Sublime De Luxe - Donne-Moi Ton Corps Juste Pour Le Sport - Flamophone ‎781.807 - 1979

Claude Puterflam was the Le Système Crapoutchik singer and founder of the Flamophone label as well as Studio Gang. Jean Schultheis was a drummer, keyboardist and songwriter on everything from jazz to psychedelic rock, and even made a Tele Music library record. Sublime Deluxe was their first collaboration. Chose Molle, or Soft Thing, is a pretty deadly version of Wild Thing. But, the real winner here is the B side. Donne-Moi Ton Corps Juste Pour Le Sport, roughly translated as Give Me Your Body Just For Sport, has a gross title, but is one of the best Plastic Bertrand rip-offs.

Too Much - Silex Pistols - Pathé 2C 008 14575 - 1978

It appears that a repeat of Plastic Bertrand's success was attempted here, as two people who worked on An 1 were hired to make this record. Two thirds of the Belgian latin-disco trio 'Two Man Sound' Yves Lacomblez and Sylvain Vanholme have writing and production credits on this record. The third member of 'Two Man Sound,' Lou Deprijck, who is allegedly responsible for the vocals on Ca Plane Pour Moi due to an absent Plastic Bertrand wasn't brought in for this record I assume because the label wanted to try a female vocalist angle. Cathy and Cherry Pickels, pictured on the sleeve, wrote the lyrics and sang on this record. Apparently the nickname 'Cathy Too Much' was where the band name came from.

A few lines of Silex Pistols, when poorly translated, say something along the lines of:

"Crazy rock'n'roll girls,
We're the cops to Dan Mac Roll"

I'm not sure what this Dan Mac Roll reference means exactly, but Dan Mac Roll is the singer credited as Dan Dee on one of the (if not thee) first Belgian punk records, Chainsaw's 'See Saw.' Also, Lacomblez mentions that the name 'Athanase' is spoken in the lyrics because he was a real punk and he offered them food if they'd put his name in the song.

Andy Cameron - I Want To Be A Punk Rocker - Klub Records 03 - 1978

Andy Cameron had a football hooligan comedy act and recorded Ally's Tartan Army because Scotland qualified for the world cup. I assume he recorded I Want To Be A Punk Rocker because he was not a fan, as some of the lyrics are:

"I want to be a punk when their music is forgotten
I'll still be there to strangle Johnny Rotten"

Tjot Idi & De Stipkes ‎- Ik Wil Punk - CBS 5848 - 1977

I wonder if any kids bought this and made it all the way home before looking at the back cover. Because if that didn't trigger severe buyer's remorse, then playing the record certainly would have.

De Kuffers - Ik Wil Punk! - Safety Pin ELF 65.129 - 1977

The ELF catalog number would suggest this was actually an Elf Provinciën release, but there are other instances of this Safety Pin label logo with completely different catalog numbers and on different labels, all of which seem to be under the Dureco or Dutch Record Company umbrella.

Ik Wil Punk (I Want Punk) ain't so bad, considering the other output by the writer/producer Adrianus Klaris.

Los Juveniles - Punk Mi Kier Punk - GM 001 - 1978

The band name and the graphics seem promising, but the outfits do a better job preparing you for what the record sounds like.

Cherry Vanilla - The Punk - RCA PB 5053 - 1977

Cherry Vanilla was brought from the US to the UK by The Police's manager, had her former US band members replaced by Sting and Stewart Copeland of The Police, and was supported on tour by the Police.

The Police - Fall Out / Nothing Achieving - Illegal Records IL 001 - 1977

"This was one of the first songs Stewart played me. What they [the songs] lacked in sophistication they made up for in energy. I just went along with them and sang them as hard as I could. No, it wasn't false punk. I mean what's a real punk? Our first record was entirely a tribute to Stewart's energy and focus. The band wouldn't have happened without him."
—Sting, 1993

"It sold purely on the strength of the cover, because of the fashion at the time. Punk was in and it was one of the first punk records – and there weren't very many to choose from. The average punk had every punk record that was available and when the next one came out which was the Police record, he bought that, too. But still I think it was a good record, so it did more than the average punk single."

—Stewart Copeland, 1979

Rick Chauvin & Les Symboles - Bande D' Abrutis - Trema 410 145 - 1980

 In 1980, Yan Sheridan took on the Rick Chauvin alias to sing 'Bande D'Abrutis' or 'Band of Morons.' The song borrows a part from Michel Sardou's 'J'Habite En France' and appears to be complaining that the French are dumb for taking holidays out of country.

Gerard Saban - Super Cool Et Un Peu Punk - Philips 6172 246 - 1979

This single is from Gerard Saban's 'Cinemas' LP, on which he looks very similar to Bob 'The-Joy-Of-Painting' Ross. Translated as 'Super Cool And A Little Punk' this song completely overestimates both how cool and how punk it is. He also does a song called 'Une Fille Genre New-Wave' or 'A New-Wave Kind Of Girl."