Urgh! A Music War
Aroview: Outstanding collection of live performances from the new wave/post-punk music scene of the early 80's. Cut from a myriad of concerts, the sound and visual quality is consistent and coherent, making this one of the definitive artefacts of this ground-breaking musical era.
Tracklisting (with asterisk denoting our particular favourites):
The Police - Driven to Tears
Wall of Voodoo – Back in Flesh
Toyah Willcox – Danced
John Cooper Clarke – Health Fanatic
OMD – Enola Gay
Chelsea – I’m on Fire
Oingo Boingo – Ain’t This the Life
Echo & the Bunnymen – The Puppet*
Jools Holland – Foolish I Know
XTC – Respectable Street
Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse*
Athletico Spizz 80 – Where’s Captain Kirk?
The Go-Go's – We Got the Beat
Dead Kennedys – Bleed for Me*
Steel Pulse – Ku Klux Klan
Gary Numan – Down in the Park*
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Bad Reputation
Magazine – Model Worker
Surf Punks – My Beach
The Members – Offshore Banking Business
Au Pairs – Come Again
The Cramps – Tear It Up*
Invisible Sex – Valium
Pere Ubu – Birdies
Devo – Uncontrollable Urge*
The Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore
John Otway – Cheryl’s Going Home
Gang of Four – He’d Send in the Army
999 – Homicide
The Fleshtones – Shadowline
X – Beyond and Back
Skafish – Sign of the Cross
UB40 – Madame Medusa
The Police – Roxanne*
The Police– So Lonely
Klaus Nomi – Aria
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