The Ugly Truth About Blackpool Volume One

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Funded in part by Blackpool Council, The Ugly Truth About Blackpool Vol 1 brings together a list of bands that have made their mark in Blackpool and much further afield.
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1.	Skrewdriver - Antisocial (1977) 01:26	buy track
2.	Zyklon B - Manic Depressive (1978) 02:07	buy track
3.	Male Models - DC Overflow (1979) 02:51	buy track
4.	Tunnel Vision - Comrades (1980) 03:22	buy track
5.	Kenneth Turner Set - Overload (1980) 02:27	buy track
6.	Syntax - Dot Dot (1980) 03:35	buy track
7.	Section 25 - Always Now (1981) 01:48	buy track
8.	One Way System - Jerusalem (1982) 02:44	buy track
9.	Antisocial - Official Hooligan (1982) 02:28	buy track
10.	The Genocides - Honey This Ain´t No Romance (1982) 02:30	buy track
11.	The Fits - Bravado (1983) 02:16	buy track
12.	Sign Language - Love & Glory (1984) 03:38	buy track
13.	The Membranes - Tatty Seaside Town (1988) 02:52	buy track
14.	Take Lindy Surfing - Twilight Zone (1991) 02:07	buy track
15.	Shrink - She´s The One (1994) 03:21	buy track
16.	The Phantom Creeps - Bad Place (1996) 02:58	buy track
17.	Erase Today - Managing Director Of Earth plc (1996) 04:03	buy track
18.	Container Drivers - Searching For The Skylon (1997) 03:58	buy track
19.	King Mob Echo - Cock Suck Amerika (1997) 03:04	buy track
20.	The Pink Torpeodes - Time To Be Alone (2000) 03:09	buy track
21.	Thee Transmissions - Starlight (2001) 03:20	buy track
22.	Neocoma - Alcoholocaust (2002) 03:01	buy track
23.	Uncle Fester - Kill Someone (2002) 03:08	buy track
24.	Razor Dog - Torched (2004) 03:54	buy track
25.	Ceramic Hobs - Pro Ana Tips ´N´ Tricks - 2004) 03:23	buy track
26.	SICK56 - No Accident (attak Mix 2005) 03:18	buy track

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The Ugly Truth about Blackpool Volume 1 - Volume 1 - (1977 - 2005) - UTAB
By Glaswerk - Webzine submitted

"The Ugly Truth About Blackpool" does indeed sound more like a new comedy series by Peter Kay but it is in fact the greatest hits from this greatest of British Seaside resorts from 1977 to 2005. Not many folk would think of Blackpool as being a mecca for Punk Rock, but if 27 tracks of a compilation album ain´t enough to prove it to you, I just don´t know what will. Just Say No to Government Music is a local Blackpool intiative, and ironically this release is supported by the Arts Council, but then we are living in 2005 the era of gross compromise so even Punk Rock seems to make some concessions.

It seems that punk has never died in Blackpool, seems to be something about places beginning with "B", since punk has lived on in Berlin and Bradford without a break and indeed the art of the fanzine is also being upheld by JSNTGM and if you´re canny you´ll get your copy of this CD free with Issue 8 of Blackpool Roxx II (see JSNTGM.com to obtain yours). I´m almost disappointed that JSNTGM haven´t put this compilation out as a flexi-disc, but then in truth the likelihood of actually being able to hear the recording, would be close to zero, or rather you might hear it once and never again but you´d have a lot of thin curly plastic scraped off the disc by the stylus as a memento of it. Anyway luckily for you it is on CD and this compilation contains some real gems of grass roots Punk Rock from Skrewdriver and Zyklon B to the wonderful, Kenneth Turner Set, who break with tradition having a really rather good guitarist riffing away deliriously. For those who liked the stripped down sounds of original Goth bands Comrades by Tunnel Vision, nor should the fantastically angry and Buzzock-esque,

The Genocides should not to be missed. This is not trendy "nu punk rock" this is the real thing, raw, simple with meaning. I have to say that the originals are the best, the tracks from the 70s and 80s are perhaps the most choice selection, but you have to hand it to Razor Dog, born from the tradition of slightly silly bands like the Wedding Present and Pulp, that only the North can breed, they do warble a jolly tune and who would ever think that a band called the Ceramic Hobs could sound quite so, well, mildly satanic. All in all, The Ugly Truth About Blackpool is a veritable cornucopia of Punk Rock delights, chase it down or be somewhat foolish.

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released April 23, 2005

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