TEAM RNS PRESENTS

LABEL: Capitol Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

3hr 22min total-268.6mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-04-08
RIP DATE: 2003-04-18

101 Dancing With Myself           3:47

104 Ready, Steady Go              2:58

106 Valley Of The Dolls           3:33
107 Day By Day                    2:24

109 Prime Of Kenny Silvers pts 1..7:17

111 One-Hundred Punks             3:07

113 Kiss Me Deadly                4:23
114 Gimmie Some Truth             2:22

116 English Dream                 5:00
117 Youth, Youth, Youth           6:07

202 Dancing With Myself           3:46

205 Cathy Come Home               3:49

207 Flash As Hell                 2:28

210 Stars Looked Down             4:33
211 I Dig Everything (mix)        3:08
212 Dancing With Myself (mix)     5:05
213 Exculsive Interview With Ton.17:51
301 Ready Steady Go               3:35
302 Trying For Kicks              2:32

306 Night Of The Cadilac's        3:21
307 No No No                      2:08
308 Vally Of The Dolls            3:37

310 Kiss Me Deadly                4:51

313 Day By Day                    2:34

317 Shakin' All Over              3:14
318 Youth Youth Youth             1:46

Disc One is the Complete Singles
Collection Including B-sides and
Previously Unreleased Tracks.
Disc Two is the Previously Unreleased
Sweet Revenge Album.
Disc Three is a Live Recording from
Osaka, Japan in 1978.
All Tracks Have Been Remastered

Although not as well as known as some of
their peers (the Clash, the Sex
Pistols, the Damned, etc.), first wave
U.K. punk rockers Generation X burst onto
the scene at the same time as the
others. And while they enjoyed some
moderate success in their homeland,
Generation X would become better-known
as the launching pad for their singer,
Billy Idol, who would go on to achieve
great commercial success come the '80s.
Originally formed in 1976, Generation X
(which was named after a book that
focused on battles between the Mods and
the Rockers during the '60s) was
comprised of guitarist Bob Andrews,
bassist Tony James, drummer Mark Laff,
and fronted by Idol. The group was
eventually signed up by Chrysalis
Records, resulting in a self-titled debut
album in 1978 (the U.S. and U.K.
versions contained different track
listings), as Generation X became one of
the first punk bands to appear on the
popular British TV music program Top of

Unlike other punk bands, Generation X
wasn't afraid to turn a blind eye to the
supposed "accepted" ideals by punk
rockers as they covered a John Lennon
song on their debut ("Gimme Some
Truth") and even hooked up with veteran
rocker Ian Hunter to handle the production
chores for their sophomore effort,
1979's Valley of the Dolls. Perhaps as
a result, however, the group's musical
direction became cloudy (some wanting
the group to remain true to their punk
roots, while others feeling that they
should pursue a heavier rock sound) and
bandmembers began to leave one by one,
until Idol and James were the only
remaining original members. Generation X
managed to squeeze out one final album,
1981's Kiss Me Deadly (which contained
the original version of a song that
Idol would later cover as a solo artist
and score a massive hit with, "Dancing
With Myself"), before splitting up.

After the group's breakup, James later
turned up as a member of '80s
glam-punkers Sigue Sigue Sputnik, while
Idol relocated to New York and embarked
on his aforementioned solo career. As
Idol's solo success created interest
in his first band, numerous Generation
X best-of and rarity collections began
to crop up, including 1985's Perfect
Hits: 1975-1981, 1998's Sweet Revenge,
and 2000's Original Debut, the latter
of which was a reissue of the U.K.
version of Generation X's self-titled debut