An excellent, if brief (12 tracks) part-career retrospective, part-collection of oddities that includes their 1979 debut single "How Do You Know" b/w "Don't Give it Up Now." Packaged as a parody of the Rolling Stones' controversial Some Girls, Some Lyres proves to be a valuable introduction. ~ John Dougan, All Music Guide

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People will say otherwise, but music didn't suck in the '80s -- it just went underground. As the well-financed end of the art form turned to synthetic sounds, the punk and new wave of the late '70s evolved and mutated in the capable hands of scores of independent-minded musicians. This four-disc boxed set (82 tracks!) celebrates the stuff that dwelt just beneath the topsoil -- everything from R.E.M., The Smiths, and The Cure to Black Flag, Ministry, and The Cramps. The spiritual progeny of a boxed set anc...   [ read more ]

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