All Your Ears Can Hear

All Your Ears Can Hear is a compilation which covers the Victoria, British Columbia music scene from 1978 - 1984. The compilation totals 79 tracks on 2 CDs, and also comes with a 80 page book featuring the bands that are featured on the CD Compilation. The book also contains information of many of the people who were in the scene at that time, including: Marcus Pollard, Ricky Long (brother of Randy Long), Jade Blade, Richard's Records, Ray Ellis Dance Studio (March 7, 1981), John Wright, Zipp Gunn (Scott Henderson), Murray Acton, Tim Crow and Clod Neon (There's Two of Us Productions). The preface is written by Zeno's Heap of Millet, a.k.a. Rick Andrews. The foreword is written by Jason Flower. The name of the compilation comes from a song from the Infamous Scientists "Noise `N` Rhythm +3 E.P."

The idea behind this project has been to create a non-biased documentary archive focusing on Victoria's independent/underground scene from 1978 to 1984 - starting with the arrival of punk rock and new wave, and extending to the approximate closing period of the first hardcore era. This meant concentrating on the younger musicians and The All-ages audience for what would have been considered The New music of that period, resulting in exclusion of local independent blues-rock, FM radio rock, pre-85 heavy metal and top-40 bar bands. From the forward by Jason Flower, "This (compilation) has been solely a work of passion and sentiment for all of us. The words and images tell the story (all your eyes can see) and the music is the soundtrack - All Your Ears Can Hear!"

(Taken from the back cover of the book) From scattered beginnings in the late 1970s, a new underground music scene caught fire in the sleepy provincial town of Victoria, British Columbia and burned brightly for much of the following decade. This unique volume takes you on a detailed excursion into that EXCITING time, Providing in-depth biographies of 46 groups and individual artists, intimate testimony from pivotal semesters, hundreds of photos AND a comprehensive sonic sampling on two CDs containing 79 tracks - over two and a half hours of music! From the rawest basement punk to slick new wave pop and beyond, there's enough diversity here to excite (or annoy) anyone.

Track listing

CD1

  1. "Canada's Pissed" performed by Infamous Scientists
  2. "Here We Go Again" performed by Pink Steel
  3. "Sidewalk Trot" performed by Clix
  4. "Mushrooms" performed by Automatic Shock
  5. "Long Blink" performed by The Sickfucks
  6. "Millions of Dead BMXers" performed by Jerk Ward
  7. "No Mind" performed by Velox Strepitus
  8. "Mutated" performed by Beaten Retards
  9. "Almost Like Home" performed by NoMeansNo
  10. "NATO Actionaut" performed by Red Tide
  11. "Up's and Down's" performed by Keys
  12. "Ripped Off" performed by NEOs
  13. "[...] Revolution" performed by NEOs
  14. "Dinner at McDonalds" performed by Censored Chaos
  15. "Amerika" performed by The Resistance
  16. "She's Weird" performed by Ascensions
  17. "No Stranger To Danger" performed by Easy Money
  18. "Free From Vice" performed by Dioxyn
  19. "Secret Agent 000" performed by Malcolm Dew-Jones
  20. "CKDA" performed by Infamous Scientists
  21. "High Society Snob" performed by The Dishrags
  22. "Vancouver" performed by Twisted Minds
  23. "Leave Us Alone" performed by Distortion
  24. "Kill Mash Die" performed by Do-Wops
  25. "Butchart Gardens" performed by Do-Wops
  26. "Fuckin' Jerk" performed by Fake Dogs
  27. "Untitled" performed by Purple City
  28. "Who Cares" performed by Squirrels in Bondage
  29. "Not So Bad" performed by Trouble Boys
  30. "Low" performed by House of Commons
  31. "Breakdown" performed by Noise Generation
  32. "Down With the KKK" performed by Nematodes
  33. "Iran" performed by Nevar
  34. "Bunyon" performed by Commodes
  35. "Whiter than [...]" performed by Dayglo Abortions
  36. "Floating" performed by Ryvals
  37. "What's So Wrong" performed by Suburban Menace
  38. "UFO" performed by Jerk Ward
  39. "The End" performed by Harvest of Seaweed
  40. "SS Social Service" performed by Mass Appeal

CD2

  1. "1999" performed by House of Commons
  2. "My Son's A Kuwahawa" performed by Red Tide
  3. "Destruct" performed by NEOs
  4. "Russian Folk Song" performed by NEOs
  5. "Someone Else's Shoes" performed by Infamous Scientists
  6. "POW" performed by Sickfucks
  7. "The Stud" performed by Ascentions
  8. "[...]" performed by Dishrags
  9. "Lied To" performed by Keys
  10. "Too Much Dope" performed by NoMeansNo
  11. "BC Tel" performed by Twisted Minds
  12. "Modern World" performed by Malcolm Dew
  13. "On the Edge" performed by Easy Money
  14. "Save Me" performed by Da Jeep
  15. "Mutt" performed by Velox Strepitus
  16. "Bomb Away" performed by Fake Dogs
  17. "Hatred" performed by Nematodes
  18. "Chorus" performed by Nevar
  19. "Slug Death" performed by SLUDGE Confrontations
  20. "Astronomy" performed by Sludge Confrontations
  21. "It Hurts When I Think" performed by Tumours
  22. "Flesh and Bones" performed by Jerk Ward
  23. "We're Rebels" performed by Nuclear Errors
  24. "It's More a Feeling" performed by Red Tide
  25. "Following" performed by Ray Luxemburg
  26. "Nuclear Supremacy" performed by Dayglo Abortions
  27. "Accidental Exile" performed by Harvest of Seaweed
  28. "Outta My Way" performed by Suburban Menace
  29. "School" performed by Beaten Retards
  30. "New Liberation" performed by Nu-Lib
  31. "Violence in the Streets" performed by Censored Chaos
  32. "Outta the Grave" performed by Divine Right
  33. "NoMeansNo" performed by NoMeansNo
  34. "Black Hole" performed by Slivers
  35. "These Are the 80s" performed by Disrupt.
  36. "CUFA" performed by Salty Seamen
  37. "Mother Was a Man" performed by Sickfucks
  38. "Baldwang Must Die" performed by Infamous Scientists
  39. "Invisibility" performed by Purple City

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