Good Vibrations - The Punk Singles Collection (Full Album)

• Report rights infringement
• published: 17 Feb 2015
• views: 18600

Good Vibrations is a Belfast record label and store. Founded by Terri Hooley in the early 1970s, Good Vibrations started out in a small derelict building on Great Victoria Street, Belfast. It is now located on Winetavern Street, Belfast. Hooley's main objective in starting the company was to introduce punk bands from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom, as he did not believe Northern groups were given enough attention. The label's first recording was for a local band called Rudi, a single called "Big Time". Hooley would later sign groups such as Victim, The Moondogs, The Shapes, Protex, The Outcasts, The Tearjerkers and The Undertones. Although the Undertones were to become the most famous of all these bands, Hooley was unsure, at first, whether or not he should sign them. "I wasn't sure about them because nobody liked them. People crossed the road just to spit at Feargal Sharkey." Later, when the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks" came out, he "hustled it around every record company in London and they all hated it. I came back to Belfast and cried my eyes out. That night John Peel played it on the radio and said, 'wasn't that the most wonderful record you've heard in your life?' and played it again." The company also put on concerts around Northern Ireland, hiring hotel function rooms, church halls, youth clubs, and any other available venues. Good Vibrations hosted the first ever International Festival of Punk and New Wave at the Belfast Royal Ulster Hall over two nights in 1980 featuring almost the entire roster of the label's bands and other punk acts such as The Saints. Many listeners were brought to Belfast by the Good Vibrations DIY independence and Hooley's persistent determination and desire to see local music recognised nationally. Despite growing popularity, though, Good Vibrations filed bankruptcy in 1982, just as the first wave of British punk had officially died. Bands that had gone to London, such as Protex and Rudi, went back to Hooley – and Belfast. Hooley's friends later got him a shop called Vintage Records, Co. just around the corner from Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations reopened in 1984, closed in 1991, reopened in 1992, closed in 2004, reopened in 2005... Tracklist: 1. Big Time - Rudi 2. Strange Thing By Night - Victim 3. Love Is For Sops - The Outcasts 4. Smarter Than You - The Undertones 5. Dance Away Lover - X Dreamysts 6. Don't Ring Me Up - Protex 7. Listening In - Protex 8. Parents - The Idiots 9. Dancing In The Street - Spider 10. Cops Are Coming, The - The Outcasts 11. Overcome By Fumes - Rudi 12. Cross The Line - Ruefrex 13. Love Affair - The Tearjerkers 14. Ya Don't Do Ya - The Moondogs 15. I Spy - Rudi 16. Airline Disaster - The Shapes 17. Self Concious Over You - The Outcasts 18. Love You For Never - The Outcasts 19. On My Mind - The Bank Robbers 20. Decisions - The Bears 21. Original Terminal - The Jets 22. Belfast Telegraph - Shock Treatment 23. I Don't Want You - The Lids 24. Bondage In Belfast - The Androids 25. Laugh At Me - Terri & The Terrors