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XXQLP2097RT

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Red Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-02-17

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RTUK

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Sales:8.875

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029667015318

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Red LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

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Various Artists

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Ace Records

New Wave / Post Punk

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There was plenty of genuine discontent in Britain at the tail end of the 1970s, and it had little to do with bin strikes or dark rumours about overflowing morgues. In the world of popular music, the most liberating after-effect of the Sex Pistols was that anyone with something to say now felt they could make a 7” single. Winter Of Discontent is the sound of truly DIY music, made by people who maybe hadn’t written a song until a day or two before they went into the studio. It’s spontaneous and genuinely free in a way the British music scene has rarely been before or since.

Winter of Discontent has been compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather ("really compelling and immersive: it’s a pleasure to lose yourself in it" - Alexis Petridis, the Guardian). The era's bigger DIY names (Scritti Politti, TV Personalities, the Fall) and the lesser-known (Exhibit A, Digital Dinosaurs, Frankie’s Crew) are side by side on Winter Of Discontent. Mark Perry’s Sniffin’ Glue command – “Here’s one chord, here’s another, now start a band” – was amplified by the Mekons and the Raincoats, whose music shared a little of punk’s volume, speed and distortion, but all of its obliqueness and irreverence. The discontent was with society as a whole. No subject matter was taboo: oppressive maleness (Scritti Politti); deluded Britishness (TV Personalities); gender stereotypes (Raincoats, Androids of Mu); nihilistic youth (Fatal Microbes); alcoholism (Thin Yoghurts); self-doubt and pacifism (Zounds). The band names (Thin Yoghurts!) and those of individual members (Andrew Lunchbox!) had enough daftness to avoid any accusations of solemnity. Winter Of Discontent is the definitive compilation of the UK DIY scene, and a beacon in grim times.

3. THE TERRAPLANE FIXATION – Animals &amp; Men


9. LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT – Anne Bean &amp; Paul Burwell


10. BROW BEATEN – Performing Ferret Band


11. NO FORGETTING – The Manchester Mekon


12. FAIRYTALE IN THE SUPERMARKET – The Raincoats


16. THE SIDEWAYS MAN – The Digital Dinosaurs


18. THE WINDOW’S BROKEN – Human Cabbages


19. KING AND COUNTRY – Television Personalities


23. THE RED PULLOVER – The Gynaecologists

24. PRODUCTION LINE – The Door And The Window

Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Present Winter of Discontent

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Discover Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Present Winter of Discontent by None. Limited Edition LP and CD formats available. A compilation of truly DIY music from the UK's 1970s punk scene.