BLITZKRIEG BOP Let's Go/9Till5/BuggerOff 77 UK1stP 7 EX
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Description
PICTURE SLEEVE 7”
ARTIST: BLITZKRIEG BOP
TITLE: Side A: LET’S GO; Side B: 9 TILL 5/BUGGER OFF
LABEL + YEAR: Mortonsound MTN 3172/3; July 14th 1977 UK PRIVATE PRESS, 500 ONLY PICTURE SLEEVE PRESSED
CONDITION VINYL: Excellent
CONDITION SLEEVE: VG+ due to small nick on back opening edge, plus a bit of colour is faded/worn with age to front cover
DESCRIPTION: THIS WAS THE BAND’S FIRST EVER RELEASE, WHICH WAS VERY LIMITED, JOHN HODGSON, aka ‘BLANK FRANK’ writes:
BLITZKRIEG BOP - LET’S GO (Mortonsound)
The flipside features a song called ‘Bugger Off’ which, at just over one minute long, has to be the ultimate in minimalism. It’s also one of the funniest things to come out of the new wave so far - intentionally or not, who cares. Otherwise Blank Frank, Mick Sick and friends seem a little uncomfortable in their new punk guise, sounding suspiciously psychedelic at times. Full marks for enterprise though: they paid £275 to have this recorded and pressed (500 copies) at a small Newcastle studio. Pretty awful, actually but fun.
The single was reviewed by Alan Lewis, and the cover of the single was reproduced at the top of the page, above sleeves by The Killjoys and The Boys. This was it! They’d made it! Superstars!!!
Well, not quite, but the band were cock-a-hoop at the fact that a national music paper had given them space.
The following day the now famous NME review appeared. The band floated from Cloud 9 to Cloud 90 when they saw it.
It appeared in a review section called ‘Status Singles’, complete with a picture of the sleeve, alongside other singles out that week, including ‘Packet Of Three’ from Squeeze and ‘Temptations Of A White Collar Worker’ by The Drones:-
BLITZKRIEG BOP - LET’S GO (Mortonsound)
“If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some floweeeers in your hair” sneers Blank Frank of these Geordie New Wave luminaries over dark Velvets noize. “You’ll meet a lot of weird ‘uns there…” Sinister Hate-Hashbury soundtrack, probably the best song written about the subject. “If you’d gone to San Francisco you’d have seen those hippies on the floor, I GOT OUT of San Francisco before the buggers called The Law”. I wanna see this mob live because nobody - well almost nobody - has heard of them and they’re good enough for six-figure recording contracts at the current rate of inflation.
The band dined out on this review for years, and were eternally grateful to Tony Parsons for taking time out from his busy life to heap such praise on their humble piece of vinyl.
There’s lots more really good & interesting stuff on John’s brilliant site, and it’s well worth visiting!
http://blitzkriegbop.info/index.html
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