This is the thread where we talk about punk compilations issued in the mid 90s (Do not read if you weren't a boring white kid from the US suburbs, born ~1976-1984)

correct.

ANTI NOWHERE LEAGUE-Let's Break The Law
ANGELIC UPSTARTS-Police Oppression
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS-Tin Soldiers(Live)
UK SUBS-I Live In A Car
THE EXPLOITED-Dead Cities
999-Homicide(live)
THE PARTISANS-Blind Ambition
COCKNEY REJECTS-Flares N Slippers
THE LURKERS-Ain't Got A Clue(live)
THE BUSINESS-Harry May
THE BLOOD-Stark Raving Normal
BLITZ-Nation On Fire
THE CRACK-Don' Just Sit There
THE GONADS-Punk Rock Will Never Die
MENACE-GLC
INFA RIOT-Kids Of The 80's
SLODGENESSABOUNDS-Two Pints Of Lager(live)
SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS-Situations

FLEX YOUR HEAD.

(I'm British and from the countryside so technically shouldn't be here, but I think these comps were more for me really)

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Side One

Rocks-Hanging On
Queers-I Don't Wanna Work
Psycho Surgeons-Horizontal Action
Nervous Eaters-Just Head
News-Tell Me Why
Queers-I'm Useless
Violators-N.Y. Ripper
Hollywood Squares-Hillside Strangler
Lewd-Kill Yourself
Rocks-Damn You

Side Two

Unnatural Axe-They Save Hitler's Brain
Rocks-Kick Her Out
Queers-At the Mall
Nervous Eaters-Get Stuffed
Freestone-Bummer Bitch
Mad-I Hate Music
Nasal Boys-Hot Love
Queers-This Place Sucks
Leftovers-I Only Panic When ThereÕs Nothing To Do
Child Molestors-Hillside Strangler
Queers-Kicked Out of the Webelos

I have no idea why there are 4 Queers songs on here -- it seems almost like a joke, but the rest of this is definitive.

1. Braindead performed by Assorted Jellybeans - 2:38
2. 700 Club performed by Black Train Jack - 2:28
3. Here We Go performed by Bouncing Souls - 1:58
4. World Needs Changing performed by Funeral Oration - 2:11
5. Transistor Sister performed by High-Fives - 1:50
6. Lonely performed by Hi Standard - 2:23
7. Migraine Shack performed by Humpers - 1:51
8. Ernie performed by Kankersores - 1:15
9. New Girlfriend performed by Mr. T. Experiance - 1:19
10. Punk Rawk Show performed by MxPx - 2:31
11. From Your Boy performed by Queers - 3:35
12. Concern performed by Reset - 2:15
13. Your Perfect World performed by Satanic Surfers - 2:36
14. Cover Up performed by Sicko - 1:57
15. Big 44 performed by Smears - 1:49
16. Oh No (Here We Go Again) performed by Spent Idols - 2:32
17. Frederick's Frost performed by Squirtgun - 1:36
18. My Lie performed by Suspects - 2:33
19. Walkin' performed by Ten Foot Pole - 2:42
20. Softly performed by Trigger Happy - 2:04
21. Take It Back performed by Vandals - 2:00
22. No Kind of Superstar performed by Weston - 2:51
23. Gemein (Mean) performed by Wizo - 2:54
24. Deep End performed by Wynona Riders - 2:38
25. Uma 14 Times performed by Zoinks - 2:51

1. Nobody Home performed by Scratch Bongowax - 1:40
2. Come on Back performed by Rattail Grenadier - 2:50
3. Rats performed by Pink Lincolns - 2:09
4. Breakdown performed by Moral Crux - 2:15
5. My Friends Are Getting Famous performed by Screeching Weasel - 2:53
6. How Many Times performed by Beatnik Termites - 2:02
7. Stan the Man performed by Thankless Dogs - 1:41
8. I'm in Trouble Now performed by Vindictives - 2:39
9. Blabbermouth performed by Queers - 1:21
10. Threat performed by Pist - 1:37
11. Diseased performed by Submachine - 2:28
12. Give Up performed by Eight Bark - 1:56
13. Dissension performed by Face To Face - 2:36
14. Casemaker performed by Sinkhole - 1:47
15. performed by Garden Variety - 3:35
16. Sea Foam Green performed by Jawbreaker - 4:08

1. I'm Against It - No Brain
2. Bodies - Killing Time
3. I Got Your Number - The Swingin' Utters
4. Go Nowhere - Sweet Diesel
5. Code Blue - The Bouncing Souls
6. In The City - Waterdog
7. I Don't Wanna Hear It - 88 Fingers Louie
8. Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In - Murphy's Law
9. Ready, Steady, Go - Trusty
10. Barbed Wire Love - The Goops
11. Justification - Brody
12. Hit Man - Jughead's Revenge
13. Understand - Outcrowd
14. Police Story - Deadguy
15. I Love Livin' The City - Black Velvet Flag
16. Evil - Awkward Thought
17. I Don't Need Your Lovin' - The New Bomb Turks
18. Guimo's Theme - Plow United
19. Friend - H20
20. Woman - The Turbo AC's
21. Big Takeover - Buzzkill
22. We're Only Gonne Die For Our Own Arrogance - Sublime
23. Civilization Dying - Leeway

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-- Kris (branch_ricke...), May 13th, 2004."

Er, 'cause you can't count? There are only five.

