Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents - Secret Superstar Sounds

Release Date Friday 14th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

 Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Secret Superstar Sounds -
Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80: Punk -
Powerpop - New Wave - DIY’ brings together a wealth of
incredibly catchy tunes from late 1970s / early 1980s
British groups that you have probably never heard of!
Power pop mixed together a love of lyrical and melodically
beautiful 1960s pop and garage sounds, together with the
energy and attitude of 1970s 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, leaving
them practically unknown to all but a few.

 Inspired by the DIY 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 / DIY records themselves - 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 three-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 DIY releases made in very limited editions and were often the only tracks ever released by these groups. 

Tracklisting
Gooblinz - London
Plummet Airlines - It’s Har
Xdreamysts - Right Way Home
Tours - Language School
The Squares - No Fear
The Monitors - Compulsory Fun
The Meanies - It’s True
Jeff Hill Band - Something’s Wrong With My Baby
The Squad - 24 Hours
Krypton Tunes - Limited Vision
The Zeros - Hungry
The Wardens - Do So Well
The Letters - Nobody Loves Me
The Tunnelrunners - Forever Crying At Love Songs
Comic Romance - Cry Myself To Sleep

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