Rusty Egan Presents Blitzed

Without necessarily knowing it, The Blitz was birthing the next wave of British pop stars. A young Boy George ran the cloakroom, its host and doorman was a young Steve Strange, soon-to-be the frontman of Visage, Spandau Ballet played their first gig there and on a given night you might find yourself dancing next to a member of Ultravox. Compiled exhaustively from his DJ sets, Rusty Egan Presents The Blitz brings together the sounds of a night at the club circa 1980 on either 66 track 4CD or 36 track 4LP sets. Beautifully presented with contemporary photography from Sheila Rock, Peter Ashworth and Terry Smith, the booklets also contain sleeve notes from Alexis Petridis and Rusty himself.

And the club had a mighty soundtrack, assembled painstakingly by its resident DJ Rusty Egan. Rusty’s sets brought together heroes like Eno, Iggy, and Lou Reed cool European electronic pioneers like Kraftwerk, Telex and Yello, the electronic side of disco (Cerrone, Hot Chocolate, Amanda Lear) and cutting-edge film soundtracks from the likes of Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Barry De Vorzon. Rusty also span the nascent sounds of Britian’s next new wave – Japan, Landscape, the Human League, Visage, Ultravox, Fad Gadget.

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CD ONE

1. The Human League / Being Boiled (Fast Product version)

3. Tubeway Army / Down In The Park

4. Magazine / Permafrost

5. Vice Versa / New Girls Neutrons

6. Fad Gadget / Back To Nature

7. Pretenders / Private Life

8. Iggy Pop / Nightclubbing

9. The Normal / Warm Leatherette

10. Throbbing Gristle / Hot On The Heels Of Love

11. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental / Day Breaks, Night Heals

12. Shock / R.E.R.B.

13. The Glitter Band / Makes You Blind

14. John Foxx / Burning Car

15. Yello / Bostich (album version)

16. Dalek I / Dalek I Love You (Destiny

17. Cowboys International / Thrash

18. Joy Division / Shadowplay

19. Cabaret Voltaire / Nag Nag Nag

20. Ultravox! / Hiroshima Mon Amour

CD TWO

1. Sparks / The Number One Song In Heaven (Long Version)

2. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version)

3. Ultravox / Passing Strangers

4. Kraftwerk / Radioactivity (Edit)

5. Lulu / The Man Who Sold The World

6. Jeff Wayne / The Eve Of The War (Disco Re- Mix)

7. Don Armando’s 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band / I’m An Indian Too

8. Japan / Life in Tokyo (1979 Single Version)

9. Blondie / Heart Of Glass (12” Version)

10. Amanda Lear / Follow Me

11. Wolfgang Riechmann / Wunderbar

12. Eno - Moebius - Roedelius / Broken Head

13. M / Pop Muzik (12” Version)

14. Barry De Vorzon / Theme From ‘The Warriors’

15. Roxy Music / Angel Eyes (Extended Remix)

16. Suicide / Dream Baby Dream (Long Version)

CD THREE

1. Grace Jones / La Vie En Rose

2. Throbbing Gristle / Hamburger Lady

3. The Walker Brothers / No Regrets

4. Hot Chocolate / Put Your Love In Me

5. The Men / I Don’t Depend On You

6. Metro / Criminal World

7. Billy Cobham / Spanish Moss – A Sound Portrait: Storm

8. Cerrone / Supernature (12” Full Length Version)

9. Garçons / French Boy

10. Lori and The Chameleons / Touch

11. Visage / Moon Over Moscow

12. Kraftwerk / Schaufensterpuppen

13. Mick Ronson / Only After Dark

14. Landscape / Japan

15. La Düsseldorf / Rheinita (Single Version)

CD FOUR

1. The Cure / A Forest (12” version)

2. The Regents / 7 Teen

3. Zaine Griff / Ashes And Diamonds

4. Spandau Ballet / To Cut A Long Story Short

5. Telex / Moskow Diskow

6. Taxi-Girl / Mannequin

7. Silicon Teens / Memphis Tennessee

8. The Slits / I Heard It Through The Grapevine

9. Simple Minds / Changeling

10. Skids / Animation (Edit)

11. Giorgio Moroder / Chase (From ‘Midnight Express’ Soundtrack)

12. Rinder And Lewis / Willie And The Hand Jive (12” Version)

13. Visage / Fade To Grey (1980 Dance Mix)

14. Gina X Performance / No G.D.M.

15. Vangelis / Chung Kuo

16. Lou Reed / Perfect Day

LP One

Side A

1. TheHumanLeague/BeingBoiled (Fast Product Version)

2. Tubeway Army / Down In The Park

3. Fad Gadget / Back To Nature

4. Vice Versa / New Girls Neutrons

5. Throbbing Gristle / Hot On The Heels Of Love

Side B

1. The Normal / Warm Leatherette

2. Cabaret Voltaire / Nag Nag Nag

3. John Foxx / Burning Car

4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Electricity (Dindisc 1980 Version)

5. Shock / R.E.R.B

LP Two

Side C

1. Ultravox! / Hiroshima Mon Amour

2.Magazine/Permafrost

3. Hot Chocolate / Put Your Love In Me

4. Visage / Moon Over Moscow

Side D

1. Sparks / The Number One Song In Heaven (Long Version)

2. The Glitter Band / Makes You Blind

3. The Regents / 7 Teen

4. Roxy Music / Angel Eyes (Extended Remix)

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LP Three

Side E

1. The Men / I Don’t Depend On You

2. Barry De Vorzon / Theme From ‘The Warriors’

3. Rinder And Lewis / Willie And The Hand Jive (12” Version)

4. Grace Jones / La Vie En Rose

Side F

1. Kraftwerk / Schaufensterpuppen 2. Ultravox / Passing Strangers 3. Iggy Pop / Nightclubbing 4. Gina X Performance / No G.D.M.

LP Four

Side G

1. Mick Ronson / Only After Dark

2. Simple Minds / Changeling

3. Skids / Animation (Edit)

4. Japan / Life in Tokyo (1979 Single Version)

5. Amanda Lear / Follow Me

6. Spandau Ballet / To Cut A Long Story Short

Side H

1. Yello / Bostich (album version)

2. Giorgio Moroder / Chase (From ‘Midnight Express’ Soundtrack)

3. Visage / Fade To Grey (1980 Dance Mix)

4. Lou Reed / Perfect Day