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EVERYTHING

Price: £10.00
First released: 
July 2011
This edition: 
July 2011
Contents: 

Three CDs all presented in a neat box that collect the whole of Culture Shock's output on vinyl along with two demos and two live tracks.

Comes with a 60 page lyric booket that also includes an introduction, 6 fanzine/magazine articles, a further review of Onwards & Upwards illustrated with artwork and photographs. Did the lyrics get mentioned? Insightful, intelligent and positive.

Track list: 

CD 1

      Go Wild
  1. Punks On Postcards
  2. Go Wild (My Son)
  3. Messed Up
  4. Six Foot Rooms
  5. Ten Per Cent Off
  6. Circles
  7. Mother's On The Phone
  8. All (Messed Up) Together

Recorded 22-24/9/86
at Southern Studios
Engineered by Mel Jefferson
  
      All The Time
  9. Countdowns
10. Twenty Questions
11. Upside Down
12. The Time It Takes
13. Four Minutes
14. Northern Ireland
15. Northern Ireland Dub
16. Onwards

Recorded 26-30/8/89
at Southern Studios
Engineered by Harvey Birrell

CD 2

      Onwards & Upwards
  1. Pressure
  2. Colour T.V.
  3. Fast Forward
  4. You Are Not Alone
  5. Joyless
  6. If You Don't Like It
  7. Civilisation Street
  8. United
  9. Catching Flies
10. When The Fighting's Over
11. Open Mind Surgery
12. Don't Worry About It
13. I.S.D.

Recorded 10-13/8/87
at Southern Studios
Engineered by Trigger

      +
14. Stonehenge

From compilation EP of same name on Bluurg Records

15. Home Economics

Live Bristol Tropic Club 89

16. New York, New York

Live Bletchley Countapoint 89

CD 3

      Living History (Demo)
  1. No Chance In A Million
  2. Living History
  3. Colour T.V.
  4. United
  5. Stonehenge
  6. Punks On Postcards
  7. You Are Not Alone
  8. If You Don't Like It
  9. Six Foot Rooms
10. Ten Per Cent Off

Recorded April 86
on Wally's 4 Track
in Warminster

      Reality Stop No. 44 (Demo)
11. Don't Worry About
12. Fast Forward
13. Open Mind Surgery
14. Television Shop
15. Catching Flies
16. Pressure
17. When The Fighting's Over
18. Human Zoo
19. I.S.D.

Recorded 1-2/12/86
at Orchard Studios
Engineered by Steve Collinson

 

Reviews: 

'Onwards and Upwards' LP (Bluurg Records FISH 20)

It must be the middle of May -- in the same post I get a bundle of photocopied visions from the stonehenge Campaign and a Culture Shock LP. Good timing. But hold on there -- at this rate I'll be recycling what I said about their first LP this time last year, easy but unfair 'cos the Wessex Anarchist Orchestra are forging ahead, just like the LP title, faster and further all the time.

It's not just that this time round they're still tighter, better-produced, though still very live on vinyl. It's good to hear the the guitar noises stretch out just a little, the dub effects on 'Open Mind Surgery', and some variation on the usual song structure -- it's clear that their incessant touring has had musical as well as support-building benefits; just because their ska/thrash energy sounds a little like something that's been done badly by others for years doesn't mean stand still with it.

In fact, Dick's lyrical range has widened still further, from the straightforward anti-consumerist stance of 'Colour TV' and 'Civilisation Street' (both classic CS anthems) to attempts to deal with the puzzle of inter-tribal violence, being frightened to talk to strangers, and even the problems of being a popular 'political' punk songwriter (the long and ambitious 'I.S.D.'). Sometimes the contrast between music and lyrics is immense; good job there's a word-sheet, to be read and absorbed, not just chanted along to. From the reactions of radio, national press, and grassroots/grapevine, Culture Shock are clearly on their way, whilst still seeing and saying as as clear and strong as they ever did. This LP shows why, perfectly; if you're not dead to the possibilities of energetic engagement through music, you'll like it as much as I do. -- Hieronymuss