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2023 collection. There was plenty of genuine discontent in Britain at the tail end of the 1970s, and it had little to do with bin strikes or dark rumors about overflowing morgues. In the world of popular music, the most liberating after-effect of the S*x Pistols was that anyone with something to say now felt they could make a 7Inch single. Winter Of Discontent is the sound of truly DIY music, made by people who maybe hadn't written a song until a day or two before they went into the studio. It's spontaneous and genuinely free in a way the British music scene has rarely been before or since. Winter of Discontent has been compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather. Includes tracks by Scritti Politti, TV Personalities, the Fall, Exhibit A, Digital Dinosaurs, Frankie's Crew, and many others. Album Tracks 1. Violence Grows - Fatal Microbes 2. The Terraplane Fixation - Animals & Men 3. Work - Blue Orchids 4. Small Hours - Karl's Empty Body 5. Somebody - Frankie's Crew 6. Confidence - Scritti Politti 7. Drink Problem - Thin Yoghurts 8. Low Flying Aircraft - Anne Bean & Paul Burwell 9. Brow Beaten - Performing Ferret Band 10. No Forgetting - the Manchester Mekon 11. Fairytale in the Supermarket - the Raincoats 12. Can't Cheat Karma - Zounds 13. Bored Housewives - Androids of Mu 14. In My Area (Take 2) - the Fall 15. The Sideways Man - the Digital Dinosaurs 16. Attitudes - the Good Missionaries 17. The Window's Broken - Human Cabbages 18. King and Country - Television Personalities 19. In the Night - Exhibit 'A' 20. Nudes - Performing Ferret Band 21. Different Story - Tarzan 5 22. The Red Pullover - the Gynaecologists 23. Production Line - the Door and the Window
