Can’t Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition)

Chapter Music’s landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post-punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release! Can’t 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 and The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go- Betweens, Can’t Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s 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. Tracklisting: 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 O’Mearas – Sweat and Babble 16. The Particles – Apricot’s 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