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Rhino Records once again slams the musical ball out of the ballpark with the four-CD box set, NO THANKS!, a chronicling of the 1970s punk movement. Aside from the Sex Pistols' noticeable exclusion, Rhino casts a wide net in the artists featured throughout, and, as such, they've included plenty of the genre's heavy hitters -- the Ramones, the Clash, the Jam, X, Television, and Blondie, to name but a few. In addition, acts that planted the seeds of the movement -- particularly the New York Dolls and Iggy & the Stooges -- are included. The classics that pop up -- including the Modern Lovers' Farfisa-organ-soaked "Roadrunner", the Buzzcocks' yearning "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)", and the Only Ones' infectious "Another Girl, Another Planet" -- are an iPod fanatic's dream come true. And the one thing all of these disparate artists have in common -- from Elvis Costello to Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Mekons to Talking Heads, Wire to the Pretenders -- is an inherently defiant attitude and a fierce DIY ethic.

Disc 1:

01. Ramones -- Blitzkrieg Bop
02. The Clash -- White Riot
03. Nick Lowe -- Heart Of The City
04. Buzzcocks featuring Howard Devoto -- Boredom
05. The Saints -- (I'm) Stranded
06. The Damned -- Neat Neat Neat
07. The Jam -- In The City
08. Pere Ubu -- Final Solution
09. The Modern Lovers -- Roadrunner
10. Television -- Little Johnny Jewel
11. The Adverts -- One Chord Wonders
12. The Heartbreakers -- Born To Lose
13. Iggy & The Stooges -- Search And Destroy
14. Mink DeVille -- Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues)
15. X-Ray Spex -- Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
16. Wire -- 1 2 X U
17. Richard Hell & The Voidoids -- Blank Generation
18. The Stranglers -- (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
19. The Runaways -- Cherry Bomb
20. New York Dolls -- Personality Crisis
21. Eddie & The Hot Rods -- Teenage Depression
22. The Dictators -- Two Tub Man
23. Patti Smith -- Hey Joe (Version)
24. Generation X -- Your Generation

Disc 2:

01. Iggy Pop -- Lust For Life
02. The Adverts -- Gary Gilmore's Eyes
03. Ultravox! -- Satday Night In The City Of The Dead
04. Buzzcocks -- What Do I Get?
05. Blondie -- X Offender
06. The Boomtown Rats -- Lookin' After No. 1
07. Penatration -- Don't Dictate
08. The Fall -- Bingo Master
09. Patti Smith -- Free Money
10. The Jam -- The Modern World
11. The Heartbreakers -- Chinese Rocks
12. The Damned -- New Rose
13. Subway Sect -- Ambition
14. Television -- See No Evil
15. Stiff Little Fingers -- Suspect Device
16. Wire -- Mannequin
17. The Vibrators -- Baby Baby
18. Richard Hell & The Voidoids -- Love Comes In Spurts
19. The Boys -- First Time
20. Dead Boys -- Sonic Reducer
21. Magazine -- Shot By Both Sides
22. Elvis Costello -- Mystery Dance
23. New York Dolls -- Trash
24. X-Ray Spex -- The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
25. Eddie & The Hot Rods -- Do Anything You Wanna Do



Disc 3:

01. Generation X -- Ready Steady Go
02. The Undertones -- Teenage Kicks
03. Ian Dury -- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
04. Buzzcocks -- Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
05. Suicide -- Rocket U.S.A.
06. Devo -- Mongoloid
07. 999 -- Homicide
08. The Dils -- Mr. Big
09. Joy Division -- Warsaw
10. The Mekons -- Where Were You?
11. The Germs -- Lexicon Devil
12. The Rezillos -- (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
13. The Pretenders -- The Wait
14. The Weirdos -- We Got The Neutron Bomb
15. The Modern Lovers -- Pablo Picasso
16. Alternative TV -- Action Time Vision
17. Tom Robinson Band -- 2-4-6-8 Motorway
18. The Avengers -- We Are The One
19. Sham 69 -- Borstal Breakout
20. Black Flag -- Wasted
21. Ramones -- Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
22. Fear -- I Love Livin' In The City
23. The Boomtown Rats -- She's So Modern
24. Rich Kids -- Ghosts Of Princes In Towers
25. X -- We're Desperate
26. The Dickies -- You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
27. The Motors -- Dancing The Night Away