No Thanks!: The '70s Punk Rebellion [Box]

Performer: Various Artists
Producer: Gary Stewart (Compilation)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Includes a 114-page booklet with photos plus essays and track annotations by Gary Stewart, Chris Morris, Ira Robbins and Dave Schulps. Recorded between 1972 & 1980. Rhino Records once again slams the musical ball out of the ballpark with the four-CD box set, NO THANKS!, a chronicling of the 1970s punk movement. Aside from the Sex Pistols' noticeable exclusion, Rhino casts a wide net in the artists featured throughout, and, as such, they've included plenty of the genre's heavy hitters--the Ramones, the Clash, the Jam, X, Television, and Blondie, to name but a few. In addition, acts that planted the seeds of the movement--particularly the New York Dolls and Iggy & the Stooges--are included. The classics that pop up--including the Modern Lovers' Farfisa-organ-soaked "Roadrunner," the Buzzcocks' yearning "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)," and the Only Ones' infectious "Another Girl, Another Planet"--are an iPod fanatic's dream come true. And the one thing all of these disparate artists have in common--from Elvis Costello to Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Mekons to Talking Heads, Wire to the Pretenders--is an inherently defiant attitude and a fierce DIY ethic. A nice touch is compilation producer Gary Stewart's classy acknowledgment and apology for the Pistols' absence at the end of set's meticulously designed and extensively annotated 114-page booklet.

Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.112) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 Reissues of 2003" Rolling Stone (11/27/03, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A greatest hits of what passed for punk at the time...gigantic, astonishing young-loud-snotty anthems by the Clash and X-Ray Spex and the Germs, but also Nick Lowe's wry power pop, Ian Drury's goofy disco and Television's guitar-hero acrobatics..." Entertainment Weekly (10/31/03, p.74) - "...Simply top-notch....Any compilation that rescues both Television's 'Little Johnny Jewel' and Eddie and the Hot Rods' 'Do Anything You Want to Do' from obscurity deserves a coupla tons of praise..." - Rating: A

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