THE INTERNATIONAL DISCOGRAPHY

OF THE AMERICAN NEW WAVE

VOLUME 3

Hi and welcome to the US punk discography. Firstly my apologies to those who tried to find this throughout 2000 when the server it previously sat on was functionally dead. Many, many thanks to Justin who has offered to house this at CollectorScum.com for the forseeable future and is also doing a lot of work with the web side of things - spending many hours uploading sleeve scans for one thing. The one thing this discography needs now is annotation, just so you don't see something listed in here, run off and spend a week's wages on eBay, only to find it is mediocre new wave. I'm not sure of the best mechanism to do this - maybe email short pithy descriptions to me and I'll eventually incorporate them. Inspiration Without doubt the most amazing book I own is B. George and Martha DeFoe's International Discography of the New Wave Volume 1982/83, usually just referred to as Volume (or the Bible in some households). That they were able to compile such an incredible discography in virtual real time (ie as it happened) on a computer that while it may have been advanced for the time was, let's not kid about it, incredibly primitive, verges on the unbelievable. Yet they did it and generations of record collectors tips their collective hat to them. There are mistakes and omissions though, and bands are included that have no place (Haircut 100 anybody?). So, following on from the Texas discography that Paul Routenberg and I compiled I started on Ohio and then everywhere else in the states. Where are they now? B. George emailed me recently. His current project is the ARChive of Contemporary Music, a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City. You can get copies of the first (pink, 1979) Volume direct from him or from amazon.com. Range The aim of this project is to compile concise, correct information about punk records from America in the years 1976 to 1983. In doing so I extend Volume's range by about 18 months to about the time speed took over from inventiveness as the number one priority for American punks. I also leave band member info to that august book. This discography lists punk records. I extend outwards slightly into garage rock and other sub genres but pretty much ignore rockabilly, anything overtly electronic, ska, anything too sweetly pop or Big Star/Raspberries influenced, protogoth/overly Joy Divisiony or experimental. In general the larger the scene the more hardcore I am about chronological and stylistic cutoffs.

The regional discographies