Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story (2005)

About this title: Asking a dozen music fans about their impressions of Sire, a label founded by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer in 1966, would likely yield several dissimilar responses. Sire was the label to boost American punk bands like Ramones, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids, only to call them new wave in an effort to make them seem less antagonistic and more marketable. Sire licensed some of the most groundbreaking European electronic pop: the Normal's "Warm Leatherette," Telex's "Moskow Diskow," Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." Sire was the favored American label of '80s Anglophiles, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Everybody [Madonna]
2. Mirror in the Bathroom [Charlery/Cox/Morton]
3. Kiss Me [Duffy]
4. Oh l'Amour [Bell/Clarke]
5. Tainted Love [Cobb]
6. Situation [Remix] [Clarke/Moyet]
7. People Are People [Gore]
8. Living on the Ceiling [Arthur/Luscombe]
9. That Summer Feeling [Richman]
10. Young at Heart [Fahey/Hodgens]
11. One Step Beyond [Campbell]
12. Genius of Love [Frantz/Weymouth]
13. Im Nin'alu [Aloni/Ashdot/Shabaz]
14. Endicott [Darnell]
15. Love and Mercy [Wilson]
16. Each and Everyone [Thorn/Watt]
17. All the Way [Cahn/VanHeusen]
18. Crazy [Seal]
19. Fire Woman [Astbury/Duffy]
20. Constant Craving [Lang/Mink]
21. Teenage Kicks [ONeill]
22. This Charming Man [Morrissey/Marr]
23. I Melt with You [Modern English]
24. Moskow Diskow [Telex]
25. (I'm) Stranded [Kuepper/Bailey]
26. Ça Plane pour Moi [Deprijck/Lacomblez]
27. Top of the Pops [Callis]
28. Nowhere Girl [Holliday/Hovington]
29. Part of the Process [Edwards/Godfrey/God]
30. Come Together [7" Version] [Gillespie/Innes/You]
31. Beat Dis [Gabriel/Simenon]
32. The Love Cats [Smith]
33. The Killing Moon [McCulloch/DeFritas/]
34. Warm Leatherette [Miller]
35. Everday Is Like Sunday [Morrissey/Street]
36. Never Never [Clarke]
37. Oblivious [Frame]
38. Inside Out [Mighty Lemon Drops]
39. Soon [Shields]
40. Leave Them All Behind [Ride]
41. Blitzkrieg Bop [Ramones]
42. Alex Chilton [Mars/Stinson/Wester]
43. Come on Let's Go [Valens]
44. Aloha Steve & Danno/Theme from Hawaii Five-O [Tek/Younger/Stevens]
45. The Wagon [Mascis]
46. Sonic Reducer [Bators/Blitz/Chrome]
47. White Horse [Guldberg/Stahl]
48. Blank Generation [Hell]
49. I Want That Man [Bailey/Currie]
50. I'll Be Your Everything [Knight/Page/Wood]
51. Summer Teeth [Wilco]
52. World Class Fad [Westerberg]
53. Back on the Chain Gang [Hynde]
54. Give Back the Key to My Heart [Sahm]
55. Shake Some Action [Jordan/Wilson]
56. Counting Backwards [Hersh]
57. Boy [Ottaviano]
58. Romeo Had Juliette [Reed]
59. O.G. Original Gangster [Morrow]
60. Jesus Built My Hotrod [Haynes/Ministry]
61. Burning Down the House [Byrne/Frantz/Harris]
62. Pop Muzik [DVD] [Scott]
63. Rock 'n' Roll High School [DVD] [Ramones]
64. Let's Go to Bed [DVD] [Smith/Tolhurst]
65. A Little Respect [DVD] [Bell/Clarke]
66. Brass in Pocket [DVD] [Hynde/Honeyman-Scot]
67. The Cutter [DVD] [DeFreitas/McCulloch]
68. Bastards of Young [DVD] [Westerberg]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.