2LP
Various Artists - Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 (2026 Deluxe Edition)
Various Artists - Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 (2026 Deluxe Edition) Various Artists
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First ever vinyl reissue of key Australian post-punk compilation, now a deluxe 2LP set - Includes six bonus tracks of never before reissued tracks from the era. Features future members of Dead Can Dance, Hunters & Collectors and more.
The second instalment of Chapter Music’s acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can’t Stop It! is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album.
The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout.
This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for perhaps the first time.
Can’t Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors’ Mark Seymour.
Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold by at least five years, and Tasmania's own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout.
"This era of Australian music wasn't defined by a sound or an instrument, but by an anarchic creativity" – Stephen Deusner, Uncut
Track List
Side A:
A1 - The Systematics– International Voltage
A2 - International Exiles – Let’s Be Sophisticated
A3 - Asphixiation – The Crush
A4 - Tactics – Watch My Hands
A5 - Severed Heads – Lamborghini
A6 - The Goat That Went “OM” – The Pirate Song
A7 - Use No Hooks – Do the Job
Side B:
B1 - Microfilm – Centrefold
B2 - Scattered Order – Swiss Like Knives and Forks
B3 - The Jetsonnes – Newspaper
B4 - Rhythmx Chymx – The Now Generation
B5 - Brrr Cold – Mothers At War
B6 - SoliPsiK– See Saw
Side C:
C1 - Wild Dog Rodeo – Charging the Lighthouse
C2 - Belle Du Soir – Treasure Island
C3 - Ya Ya Choral – God’s Buzzsaw
C4 - Essendon Airport – I Feel A Song Coming On
C5 - Swell Guys – Sidetracking
C6 - Scapa Flow – Somewhere
C7 - Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind
Side D
D1 - Lachelle – Purple Hearts
D2 - Chainmale – Freakout
D3 - This Five Minutes – How
D4 - Chocolate Grinders – People With Leukaemia
D5 - Tiny Town – Living Out Of Living
D6 - Aural Indifference – Baby Love