...another detail: when I bought the LP in Vienna in 1979, the records were sold without the excellent cover and liner notes,the police had confiscated the artwork of the whole stock (shop in the Opernpassage) and so the last remaining were sold in their plain white dustjackets and PVC covers... still have it and agree to the other comments- and I preferred British Progressive then; Pete Brown&Piblokto, Battered Ornaments and began to understand The Stooges:Fun house-the real scream was of this kind ;-) and already +- nine years old!!!

what is considered by many as THE seminal early vienna punk compilation for the most part fails to deliver when listened to today.the music is still deeply rooted in 70s art rock with decidedly un-punkish virtuoso breaks and ugly high speed guitar wanking. zappa certainly was a bigger influence for most of these musicians than the stooges or the clash. mordbuben ag at least try (but fail) to be punk, leaving only chuzpe who manage not only to "get it right" but also to give their version of punk an individual, regional flavour. their sarcastic "beislanarchie" is without doubt the highlight of the compilation. on the other hand: in 1979 vienna was still a depro post-nazi city and everybody who stood up and stood out against the mainstream deserves respect. so maybe it's the gesture that counts more than the actual music. that and the brilliant cover artwork by stefan weber.

True. But you have to consider the circumstances - nobody knew in Vienna what "punk" meant. Well, you saw the pictures, you had a vague glimpse of the sound - but the records sold at Meki, Schallplattenclub der Jugend etc. (just to name some better known record stores) filed under "Punk" were by artists like Patti Smith, Devo, Graham Parker & The Rumour, that kind of more rough stuff. Even the early Dire Straits were labeled as, eh, New Wave. Vienna was about five years time behind London; it got faster, better, brighter in the early Eighties.