Playlist November 9th 2018

1978 Pt 3 - Teenage Kicks So Hard To Beat

 The Undertones “Teenage Kicks”  Single (1978)  Good Vibrations — Home Run right off the bat

  John Cooper Clarke “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” Disguise In Love (1978)  CBS
 The Nips “All The Time In The World”  Single (1978)  Soho Records — pre Pogues post Nipple Erectors
The Talking Heads “Take Me To The River” Single (1978)  Sire — Al Green cover - also on More Songs About Buildings and Food

 Spizz Oil “6000 Crazy” Single (1978)  Rough Trade — Debut 45
 Sham 69 “Hurry Up Harry”  Single (1978)  Polydor — head down  the Pubs
 XTC “Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)”  Go 2 (1978)  Virgin — Came with bonus 12" Go Plus

 Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”  Single (1978) Stiff — Be Stiff Route 78 Tour - also on Stateless LP
 Jona Lewie “I'll Get By In Pittsburgh”  On the Other Hand There's a Fist  (1978)  Stiff  — one of five Stiff Albums released on the same day
 Wreckless Eric “Take the Cash (K.A.S.H.)”  The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric (1978)  Stiff
 Mickey Jupp “You'll Never Get Me Up In One Of Those”  Juppanese (1978)  Stiff
 Rachel Sweet “B.A.B.Y” Fool Around (1978)  Stiff

 The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight”  Single (1978)  Polydor — also on All Mod Cons
 Patrick Fitzgerald “Paranoid Ward”  Paranoid Ward EP (1978) Small Wonder
 Public Image Ltd. “Public Image” Single (1978)  Virgin — came in newspaper sleeve - Debut

 Subway Sect “Ambition”  Single (1978) Rough Trade — Vic Godard
 Kleenex “Ain't You” Single (1978)  Sunrise
 Stiff Little Fingers “Alternative Ulster” Single (1978)  Rigid Digits
Gang of Four “Damaged Goods” EP (1978)  Fast Products — Debut - original version

 Cabaret Voltaire “Do the Mussolini (Headkick!)”  Extended Play (1978)  Rough Trade — Debut -Sheffield sound
 X Ray Spex “Germ Free Adolescents”  Single (1978)  Art-I-Ficial Records — also on Germ Free Adolescents Lp
 Blondie “Hanging On The Telephone”  Single (1978)  Chrysalis— also on Parallel Lines LP
 Protex “Don't Ring Me Up”  Single (1978)  Good Vibrations

 Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band “Harry Irene” Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978) Warner Bros. — Recorded 2 years earlier - Held up by Frank Zappa
 The Cryers “Shake It Up (Ain't It Time?)”  The Cryers (1978)  Mercury
 Joe Jackson “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”  Single (1978)  A and M — Debut

 Squeeze “Goodbye Girl”  Single (1978)  A and M — also on Cool for Cats LP
 Pere Ubu “Dub Housing”  Dub Housing (1978)  Blank — 2nd LP
 The Clash “Tommy Gun”  Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978)  Epic — 2nd LP
Nine Nine Nine “Homicide” Single (1978) United Artists

 Siouxsie and The Banshees “Helter Skelter”  The Scream (1978)  Polydor — Debut LP - Beatles Cover
 Buzzcocks “Promises”  Single (1978)  United Artists
The Police “So Lonely”  Single (1978) A and M

 The Fall “It's a New Thing”  Single (1978) Step Forward — 2nd single
 Scritti Politti “Skank Bloc Bologna”Single (1978)  St. Pancras  - Debut
 The Flying Lizards “Summertime Blues”  Single (1978)  Virgin — Debut - Eddie Cochran cover
 Big In Japan. “Nothing Special”  From Y To Z and Never Again EP (1978)  Zoo — First release on Liverpool's Zoo Records

 Nick Lowe “American Squirm”  Single A side (1978)  Radar
 Elvis Costello and The Attractions “(What's So Funny 'Bout ) Peace, Love, And Understanding”  Single B Side (1978)  Radar — Flip of American Squirm 45
 Ian Dury and The Blockheads “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”  Single (1978) Stiff

 Magazine “Give Me Everything”  Single (1978)  Virgin
 The Outcasts “Just Another Teenage Rebel”  Single (1978)  Good Vibrations
 The Mekons “Where Were You”  Single (1978)  Fast Product — 2nd 45

 The Cramps “Human Fly” Single (1978)  Vengeance — 2nd 45
 The Fall “Mess of Me”  The Complete Peel Sessions (2005)  Castle — 2nd Peel session Dec 6 1978
Public Image Ltd. “Low Life”  Public Image  (1978)  Virgin — Debut long Player

 The Bags “Survive” Single (1978)  Dangerhouse
 The Residents “Santa Dog '78” Single (1978)  Ralph — RIP Hardy Fox
 Chris Stamey and The Dbs “(I Thought) You Wanted To Know”  Single (1978) Car
  Elvis Costello and The Attractions “Talking In The Dark” Single (1978) Radar — Free Single given at concert Dec 18 1978

 The Cure “Killing an Arab”  Single (1978)  Small Wonder — Debut