Salvo, the award-winning imprint of Union Square Music, is proud to announce the release of The Big Stiff Box Set: the most comprehensive and in-depth Stiff Records compilation ever. At 98 tracks across four CDs this is the definitive overview of the groundbreaking label, from number one hits to rare curiosities.
Over five hours of digitally remastered music, there are tracks from early signings like Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe to recent, 2007 singles from The Enemy. An array of unique, quintessentially Stiff pop discoveries are taken in along the way including Kirsty MacColl, Ian Dury & The Bockheads, The Pogues and Wreckless Eric.
Stiff’s massive impact on punk is explored with The Damned, The Adverts and others. Its contribution to 80s pop is covered with million-sellers like Madness, The Belle Stars and The Go-Gos, groundbreaking eccentrics like Lene Lovich and Tenpole Tudor and long-forgotten heroes ranging from Jona Lewie to Furniture.
Contributions from Devo, Yello, M, Department S and Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin tackle Stiff’s work in electro-pop. Influential bands like The Prisoners and The Untouchables chart its support of the mod scene. And a cast of colourful characters from the late ‘70s pub-rock and blues boom – Dr Feelgood, Lew Lewis and Mickey Jupp among them – chart Stiff’s musical roots.
This special DVD-sized box set comes with a full colour 68-page book featuring a label history, new interviews, biographies of every artist featured and as many photos, sleeves, flyers and badges as we could squeeze in!
CD1
1. Nick Lowe - Heart Of The City
2. The Pink Fairies - Between the Lines
3. Roogalator - All Aboard
4. Tyla Gang - Styrofoam
5. Lew Lewis & His Band - Boogie On The Street
6. The Damned - New Rose
7. Plummet Airlines - Silver Shirt
8. Motorhead - White Line Fever
9. The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
10. Elvis Costello - Less Than Zero
11. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
12. Max Wall - England's Glory
13. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders
14. Nick Lowe - Mary Provost
15. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
16. Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
17. The Damned - Problem Child
18. The Yachts - Suffice To Say
19. Larry Wallis - Police Car
20. Mick Farren & The Deviants - Let's Loot The Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer
21. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent
22. The Damned - One Way Love
23. Wreckless Eric - Reconnez Cherie
24. Jane Aire & The Belvederes - Yankee Wheels
25. Ernie Graham - Romeo & The Lonely Girl
CD2
1. The Members - Solitary Confinement
2. Humphrey Ocean & The Hardy Annuals - Whoops A Daisy
3. The Realists – I’ve Got A Heart
4. Jona Lewie – The Baby, She’s On The Street
5. Lene Lovich - I Think We're Alone Now
6. Devo - Be Stiff
7. Wreckless Eric - Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)
9. Mickey Jupp - Old Rock 'n' Roller
9. Rachel Sweet - B.A.B.Y.
10. Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
11. The Sports - Who Listens To The Radio?
12. The Subs - Gimme Your Heart
13. The Rumour - Frozen Years
14. Rachel Sweet - I Go To Pieces
15. Lene Lovich - Say When
16. Madness - One Step Beyond
17. Kirsty MacColl – You Caught Me Out
18. Pointed Sticks – Out Of Luck
19. Dirty Looks - Lie To Me
20. Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties
21. Any Trouble - Yesterday's Love
22. The Plasmatics - Butcher Baby
23. The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat
24. Motor Boys Motor – Drive Friendly
25. Desmond Dekker - Please Don't Bend
26. Joe 'King' Carrasco & The Crowns - Buena
CD3
1. Any Trouble - Girls Are Always Right
2. The Equators - Baby Come Back
3. Nigel Dixon – Thunderbird
4. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
5. Dave Stewart & Colin Blunstone - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?
6. Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men
7. Department S - Going Left Right
8. Theatre Of Hate - Do You Believe In The Westworld?
9. Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
10. Alvin Stardust – Pretend
11. Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party
12. Billy Bremner - Loud Music In Cars
13. The Dancing Did - The Lost Platoon
14. Electric Guitars - Language Problems
15. Brigit Novik & M - Danube
16. The Belle Stars – The Clapping Song
17. Via Vagabond - Who Likes Jazz?
18. The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times
19. Tracey Ullman - Breakaway
20. Yello - I Love You
21. Eddie ‘Tenpole’ Tudor - The Hayrick Song
22. Passion Puppets – Like Dust
23. Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
CD4
1. Kirsty MacColl – Terry
2. The Inspirational Choir Of The Pentecostal First Born Church Of The Living God - Pick Me Up
3. Tracey Ullman - Move Over Darling
4. The Pogues - Dark Streets Of London
5. Kirsty MacColl - A New England
6. The Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes
7. The Untouchables - Free Yourself
8. Makin' Time - Here Is My Number
9. The Untouchables - I Spy (For The FBI)
10. The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
11. Ruefrex – The Wild Colonial Boy
12. Andy White - Religious Persuasion
13. The Mint Juleps - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
14. Furniture - Brilliant Mind
15. Dr. Feelgood - Don't Wait Up
16. Tommy Chase – Killer Joe (Right Cross)
17. The Prisoners - Whenever I'm Gone
18. The Pogues feat. The Dubliners – The Irish Rover
19. The Enemy - Dancin' All Night
20. Eskimo Disco – What is Woman?
21. The Producers – Barking Up The Right Tree
22. The Tranzmitors – Broken Houses
23. Any Trouble – That Sound
24. Ronald Reagan - The Wit & The Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan (Extract)
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