Name: Blank Generation: A Story Of US / Canadian Punk and Its Aftershocks 1975-1981
Brand: Various

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CRCDBOX147

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-17

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929114791

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CDx5

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Various

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Punk / Hardcore

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Cherry Red

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Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.

Meticulously curated box sets featuring exceptional audio quality, stunning visuals, and exclusive bonus content. Explore genres, eras, and artists to find the perfect addition to your collection.

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5CD set bringing a comprehensive, big-tent look at the early years of punk rock in the US and Canada. Over six hours of music. Includes benchmark tracks by the scene’s most influential bands plus many rare singles making their first appearance on CD.

Named after Richard Hell’s epoch-defining anthem, ‘Blank Generation’ documents the emergence in North America of what came to be labelled punk rock. A year or two prior to punk exploding in the UK, bands who’d been playing live in venues like New York City’s CBGB started releasing records, often on independent labels, as an antidote to the prevailing disco and corporate soft rock which dominated the US charts.

This five CD reflects those influential NYC bands – Patti Smith Group, The Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Voidoids, etc. – as well as the scene’s other pioneers such as Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys (both Cleveland, Ohio), Dead Kennedys and Crime (San Francisco), Devo (Akron, Ohio), The Germs and The Weirdos (Los Angeles) and Mission of Burma (Boston, Massachusetts).

Blank Generation offers a deliberately broad definition of punk, encompassing contributions from such outré acts as Suicide, The Cramps and The Residents through to new wave / power pop combos (Sneakers, Chris Stamey and the dB’s, etc.). Also present are contemporary recordings by some of the mavericks who inspired punk – Destroy All Monsters (Detroit) boasted ex-members of The Stooges and The MC5 and The Heartbreakers and Killer Kane Band spun off the New York Dolls.

While the US punk scene was arguably always more diverse musically than that of the UK, the music evolved quickly, as evinced by the choices heard on Discs 4 and 5. Many of the acts here such as X, The Replacements, The Feelies, Redd Kross, The Dream Syndicate, The Gun Club and Minor Threat would make an even greater impact as the 1980s wore on.

It’s hard to overestimate the seismic shocks caused by the music on Blank Generation, not only on everything in alternative music which followed in North American, from the 80s hardcore scene and the music heard on the whole alternative college radio network through to grunge and beyond. And yet this era has never before been treated to a comprehensive retrospective of this kind.

Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation

4 The Modern Lovers – Someone I Care About

11 Poly Styrene Jass Band – Drano In Your Veins

18 The Suicide Commandos – Match/ Mismatch

19 Patti Smith Group – Pissing In a River

8 The Randoms – Let’s Get Rid of New York

10 Chris Stamey and the dB’s – (I Thought) You Wanted To Know

16 Pointed Sticks – What Do You Want Me To Do?

17 Shock – This Generation’s On Vacation

21 Curtiss A – I Don’t Wanna Be President

24 The Weirdos – We Got the Neutron Bomb

25 The Last – She Don’t Know Why I’m Here

26 Tom Verlaine – Breakin’ In My Heart

14 The Hits – All the Girls (Wanna Be In Gangs)

16 Black Randy and the Metro Squad – I Slept In an Arcade

26 Mission of Burma – Academy Fight Song

1 Dow Jones and the Industrials – Can’t Stand the Midwest

2 The Haskels – Taking the City By Storm

11 The Cosmopolitans – How To Keep Your Husband Happy

13 Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It

Blank Generation: A Story Of US / Canadian Punk and Its Aftershocks 1975-1981

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Discover Blank Generation: A Story Of US / Canadian Punk and Its Aftershocks 1975-1981 by Various. 5CD set featuring influential punk bands from the US and Canada. Available in CD format. Label: Cherry Red.