NO ALTERNATIVE - DYING IN THE USA '78 TO '89 Rare Punk EP'S Filled to the brim with

Filled to the brim with hilarious stories of the band’s backstage antics and their heartbreaking struggle to overcome enormous odds on their way to becoming one of the biggest bands on the planet

and they are now mentioned in every serious assessment of all-time great rock music

and diversity of influence “Beyond the Pale” describes the album perfectly as POPULATION clearly moves beyond the routines of dark wave and death rock

I’d been documenting this nascent scene in the Soho nightclub ’Billy’s’ and

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NO ALTERNATIVE - DYING IN THE USA '78 TO '89 Rare Punk EP'S Filled to the brim withLP Mandatory collection of material, mostly ranging from '78 '80, from this short lived but absolutely crucial SF punk outfit. Similar to their peers Avengers, No Alternative never released a proper LP in their time, but this posthumous collection of single, comp and unreleased tracks stands as a powerful document of a top rate punk outfit in their prime. No Alternative bridged a gap of sorts between the 70's stew of new wave and punk and the more