Geef Voor New Wave

My introduction to the Chiswick label came courtesy of a Dutch-only compilation album entitled Geef Voor New Wave that featured (a.o.) Johnny Moped, Motorhead, The Radiators From Space and Radio Stars.
By late 1977 the Dutch branch of Ariola had, through various licensing deals, a solid stack of new wave artists. Trouble was, this "new" music wasn't selling. In late December Jonathan Richman had just entered the charts with Egyptian Reggae and before that only the Stranglers' Something Better Change and the Pistols LP had dented the charts. A marketing plan was conceived in which the consumer didn't buy an actual record, but donated his hard earned pay to these starving young musicians ("they are banned from radio and tv", "they live in such poverty, they use safety-pins to keep their worn-out clothes together" etc) and in return received a record by said artists. A competition was held ("create something that you think of as very new wave, and win a trip to London"), thousands of small leaflets were distributed around the country announcing the entire shindig, there was a short item on national TV (that I've sadly never seen) and finally there was the budget compilation album. Obviously it didn't work out quite that way. The general public didn't catch-on to anything new wave related until Blondie hit the TV screens two months later and dominated the charts for the next three years. And to the handful of fans of punk-ish sounds, any campaign set up by a major label was pure blasphemy.
The album tho' was perfectly suited for someone like me who, depending on paper-route money and parental hand-outs, wanted to hear as much of this new music as possible.
Looking at the track-listing today, I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's a great comp. It also shows the diversity of what was considered punk or new wave back then.

A1 Rubinoos - Rock And Roll Is Dead
A2 Motors - Dancing The Night Away
A3 Johnny Moped - No One
A4 Eddie And The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
A5 Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
A6 Generation X - Your Generation
A7 X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
A8 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll
B1 Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
B2 Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
B3 Motorhead - Motorhead
B4 Dwight Twilley Band - I'm On Fire
B5 Radiators From Space - Television Screen
B6 Radio Stars - Dirty Pictures
B7 Earth Quake -Trainridee

What impressed me most about those Chiswick tracks was that they were so impenetrabley LOUD! Tho' god knows what Lemmy would make of his band ever being considered new wave... (my copy of the first Motorhead LP proudly boasts a Geef Voor New Wave sticker!).