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VARIOUS - HITS GREATEST STIFFS (1977)

A year or so after they had been released, Stiff had deleted their first 13 singles. So imagine a world deprived of Nick Lowe "Heart Of The City/So It Goes" and Elvis Costello's "Less Than Zero", but the record company then flashed out an eleven track sampler of this early product and charged only £3.99 for it...Ten of the first eleven singles are represented here (one of which was never even released: Motorhead). The collection focused on B-sides or non album tracks, the reason why Sean Tyla & his Gang had two songs (the single was a double B-side 7"). The inner sleeve is also noteworthy because Stiff displays a picture of "some fine records on other labels you might enjoy". Stiff had style.

 

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Songs
Nick Lowe (Heart Of The City) / The Pink Fairies (Between The Lines) / The Roogalator (Cincinatti Fatback) / Tyla Gang (Styrofoam) / Tyla Gang (Texas Chainsaw Massacre Boogie) / Lew Lewis & His Band (Caravan Man) / Damned (Help!) /Richard Hell (You Gotta Lose) / Plummet Airlines (This Is The World) / Motorhead (Leavin' Here) / Elvis Costello (Radio Sweetheart)