VA - Action Time Vision: A Story Of UK Independent Punk 1976-1979 (2016)

Action Time Vision opens with the Damned’s “New Rose,” which Cherry Red declares “the first British punk 45” and which hasn’t lost a shred of its power. Things proceed more or less chronologically from there, with a healthy dose of sides from trailblazing labels like Stiff, Chiswick, Small Wonder and Step Forward. That latter label was founded by Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart Copeland and a man who deserves more credit for cobbling together a US club circuit for “alternative” touring bands (British and American) that exists to this day.

Track List:

CD1:
1. The Damned - New Rose
2. Eater - Outside View
3. The Radiators from Space -
4. Television Screen
5. The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
6. The Drones - Lookalikes
7. The Lurkers - Shadow
8. The Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby
9. 999 - I'm Alive
10. Johnny Moped - No One
11. Sham 69 - I Don't Wanna
12. Puncture - Mucky Pup
13. The Snivelling Shits - Terminal Stupid
14. The Vacants - Worthless Trash
15. The Zeros - Hungry
16. Maniacs - Chelsea 77
17. The Outsiders - One to Infinity
18. The Killjoys - Johnny Won't Get to Heaven
19. Johnny and the Self Abusers - Saints and Sinners
20. The Unwanted - Withdrawal
21. The Wasps - Teenage Treats
22. The Pigs - Youthanasia
23. Lockjaw - Radio Call Sign
24. Neon Hearts - Venus Eccentric
25. Jerks - Get Your Woofing Dog Off Me
26. The Panik - Modern Politics
27. Some Chicken - New Religion
28. The Carpettes - Radio Wunderbar
29. The Flys - Love and a Molotov Cocktail
30. Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias - Gobbing on Life
31. The Only Ones - Lovers of Today
32. Suspects - Nothing to Declare (Live at the Vortex)

CD2:
1. Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
2. Patrik Fitzgerald -Safety-Pin Stuck in My Heart
3. The Boys - No Leaders (Demo)
4. The Stoat - Office Girl
5. Acme Sewage Co. - I Don't Need You
6. V2 - Speed Freak
7. Bazoomis - Give It All to Me
8. Raped - Moving Target
9. Big G - I Hate the Whole Human Race
10. Subs - Gimme Your Heart
11. Tubeway Army - That's Too Bad
12. The Xtraverts - Blank Generation
13. Fruit Eating Bears - Door in My Face
14. Front - System
15. Satan's Rats - You Make Me Sick
16. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
17. Menace - G.L.C
18. The Dyaks - Gutter Kids
19. Skids - Reasons
20. Rudi - Big Time
21. The Art Attacks - I Am a Dalek
22. Bears - on Me
23. 'O' Level - Pseudo Punk
24. The Members - Solitary Confinement
25. Nipple Erectors - King of the Bop
26. Angelic Upstarts -The Murder of Liddle Towers
27. Mean Street - Bunch of Stiffs (Live at the Vortex)

CD3:
1. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision
2. Social Security - I Don't Want My Heart to Rule My Head
3. The Tights - Bad Hearts
4. Riff Raff - Cosmonaut
5. The Dole - New Wave Love
6. Joy Division - Failures
7. Leyton Buzzards - 19 and Mad
8. Demon Preacher - Little Miss Perfect
9. The Outcasts - Just Another Teenage Rebel
10. The Fall - Psycho Mafia
11. Chelsea - Urban Kids
12. Protex - Don't Ring Me Up
13. The Cravats - Gordon
14. Horrorcomic - England '77
15. U.K. Subs - C.I.D
16. Spizzoil 6,000 - Crazy
17. The Dodgems - I Don't Care (Full Version)
18. The Users - Kicks in Style
19. Peter and Test Tube Babies -
20. Elvis Is Dead
21. The Ruts - in a Rut
22. Disco Zombies - Drums Over London
23. Nicky & the Dots - Never Been So Stuck
24. The Shapes - Wot's for Lunch Mum ? (Not B*S Again!)
25. No Way - Breaking Point
26. The Wall - New Way
27. The Hollywood Brats - Sick on You

CD4:
1. Adam and the Ants - Zerox
2. Notsensibles - Death to Disco
3. The Vice Creems - Danger Love
4. Murder the Disturbed - D.N.A
5. Cockney Rejects - Flares 'N' Slippers
6. Psykik Volts - Totally Useless
7. The Molesters - the End of Civilisation
8. The Newtown Neurotics -Hypocrite
9. Pure Hell - These Boots Are Made for Walking
10. Fire Exit - Timewall
11. The Pack - King of Kings
12. Steroid Kiddies - Dumb Dumb
13. English Subtitles - Time Tunnel
14. The Proles - Soft Ground
15. The Adicts - Easy Way Out
16. The Dark - My Friends
17. Woody & the Splinters - I Must Be Mad
18. Victim - Why Are Fire Engines Red
19. The X-Certs - Anthem
20. F-X - Slag
21. The Rivals - Future Rights
22. Silent Noise - I've Been Hurt (So Many Times Before)
23. Vice Squad - Nothing
24. The Prefects - Things in General
25. The Licks - 1970's Have Been Made in Hong Kong
26. Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows
27. Poison Girls - Under the Doctor