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

PULSE-1 Don't Want My Heart To Rule My Head/

Stella's Got A Fella// Cider/ Choc Ice (Heartbeat 7/78)

 

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.

 

SOFT BOYS

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)

ADA-8 (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp/ Fatman's Son

(Radar 5/78)

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).

 

SOME CHICKEN

RAW-7 New Religion/ Blood On The Wall (Raw 11/77)

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.

 

SORE THROAT

SPIN-1 I Dunno/ Complex (Hubcap 1978)
ION-3 Zombie Rock/ I Don't Wanna Go Home (Albion 11/78)

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'

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SPEEDOMETERS

NICE-1 Disgrace/ Work (Mascot 2/78)

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).