Also as the very wonderful Touch And Go by Magazine follows, one can’t really complain. Having said that, Another Girl Another Planet really does root one firmly in 1978, so can be thus justified as a necessary pick in accurately depicting 1978 UK music. So the Only Ones’ Another Girl Another Planet appears – yes of course it is great, but the compilers could have dipped anywhere on that classic debut LP and struck gold. Too many oddball excursions and you run the risk of not giving a reasonable picture of the year you are trying to depict. The difficulty with this kind of compilation is getting the balance right: too many tried and tested tracks and you’re in the field of the “101 New Wave Classics” cheapo sets that are available in supermarkets. This meant punk was granted access to the average UK living room well before the television watershed (or as it was known to me back then, bedtime). Younger fans were still playing catch up and wanted a bit of the pogo-tastic sound of raw punk rock, which resulted in those bands invading the enemy territory of the Top Of The Pops studio in far greater numbers than in 1977. Not that there was anything wrong with the latter – in fact 1978 produced many rousing examples of just that form, some of which are included on this new collection. In direct contrast though, a great many of bands that had used the Pistols as their jumping off point were only really beginning, their music shooting off in different directions far away from the original 1-2-3-4 punk format. When the Sex Pistols burst asunder as their calamitous US tour drew to a close in late January 1978, it drew a line under punk for of lot of people back in the UK.
3CD compilation bringing together the various strands of UK punk and new wave music from the year 1978, with tracks by X Ray Spex, PIL and Sham 69 as well as many more….Ian Canty remembers his long gone youth and the music that sound-tracked it…
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