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Urgh! A Music War (1981) - Various Artists

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Urgh! A Music War is an awesome 2-disk live LP with performances by many cool bands from the period, particularly those on or related to IRS Records and A&M (the label that released the Urgh! album).

A movie version of Urgh! A Music War was also released when this record came out. For the past three decades, it's been hard to track down. In 2009, Urgh! A Music War finally became available on DVD. The movie includes some bands who aren't on my record (such as Dead Kennedys and Surf Punks).

Somehow I ended up with two vinyl copies of Urgh! A Music War. One copy has the top corner of the cover chewed off. That happened when the collie I owned back in the 1980s - The Boonog -- was bored one day while I was at work.

-- February 22, 2011 (DDT)

Urgh! A Music War Original Album Tracks

These are the tracks that are on my vinyl copy of Urgh! A Music War:

Side One:

1. Driven to Tears - The Police
2. Back in Flesh - Wall of Voodoo
3. Dance - Toyah Wilcox
4. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
5. Ain't This the Life - Oingo Boingo
6. Respectable Street - XTC

Side Two:

1. Offshore Banking Business - The Members
2. We Got the Beat - The Go-Go's
3. Total Eclipse - Klaus Nomi
4. Where's Captain Kirk - Althletico Spizz '80
5. Nothing Means Nothing Anymore - The Alley Cats
6. Foolish I Know - Jools Holland
7. Ku Klux Klan - Steel Pulse

Side Three:

1. Uncontrollable Urge - Devo
2. The Puppet - Echo and the Bunnymen
3. Come Again - The Au Pairs
4. Tear It Up - The Cramps
5. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
6. Birdies - Pere Ubu
7. Down in the Park - Gary Numan

Side Four:

1. Shadow-Line - The Fleshtones
2. He'd Send in the Army - Gang of Four
3. Cheryl's Going Home - John Otway
4. Homicide - 999
5. Beyond and Back - X
6. Model Worker - Magazine
7. Sign of the Cross - Skafish