Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition)

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. The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast – The Dumbwaiters
  9. Ron Rude – Piano Piano
  10. Xero – The Girls
  11. The Limp – Pony Club
  12. The Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons
  13. Slugfuckers – Cacophony
  14. Equal Local – Lamp That
  15. Tame O’Mearas – 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. → ↑ → – One Note Song
  21. BONUS TRACKS: *****,***** – Knots
  22. Electric Fans – Garden Of Uluru
  23. The Voice Of Drama – A Song of Colours
  24. Synthetic Dream – Work
  25. Yclept Dinmakers – Yclept Enemy
  26. The Plants – The Path

About the album

Chapter Music's landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post-punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release!
Can’t Stop It! documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time.
Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go-Betweens, Can’t Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s fairly unadventurous mainstream music culture of the time.
All of the bands on Can't Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records. 
On its original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music its first major international attention, written up in The Wire magazine, stocked at Other Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.
Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expands on the original 20 track CD with six bonus never- before-reissued tracks.

"A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere's stranglehold on post-punk nostalgia" - The Wire

Release Date: 2025-06-06