Can't Stand The Rezillos

Can't Stand The Rezillos was The Rezillos' first album, released in 1978 and including the UK hit, Top Of The Pops, part of which was used as a jingle on BBC Radio 1. Unusually for a New Wave group, the album featured several sixties covers, "Glad All Over" (originally a hit for The Dave Clark Five), "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (original by Fleetwood Mac) and "I Like It", a Gerry & The Pacemakers track. The record reached ... more

Can't Stand The Rezillos was The Rezillos' first album, released in 1978 and including the UK hit, Top Of The Pops, part of which was used as a jingle on BBC Radio 1. Unusually for a New Wave group, the album featured several sixties covers, "Glad All Over" (originally a hit for The Dave Clark Five), "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" (original by Fleetwood Mac) and "I Like It", a Gerry & The Pacemakers track. The record reached number 16 in the UK Albums Chart. Trouser Press called the band "a blast of fresh air compared to the more serious bands of new wave's first charge" and praised the album as "an action-packed document of their pop/camp approach". In 1994, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music named Can't Stand the Rezillos one of the 50 best punk albums of all-time. The compilers claimed that the Rezillos were "exuberant almost to the point of hysteria" creating "a body of work full of verve, style and humour", which this album "encapsulates to perfection... less