Various – Teenagers From Outer Space Thirteen Christchurch Nuggets - 1980 – 1983

Label:	Switched Out – none
Format:	13 x File, MP3, Compilation, Unofficial Release, 320 kbps
Country:	New Zealand
Released:	Jun 22, 2010
Genre:	Rock, Pop
Style:	Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Power Pop

Tracklist

1	Ballon D'Essai–	False Projections Written-By – Stephen MacIntyre*	3:23
2	The Builders*–	Alien	1:40
3	The Builders*–	Bedrock Bay	2:00
4	The Gordons–	Quality Control Bass – Vince Pinker Drums – Brent McLaughlin* Guitar – John Halverson*	1:26
5	The Gordons–	Mengus Fugit Bass – Vince Pinker Drums – Brent McLaughlin* Guitar – John Halverson*	2:09
6	The Great Unwashed–	Bad News For Jesus	4:25
7	The McGoohans–	Psychedelic Texas	2:24
8	The Newtones–	Christchurch Part 2	3:27
9	The Newtones–	My World	3:17
10	The Pedestrians (2)–	Looking Out My Window	3:23
11	The Terraces*–	A Place Like This	5:20
12	The Vauxhalls (2)–	Teenager From Outer Space	2:05
13	The World (9)–	Mystery	2:46

Was available as download from label's blogspot.

Track 1 from BALLON D'ESSAI - Grow Up.
Track 2 is claimed, by Russell Brown (2), to be titled 'America' - comment on label website.
Tracks 4, 5 from The Gordons - Vol 2. Track 5 title appears to be a misspelling of Mentus Fugit.
Track 6 from The Clean / The Great Unwashed - Odditties 2.
Track 7 from Various - 20 Krypton Hits Volume One.
Track 8 from The Newtones - Paint The Town Red.
Track 9 from The Newtones - Newtones.
Track 10 from The Pedestrians (2) - Looking Out My Window.
Track 11 from Terraces - A Place Like This / Pictorial.
Track 12 previously unreleased.
Track 13 from The World (9) - Seven Songs.

Harold-Holt Mar 25, 2020
Great snapshot of the Garden City Sound at the end of the Seventies. Most of these bands were post punk groups with the exception of the Vauxhalls who were playing Mollet St and the Gladstone 77-78. Bill Direens Builders and the Gordons had the biggest influence on what came after, however.