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GET YOUR 'KICKS' AGAIN!

John Peel's favourite is to come out again in its' original format...

’ classic ’TEENAGE KICKS’ is to be released in its’ original 7” four-track vinyl format.

The track, late DJ John Peel’s favourite song of all time, will be issued to herald the arrival of a double CD, also titled ’Teenage Kicks’, featuring a host of songs from the punk-pop era of the late Seventies. Both are out on April 4.

The EP, limited to 1,000 copies, will feature the original 1978 tracklisting – the title track, ’Smarter Than U’, ’True Confessions’ and ’Emergency Cases’.

The full tracklisting for the double CD is as follows:


CD1:The Undertones – ‘Teenage Kicks’
The Jam – ‘A Town Called Malice’
Blondie – ‘Hangin’ On The Telephone’
The Clash – ‘Rock The Casbah’
Dexy's Midnight Runners – ‘Geno’
Elvis Costello –‘Oliver's Army’
Squeeze – ‘Up The Junction’
The Boomtown Rats – ‘I Don't Like Mondays’
The Stranglers – ‘Peaches’
Joy Division – ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’
Jilted John – ‘Jilted John’
Splodgenessabounds – ‘Two Pints of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps Please’
Toy Dolls – ‘Nellie The Elephant’
The Vapours – ‘Turning Japanese’
The Damned – ‘New Rose’
Sham 69 – ‘Hersham Boys’
The Skids – ‘Into The Valley’
Generation X – ‘Valley Of The Dolls’
The Ruts – ‘Babylon's Burning’
The Alarm – ‘68 Guns’


CD2:The Buzzcocks – ‘Ever Fallen In Love’
The Sex Pistols – ‘Pretty Vacant’
The Specials – ‘Too Much Too Young’
Madness – ‘Baggy Trousers’
The Beat – ‘Mirror In The Bathroom’
The Undertones – ‘My Perfect Cousin’
XTC – ‘Senses Working Overtime’
The Lambrettas – ‘Poison Ivy’
Secret Affair – ‘Time For Action’
The Teardrop Explodes – ‘Reward’
Jo Boxers – ‘The Boxer Beat’
The B-52s – ‘Rock Lobster’
Jonathan Richman – ‘Roadrunner’
The Pretenders – ‘Brass In Pocket’
Martha & The Muffins – ‘Echo Beach’
The Barracudas – ‘Summer Fun’
The Members – ‘Sound Of The Suburbs’
Sham 69 – ‘If The Kids Are United’
Stiff Little Fingers – ‘At The Edge’
X-Ray Spex – ‘Germ Free Adolescents’
The Damned – ‘Neat Neat Neat’

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