Angelic Upstarts, Utopia, Utopia, Utopia, Angelic Upstarts

I Want To Touch You / Silly Boy / Stick's Diary

1980 · Punk · Zonophone

UK · Z 12

Credits

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.