Blast From The Past: The sound of 1978

Ten amazing tracks selected from some of the best albums of 1978, the year that defined the sound we would later call "post-punk":

The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

Album: All Mod Cons

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea

Album: This Year’s Model

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

Album: Parallel Lines

Public Image Limited - Public Image

Album: Public Image - First issue

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal postcard

Album: The Scream

X-Ray Spex - Oh! Bondage Up Yours! (Live At The Roxy)

Album: Germ Free Adolescents

Devo - Mongoloid

Album: Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo!

The Saints - Know your product

Album: Eternally Yours

Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve & Danno

Album: Radios Appear

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

Album: Real Life

R.I.P. Poly Styrene

A truly unique talent is no longer with us - Poly Styrene, aka Marianne Elliot-Said, has moved on to higher places this Monday. Let's remember one of the highlights of her music career, the single "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" by the legendary X-Ray Spex - one of the greatest tracks of the punk era. It is followed by the recent single "Virtual Boyfriend" from her last album "Generation Indigo".

X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

Poly Styrene - Virtual Boyfriend