lo-fi jr.

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  • Submit Date: 8/15/2004
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

Be Stiff

Artist Song
Nick Lowe  So It Goes 
The Damned  New Rose 
Motorhead  White Line Fever 
Elvis Costello  Less Than Zero 
The Adverts  One Chord Wonders 
Mick Farren & The Deviants  Outragious Contagious 
Larry Wallis  Police Car 
Wreckless Eric  Reconnez Cherie 
Devo  Be Stiff 
Lew Lewis Reformer  Win Or Lose 
Ian Dury & The Blockheads  Resons To Be Cheerful, pt. 3 
Pointed Sticks  Out Of Luck 
The Feelies  Original Love 
Graham Parker & The Rumour  Stupifaction 
Dirty Looks  Let Go 
Joe 'King' Carrasco  Buena 
The Plasmatics  Monkey Suit 
Tenpole Tudor  Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater 
The Equators  Baby Come Back 
Department S  Is Vic There 
Lene Lovich  New Toy 
Madness  House Of Fun 
Bush Tetras  Can't Be Funky 
Pigbag  Sunny Day 
The Prisoners  Whenever I'm Gone 
The Pogues  London Girl 

Comment:

With an excellent roster, wacky promotional ideas, hilarious logos and a maybe just bit of lucky timing; Stiff Records was my favorite label of their era. Having recently learned that today is the twenty eighth anniversary of the release of Nick Lowe's "So It Goes", the label's first single, I finally got around to a compilation I'd been meaning to do ever since picking up the box-set. Reviewing the discography revealed way more misses to hits than I recalled, especially during the last five years of the label's existence. Nevertheless, with a coupla dozen classics to their name I'd still say Stiff Records was more than worth a fuck.
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Feedback:

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Adr8012
Date: 8/15/2004
Wouah !!
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/15/2004
"Fuck art...let's dance!" indeed. Excellent Jim.
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Siobhan
Date: 8/15/2004
Brilliant! I absolutely love your cover, and of course the mix itself is wonderful - ending with the Pogues is great, and love the Feelies pick too.
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p the swede
Date: 8/15/2004
excellent label excellent work
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Saaf
Date: 8/15/2004
Nick bought you a drink, eh?
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lipstick vogue
Date: 8/15/2004
Awesome mix. I love the Elvis Costello, Devo, Madness, and Pogues tracks.
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Dom1
Date: 8/15/2004
Try to be! Where's Rachel Sweet? Great stuff.
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Eric Schmuckler
Date: 8/15/2004
last time i dipped into the stiff box i was struck by how listenable it all seemed. i never associated motorhead or pigbag with stiff. where's yachts, mickey jupp and kirsty maccoll? and you can never have too much wreckless eric for my taste.
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Scott K
Date: 8/15/2004
Ha Ha Ha! This is fun fun fun! Thanks for picking the hits, and hitting the missus...
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McDonald12
Date: 8/16/2004
classix one and all. Was going to say too many good ones to pick favs, but love that Tenpole Tudor and The damned especially, but the whole thing is top-notch
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G-Sphere
Date: 8/16/2004
Great label full of great music. Classic stuff. I really loved that Dirty Looks album at the time.
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RMLondon
Date: 8/16/2004
If it aint Stiff ...
Mick Farren and the Deviants eh?? an example of why journalists should stick to writing about music instead of making it!! very nice mix!
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Lancelot Link IV1
Date: 8/16/2004
Nicely done!
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Sean Lally
Date: 8/16/2004
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! Sure, there were misses - but when they hit.... Dig all the tracks here.
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avant gardening
Date: 8/17/2004
yay we used the same adverts song...copy cat...ha, just kidding, from what i can recognize on this, it looks awesome.
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The Misfit
Date: 8/17/2004
So many classics!
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valis
Date: 8/17/2004
I'm with Lally! Changed my life, this label.....
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Rob Conroy
Date: 8/17/2004
This looks absolutely classic to me. I need one of these ASAP.