Alternative TV - Viva La Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete Deptford Fun City Recordings 1977-1980
Original Release Date
2015
Release Information
UK 6xCD 2015 (Cherry Red - CRCDMBOX20)
Disc 1: The Image Has Cracked
1 Alternatives 9:43
2 Action Time Vision 2:33
3 Why Don't You Do Me Right? 3:12
4 Good Times 2:33
5 Still-Life 5:19
6 Viva La Rock 'N' Roll 4:20
7 Nasty Little Lonely 6:20
8 Red 2:05
9 Splitting In 2 5:11
Bonus Tracks
10 Love Lies Limp 3:07
11 Life 2:07
12 How Much Longer 2:37
13 You Bastard 1:22
14 Life After Life 2:10
15 Life After Dub 2:39
16 Another Coke 5:30
17 How Much Longer (Different Version) 2:28
18 You Bastard (Different Version) 1:18
19 Love Lies Limp (John Peel Session 05/12/77) 2:54
20 Action Time Vision (John Peel Session 05/12/77) 2:31
21 Still-Life (John Peel Session 05/12/77) 5:24
22 Life After Life (John Peel Session 05/12/77) 3:36
Disc 2: Vibing Up The Senile Man (Part One)
1 Release The Natives 4:02
2 Serpentine Gallery 2:22
3 Poor Association 1:47
4 The Radio Story 7:48
5 Facing Up To The Facts 4:08
6 The Good Missionary 7;17
7 Graves Of Deluxe Green 2:57
8 Smile In The Day 8:21
Bonus Tracks
9 Vibing Up The Senile Man (Alias Vibing) 0:59
10 The Force Is Blind 3:48
11 Lost In Room 4:55
12 The Good Missionary (John Peel Session 17/07/78) 6:45
13 Release The Natives (John Peel Session 17/07/78) 4:58
14 Going Round In Circles (John Peel Session 17/07/78) 1:20
15 Nasty Little Lonely (John Peel Session 17/07/78) 4:24
Disc 3: The Good Missionaries / Fire From Heaven
1 Another Coke / The Body 6:38
2 The Force Is Blind 4:28
3 Thief Of Fire 1:47
4 The Radio Story / Strange Looks 7:14
5 Fire From Heaven 4:20
6 Release The Natives 4:46
7 Fellow Sufferer In Dub 5:25
8 Bugger The Cat 5:12
Bonus Tracks
9 The Good Missionary - Part 1 7:48
10 The Good Missionary - Part 2 4:27
11 Kif Kif's Free Freak Out 4:07
12 Action Time Lemon 3:24
13 Going Round In Circles 1:18
14 Fellow Sufferer 10:58
15 Splitting In Two 7:49
Disc 4: Mark Perry / Snappy Turns
1 Snappy Turns 3:43
2 The Object Is To Love 2:17
3 You Know 2:45
4 Inside 4:05
5 At War 5:40
6 Death Looks Down 7:32
7 The Game Is Over 6:09
8 Quagga's Last Stand 7:36
Bonus Tracks
9 Whole World's Down On Me 2:43
10 I Live - He Dies 4:52
11 You Cry Your Tears 3:17
12 Music Death? 2:32
13 Dear, Dear 1:42
14 Fellow Sufferer 9:17
15 Graves Of Deluxe Green 0:56
16 Alternatives To Normal Eating Habits 4:35
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Disc 1:
Tracks 1-9 released as The Image Has Cracked album (DLP01) in May 1978
Tracks 10 & 11 released as a single (DFC06) in November 1978. Track 10 was originally issued as a cover-mounted flexidisc with Sniffin' Glue 12 in September 1977
Tracks 12 & 13 released as a single (DFC02) in December 1977
Tracks 14 & 15 released as a single (DFC04) in March 1978
Track 16 released as a single (DFC07) with track 2 in June 1978
Tracks 17-18 released as 'Alternative Versions' of the DFC02 single
Tracks 19-22: BBC Radio 1 John Peel session 05/12/77, previously unreleased
Disc 2:
Tracks 1-8 released as the Vibing Up The Senile Man (Part One) album (DLP03) in early 1979
Tracks 9 was left off of the original album and originally released as a bonus track on the DFC10 single
Tracks 10 & 11 released as a single (DFC10) in April 1979
Tracks 12-15: BBC Radio 1 John Peel session 17/7/78, previously unreleased
Disc 3:
Tracks 1-8 released as The Good Missionaries' Fire From Heaven album (DLP04) in August 1979
Tracks 9-11 were released as The Good Missionaries' Vibing Up The Senile World... EP on Unnormality Records (NORM001) in 1980
Tracks 12-15 were released on split Alternative TV Album with Here & Now - What You See... Is What You Are in December 1978
Disc 4:
Tracks 1-8 were released as the Mark Perry solo album Snappy Turns (DLP06) in June 1980
Tracks 9 & 10 were released as a Mark Perry solo single (DFC12) in March 1980
Tracks 11 & 12 were released as a Mark Perry & Dennis Burns solo single on NB Records (NB7) in March 1980
Track 13 appeared on the Cherry Red compilation Perspectives & Distortion (BRED15), released in August 1981
Tracks 14, 15 & 16 were released as a semi-official Alternative TV single, free with Italian fanzine, Red Ronnie's Bazar, in 1980
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