Felix NEill

One of those brilliant cut price (Half Pounder! Geddit?) compilation tie ins between a (now long defunct) music paper and a record label. In this case, the label is classic era Virgin. Dating as it does from 1978, the Virgin roster is made up of some new wave (XTC, The Motors), Some acid damaged hippies still plugging away (Steve Hillage, later to reconnect with System 7, Kevin Coyne), some falling-between-the-stools strangeness (Yellow Dog, Colin Towns) and lots and lots of good reggae, presumably plugged into the deal in order to promote the Virgin Front Line label as A&R'd by John Lydon.

And for sure, it's the reggae here that's sounding the freshest, but this is still a brilliant period piece all round. I never fail to fall in love all over again with The Motors, but the pick of the bunch is possibly the Althea and Donna track, "No More Fighting", which is mighty indeed.

Dive in. Party like it's 1978.

Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.

Expired.