Aussie post-punk comp Can't Stop It! gets way overdue vinyl release

Chapter Music's deluxe 2LP reissue of Can't Stop It! adds six solid bonus tracks to the boss original post-punk collection. 

Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (2025 Deluxe Edition)

Chapter Music's landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post-punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release!

Can’t Stop It! documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time.

Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go-Betweens, Can’t Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s fairly unadventurous music culture of the time.

All of the bands on Can't Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records.

On its original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music its first major international attention, written up in The Wire magazine ("A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere's stranglehold on post punk nostalgia" - The Wire), stocked at Other Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.

Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expands on the original 20 track CD with six bonus never- before-reissued tracks. Get a copy via Bandcamp right here. 

Can't Stop It! - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82

1. The Moodists - Gone Dead 03:34

2. Voigt/465 - Voices A Drama 02:37

3. The Take - Summer 02:41

4. Essendon Airport - How Low Can You Go...? 03:23

5. The Apartments - Help 03:40

6. Ash Wednesday - Love By Numbers 02:38

7. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle 03:07

8. The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast - The Dumb Waiters 04:14

9. Ron Rude - Piano Piano 02:51

10. Xero - The Girls 03:09

11. The Limp - Pony Club 02:49

12. The Fabulous Marquises - Honeymoons 03:54

13. Slugfuckers - Cacophony 02:54

14. Equal Local - Lamp That 04:53

15. Tame O'Mearas - Sweat and Babble 02:18

16. The Particles - Apricot's Dream 02:38

17. People With Chairs Up Their Noses - Song Of the Sea 01:36

18. Wild West - We Can Do 02:33

19. The Pits - Words 01:52

20. →↑→ - One Note Song 03:34

21. *****,***** - Knots 01:41

22. Electric Fans - Garden Of Uluru 04:32

23. The Voice Of Drama - A Song of Colours 02:10

24. Synthetic Dream - Work 03:47

25. Yclept Dinmakers - Yclept Enemy 02:11

26. The Plants - The Path 05:45