Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Got A Right - The Stooges
2. Underdog - The Dirtbombs
3. Agitated - The Electric Eels
4. Ruby - Boss Hog
5. (I'm A) Don Juan - The Embarrassment
6. She Cracked - The Modern Lovers
7. It Came From Japan - The Von Bondies
8. Tornado - Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
9. Jim Motherfucker - Gaunt
10. Hey Sailor - The Detroit Cobras
11. Round Every Corner - Thee Headcoats
12. Ain't It Fun - Rocket From The Tombs
13. Hey Bastard - STP
14. Outsmarted - The Hives
15. Tony's Theme - Pixies
16. Big Jesus Trashcan - The Birthday Party
17. Headburn - Halo Of Flies
18. C.Q. - Clinic
19. 2 Kindsa Love - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
20. Freakshop USA - Monster Magnet
21. Doctor Bucks Letter - The Fall
22. Human Fly - The Cramps
23. Summertime Blues - Guitar Wolf
24. Skunk (Sonically Speaking) - MC5

Disc 2:

1. Hate The Police - Mudhoney
2. Know Your Product - The Saints
3. Chase The Dragon - Beasts Of Bourbon
4. Human Cannonball - Butthole Surfers
5. Rocket USA - Suicide
6. Stand Up! - PW Long with Reelfoot
7. Alright - Pussy Galore
8. That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission Of Burma
9. Cat Claw - The Kills
10. Nonalignment Pact - Pere Ubu
11. Phobias - L.A.L.
12. My Rival - Alex Chilton
13. Stained & Lit - Red Red Meat
14. View From Here - The Gories
15. Born In '69 - Rocket From The Crypt
16. Otherside - The Beatings
17. Hot Wire My Heart - Crime
18. Born On The Floor - The Make Up
19. Play In The Summer - Trans Am
20. Life Of Crime - The Weirdos
21. Mercury - Royal Trux
22. More Light - J Mascis & The Fog

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86134 in Music
• Released on: 2002-10-14
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The third in the series of compilations lovingly pieced together by Rough Trade's retail division, Rock And Roll 1 builds on the success of previous collections--Electronic 01 and 25 Years Of...--with an excellent precis of firebrand rock & roll that dates from the early 1970s to the present day. There's amped-up pre-punk in the shape of Rocket from the Tombs and the Electric Eels, new-Millennial scuzz-rock in the shape of the Von Bondies and the Kills, and the odd completely bizarre avant-rock classic--e.g. the Fall's "Dr Buck's Letter", where cackling vocalist Mark E Smith reads out a list of things he never leaves home without ("Five--Amex card," he barks, "They made such a fuss giving it to me/ But I spend more time getting it turned down-ah!"). What swiftly becomes clear is that Rough Trade has a real talent for unearthing essential rarities. Legendary New York punk band Crime appear on a recording for the first time in 20 years, while on "View from Here", Detroit firebrand soul group the Gories appear to have preempted the White Stripes by approximately a decade. There are a couple of notable omissions--no Kyuss? no Black Flag? But hey, this is only Rock And Roll 1. Further chapters will surely fill in the gaps, and frankly, we can't wait. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Now that's what I call REAL music!
Are you fed up with the usual garbage that is heard on radio? Well then I suggest you order this excellent collection of basically garage punk. There's some old songs (Suicide, MC5) some new (Von Bondies, The Kills) and some rarities (Crime- Hot Wire my Heart,which was covered by Sonic Youth on their 'Sister' album) and this is just volume 1! I can't wait for volume 2.

Wooooooooaaaaahhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!! Rocking baby
This is possibly one of my favourite albums of all time, (and i have a lot of albums)If you like Garage rock and roll, then this is for you, You've got every rock and roll band on here, covering the last 25 years, from the likes of MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, Pixies and The Hives, The Kills and The Von Bondies.

It's down right dirty rock

Just buy it, if you don't you will be missing out.