Anti-Nowhere League - The Punk Rock Anthology

Original Release Date

2008

Release Information

UK 2xCD 2008 (Anagram - CD PUNK 144)

Disc 1
1 We're The League 2:40
2 So What 3:09
3 I Hate....People 2:23
4 Let's Break The Law 3:06
5 (We Will Not) Remember You 2:01
6 World War III 2:42
7 Woman 2:59
8 Animal 2:40
9 For You 3:05
10 Out On The Wasteland 3:29
11 We Will Survive 3:05
12 Queen And Country 3:54
13 On The Waterfront 5:33
14 Johannesburg 3:56
15 Branded 3:20
16 Noddy 2:50
17 Loser 1:49
18 Out Of Control 2:40
19 Going Down 3:52
Disc 2
1 Let The Country Feed You 2:52
2 Pig Iron 2:24
3 Fucked Up And Wasted 3:39
4 Scum 3:50
5 Long Live Punk 3:55
6 Get Ready 2:38
7 There Is No God 3:37
8 Pump Action 4:41
9 Dead Heroes 3:43
10 The Punk Prayer 4:15
11 Degeneration 3:02
12 The End Of The Day 3:12
13 Unwanted 4:00
14 Medication 2:23
15 My God's Bigger Than Yours 2:36
16 Rampton 4:46
17 Snowman (Live) 2:36
18 Can't Stand Rock N Roll (Live) 2:51
19 Streets Of London (Live) 3:18

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Disc 1:
1, 3-7: From We Are...The League LP, released May 1982
2: B-Side of Streets Of London 7", released November 1981
8: Censored version from repressings of We Are...The League LP
9: A-Side of For You 7", released November 1982
10-12: Out On The Wasteland 7"/12", released December 1984
13: Studio demo from 1984, originally issued on Long Live The League! LP, 1985
14: From The Perfect Crime LP, released 1987
15: Studio demo from 1984
16: 1981 studio demo that later became 'Rocker'
17-18: 1980 demo, originally issued on Out Of Control CD, 2000
19: From Live In Yugoslavia LP, released 1983

Disc 2:
1: From Live In Yugoslavia LP, released 1983
2-19: Later recordings from the 1990s onward (I plead ignoranbce as to their origins)

Reviews & Opinions

DAVE THOMPSON, ALL MUSIC: These two CDs crash, bang, and thunder across the Anti-Nowhere League catalog, from the opening snarl of their debut single and the still shell-shocking swagger of the defiant "So What" through to the band's last days as a truly atomic force -- and what a journey it is. Not every Oi! band still sounds vibrant today, and a lot of them just seem silly. But the Anti-Nowhere League had a punch and a power that defy the passing of time; excise the occasional lyrical time bomb and there are moments here when you could be listening to any one of the myriad bands that have since formed in their slipstream, not one of which comes even close to the fiery breath of the League at their beastliest. Animal's liner notes carry listeners through the songs, anecdote by anecdote, and they do enhance the listen, at least in as much as they jog a few memories. But this isn't an album for reading through. It's one to crank up as loud as you possibly can and, if anyone complains that it's way too loud, give him a chorus of "So What." That'll shut him up.

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