Wayne County and The Electric Chairs: The Safari Years, 4CD Edition

•    57-track 4CD, capacity wallet set, covering just about everything released by seminal American Punk icon Wayne County and his Electric Chairs between 1977 and 1979.

The self-titled debut LP is Disc One and contains the single ‘Eddie & Sheena’. Now with ten bonus tracks including the Punk anthem ‘Fuck Off’ as well as three rare monitor mixes from the original album sessions.

Disc Two features the ‘Storm The Gates Of Heaven’ album which contains the ‘Trying To Get On The Radio’ single and now comes with two non LP bonus tracks.

The third disc is 1979’s ‘Things Your Mother Never Told You’ album which contains the ‘Berlin’ single, three non-LP tracks, plus a four track John Peel session.

The final disc is a rare “In Concert” album, recorded on New Year’s Eve 1979, which reached No.18 in the Independent Chart when originally released by Safari Records in early 1980, by which time Wayne had become Jayne County.

The booklet contains in-depth liner notes by Record Collector’s Freek Kinkelaar and features pictures of all relevant record sleeves and lots of clippings from the era.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

ELECTRIC CHAIRS

1  EDDIE & SHEENA

2  BAD IN BED

3  HOT BLOOD

4  WORRY WART

5  28 MODEL T

6  OUT OF CONTROL

7  MAX’S KANSAS CITY

8  ON THE CREST

9  PLAIN OF NAZCA

10  BIG BLACK WINDOW

11  TAKE IT

12  ROCK & ROLL RESURRECTION

BONUS TRACKS

13  FUCK OFF

14  ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CLEOPATRA

15  NIGHT TIME

16  TOILET LOVE

17  MEAN MUTHA FUCKIN’ MAN

18  OUT OF CONTROL (MONITOR MIX)

19  WORRY WART (MONITOR MIX)

20  ROCK & ROLL RESURRECTION (MONITOR MIX)

DISC TWO

STORM THE GATES OF HEAVEN

1  STORM THE GATES OF HEAVEN

2  CRY OF ANGELS

3  SPEED DEMON

4  MR. NORMAL

5  MAN ENOUGH TO BE A WOMAN

6  TRYING TO GET ON THE RADIO

7  I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT

8  TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

BONUS TRACKS

9  IT AIN’T HOW MUCH YOU GOT

10  EVIL MINDED MOMMA

DISC THREE

THINGS YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU

1  WONDER WOMAN

2  WALL CITY GIRL

3  BOY WITH THE STOLEN FACE

4  UN-CON-TROLL-ABLE

5  THINGS (YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU)

6  BERLIN

7  C3

8  MIDNIGHT PAL

9  WAITING FOR THE MARINES

10  THINK STRAIGHT

BONUS TRACKS

11  BERLIN (EXTENDED)

12  SO MANY WAYS

13  J’ATTENDS LES MARINES

JOHN PEEL SESSION 18.6.1979

14  MIDNIGHT PAL

15  C.4.

16  BERLIN

17  WAITING FOR THE MARINES

DISC FOUR

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RESURRECTION

1  NIGHT TIME

2  ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CLEOPATRA

3  ARE YOU A BOY?

4  BAD IN BED

5  HANKY PANKY

6  ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RESURRECTION

7  FUCKED BY THE DEVIL

8  CREAM IN MY JEANS

9  STUCK ON YOU

10  FUCK OFF