Various Artists - Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84

The second instalment of Chapter Music's acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can't Stop It! Is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album. The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music remasters and updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout. This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted it's own musical identity for perhaps the first time. Can't Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors' Mark Seymour. Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold by at least five years, and Tasmania's own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout. 1 International Voltage 2 Let's Be Sophisticated 3 The Crush 4 Watch My Hands 5 Lamborghini 6 The Pirate Song 7 Do the Job 8 Centrefold 9 Swiss Like Knives and Forks 10 Newspaper 11 The Now Generation 12 Mothers at War 13 See Saw 14 Charging the Lighthouse 15 Treasure Island 16 God's Buzzsaw 17 I Feel a Song Coming on 18 Sidetracking 19 Somewhere 20 Never Mind 21 Purple Hearts 22 Freakout 23 How 24 People with Leukaemia 25 Living Out of Living 26 Baby Love