Not to be confused with Julien Temple's Sex Pistols documentary and soundtrack, The Filth and the Fury (2000), this compilation of British punk singles does, however, take its name from the same source -- The Daily Mirror's headline in the wake of the Pistols' infamous 1976 appearance on Thames Today with unctuous host, Bill Grundy. These second wave bands aren't the best known of the punk era, but the first wave -- the Pistols, the Damned, the Clash, etc. -- are well documented on their own releases, so this one serves a useful purpose in gathering this material -- some of it now hard to find -- together in one place. Plus, many of the second wave bands produced better singles than full-length albums, although there were a few notable exceptions, such as X-Ray Spex's Germ-Free Adolescents and Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material. Each group is represented by two to three tracks, except for the Members, the Mekons, and Holly Beth Vincent, and Joey Ramone's synthy take on Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" (covered again just three years later by UB40 with Chrissie Hynde). The three live the Stiff Little Fingers tracks were recorded in 1988, but are otherwise true to the late-'70s spirit of the compilation ("I Got You Babe," from 1982, is the only song that sounds more new wave than punk). ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy, All Music Guide