
Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear Young Marble Giants – Final Day Altered Images – Happy Birthday The Specials – Ghost Town This is the first of a four-part series of Pitchfork 500 posts, as the next 16 tracks are all from Great Britain. This was thanks to an amazing outpouring of pop and rock from the British Isles in the early '80's - bands that had taken the call to arms of punk and post-punk, and used the attitude of experimentation to make some rather startling new music. Some, like [...]