Album of the Day

In 1977, a Belfast, North Ireland cover band named after Deep Purple's "Highway Star" caught the punk bug and adopted the name of a Vibrators song: Stiff Little Fingers. With the sectarian Troubles raging around them, frontman/songwriter Jake Burns had plenty of material to draw from, and such incendiary, politically informed tracks as "Suspect Device," "Alternative Ulster" and "Wasted Life" have lost none of their power. The three-volume ANTHOLOGY gathers all the single A- and B-sides from Stiff Little Fingers' original incarnation, a tasty sampling of the group's 1990s reunion albums and a live set recorded at London's Brixton Academy in 1989. This consistently exciting collection is worthy of Ireland's answer to The Clash.