Pure Mania

Vibrators | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 29, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025BY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Pure Mania is a terrific relic of the punk era by a London band that owes much more to the Ramones than the Sex Pistols. Light on anger and nihilism but heavy on humor and fun, it's a blitz of twisted love songs ("Sweet Sweet Heart," Wrecked on You," etc.) with an ode to bondage thrown in for good measure. Label it music to shake your brains to. The Vibrators apparently thought they were playing pop music for the end of the decade (the '70s, that is), oblivious to the fact that the masses (especially in America) could never have been expected to catch on. That doesn't mean you shouldn't. --Mike Corrigan

Product Description

SIDE A
1. Into The Future
2. Yeah Yeah Yeah
3. Sweet Sweet Heart
4. Keep It Clean
5. Baby Baby
6. No Heart
7. She s Bringing You Down

SIDE B
1. Petrol
2. London Girls
3. You Broke My Heart
4. Whips & Furs
5. Stiff Little Fingers
6. Wrecked On You
7. I Need A Slave
8. Bad Time --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The forgotten heroes of the UK punk scene, March 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pure Mania (Audio CD)

The Vibrators released the second UK punk single (after the Damned and before the Sex Pistols) and this was the third UK punk album (after the Damned and the Clash but again before the Sex Pistols). Despite their historic importance the Vibrators have never really received the recognition they deserve, partly because they didn't have a Malcolm McLaren or a Bernie Rhodes behind them and partly because they didn't have (or want) a gimmick. The Damned had their wild burlesque, the Clash their political sloganeering and the Sex Pistols..... well they were the Sex Pistols!!! The Vibrators, however were content just to churn out finely crafted rock songs - main man Knox in particular has created some of the grittiest love songs this side of Lou Reed. They are still going today. No, not reformed like so many old punk bands recently, STILL GOING. Still producing great records (currently working on what I believe will be their 13th studio album) and still not so much underrated as just plain forgoten about. This is a crime.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all time favorites!!, April 9, 2002

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A. M. Rowe "music, book, and game freak" (N. Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pure Mania (Audio CD)

This is in my top ten all time favorite releases by a punk band. The Vibrators were more on the poppier side of [other band], not as poppy as the [other band], but definitely not as crude as the Sex Pistols. This opens with "Into the Future", an instant punk classic. They can go from great punk-mush like "Sweet, Sweet Heart" and "Baby, Baby", to harder rocking all-out punk pop like "Stiff Little Fingers" and "I Need a Slave". The titles of these songs are pretty self-explanatory! This is one cd any self-proclaimed fan of punk should absolutely have in their collection!!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Lost Punk CD, October 2, 2000

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B. Lynch "the_onewhoknows" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pure Mania (Audio CD)

Somehow, PURE MANIA by The Vibrators fell between the cracks. I guess they weren't as fashion conscious as the bands that followed The Sex Pistols and The Clash.

What a shame, because this CD contains some of the best punk/new wave material to come out of the UK; as good as The Clash & the Pistol's debuts. The Fashion conscious bands are gone and no one even recalls their music. This CD shows that bands which eschew fashion trands are often the one's who create true art.

Best cuts: Into the Future, She's Bringing You Down, London Girls, Petrol, Bad Time.