Various Artists - No More Heroes: 60 Punk and New Wave Anthems (2015)

Including a great selection of bona-fide New Wave & Punk Classics along with a few more unusual but equally entertaining selections and a couple of surprisingly hard-to-find on CD selections this is a double album that works well as a listening experience and provides something a bit different. Sure, tracks like 'Teenage Kicks' by The Undertones, the title track song by The Stranglers and Ian Dury's 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' are on virtually every similar compilation but songs like 'Blank Generation' by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. These minor quibbles aside, 'No More Heroes' delivers what it says on the tin and provides its listeners with plenty of great tunes to inspire and bring back happy memories.

Tracklist:

CD1

01. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
02. Going Underground - The Jam
03. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones
04. If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
05. No More Heroes - The Stranglers
06. Public Image - Public Image Ltd
07. Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie And The Hot Rods
08. Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
09. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
10. Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
11. Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex
12. Automatic Lover - The Vibrators
13. Swords Of A 1,000 Men - Tenpole Tudor
14. Go Wild In The Country - Bow Wow Wow
15. Into The Valley - The Skids
16. Top Of The Pops - Rezillos
17. 2 - 4 - 6 - 8 Motorway - The Tom Robinson Band
18. Blank Generation - Richard Hell And The Voidoids
19. Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
20. Is Vic There? - Department S

CD2

21. Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
22. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
23. Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs
24. The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen
25. Time For Action - Secret Affair
26. Shake Some Action - Flamin' Groovies
27. I Got You - Split Enz
28. Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders
29. Back Of My Hand - The Jags
30. Making Plans For Nigel - Xtc
31. Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members
32. Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam And The Ants
33. I Think We're Alone Now - The Rubinoos
34. Jilted John - Jilted John
35. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
36. A New England - Kirsty Maccoll
37. Ghost Town - The Specials
38. 7Teen - The Regents
39. Drowning In Berlin - The Mobiles
40. One Step Beyond - Madness

CD3

41. Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
42. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
43. Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers
44. Rich Kids - Rich Kids
45. Babylons Burning - The Ruts
46. Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones
47. Hersham Boys - Sham 69
48. Miss The Girl - Creatures
49. New Rose - The Damned
50. The Day The World Turned Day - Glo - X-Ray Spex
51. Drummer Man - Tonight
52. King Rocker - Generation X
53. Butcher Baby - The Plasmatics
54. Homicide - 999
55. Cherry Bomb - The Runnaways
56. Nellie The Elephant - The Toy Dolls
57. Get Rhythm - Dr Feelgood
58. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
59. It's The New Thing - The Fall
60. You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie