Newtown Neurotics - Beggars Can Be Choosers LP

The first album by seminal political power punk trio Newtown Neurotics Beggars Can Be Choosers hit #6 on the UK independent chart in 1983. Formed in 1979 by vocalist and guitarist Steve Drewett, whose socialist-flavoured lyrics – never overbearing – have been grouped with those of Easterhouse, Billy Bragg, or the Housemartins, The Neurotics sounded like a synthesis of everything cool in the first wave of punk: from The Ramones to The Clash to mid-period Undertones. They were sharp-edged, but still fun-sounding, with great hooks and melodies and socially aware lyrics. This is criminally underrated Ramones-influenced political pop-punk whose titles like ‘Living with Unemployment’ and ‘Get Up And Fight’ speak for themselves. A must!
(Radiation Reissues/ 2014)

Tracklist
A1     Wake Up
A2     The Mess    
A3     Get Up And Fight
A4     No Respect
A5     Agony
B1     Newtown People
B2     Does Anyone Know Where The March Is?    
B3     Life In Their Hands    
B4     My Death
B5     Living With Unemployment