Soul Jazz Records Presents - Secret Superstar Sounds - Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80: Punk - (Digital Download Card) - [Vinyl]

Soul Jazz Recordsâ new Secret Superstar Sounds brings together a wealth of incredibly catchy tunes from late-70s/early-80s British groups that you have probably never heard of! Powerpop mixed together a love of lyrical and melodically beautiful 60s pop and garage sounds, together with the energy and attitude of 70s punk. Almost completely out of kilter with the fashions of the day (punk, new wave and post-punk) these bands managed to fall between the musical cracks at almost every step of the way â leaving them practically unknown to all but a few. // Inspired by the D-I-Y messaging of bands like The Desperate Bicycles, Sniffing Glue fanzine and early UK punk labels like Stiff, Chiswick and Rough Trade, these bands chose mainly to go into a studio and make their own private press/D-I-Y records themselves â then try to work out everything else (promotion, marketing, etc) afterwards. As mainly outsiders to the mainstream music industry, and usually unable to make any inroads into it, save for sending their own record to John Peel, most of these bands fell at the first hurdle. // These records remain both beautifully crafted 3-minute musical gems, and long-lost micro-histories of an essentially hidden genre. // Featured bands here include The Squares, The Meanies, The Monitors, Plummet Airline, Tours, Gobblinz, Krypton Tunes and more. Most of these records were self-published D-I-Y releases made in very limited-editions and were often the only tracks ever released by these groups. A1. Goblinz â London A2. Plummet Airlines â Itâs Hard A3. Xdreamysts â Right Way Home A4. Tours â Language School A5. The Squares â No Fear A6. The Monitors â Compulsory Fun A7. The Meanies â Itâs True A8. Jeff Hill Band â Somethingâs Wrong With My Baby B1. The Squad â 24 Hours B2. Krypton Tunes â Limited Vision B3. The Zeros â Hungry B4. The Wardens â Do So Well B5. The Letters â Nobody Loves Me B6. The Tunnelrunners â Forever Crying At Love Songs B7. Comic Romance â Cry Myself To Sleep