Various Artists - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (Various Artists) (Vinyl)

Chapter Music'slandmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post-punk,originally released in 2001, gets it's first ever vinyl release!Can't Stop It! Documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, whenAustralian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and assertedtheir own musical identity for perhaps the first time.Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The BadSeeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go-Betweens, Can't StopIt! #is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under thesurface of Australia's fairly unimaginative music culture of the time.All of the bands on Can't Stop It! #released their music independently, eitherthemselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-GoGo, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records.On it's original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music it's firstmajor international attention, written up in The Wire magazine, stocked atOther Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expandson 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

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Gone Dead
2. Voices A Drama
3. Summer
4. How Low Can You Go...(?)
5. Help
6. Love By Numbers
7. Pumping Ugly Muscle
8. The Dumb Waiters
9. Piano Piano
10. The Girls
11. Pony Club
12. Honeymoons
13. Cacophony
14. Lamp That
15. Sweat and Babble
16. Apricot's Dream
17. Song Of the Sea
18. We Can Do
19. Words
20. One Note Song
21. Knots
22. Garden Of Uluru
23. A Song Of Colours
24. Work
25. Yclept Enemy
26. Yclept Enemy