Various Artists

Can't Stop It #1

Tracklist

  1. The Moodists - Gone Dead
  2. Voigt-465 - Voices a Drama
  3. The Take - Summer
  4. Essendon Airport - How Low Can You Go
  5. The Apartments - Help
  6. Ash Wednesday - Love By Numbers
  7. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle
  8. Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast - The Dumbwaiters
  9. Ron Rude - Piano Piano
  10. Xero - The Girls
  11. The Limp - Pony Club
  12. Fabulous Marquises - Honeymoons
  13. Slugfuckers - Cacophony
  14. Equal Local - Lamp That
  15. Tame Omeras - Sweat and Babble
  16. The Particles - Apricot's Dream
  17. People With Chairs Up Their Noses - Song of the Sea
  18. Wild West - We Can Do
  19. The Pits - Words
  20. Tch Tch Tch - One Note Song

About the album

A host of revelatory treasures from Australia’s incredibly fertile post-punk era, with many tracks previously unreleased. A long overdue compilation of Australia's incredible post-punk history, featuring the finest selection of bands from the period 1978-82, with many previously unreleased tracks. This is a fantastically inventive and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time.

Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as the Dirty Three, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten and the Gobetweens, Can’t Stop It! is just a small indication of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s lumbering pub-rock music culture twenty-five years ago. All of the bands on Can't Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the time such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records. Unfortunately much of the music has since been ignored or forgotten ... until now! The CD includes a 12 page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos.  

“Experiment is this collection's strongest suit. Although the execution is occasionally clumsy, some of the strategies evolved are ingenious. And some proved prescient.” - The Wire

Release Date: 2001-01-05