Legendary Stiff Records Releases "Ten Big Stiffs"
Limited Edition 7" Box Set Featuring Plastmatics,
The Untouchables, Wreckless Eric, Tracey Ullman + More
Available As A Record Store Day "Black Friday" Exclusive
November 29 On Razor & Tie Records
Watch Ten Big Stiffs Documentary Videos Directed By Nigel Dick On Each 7" As Exclusively Premiered With Vice Noisey, CMJ, Impose Magazine, Pop Matters, Death & Taxes, Vinyl District and Blurt Magazine - HERE
Founded in 1976, STIFF RECORDS was at the heart of the new wave, bringing the world artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Kirsty MacColl and Ian Dury and what is generally regarded as the first ever punk rock single, “New Rose” by The Damned. The label set the yardstick for music business marketing, with artwork by Barney Bubbles and an array of memorable slogans, not least "If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth A F**k". Stiff continues to this day, with the 2012 UK #1 single “Bom Bom” by Sam And The Womp and a back catalog comprising 150 singles and more than 50 albums of revered 70s and 80s pop, punk and rock.
This LIMITED EDITION 7” Box Set "Ten Big Stiffs" takes you on a tour of the Stiff catalog, and ) which includes ten 7-inch releases, all chosen by Stiff Records, featuring some of the most recognizable tracks from the label throughout the years: Tenpole Tudor's “Swords of a Thousand Men” (as heard in Aardman Animations' Pirates! in 2012 and in TV ads for EA Games' FIFA 11 in 2011), Tracey Ullman's “They Don't Know” (#8 US hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983), Wreckless Eric's “Whole Wide World” (MacDonalds TV ads in 2012) and Desmond Dekker's “Israelites” (a classic hit featured in Drugstore Cowboy).
Set for release on November 29, as a Record Store Day exclusive in North America through indie stories via Razor & Tie Records Ten Big Stiffs is an incredible collector's item, the original sleeve artwork is recreated on each, with the exception of Mint Juleps – Docklands. This is ‘the Stiff 7-inch that never was”. Scheduled to have been a 7-inch release back in the day, it originally got overlooked, so collectors are always asking for it. The set also includes Plasmatics, Wreckless Eric, The Untouchables and more. (Full track list below)
Experience the history of STIFF RECORDS, and all the artists featured on this release, through a series of videos produced by award-winning film-maker NIGEL DICK. The videos will be rolled out over the next month at www.10BigStiffs.com. The British born Dick began his career at Stiff Records as a Press Officer. He has since directed over 300 music videos and seventeen documentaries, won three MTV Awards, three MVPA awards, two Billboard Awards and a Brit Award.
Watch his introduction to Stiff Records, below or Here:
TEN BIG STIFFS – TRACK BY TRACK
PINK FAIRIES - Between The Lines / Spoiling For A Fight
"To hype this set, in the indubitably creative Stiff manner of hawking, they’ve created some promo video clips featuring mini-docs of bands from the box set." - Premiered on CMJ
WRECKLESS ERIC - Whole Wide World / Semaphore Signals
"There are alternate planes of reality that began in 1978 and cut off around 1998 in which every mixtape a guy ever gave a gal contained Wreckless Eric near the end of side A." - Premiered onImpose Magazine
JONA LEWIE - You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen at Parties / Bureaucrats
DESMOND DEKKER - Israelites / Why Fight?
"In this video, directed by noted filmmaker Nigel Dick, UK journalists and label people talk about the popularity of ska with Britain’s working class and Dekker’s place as a ska king." - Premiered on Pop Matters
PLASMATICS - Monkey Suit / Squirm (Live)
"In the six years that the chaos-inducing Plasmatics existed, they built a reputation for performing with chainsaws and sledge hammers, finding their way to the center of a police brutality incident in Wisconsin, opening a full US tour for KISS, and just destroying TONS, and tons of stuff in the process." - Premiered on Death & Taxes
TENPOLE TUDOR - Swords of a Thousand Men / Love and Food
"Stiff continues to this day, with the 2012 UK #1 single “Bom Bom” by Sam And The Womp and a back catalog comprising 150 singles and more than 50 albums of revered 70s and 80s pop, punk, and rock." - Premiered on Vinyl District
TRACEY ULLMAN - They Don’t Know / The B-Side
KIRSTY MACCOLL - A New England / Patrick
THE UNTOUCHABLES - (I Spy For The) FBI / Whiplash
Check out the video for the single as premiered on Blurt Magazine.
MINT JULEPS - Docklands / Docklands 12” Version + The Stiff 7” That Never Was!
"The oft-discussed Mint Juleps "Docklands" 7", which appears for the first time in this set." - Premiered onNoisey/ Vice
In North America: www.StiffRecords.MerchNow.com
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