Wednesday, July 21

STIFF BUY 22 vs CHISWICK NS22










Hailing from Scotland, Johnny & The Self Abusers released their first and only single the day they had split. I guess everybody knows the names of the two bands they gave birth to after the split: Cuban Heels and. S...(fill the dots). An early member of the Pink Fairies, Larry Wallis became an in-house producer at Stiff Records, was featured on the "A Bunch of Stiffs" compilation, released this amazing single, and took part in the Live Stiffs Tour '78.

CHISWICK NS 22 (1977)
Johnny & The Self Abusers
Saints & Sinners / Dead Vandals

STIFF BUY 22 (1977)
Larry Wallis
Police Car / On Parole

The votes
Stiff BUY 22: 78% (winner)
Chiswick NS 22 : 21%

7 comments:

Doug said...

Angelo

Enjoying this series of Stiff and Chiswick singles.Thanks as always.Cheers.

Doug

Anonymous said...

great idea
makes you think very hard for who to vote for
thanks very much

roberto said...

i like Dead Vandals,but Police Car is really the winner,and Larry had one of the coolest images ever...

Anonymous said...

'The Members' did a good cover of that Larry Wallis 'Police Car'
Many thanks for this series. i thought my votes would be evenly spread, but i seem to be voting Stiff most of the time?

bosshoss said...

Yeah.. I was there(no not IN London), i bought them then and loved them!
And that I do now....too.
One against the other Chiswick came up short... and I still love their releases, too.
OH YES, I LOVE MY LABEL

bosshoss said...

Yeah! So they became the Simple of Minds.... That doesn't make them top the adversary....
-bosshoss

Anonymous said...

Better than anything the S----- M----- ever did and much as I like Larry Wallis, the Self Abusers win this one. An absolute belter!