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No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion,Various Artists

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Various Artists
Released 2003

Blitzkrieg Bop
02:12
996 plays

Blank Generation
02:44
981 plays

White Riot
01:59
977 plays

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- 1
- Blitzkrieg Bop
- 02:12
- 996 plays

- 2
- White Riot
- 01:59
- 977 plays

- 3
- Heart of the City
- 02:03
- 862 plays

- 4
- Boredom
- 02:53
- 1,545 plays

- 5
- (I'm) Stranded
- 03:33
- 923 plays

- 6
- Neat, Neat, Neat
- 02:42
- 1,029 plays

- 7
- In the City
- 02:19
- 862 plays

- 8
- Final Solution
- 05:00
- 737 plays

- 9
- Roadrunner
- 04:06
- 904 plays

- 10
- Little Johnny Jewel
- 07:06
- 665 plays

- 11
- One Chord Wonders
- 02:36
- 699 plays

- 12
- Born to Lose
- 03:02
- 649 plays

- 13
- Search and Destroy
- 03:29
- 1,188 plays

- 14
- Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) [Live]
- 02:54
- 632 plays

- 15
- Oh Bondage Up Yours!
- 02:50
- 883 plays

- 16
- 12XU
- 01:57
- 715 plays

- 17
- Blank Generation
- 02:44
- 981 plays

- 18
- (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
- 04:03
- 571 plays

- 19
- Cherry Bomb
- 02:19
- 870 plays

- 20
- Personality Crisis
- 03:42
- 832 plays

- 21
- Teenage Depression
- 02:58
- 628 plays

- 22
- Two Tub Man
- 03:33
- 786 plays

- 23
- Hey Joe [Version]
- 05:08
- 752 plays

- 24
- Your Generation
- 03:17
- 604 plays

- 25
- Lust for Life
- 05:13
- 856 plays

- 26
- Gary Gilmore's Eyes
- 02:14
- 608 plays

- 27
- Saturday Night in the City of the Dead
- 02:34
- 615 plays

- 28
- What Do I Get?
- 02:55
- 716 plays

- 29
- X Offender
- 03:12
- 645 plays

- 30
- Lookin' After No. 1
- 03:10
- 509 plays

- 31
- Don't Dictate
- 02:55
- 503 plays

- 32
- Bingo Masters Breakout
- 02:24
- 414 plays

- 33
- Free Money
- 03:51
- 433 plays

- 34
- The Modern World
- 02:32
- 547 plays

- 35
- Chinese Rocks
- 02:55
- 638 plays

- 36
- New Rose
- 02:43
- 585 plays

- 37
- Ambition
- 03:04
- 484 plays

- 38
- See No Evil
- 04:04
- 428 plays

- 39
- Suspect Device
- 02:43
- 574 plays

- 40
- Mannequin
- 02:37
- 623 plays

- 41
- Baby Baby
- 03:42
- 716 plays

- 42
- Love Comes in Spurts
- 02:01
- 452 plays

- 43
- First Time
- 02:22
- 595 plays

- 44
- Sonic Reducer
- 03:06
- 767 plays

- 45
- Shot by Both Sides
- 04:01
- 484 plays

- 46
- Mystery Dance
- 01:37
- 494 plays

- 47
- Trash
- 03:09
- 540 plays

- 48
- The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
- 02:51
- 461 plays

- 49
- Do Anything You Wanna Do
- 04:04
- 429 plays

- 50
- Ready Steady Go
- 02:58
- 871 plays

- 51
- Teenage Kicks
- 02:26
- 830 plays

- 52
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
- 03:04
- 684 plays

- 53
- Ever Fallen in Love?
- 02:42
- 833 plays

- 54
- Rocket U.S.A.
- 04:17
- 605 plays

- 55
- Mongoloid
- 03:34
- 627 plays

- 56
- Homicide
- 03:42
- 721 plays

- 57
- Mr. Big
- 01:43
- 487 plays

- 58
- Warsaw
- 02:26
- 832 plays

- 59
- Where Were You?
- 02:43
- 2,030 plays

- 60
- Lexicon Devil
- 02:05
- 597 plays

- 61
- (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
- 02:53
- 568 plays

- 62
- The Wait
- 03:11
- 740 plays

- 63
- We Got the Neutron Bomb
- 03:00
- 537 plays

- 64
- Pablo Picasso
- 04:22
- 754 plays

- 65
- Action Time Vision
- 02:31
- 524 plays

- 66
- 2-4-6-8 Motorway
- 03:18
- 671 plays

- 67
- We Are the One
- 02:41
- 681 plays

- 68
- Borstal Breakout
- 02:06
- 596 plays

- 69
- Wasted
- 00:51
- 775 plays

- 70
- Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
- 02:48
- 547 plays

- 71
- I Love Livin' in the City
- 02:11
- 1,403 plays

- 72
- She's So Modern
- 02:58
- 499 plays

- 73
- Ghosts of Princes in Towers
- 03:34
- 470 plays

- 74
- We're Desperate
- 02:01
- 468 plays

- 75
- You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
- 01:53
- 844 plays

