70's UK Punk/New Wave Listing =So
Social Security/ Sods/ Soft Boys/ Some Chicken/ Sore Throat/ Spare Parts/ Speed (Ireland) / Speed (Manchester) /
Speedball/ Speedometers/ Speedos/ Spelling Missteaks/ Spherical Objects
SOCIAL SECURITY
v-Paul Harrison g-Dominic White g-Simon Blackmore b-Simon Cartledge d-Bill Sargent
From Bristol. Punk.
SODS
ST-005 No Pictures/ Plaything (Stortbeat 1979)
TAP-1 Mopey Grape/ Negative (Tap 1979)
From Harlow, Essex. Punk. Not to be confused w/ the Sods from Denmark.
RAW-5 Give It To The Soft Boys 1.Wading Through A Ventilator/ 2.The Face Of Death 3.Hear My Brane (Raw 11/77)
LP)
CLAW-1001 A Can Of Bees (Two Crabs 4/79)
1.Give It To The Soft Boys 2.The Pigworker 3.Human Music 4.Leppo And The Jooves 5.The Rats Prayer//
6.Do The Chisel 7.Sandras Having Her Brain Out 8.Return Of The Scared Crab 9.Cold Turkey
10.School Dinner Blues 11.Wading Through A Ventilator (live) -re-issue Aura AUL-709 1979 w/ diff. tracks.
comp.)
6.Hear My Brane on 'More From Raw'
LP lineup) v, g-Robyn Hitchcock v, g-Kimberly Rew v, b-Andy Metcalfe v, d-Morris Windsor
Formed '76 in Cambridge. Psychedelic punk. Orig. g-Alan Davies. After 1st LP Metcalfe left to Telephone Bill &
The Smooth Operators, replaced by Matthew Seligman. 2nd LP= 'Underwater Moonlight' (Armageddon ARM-1 1980).
RAW-13 Arabian Daze/ Number Seven (Raw 1978) -also issued as RAW-17.
comp.)
4.Blood On The Wall 10.New Religion on 'More From Raw'
v-Ivor Badcock g-Jess Chicken b-Terry Bull d-Galway Kinnel
Punk.
FIRE-2 Kamikaze Kid/ Crack Down (Hurricane 1979)
FIRE-10 7th Heaven/ Off The Hook (Hurricane 1979)
LP)
FLAK-101 Sooner Than You Think (Hurricane 11/79)
1.Wonder Drug 2.7th Heaven 3.Flak Jacket 4.Routine Patrol// 5.British Subject 6.Mr.Right 7.Off The Hook 8.Crackdown
9.Sooner Than You Think
v-Justin Ward g-Reid Savage b-Dan Flowers k-Matt Flowers sax-Greg Mason d-Clive Kirby
Power pop/ Pop new wave.
SPARE PARTS
She's A New Kind Of Girl/ Paint It Black (Random 1979) -power pop.
SPEED
IT-1 Big City/ All Day And All Of The Night (It 3/77)
From Ireland. Punk.
SPEED
comp.)
5.She's All There on 'Identity Parade'
From Manchester. Punk.
SPEEDBALL
DD-1 No Survivors (No Pap 9/79)
From Southend. Mods. Some ex. punk band called 'Idiot'
.
NICE-2 Liverpool Ladies (Mascot 12/78)
BAT-6 Tonight Tonight/ Day In The Light (Acrobat 1979)
LP)
ACRO-5 Day In The Light (Acrobat 1979)
v, g-Ian Taylor v, g-Martin Finley v, b-Robbie Watson k-Lee Dallon d-Paul Spencer
Power pop. 1st single w/o k.
SPEEDOS
comp.)
2.She's A Shocker on 'Aylesbury Goes Flaccid'
Power pop. Single 'Killer On The Dance Floor/ -' on EMI 1980.
SPELLING MISSTEAKS
BEAT-7 Popstar/ Mirrors/ Rubber Duck/ Urge (Stortbeat 1979)
From Harlow. Punk. Prod. by Steve Drewett (Newtown Neurotics).
SPHERICAL OBJECTS
OM-01 The Kill/ The Knot (Object 10/78) -rec. 10/7/78
OM-04 Seventies Romance/ Sweet Tooth (Object 1979) -rec. 4/11/78
LP)
OBJ-001 Past And Parcel (Object 6/78)
1.Born To Pay 2.Situation Comedy 3.You Can Become 4.The Crystal Tree 5.If I Can Choose (Oh Babe) 6.Lover Flow//
7.Drama Queen 8.The Face I Want To See 9.What Goes On 10.Past And Parcel
OBJ-004 Eliptical Optimism (Object 1979)
1.Metropolis 2.Show Me 3.Comedians 4.Eliptical Optimism 5.Ten To Nine 6.Another Technique// 7.I Should Have Left Him
8.It's So Good To Be Alive (Tonight) 9.Lying Again 10.I Don't Remember 11.Walk Away 12.Lucy 13.I Remember You
v-Steve Solamor g-John Bisset-Smith b-Fred Burrows k-Duncan Prestbury d-Roger Hilton
Alternative, very unique band. 3rd LP= 'Further Ellipses' (OBJ-012 1980).