VARIOUS – Can’t Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition) – 2LP – Vinyl [JUN 6]

2LP – Deluxe Black Vinyl Set including six bonus tracks of never before reissued tracks from the era.

Chapter Music’s landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post- punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release!

Cant Stop It! documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time.

Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go- Betweens, Cant Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australias fairly unadventurous music culture of the time.

All of the bands on Can’t Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records.

On its original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music its first major international attention, written up in The Wire magazine, stocked at Other Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.

Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expands on the original 20 track CD with six bonus never- before-reissued tracks.

“A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere’s stranglehold on post-punk nostalgia” – The Wire

Tracklist:

Side A:

1. The Moodists Gone Dead
2. Voigt/465 Voices A Drama
3. The Take Summer
4. Essendon Airport How Low Can You Go…?
5. The Apartments Help
6. Ash Wednesday Love By Numbers
7. Primitive Calculators Pumping Ugly Muscle

Side B:

8. The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast The Dumbwaiters
9. Ron Rude Piano Piano
10. Xero The Girls
11. The Limp Pony Club
12. The Fabulous Marquises Honeymoons
13. Slugfuckers Cacophony

Side C:

14. Equal Local Lamp That
15. Tame OMearas Sweat and Babble
16. The Particles Apricots Dream
17. People With Chairs Up Their Noses Song Of the Sea
18. Wild West We Can Do
19. The Pits Words
20. One Note Song

Side D

21. *****,***** Knots
22. Electric Fans Garden Of Uluru
23. The Voice Of Drama A Song of Colours
24. Synthetic Dream Work
25. Yclept Dinmakers Yclept Enemy
26. The Plants The Path