
I've been on a '76-'79 UK punk listening spree lately - Pistols, Adverts, Clash, Buzzcocks and more, a result of digging out my Q 'True Story of Punk' mag from a few years back. Anyway, it seems to me that Stiff Little Fingers has always gotten forgotten in the punk books. Sure, they were Irish and Inflammable Material didn't even come out until 1979. But its sound, passion and balls had everything about the Class of '77 on it. If this came out in early 1977, SLF would've been considered among the greats. [...]