The Outsiders - Calling On YouthLabel: Mad Butcher Reissued 2023, Originally released 1977 Before fronting classic post punk group The Sound, Adrian Borland was a Wimbledon teenager enamored of Iggy Pop and the Velvet Underground. With friends, he formed The Outsiders. In 1976, they home recorded Calling On Youth, a searching full length that straddles nihilo punk argot (Terminal Case and Im Screwed Up) as well as smudged glam balladry (Start Over and Weird). Its release in 1977, on

Kepone Factory

An obsessive crate digger

Lou Rawls– Christmas Is

just outside the town of Underwood in rural

as Sparhawk puts it

Order of the Ominous

and unblinking honesty

Lime Grove Studios

with diesel-fueled thundering guitars and take-no-prisoners attitude

Tim O'Connor

spanning the poppy

"It's all I can do