Now That's What I Call Valid, by Various Artists

Now That's What I Call Valid

by Various Artists

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Includes archive video from the AAS AGM. Performances of the Company Song, plus footage of Stumble performing Terraform and Chairman Hibbett doing Boom Shake The Room

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1.	Europa - Supermodels 03:13	info	buy track
2.	The Chemistry Experiment - Chicago 05:15	info	buy track
3.	Cuban Boys vs. Wandrin' Allstars - The Good People Of America (Cuban Boys Remix #3) 07:07	info	buy track
4.	The Fighting Cocks - Bands From London (Are Shit) 03:40	info	buy track
5.	Frankie Machine - My Funny Valentine 01:54	info	buy track
6.	Johnny Domino - The Canadian National Anthem 02:43	info	buy track
7.	Lazer Guided - Slow Razzle 03:59	info	buy track
8.	MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Mr. Right 01:41	info	buy track
9.	Pala - Keep In Time 03:19	info	buy track
10.	Saloon - Chromosomes 04:04	info	buy track
11.	Stumble - Terraform 03:40	info	buy track
12.	Twinkie vs. Cuban Boys - This Is Your Enemy (Taking Over The World) Remix 03:11	info	buy track
13.	The Artists Against Success Company Song (Live At The Blessington Carriage 16-Oct 2000) 01:34	info	buy track

about

Fresh from the success of MJ Hibbett's "Hey Hey 16k" first ever Internet-Only single, we decided to put out the world's first ever Internet-Only Compilation album too.

We released it on 17th October 2000, they day after the AAS AGM where we recorded the Company Song that you hear on track 13

The original "sleeve" notes read

"We've been meaning to have a compilation album for years, almost since we began AAS in fact. Part of the point of all this (apart from, obviously, an excuse to go to the pub and show off, something at which it has succeeded ADMIRABLY) was to give bands and music fans a chance to meet, to share new music, and to get on all pally.

BUT as ever the problem was money - it's hard enough for one band to get it together enough to find the money for a release, but TEN? And who'd want to risk it anyway, I know I'd have to be AWASH with cash myself to risk a tenner on a bunch of unknown quantities, so how could we expect other people to do so?

And as so often in recent years, the answer lay in the Internet. While corporations bleat about their "losses" due to people realising they didn't have to pay 14 quid for something which costs LESS THAN A POUND to manufacture, smaller labels like ourselves find that it makes life MUCH much easier - when our manufacturing and promotion costs are NIL, we can put anything out, and when your "profit margin" usually comes with a big minus in front of it, that's pretty handy. Also, the whole IDEA of a compilation comes into its own - we want you to hear the bands we like, you're interested in hearing bands that YOU might like, so let's Get It On, shall we?

On this compilation you'll hear tracks that represent our GRATE bands. You'll hear tracks that should have been on albums, were going to be singles, or were an idea for something a bit different, but most of all you'll hear people playing and writing because they WANT to (because they WANT to), and not because some coke addled twat has told them it'll shift units.

Isn't the Future BRILLIANT?"

Arf! What WERE we like?

It's true that if you remember it, you weren't really there - so to jog the memories there are some videos of the evening bundled with the download, featuring some VERY young people

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released October 17, 2000

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Welcome to the Artists Against Success Bandcamp site. Please consider yourself VALID for visiting.

In our long and varied history we have released several albums on both digital and physical formats which we made available for FREE because we are LIVING SAINTS who care not for the NORMS of the music biz.

We wanted to keep them in digital print, in a single place. So HERE THEY ARE! ... more

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