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Artist:	VA
Title:	North By North West
Label:	KOROVA RECORDS (UK)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	KODE 1001LCD

Limited 3CD version. Subtitled: Liverpool + Manchester: From punk to post-punk and beyond. Compiled by NMElegend Paul Morley, with 24 page booket of liner notes. Mostly common tracks, although some are undoubtedly hard or impossible to access on CD (Pink Industry, Big In Japan, Wah! Heat, etc.). "A new release on the recently resurrected Korova imprint - the original home of Echo and the Bunnymen, Bette Bright, Lori & The Chameleons, The Sound and the Residents. These CDs are a sort of tale of two cities -- it is a journey through how the music scenes of Manchester and Liverpool developed fast and energetically in the years between 1976 -- when punk music from London and New York liberated young musicians in local areas to experiment with look and sound -- and 1984 -- when the commercial and creative impact of post-punk music from Manchester and Liverpool music was undeniable. The Manchester sound, as initially conceived by The Buzzcocks and The Fall, was fierce, cerebral and noisy. It was intelligent but aggressive punk. The Liverpool music always veered towards a pop dipped in psychedelia, even novelty, to a more dramatic, flamboyant and big-headed sound. Manchester was introverted, Liverpool extroverted, Manchester was angry, surreal and political, Liverpool was twisted, often cocky, show business. Whatever the differences, both cities suddenly produced brilliant new bands, exciting new independent labels and unique characters in a very brief period of time. In just a few brief years the Manchester articulate, desolate, beautiful and crazed sound led directly to the Smiths. The sly, witty, mad and camp Liverpool sound exploded into the outside world via Frankie Goes To Hollywood. These three CDs chronologically plot the journeys that were happening simultaneously in the two cities." Artists: Buzzcocks, The Fall, John Cooper Clarke, The Durutti Column, Joy Division, The Passage, Blue Orchids, The Distractions, A Certain Ratio, Ludus, New Order, The Smiths, Spitfire Boys, Yachts, Will Sergeant, Omd, Echo and the Bunnymen, Wah! Heat, Lori and the Chameleons, Teardrop Explodes, Care, Pale Fountains, Dalek I Love You, Lotus Eaters, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Warsaw, Slaughter and the Dogs, Bette Brightand the Illuminations, Those Naughty Lumps, Big Japan, Stockholm Monsters, James, China Crisis, Spherical Objects, Pink Industry, Crispy Ambulance, Section 25, Swamp Children. Limited stock.

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