- 76
- Dancing the Night Away
- 03:14
- 498 plays

- 77
- Hong Kong Garden
- 02:56
- 1,213 plays

- 78
- Hanging on the Telephone
- 02:21
- 798 plays

- 79
- Top of the Pops
- 03:22
- 835 plays

- 80
- Adult Books
- 03:15
- 627 plays

- 81
- The Sound of the Suburbs
- 03:55
- 627 plays

- 82
- California Über Alles
- 03:28
- 945 plays

- 83
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- 03:03
- 1,129 plays

- 84
- (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp
- 03:00
- 541 plays

- 85
- Radio, Radio
- 03:07
- 669 plays

- 86
- Typical Girls
- 03:55
- 526 plays

- 87
- Human Fly
- 02:15
- 764 plays

- 88
- Psycho Killer
- 04:20
- 894 plays

- 89
- Babylon's Burning
- 02:32
- 606 plays

- 90
- If the Kids Are United
- 03:48
- 496 plays

- 91
- Alternative Ulster
- 02:44
- 619 plays

- 92
- Boys Don't Cry
- 02:41
- 957 plays

- 93
- She Is Beyond Good and Evil
- 03:23
- 542 plays

- 94
- Is She Really Going Out With Him?
- 03:36
- 581 plays

- 95
- Get Over You
- 02:43
- 633 plays

- 96
- Love Like Anthrax
- 03:19
- 631 plays

- 97
- Peaches
- 04:07
- 656 plays

- 98
- Into the Valley
- 03:17
- 448 plays

- 99
- You Can't Put Your Arms Round a Memory
- 03:04
- 743 plays

- 100
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- 03:25
- 744 plays

album review

Like all the great rock revolutions, punk was fueled by singles. Sure, there were a lot of tremendous albums, but all the artists that cut great LPs also had great 7"s -- and in the case of Television and Patti Smith, they had independent singles released prior to their first albums that never appeared on their debuts. Since rock criticism tends to be album-driven, singles tend to get slightly overlooked, and since punk is a rock critic's favorite, some revisionist historians paint the era as fueled by albums, not singles. Rhino's excellent four-disc No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion corrects that error by focusing on the singles, winding up with a one-stop introduction and summary of the era that is as good as Loud, Fast & Out of Control, their similar set on early rock & roll. The compilers have bent the rules of punk slightly, deciding to include proto-punkers like New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Dictators, and Jonathan Richman, and then to not present the cuts in a strictly chronological order. This benefits the album, since these artists are in the same spirit of the bands they inspired, and the sequencing plays like a great mixtape. Rhino has also evenly balanced the set between American and British punk, including both early hardcore punkers the Dead Kennedys and British pub rock renegades like Nick Lowe and Ian Dury in equal measure. Though there's a bit of difference between "California Über Alles" and "Heart of the City," they deserve to be paired on this set because they both were genuinely independent, exciting 45s that crackled with energy and captured the spirit of punk, albeit in different ways. And that's what makes No Thanks! work so well -- it illustrates how diverse punk and new wave were in the late '70s, but it places a premium on adventure and excitement, which means even artier bands like Pere Ubu and Suicide come across as pure rock & roll. If there is any flaw to the box, it's that most record collectors will already own the lion's share of these songs -- in fact, if they own Rhino's previous 1993 multi-disc punk retrospective D.I.Y., they'll own no less than 53 of these songs (an additional 14 songs have appeared on other Rhino titles, making for a grand total of 67 of 100 songs already released by Rhino). While this is undoubtedly a problem for some collectors, it is also true that it functions more as an overview for fans that don't already own a bunch of this on CD, and on that level it can't be faulted. True, this may contain no tracks from the Sex Pistols, since John Lydon refused them permission (allegedly because Rhino chose not to release the 2002 Sex Pistols box set in the States), but every other major player is here, and the music here is so good they're not missed at all. Finally, if a collector is wondering whether it's worth the expense to buy this box, there are three rare singles that make their debut here: the aforementioned Television and Patti Smith singles, "Little Johnny Jewel" and "Hey Joe [version]," plus an early single version of the Pretenders' "The Wait." (Note: "Little Johnny Jewel" was released nearly simultaneously on an expanded reissue of Television's Marquee Moon.) For those that can afford it, that's reason enough to pick up the set. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide