Four CD set, the first-ever box set devoted to new wave/punk loonies Radio Stars! 68 tracks of melodic mayhem! Disc One is the band's debut album, originally released in 1977 by Chiswick Records. A certified power pop punk classic it features the UK Top 40 single 'Nervous Wreck'. The band's second and final album is Disc Two and features the single 'The Real Me' and a re-working of the seminal 'No Russians In Russia'. The third disc contains a variety of non LP singles, b-sides and studio out-takes, many of the tracks appearing here on CD for the first time. The previously unreleased 'Beast Of Ankara' has also been added as a bonus. Three previously unissued sessions for BBC Radio 1's legendary John Peel show plus an unreleased In Concert for the same radio station are what you will find on Disc Four. In depth liner notes by Dave Thompson are a feature of the 24 page booklet which also includes pictures of all the relevant records as well as clippings, adverts, etc... Each CD is housed in it's own individual cardboard wallet and then packed into a hard back clam shell box.
Tracklist:
- Good Personality
- Is It Really Necessary
- The Beast of Barnsley
- Nervous Wreck
- Nothing Happened Today
- Eric
- Don't Waste My Time
- Arthur Is Dead Boring (Let's Rot)
- Macaroni 'N' Mice 1
- Nice Girls 1
- Talking 'Bout You 1
- Buy Chiswick Records 1
- Radio Stars 1
- Boy Meets Girl 1
- Baffin Island 1
- (I've Got Dem Old) Sex in Chains Blues (Again Mama) Part 1 1
- Sitting in the Rain 1
- The Real Me 1
- Accountancy Blues 2
- Rock 'N' Roll for the Time Being 2
- Norwegian Wood 2
- Get on a Plane 2
- I'm Down 2
- No Russians in Russia 2
- It's All Over 2
- Goodnight 2
- Dirty Pictures 2
- Sail Away 2
- No Russians in Russia 3
- Box 29 3
- Johnny Mekon 3
- Sorry I'm Tied Up 3
- Dear Prudence 3
- Horrible Breath 3
- From a Rabbit 3
- The Beast No.2 3
- Radio Stars 3
- The Real Me 3
- Accountancy Blues 4
- Throwaway 4
- It's All Over (Edit) 4
- My Mother Said 4
- Two Minutes Mr. Smith 4
- I Got the Buzz 4
- The Ghost of Desperate Dan 4
- This Is Your Next Life 4
- Somewhere There's a Place for Us 4
- The Beast of Ankara 4
- Horrible Breath 5
- Dirty Pictures 5
- Dear Prudence 5
- No Russians in Russia 5
- Good Personality 5
- The Beast of Barnsley 5
- Don't Waste My Time 5
- Is It Really Necessary 5
- Boy Meets Girl 5
- Radio Stars 5
- Sex in Chains 6
- Sitting in the Rain 6
- Don't Waste My Time 6
- No Russians in Russia 6
- Is It Really Necessary 6
- Box 29 6
- Good Personality 6
- Dirty Pictures 6
- Horrible Breath 6
- Johnny Mekon
UPC: 5013929016248
Label: Cherry Red
Release Date: 4.7.17
Format: CD
