release date: Mar. 1981
format: vinyl (AND 101) / digital (2005 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5]
producer: various
label: Andalucia Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: B) 4. "Keys to Your Heart" (4 / 5) (2005 remaster)
Compilation album by British pub-rock band The 101ers consisting of Joe Strummer (aka Woodie) on vocals and rhythm guitar, 'Evil' Clive Timperley on lead guitar and vocals, 'Desperate' Dan Kelleher on bass, keyboards and backing vocals, John Mole on bass, and with Richard 'Snakes' Dudanski on drums and backing vocals. The album contains compositions recorded on four occasions from Nov. 1975 to Apr. 1976 and are with slightly different line-ups as John Mole only handles bass on four tracks. Joe Strummer is credited for lyrics on six of the album's twelve compositions - and the only song exclusively by Strummer is also the best track on what appears as an incoherent album. "Keys to Your Heart" was also the band's first of only two original single releases, and the compilation album wasn't issued until The Clash had become a major band.
