Guillotine (album)

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Guillotine
Guillotine cover
Studio album
Released 1978
Genre Punk rock
Label Virgin Records

Guillotine was a 10-inch New Wave sampler released by Virgin Records. As well as containing eight songs by some of Virgin's leading performers of the time, it was also notable for containing sleeve notes that were apparently Richard Branson's publishing debut.

Songs of note included XTC's Traffic Light Rock, which was otherwise unavailable for many years and Linton Kwesi Johnson's All Wi' Doin' Is Defendin' , which was one of the first reggae songs to be included on a new wave compilation album.

[edit] Track listing

  1. The Motors - You Beat The Hell Outta Me
  2. Penetration - Don't Dictate
  3. The Table - Do The Standing Still (Classics Illustrated)
  4. Avant Gardener - Strange Gurl In Clothes
  5. XTC - Traffic Light Rock
  6. Roky Erickson - Bermuda
  7. Poet And The Roots - All Wi Doin' Is Defendin'
  8. X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours