Name: The Boys Whose Heads Exploded
Brand: The Pop Group

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-FREAK-20

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

CD + DVD + 12pp Poster

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-05-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060410900241

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-FREAK-20

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Download code: Yes

Picture Disc

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5060410900234

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Pop Group

Genre US

New Wave & Post Punk

Label US

Freaks R Us

Post punk provocateurs The Pop Groupunveil their latest archival release, The Boys Whose Head Exploded, a collection of live recordings drawn from incendiary appearances in late 1979 and 1980, along with a bonus DVD featuring film footage shot by legendary director Don Letts. Largely recorded in 1980, the compilation features brawling versions of songs from the band's recently reissued second studio album For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? The collection also includes the previously unreleased 73 Shadow Street, and a surprise mutation of the Glaxo Babies' Shake The Foundation. The accompanying film footage is a short feature that's been hiding in Don Letts' punk rock archives for the past 35 years. Filmed by Letts at Alexandra Palace in June, 1980 at an all day festival that featured the likes of John Cooper Clarke, The Raincoats and The Slits -the rare footage encapsulates the band's Molotov cocktail of punk, funk, free jazz and radical politics at its most artistically concussive. The vinyl edition comes as a picture disc with a download card to access the film and hi-res audio content. The CD edition includes a DVD of the 1980 footage and a 24 page poster.

The Boys Whose Heads Exploded

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