.

                                            

01. The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher    4:22
02. The Cravats – Precinct    2:29
03. Dislocation Dance –    It's So Difficult    3:01
04. Spöön Fazer – Do Different Dances    2:18
05. Colin Newman – B.    2:59
06. Blue Orchids – Disney Boys    3:39
07. Mass – Cabbage    5:36
08. Fire Engines – Get Up And Use Me    2:09
09. Dance Chapter – Anonymity    4:54
10. Blancmange – Overspreading Art Genius    2:19
11. The Diagram Bros. –  We Are All Animals    2:43
12. Repetition – A Still Reflex    4:03
13. New Order –  Ceremony (7" Version)    4:38
14. Medium Medium – Hungry, So Angry    3:59
15. Steve Diggle – 50 Years Of Comparative Wealth    3:44
16. Five Or Six – Another Reason    3:01
17. The Danse Society – Clock    3:49
18. The Laughing Apple – Sometimes I Wish    3:14
19. The Past Seven Days – Raindance    6:04
20. Eyeless In Gaza – Invisibility    2:41
21. The Nightingales – Idiot Strength    3:11
22. My Captains – Nothing    4:10

MP3 @ 320 Size: 189 MB
FLAC  SIZE: 531 MB

CD5.

                                

01. Theatre Of Hate – Rebel Without A Brain    3:54
02. Notsensibles – I Am The Bishop    3:18
03. New Asia – Central Proposition    3:32
04. Marine – Life In Reverse    2:44
05. Tunnel Vision – Watching The Hydroplanes    3:51
06. Jah Wobble – Fading    3:09
07. TV21 – Snakes And Ladders    3:19
08. The Sinatra's – Happy Feeling    2:42
09. Soul – Tribes    3:17
10. The Drowning Craze – Storage Case    3:09
11. Sad Lovers And Giants – Imagination    5:42
12. Dif Juz – Hu    2:57
13. Spider King – Animals    3:33
14. Nico – Vegas    3:41
15. The Higsons – I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys    2:05
16. Apb – I'd Like To Shoot You Down    2:35
17. René Halkett, David Jay – Nothing    2:22
18. Maximum Joy – Stretch (7" Version)    3:50
19. Artery – Afterwards    3:49
20. 23 Skidoo – Last Words (7" Version)    3:40
21. The Skodas – Everybody Thinks Everybody Else Is Dead Bad    2:22
22. Biting Tongues – Heart Disease    4:08
23. The Reflections – 4 Countries    2:04
24. This Heat –  Radio Prague    2:29

MP3 @ 320 Size: 187 MB
FLAC  SIZE: 501 MB