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Inner City Sound is a 2CD set stand-alone companion piece to the cult book of the same name. Produced and annotated by Clinton Walker and re-mastered by the master himself, Don Bartley  and including an extraordinary hand-drawn fold-out family tree poster . Inner City Sound provides proof positive that Australia contributed as much as anyone to the D-I-Y revolution of the late 70s/early 80s: Over forty tracks, restored to a virgin vinyl glory, that still ring fresh and true, a mix of classics and rarities, many appearing on CD for the first time. Bristling with urgency and originality, this is an instant classic twenty years in the making. DISC ONE: 1. tch-tch-tch – Pop Art (Brophy) 3.28 1979 Crystal Ballroom single 2. Sacred Cowboys – Hell Sucks (Gray/Ferrie/Doolan/Rischbieth) 3.38  Track on 1988 Citadel LP Trouble from Providence 3. Wet Taxis – Címon (Hood) 3.02 1984 Hot single. 4. Seems Twice – Look at It (Douglas/Molloy/Yatras) 0.33 Track on 1980 Doublethink EP Non-Plussed 5. Saints – Wild About You (Andy Anderson) 2.34 Track on 1977 EMI LP Stranded  6. Leftovers – I Only Panic When Thereís Nothing to Do (Leftovers) 1.47  1979 Punji Stick single 7. Last Words – Animal World (Baxter/Groome) 2.40 1978 Remand single. 8. Razar – Task Force (Burke) 2.20 1978 single. 9. Thought Criminals – More Suicides Please (Grierson) 2.28 Track on 1979 Doublethink EP Food for Thoughtcrimes 10. XL Capris – My City of Sydney (Leonetti/Troupe) 2.39 1980 Axle single. 11. Manikins – I Never Thought Iíd Find (Fernandes/Porritt) 3.03 1978 single 12. Boys Next Door – Sex Crimes (Cave) 3.03 1978 demo. 13. Seems Twice – Column One (Douglas/Molloy/Yatras) 0.16 Track on 1980 Doublethink EP Non-Plussed 14. Young Charlatans – Shivers (Howard) 3.51 Previously unreleased 1978 demo 15. Young Modern – Sheís Got the Money (Richards/Yates/Dowler) 2.58 1978 Top Gear single 16. Triffids – Family Name (D. McComb) 3.32 Track on 1983 cassette Dungeon Tapes 17. Sekret Sekret – Girl with a White Stick (Virgin/Devlin) 3.29  1984 Waterfront single 18. Surfside 6 – Cool in the Tube (Datson/Courtenay/McAloon) 3.05 1980 Phantom single 19. Voigt/465 – State (Voigt/465) 2.10 1979 U.W.E. single 20. Tactics – Long Story (Studdert) 4.01 Track on 1981 Green LP My Houdini 21. Whirlywirld – Red River (Olsen) 4.17 Track on 1980 Missing Link 12″ EP Whirlywirld  22. Primitive Calculators – Do That Dance (Grant/Lavece) 2.43  1980 Slow Drama single 23. Systematics – Mmmm (Gibson) 1.56 Track on 1980 M Squared LP Rural 24. Super-K – Recurring Nightmare (Shepherd/Thirkell) 4.51  1982 Green single 25. New Christs – No Way on Earth (Younger) 4.13  Track on 1989 Blue Mosque LP, Distemper 26. *** *** – Study for Falling Apart (*** ***) 1.42 Track on Fast Forward cassette magazine # 4, 1981 27. Black Assassins – Death Take Me Now (Black Assassins) 2.08 1981 recording 28. Lonely Hearts – Last Kiss (Watson/Rooney) 2.04 1981 Half-an-Arc single DISC TWO: 1. Equal Local – 12 Ways to Go (Jackson) 3.53 1982 Missing Link 12″ single 2. Laughing Clowns – Ghost Beat (Kuepper) 3.20 Track on 1981 Prince Melon LP Laughing Clowns #3 3. Poles – Over & Beyond & Through (Tate/Bolland) 4.53  1981 single 4. Scientists – Happy Hour (Salmon/Thewlis) 3.33 1982 Au-Go-Go single 5/. Birthday Party – Release the Bats (Harvey/Cave) 2.30  1981 4AD (UK) single 6. GoBetweens – Darlinghurst Nights (Forster/McLennan) 5.47  Track on 2005 EMI album Oceans Apart  7. Sunday Painters – Something to Do (Erwin/McKinnon/Raengel) 3.54  Track on 1982 Terminal LP Something to Do 8. Essendon Airport – Talking to Cleopatra (Goodge/Chesworth/Sanger) 3.43  1980 Innocent single 9. Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened (Ellard/Bradbury/Knuckey) 3.22 1984 Gap single 10. Machinations – Average Inadequacy (Doyle/Loneragan/Swan/Starr) 4.21  1981 Phantom single 11. Sardine – Stuck On You (I. & S. Rilen) 4.12  Track on 1983 Phantom 12″ EP I Hate You 12. X – TV Glue (Rilen/Lucas) 4.25 Track on 1985 Major LP At Home with You 13. Hunters & Collectors – The Slab (Hunters & Collectors) 3.56  1984 White Label single 14. End – My Confession (Myers) 2.53 1983 single 15. Plug Uglies – All Done In (Gorman/Lock/Norris/Stevens) 2.41 Track on 1989 mini-album Knock Me Your Lobes 16. Apartments – All You Wanted (Walsh) 3.50 1984 Hot single 17. Saints – Ghost Ships (Bailey) 3.41 1984 RCA single 18. Lighthouse Keepers – Springtime (Appel) 4.20 Track on 1983 Guthagga Piepline LP Exploding Lighthouse Keepers 19. David Chesworth – Making Waves (Chesworth) 1.17 Track on 1979 Innocent LP 50 Synthesizer Greats      PRODUCED BY CLINTON WALKER Executive Producer: Stuart Coupe   available early October from Laughing Outlaw