Revolutionary spirit : the sound of Liverpool 1976-1988

"Straddling post-punk and the early 80s, Revolutionary Spirit's first two discs are thus especially generously appointed, with myth-making releases from the still-vital post-punks The Teardrop Explodes ... Echo & The Bunnymen ... OMD, Black, Dead Or Alive, A Flock Of Seagulls and China Crisis ...The Lotus Eaters' dreamy The First Picture Of You and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's humongous Two Tribes, Discs Three and Four pay homage to the feverishly creative 80s local indie scene. Militant reggae-popsters Cook Da Books, boorish Wirral punks Attempted Moustache ... Disc Five meanwhile, rounds up talents as varied as The La's, proto-Americana purveyors The Onset, John Cooper Clarke-esque Wirral poet Jeggsy Dodd, Paisley Underground-style rockers The Da Vincis ... the phenomenal Revolutionary Spirit reveals that while Manchester copped the lion's share of the critical plaudits during this epochal post-punk period, the quality of Mersey was also second to none".

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"The obscurity of some of what's here might seem almost comical, but the love that has gone into the whole package couches most of the tracks in a sense of lost treasure".