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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Release Date: Dec 9, 2016
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- Summary: The four-disc box set features 111 early punk rock tracks released in the United Kingdom on indie and homegrown labels.
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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Genre(s): Punk, Pop/Rock, Punk/New Wave, British Punk
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Jan 3, 2017Action Time Vision... covers a seminal time when anything seemed possible and a special kind of never to be repeated excitement hung in the air. For those reasons alone this box set is worth anyone's time and money.
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Jan 3, 2017This 111-track set does a commendable enough job, reflecting the extraordinary creative tumult happening behind the headline crap about gobbing and safety-pins.
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Jan 3, 2017This is hardly the first or best study of the U.K. punk scene of the '70s, but Action Time Vision is an impressive tribute to the early stirrings of indie culture in England, and it's great listening throughout.
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Jan 3, 2017Try the delectably thick-eared Shadow by The Lurkers, the uneasy Violence Grows by Fatal Microbes (with Honey Bane’s vocal a clarion warning from history), the insouciant Kicks In Style by The Users and, impregnable in its perfection, New Rose by The Damned --the opening salvo, the vital spark.
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Jan 3, 2017Like the other aforementioned boxsets from Cherry Red, they eschew the ‘hits’ to get down to the obnoxious and primal heart of the genre, this is geeky crate digging in CD form, designed to entertain and educate.
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Jan 20, 2017The real treat here, however, is in exploring the galaxy of obscure names. Johnny and the Self Abusers may have morphed into Simple Minds, but Some Chicken's frantic glory and Lockjaw's snarling "Radio Call Sign" are among the many gems deserving of a new day in the sun.
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Jan 9, 2017This is wonderful stuff, both as pure entertainment and a document of a vanished era.