Music for the Proletariat
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1. Toe Fry performed by Buzzov·en
2. On a String performed by Dogs On Ice
3. Get Along performed by Everready
4. Lock End performed by Fiddlehead
5. If... performed by Fixtures
6. 22nd/Sundial performed by Friction
7. Kiss the Bottle performed by Jawbreaker
8. Travelers performed by J Church
9. Government Plot performed by Manic Depression
10. Ecology performed by Nations On Fire
11. Power of the Powerless performed by Pissed
12. Someday performed by Political Asylum
13. Wash Away performed by Radon
14. The Solution... performed by Resist
15. Clean Air Burns performed by Schedule
16. Happy Hour performed by Schwartzeneggar
17. Hands Hide Sun performed by Scrog
18. People Like You performed by Seein' Red
19. Forgiveness performed by Sleeper
20. Descant performed by Spoke
21. No Means No performed by Strait Up
22. Black Rose performed by Strawman
23. The Ultimate Apple Flan performed by Thatcher on Acid
24. Prozak performed by Trench
25. Victims of Fashion performed by Unamused
26. Poems on the Underground performed by Wat Tyler

1. Horse Girl performed by Tourettes
2. M.P. Skulkers performed by Cupid Car Club
3. Megabot performed by Starpower
4. Pukulee & Rikulee performed by Boredoms
5. Puffin Stars performed by Helium / Bird Of Paradise
6. Stupid Crazy performed by Spinanes
7. Seven performed by Team Dresch
8. We Are Not Your Entertainers performed by Mukilteo Fairies
9. Anatomically Correct performed by God Is My Co Pilot
10. Rev performed by Severed Lethargy
11. Brixton performed by Rancid
12. Feed the Tree performed by Free Kitten
13. Painfully Obvious performed by Universal Order Of Armageddon
14. Patty Coahuila performed by Pee Chees
15. Roche Limit performed by Starpimp
16. Don the Beachcomber performed by Pell Mell
17. 37 Push Ups performed by Smog
18. Eskinaut performed by Star Sign Scorpio
19. North Pole performed by Hattifatteners
20. Pretty Polly performed by Grouse Moutain Skyride
21. Detox Killer (Erotic Thriller) performed by Fifth Column
22. Pusdog performed by Fleabag
23. I Wish I Was Him performed by Kathleen Hanna

Also, re: J Church: http://www.j-church.com/newsletter/09-4.html

RISD BANDS DON'T ROCK
Okay, here's where I'm going to start a fight. We're all friends here, right? Just stay with me for a moment...

For the longest time, I really didn't care about the new wave of ironic hardcore by bands like the Locust and then Black Dice and now Total Shutdown. I didn't and still don't really like those bands. I thought what they were doing was really silly. But I never thought any of them took themselves seriously, so I never really cared. Besides, the few people that I've met from all of those bands are really quite nice. I always figured, "fair enough, they're nice to me and they probably don't care for J Church either…"

But now it's gone too far. The new wave of totally apathetic / grad school / poseur hardcore has become too much for me to stand. It all has to do with them crossing the line and insulting a musical form that I hold dearly.

I subscribe to the avant-garde newsgroup at Yahoo because I love hearing postings about Bill Dixon, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, etc from people that worked with them if not from the artists themselves. I've never posted because I've never felt I've had anything to contribute. It's just a source of great free information. Avant-garde and free jazz… it's a musical scene that means something, if for no other reason than history. You're talking about the reclaiming of a music form specifically for the African-American community. It was creativity and activism that merged art and politics as equal footed aspects of "cultural" analysis. The very idea of going far beyond the rigid order of traditional jazz and music in general was an abstraction that had direct ramifications on the socio-political landscape of the late `60s and early `70s. If the music world is a microcosm of the world at large, then music constructs had to be questioned like any other one in society… and vice versa. It was counter-culture and DIY methods that pre-cursed Crass and the anarcho punk movement.

It fucking means something to me.

So when I saw a listing in the avant-garde newsgroup for Black Dice and Total Shutdown playing a gig in San Francisco, I was fucking pissed off. These little shits were trying to disguise the fact that they were just a bunch of punk kids who "outgrew" punk and thought that they were really clever if they made a bunch of noise (which is the one aspect of these bands that I do like. But free jazz isn't just what's on the surface) and called themselves "artists". But these fucks take all the pretensions and all the posing, all the bullshit that most people hate so much about the art world and offer no tangible reason to think that they've done something of character or of cultural significance. Art is a mirror and these bands reflect nothing. It's a pose.

Avant-garde and free jazz was inherently connected to black power. Just ask Bill Dixon or anyone from the Art Ensemble of Chicago or Archie Shepp. What do Black Dice and the bands like them have to do with black power? Could they ever do something as ideologically radical?

Now, I haven't cared that much about hardcore in some time. There are still bands out there that I like. But I don't care that much. Still, it makes me sad to think that bands like Black Dice could in anyway be the wave of the future. I like to think that they are an insignificant blip on the map of music history (like J Church, of course). They probably are. But I worry that they are the shape of things to come. It's a shame when that kind of cynicism is the only way to combat the un-imaginative status quo of `90s hardcore. There are still some people in that scene involved for the politics and "art" of it rather than the empty slogans and macho poses. Black Dice are, sadly, the logical extent of Sonic Youth's half ironic interest in hardcore punk. They are the kids that won't really commit to anything because they would rather laugh at it. Shit, Black Dice must be doing something because I haven't been worried about the "state of hardcore" in years.

Hopefully, this will all play itself out. Black Dice aren't gonna survive in the avant-garde world doing what they're doing. They'll have to change and that might be a good thing.

I don't think Sonic Yoooooth's interest in hardcore was ironic at ALL.

the boredom's song OWNZ

I stockpile punk compilations like some folks do with 60s garage rock. I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the many Anagram "Punk Singles Collections" that came out in the 90s, particularly the ones covering small labels: Good Vibrations, Secret Records, Riot City Records, Raw Records, Small Wonder, Rondelet, Cherry Red, etc. Any of them particularly worth hearing?