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Gavin McInnes just released a fucking hilarious photo book of street fashion called Street Boners: 1,764 Hipster Fashion Jokes. Everyone knows he started Vice Magazine back in 1994 but we're the only ones who knew he grew up playing in punk bands like Anal Chinook and Leatherassbuttfuk AND he's currently in an 80s hardcore cover band called 80s Hardcore.

We had him put together the ultimate Classic UK Punk mix (no hardcore) and here's what he has to say about it:

"I'm listening to these songs right now from the perspective of a kid who's used to mash ups and samples and over-the-top dance music and a lot of them sound kind of shitty. I mean, 'Stand Strong, Stand Proud' isn't exactly catchy. It's a racket. However, what you have to understand about punk is it was so much more than the music. We were obsessed. It was more like a cult. We fought skinheads almost every day. We lived in a big house together. We went to anarchist gatherings and argued about communism. We would die for each other (hence all the songs about unity). We would have listened to GBH and Discharge no matter what they sounded like. In fact, when I bought my first Crass record I listened to it on the wrong speed for weeks - and loved it. For better or for worse, punk was about fierce loyalty and if the music sounded good, that was just a bonus."

Tracklist
1. Generation X - "Kiss Me Deadly"
2. Blitz - "Warriors"
3. Stiff Little Fingers - "Tin Soldier"
4. Garry Johnson - " The New Face Of Rock'N'Roll"
5. Sham 69 - "If The Kids Are United"
6. Cockney Rejects - "The Greatest Cockney Rip Off"
7. ****
8. The Clash - "Bankrobber"
9. Sid Vicious - "My Way"
10. Sex Pistols - "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"
11. The Exploited - "Punks Not Dead"
12. The Vibrators - "Baby Baby"
13. ****
14. The Damned - "New Rose"
15. ****
16. Stranglers - "Peaches"
17. The Undertones - "My Perfect Cousin"
18. The Buzzcocks - "What Do I Get?"
19. X-Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"
20. ****
21. Bow Wow Wow - "C30, C60, C90 Go!"
22. Conflict - "These Things Take Time"
23. Crass - "Big A Little A"
24. Rudimentary Peni - "Teenage Time Killer"
25. Discharge - "State Violence State Control"
26. GBH - "City Baby's Revenge"
27. ****

Made it this far? Great. Wondering why some of the songs are coming up as '****'? then get yourself over here and involve yourself with the contest to win of 10 copies of Street Boners by Gavin McInnes.

Anal Chinook drummer Aidan Girt in the pit (he's in Godspeed you Black Emperor now)

Me (right) chugging beer with a guy named Ryan whom I was friends with because he had the same green mohawk. Our friendships were based on punk, not personality. It was basically Scientology.

Me with a guy who was lucky enough to be born with the name Sid at a punk house called Elgin St. The sheet behind us says "Les's Room." He lived in the dining room.

Spam, Angie, Bumbaclut, and Arrow were Montreal punks that would visit us in Ottawa. Again, friendships based on music and fashion (though I'm meeting Bumba this week for lunch).

At another punk house called Percy St. where I was the one living in the dining room. I'm reading Maximumrockandroll which inspired me to start making zines.

Sid getting his hair cut on the porch at Percy St. by Aidan.

An hour later.

Me an hour after that.

At a Rock Against Racism festival we put on where we got Oi Polloi to fly in from Scotland. I remember being really disappointed they just dressed like normal people.

Anal Chinook's first show.

This is when we opened for The Dayglo Abortions who later wrote a song about us. They were so drunk at that show the bassist was puking on stage. Didn't miss a beat.

Getting mentioned in Maximumrockandroll was a huge deal for us.

Working on a zine with Spam by using the photocopier at his dad's office. I have a black eye from moshing. That zine evolved into a comic book called Pervert and eventually became Vice.