Various - Optimism/Reject: Punk & Post-Punk Meets D-I-Y Aesthetic 1977-1981 (CD)

Sealed. UK four CD set.

The highly anticipated companion to 2017's 'To The Outside Of Everything'. An extensive 4CD/book set featuring over a hundred self-released missives, lo-fi manifestos, boutique label offerings and expressions from the edge of punk and the post-punk explosion.

Features classics, rarities, album tracks and unearthed gems from The Fall, Subway Sect, Sisters Of Mercy, Thompson Twins, Blancmange, Young Marble Giants, Marine Girls, John Cooper Clarke, Alternative TV, Scritti Politti, 23 Skidoo, The Raincoats, Thomas Leer and many others. 64pp A5 book format includes extensive essay From Mojo's Mark Paytress plus track-by-track band biographies.

Disc One
Michael’s Monetary System – Eater
You’ll Lose – The Drones
Love Lies Limp – Alternative Tv
Freeway – The Outsiders
Suspended Sentence – John Cooper Clarke
O Levels – ‘O’ Level
Black Velvet – Swell Maps
Optimism/Reject – Patrik Fitzgerald
Hard Times – Attrix
Nobody’s Scared – Subway Sect
Washed Up – The Freshies
Charles – Skids
Police Oppression – Angelic Upstarts
Neutron Bomb – The Art Attacks
Mixed Up World – Victim
Aerosol Burns – Essential Logic
It – The Tights
The Demon – Punishment Of Luxury
Bingo-Master – The Fall
Situations Vacant – The Cravats
Is And Ought The Western World – Scritti Politti
Wolf – Prag Vec
Cool – The Jerks
He’s Frank – The Monochrome Set
International – Thomas Leer
Fruitless – Devil’s Dykes
01-01-212 – Vice Creems
Times Encounter – Nigel Simpkins

Disc Two
H-Eyes – The Ruts
Lord Lucan Is Missing – The Dodgems
The Competition – Passage
Girl Gets Nervous – Nicky & The Dots
I Don’t Want To Work For British Airways – Scissor Fits
Cold City – Spizzoil
(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette) – The Shapes
Stereo Love – Proles
Commuter Man – The Molesters
Heathen – The Pack
In Love – The Raincoats
Sing Song – The Tea Set
Mother Moon – Artery
The Ultimate System – Murder The Disturbed
Playing Golf (With My Flesh Crawling) – The Family Fodder
Every Day I Die – Frantic Elevators
Nagasaki’s Children – They Must Be Russians
Metal Sheet – Second Layer
Cold Rebellion – Metrophase
I Don’t Believe – Disturbed
Subculture Fashion Slaves – The Door And The Window
God’s Got Religion – The Steppes
Christine Keeler – Gl*Xo Babies
Boys Keep Swinging – The Associates
Beautiful Pictures – ‘Fatal’ Microbes
Top Of The Pops – Disco Zombies
Exhibition – Pneumania

Disc Three
Domestic Departure – Au Pairs
Reconstruction – English Subtitles
Them Or Me (Edit) – Medium Medium
Choreography – Modern Eon
Chance Meeting (Absolute Version) – Josef K
On The Air – The Lines
Masochistic Opposite – Mo-Dettes
Minstrel Radio Yoghurt – Deep Freeze Mice
You Get Everywhere – The Chefs
Bloody – The Golinski Brothers
Hey Operator – The Lillettes
Art Nouveau – The Bodies
Shangri-La – Nightmares In Wax
Oscar Automobile – Weird Strings
Self Employed – Again Again
Fashionable Junkies – The Membranes
Autophagous – Manic Jabs
Modichy In Aneration – Blancmange
Mystere V’s – No Message
The Feelings Mutual – Eyeless In Gaza
Lean On Me – Distributors
Chimneys – Tagmemics
Short Time – Rhythm Clicks
Get – Blurt

Disc Four
Final Day – Young Marble Giants
You Get What You Deserve – Charge
The Damage Done – Sisters Of Mercy
Politics! – Girls At Our Best
Justice Not Vengeance – A Popular History Of Signs
Could Be Her, Could Be You – Thompson Twins
Everything’s Roses – Fire Engines
Motorway – Emma Sharpe
The Russians Are Coming – The Red Squares
Motion – The Room
Should Be More Ideal – The 49 Americans
I Remember – Cult Figures
Insect Love – The Higsons
Chips For Tea – The Laughing Apple
Defeated – The Legendary Pink Dots
Holiday Song – Marine Girls
The Return – Normil Hawaiians
Zigzagging – The Reflections
When I See You – Sad Lovers And Giants
Domino Theory – To The Finland Station
Launderette – Vivien Goldman
Ethics – 23 Skidoo
Shades Of Black – Screen 3
Plan 9 From Outer Space – The Happy Few
Break The Ice At Parties – The Tesco Bombers
I Wanna Be Around (Paul) – …And The Native Hipsters