Moving Away From The Pulsebeat - Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981

105 tracks charting the British post-punk explosion 1978-1981. Punk rock attracted both dreamers and schemers. Many were simply fired up by the music. Some were motivated by manifestos and personal agendas. Others vanished the moment the novelty wore off and the hair dye washed out, leaving behind one or two fine records. Others, like The Clash, The Jam and The Cure, resolved to stay the course, giving themselves new challenges while carving out successful careers. Above all, the post-punk landscape was populated with cult heroes.

Moving Away From The Pulsebeat takes a whistlestop trip through that landscape as the dust settled on the apocalyptic overhaul of 1977. Curated in chronological order to preserve that journey, and capturing key singles, deep album cuts and fan favourites, this is the story of a genuinely subversive underground about to erupt upon the mainstream, rendering everything that had gone before irrelevant overnight.

Presented in extreme detail, with band-by-band biographies, sleeve imagery, release information and introductory essay by the widely published Mark Paytress, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat is an essential time capsule for veterans, collectors and newcomers alike.

DISC ONE

1 SOFT BOYS Wading Through A Ventilator

2 ULTRAVOX Hiroshima Mon Amour

3 METAL URBAIN Paris Maquis

4 SWELL MAPS Black Velvet

5 BUZZCOCKS Moving Away From The Pulsebeat

6 SUBWAY SECT Dontsplitit

7 2.3 All Time Low

8 THE LINES White Night

9 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES Voices

10 GANG OF FOUR Armalite Rifle (Fast Product version)

11 PENETRATION Movement

12 XTC Crowded Room

13 pragVEC Existential

14 ALTERNATIVE TV Life

15 MAGAZINE Give Me Everything

16 O LEVEL Everybody’s On Revolver Tonight

17 TUBEWAY ARMY Listen To The Sirens

18 THE CRAZIES Strontium

19 SPIZZOIL Red And Black

20 THE TEARDROP EXPLODES Camera Camera (Zoo version)

21 GLAXO BABIES Stay Awake

22 STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Closed Groove

DISC TWO

1 THE POP GROUP She Is Beyond Good And Evil

2 SCARS Adult/Ery

3 THE RAINCOATS Adventures Close To Home

4 THE OUTSIDERS Touch And Go

5 ESSENTIAL LOGIC Wake Up

6 JOY DIVISION Disorder

7 CULT FIGURES Playing With Toys

8 TOYAH Neon Womb

9 DISCO ZOMBIES Greenland

10 AU PAIRS Kerb Crawler

11 REVILLOS The Fiend

12 THE SLITS Ping Pong Affair

13 HELSINKI 5 BELOW Jennifer Darling

14 THE RUTS S.U.S.

15 THE PASSAGE Time Delay

16 LENE LOVICH Bird Song

17 APARTMENT The Alternative

18 THE ASSOCIATES Mona Property Girl

19 ART ATTACKS Rat City

20 THE HUMAN LEAGUE The Path Of Least Resistance

21 ESSENTIAL BOP Chronicle

22 KILLING JOKE Nervous System

DISC THREE

1 PiL Poptones

2 SCRITTI POLITTI Hegemony

3 ADAM & THE ANTS Tabletalk

4 JOHN COOPER CLARKE AND THE INVISIBLE GIRLS Sleepwalk

5 ELECTRIC CHAIRS J’attends Les Marines

6 THE FALL Fiery Jack

7 THE INSEX Inner Sanction

8 PSYCHEDELIC FURS Sister Europe

9 THE FLYING LIZARDS Her Story

10 AGAIN AGAIN Co-Optimist

11 EXPELAIRES Kicks

12 THE CURE A Forest

13 FLOWERS The Ballad Of Miss Demeanour

14 OCCULT CHEMISTRY Water

15 THE THE Black And White

16 CRAVATS Who’s In Here With Me?

17 ARTERY Unbalanced

18 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN The Puppet

19 DIAGRAM BROTHERS There Is No Shower

DISC FOUR

1 THE JAM Scrape Away

2 THROBBING GRISTLE Something Came Over Me

3 FURNITURE Shaking Story

4 MYSTERE FIVE’S Heart Rules The Head

5 THEATRE OF HATE Original Sin

6 GIRLS AT OUR BEST! It’s Fashion

7 BOOTS FOR DANCING Hesitate

8 SISTERS OF MERCY Watch

9 RESTRICTED CODE First Night On

10 NORMIL HAWAIIANS The Beat Goes On

11 MODERN EON Waiting For The Cavalry

12 SKI PATROL Agent Orange

13 DEAD OR ALIVE I’m Falling

14 IN CAMERA Fragments Of Fear

15 AVANT GARDENERS Where Are My Hormones

16 BLAH BLAH BLAH Central Park

17 VIRGIN PRUNES Twenty Tens (I’ve Been Smoking All Night Long)

18 NEW ORDER In A Lonely Place (Original version)

19 SECOND LAYER Underneath The Gloss

DISC FIVE

1 THE CLASH The Magnificent Seven

2 ROBERT WYATT Born Again Cretin

3 BOW WOW WOW C30 C60 C90 Go

4 YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS Click Talk

5 NIGHTINGALES Seconds

6 23 SKIDOO Another Babys Face

7 THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Dull Day

8 JOSEF K Pictures

9 THE UNDERTONES You’re Welcome

10 FIRE ENGINES Meat Whiplash

11 JAH WOBBLE Nocturnal (Edit)

12 DISLOCATION DANCE So Much Fault

13 FIVE OR SIX Building Kind

14 LUDUS Mother’s Hour

15 SECTION 25 Je Veux Ton Amour

16 SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS Colourless Dream

17 RIP RIG AND PANIC Go, Go, Go! (This Is It)

18 THE REFLECTIONS Tightrope Walker

19 CLUB TANGO FTN

20 THE OUTCASTS Programme Love

21 THE HIGSONS It Goes Waap!

22 KAN KAN Changing Trains

23 MEMBRANES All Roads Lead To Norway