7. Subway SectWe Oppose All Rock & Roll
This is the only compilation on here but it’s because The Subway Sect never made that record that they should have made. There was a point during the punk times where I always felt the Subway Sect were going to be the next big thing. They seemed primed to be the future, the next big thing, and then they went away to make an album and it just took too long at a time when everything seemed to be: what’s going to happen in the next five minutes? They left people waiting too long and everybody forgot about them by the time they came back music had moved on. When they came back it was quite literally a different band. But on his compilation, you get as close to what I consider to be that classic Subway Sect album that never came out. There are four tracks here that were recorded for a Peel Session, and they’re just fantastic, along with the first two amazing singles.
