Birth of the Y
1 November, 2009
LP, Y Records 1982
When we ripped the Mouth single a while back, we secretly promised ourselves we’d get around to ripping this tidy collection of Y Records’ artists. OK, so there’s no unreleased Pop Group or Slits, worse luck, (though a 2005 Australian CD boot version added “Where There’s a Will” and “Man Next Door”) but plenty more of the label’s particularly skanking approach to post-punk and beyond. And some crap too, but you can choose the tracks that fall into that category for yourself. Apparently this was by way of a Christmas album from Y Records, though there aren’t any festive tunes – and presumably the piece of The Litanies of Satan was just a bit of pre-Richard Dawkins balance.
A1 Disconnection – Bali Ha’i (3:14)
A2. Pigbag – Six of One … (4:26)
A3. Tymon Dogg – Low Down Dirty Weakness (2:54)
A4. Diamanda Galás – Excerpt from “The Litanies of Satan” (3:03)
A5. Mouth – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (7:09)
A6. R.A.P.P. – Guns, Bombs, Handgrenades (4:51)
B1. Pulsallama – Ungawa Pt. 2 (Way Out Guyana) Remix (2:24)
B2. Maximum Joy – Searching for a Feeling (4:54)
B3. Sun Ra – Excerpt from “Strange Celestial Road” (4:40)
B4. Promenaders – Stranger on the Shore (3:53)
B5. Chris Reeves – After the Romance (3:52)
B6. Shriekback – Despite Dense Weed (3:49)
