• Track Listing

Now this was new: a punk band that bristled with energy but hailed from sun-splashed LA…a punk band that didn’t spit at old forms like country and rockabilly, but reveled in them…and a punk band with male/female harmonies in the forefront. The band was X, future heroes to many, and these are their classics Los Angeles (’80), Wild Gift (’81), Under the Big Black Sun (’82), More Fun in the New World (’83) and Ain’t Love Grand (’85). So many key cuts; here are a bunch: Johnny Hit and Run Pauline; Your Phone’s off the Hook, but You’re Not; Nausea; Los Angeles; The Once Over Twice; We’re Desperate; White Girl; Beyond and Back; The Hungry Wolf; Riding with Mary; Blue Spark; The New World; Devil Doll; Burning House of Love; All or Nothing, and more of John and Exene’s best!