Astralwerks
2005
Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited)
About This Album
The 101'ers never released a proper album while they were together, only turning out one single, a terrific pub rocker called "Keys to Your Heart." They probably would have remained a pub rock footnote for much longer if it hadn't been for lead singer Joe Strummer, whose massive success with the Clash led to an independent release (spearheaded by Strummer and 101'ers drummer Snake Hips Dudanski) of Elgin Avenue Breakdown in 1981. This release wasn't quite an album proper: it contained the remnants of three demo sessions, including one recorded at the BBC, and a live audience tape, all shuffled and spit out seemingly at random. It was a chaotic mess, but since the 101'ers never recorded a proper album, it was loved by Clash diehards and pub rockers alike, and it was all the more cherished because it was hard to find. Outside of its original brief appearance on vinyl in 1981 it drifted in and out of print on CDs of questionable legality over the next two decades, before Astralwerks buckled down and issued a greatly overhauled and expanded version of the album called Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited in 2005.

Astralwerks used the original running order as a mere guideline, adding previously released and unreleased tracks to the mix, bringing it up to a grand total of 20 tracks, representing the great majority of all the known recordings the band made during its brief existence (there are new live versions of "Shake Your Hips" and "Junco Partner" that differ from those on the first version of Elgin Avenue Breakdown).
Track List (try tracks 1,3,7,12 and 13)

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