Backed by a muscular, Stooges-influenced combo of boys, the big-lunged Pauline Murray was one of the punk era's most tuneful singers. Penetration's call-to-arms debut track, 1977’s “Don’t Dictate,” showed this. That song is but one of many greats on this collection of singles and killer album cuts that Penetration recorded for Virgin Records. “Life’s a Gamble” features a chorus as big as England, while “Firing Squad” and “Danger Signs” uphold punk-classic riff-to-melody percentages. The band’s sophomore album, 1979’s Coming Up for Air, got scathing reviews despite its weighty tunes. (Unless you were The Clash, U.K. punk bands weren’t exactly permitted to grow musically). The best of those songs include the self-evident “She Is the Slave” (which sounds like a precursor to Nena’s “99 Luftballons”) and the inescapable anthem “Shout Above the Noise”—which presaged U2’s first album by a year but used the same producer, Steve Lilywhite, and the same sort of youthful earnestness that came wrapped in uplifting major-chord modal riffs. It’s no wonder that Bono and The Edge were fans of the band.