CAN'T STOP II / VARIOUS
AUSTRALIAN POST-PUNK 1979-84 - LP

UPC: 747742113147
Label: CHAPTER MUSIC
Format: LP
Release Date: September 4, 2026
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The second instalment of Chapter Music's acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can't Stop It! Is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album. The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music remasters and updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout. This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted it's own musical identity for perhaps the first time. Can't Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors' Mark Seymour. Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold by at least five years, and Tasmania's own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout.

TRACK LIST:

1.
The Systematics - International Voltage 01:57
2.
International Exiles - Let's Be Sophisticated 02:56
3.
Asphixiation - The Crush 04:15
4.
Tactics - Watch My Hands 02:07
5.
Severed Heads - Lamborghini 03:49

6.
The Goat That Went "OM" - The Pirate Song 01:49
7.
Use No Hooks - Do the Job 05:59
8.
Microfilm - Centrefold 02:48
9.
Scattered Order - Swiss Like Knives And Forks 03:29
10.
The Jetsonnes - Newspaper 03:53
11.
Rhythmyx Chymx - The Now Generation 02:07
12.
Brrr Cold - Mothers At War 03:51
13.
SoliPsiK - See Saw 02:26
14.
Wild Dog Rodeo - Charging the Lighthouse 06:11
15.
Belle Du Soir - Treasure Island 02:22
16.
Ya Ya Choral - God's Buzzsaw 02:54
17.
Essendon Airport - I Feel A Song Coming On 03:34
18.
The Swell Guys - Sidetracking 01:55
19.
Scapa Flow - Somewhere 02:42
20.
Nuvo Bloc - Never Mind 04:39
21.
Lachelle - Purple Hearts 02:37

22.
Chainmale - Freakout 02:47
23.
This Five Minutes - How 05:28
24.
Chocolate Grinders - People With Leukaemia 04:02
25.
Tiny Town - Living Out Of Living 02:50
26.
Aural Indifference - Baby Love 02:36