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BOXSET REVIEW: Optimism\/Reject – Punk And Post-Punk Meets D-I-Y Aesthetic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Even its most vehement detractors can\u2019t deny the punk explosion of the 1970s paved the way for a boom in independent thinking around the UK\u2019s music industry. Even if you couldn\u2019t play a note, you could set up your own label to release records by those who could, or start a fanzine to write about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s that independent DIY spirit which\nis celebrated in this 4CD, 68-page bookset, which is intended as a companion\nvolume to Cherry Red\u2019s excellent 2017 post-punk collection To The Outside Of Everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, such an extensive set contains some gems, and there\u2019s certainly a few to be found among the 105 tracks here; early prime cuts by Skids<\/strong>, Angelic Upstarts<\/strong>, The Fall<\/strong>, The Ruts<\/strong>, and John Cooper Clarke<\/strong>, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s classics, rarities, album tracks and forgotten songs from Subway Sect<\/strong>, Sisters Of Mercy<\/strong>, Young Marble Giants<\/strong>, Marine Girls<\/strong>, Alternative TV<\/strong>, The Raincoats<\/strong>, The Membranes<\/strong> and many more indie names you\u2019ll probably be familiar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So there\u2019s plenty of long-lost gems are waiting to be unearthed then, but naturally with compilations like this, it\u2019s got its fair share of tracks that you\u2019ll happily skip past. It\u2019s like listening to John Peel\u2019s Radio 1 show<\/strong> circa 1980, with as much chaff as wheat. I\u2019ll leave you to make up your own mind which is which, but let\u2019s concentrate on the positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s the \u2018before they were famous\u2019 oddities, such as The Frantic Elevators<\/strong>, featuring a pre-Simply Red Mick Hucknall<\/strong> and their repetitive,  Crass<\/strong>-like Every Day I Die; a pre-Dead Or Alive Pete Burns<\/strong> in Nightmares In Wax, and early cuts from other chart-botherers-to-be like Scritti Politti<\/strong>, Thompson Twins<\/strong> and Blancmange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From punk to new wave, experimental pop and avant garde jazz, there\u2019s something for most tastes, even if there\u2019s a puzzling tendency to include B-sides, instead of the more familiar material; I\u2019m thinking of the set\u2019s Patrik Fitzgerald<\/strong> title track rather than his cult hit Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart, and Masochistic Opposite instead of Mo-Dettes<\/strong>\u2019 much better-known White Mice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Associates<\/strong>\u2019 unauthorised (but very good) cover of David Bowie<\/strong>\u2019s Boys Keep Swinging is something I hadn\u2019t heard before, and there\u2019s an early highlight in the shape of The Drones<\/strong> and You\u2019ll Lose (OK, they sound like Buzzcocks<\/strong>, but surely that\u2019s a good thing?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And who was to know that The Laughing Apple<\/strong>, who contribute the fairly basic Chips For Tea contained future Creation Records<\/strong> supremo Alan McGee<\/strong> and Andrew Innes<\/strong>, who went on to join Primal Scream<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are fine tracks by lots of artists I\u2019d never heard of: The Tight<\/strong>s (the first band ever released on Cherry Red), the Slits-like Devil’s Dykes<\/strong>, The Dodgems<\/strong>, whose lo-fi Lord Lucan is Missing is very of its time, and the slightly ludicrous but still charming (I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette) by The Shapes<\/strong> \u2013 \u201choly soap!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such eclecticism is the beauty of a set like this, even if the absence of \u2018hits\u2019 means it does appear, in part, to be mopping up the leftovers. 7\/10.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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