Tracks:
Arizona Love
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Die Hunns
Human Thermometer - The Briefs
Double Crosser - Prima Donna
Not a Love Song
Rev It Up, Turn It Loose - Angel City Outcasts
Suffragette City
Burning Trash - The Black Halos
Don't Talk to Me - The Epoxies
Baby Black and Blue
Scars - The Ducky Boys
He's the Man - U.S. Bombs
I Crisis - District
Blind Devotion - Amazombies
Straight to Hell - Mad Sin
Drink Tonight - Street Dogs
Smoking Crack with L.A. Reid
Zombie Kids - The Deep Eynde
Blow My Brains - Duane Peters
Black Day - Civet
Steamroller
Fall in Love
I Don't Need Nothing - The Skulls
Ropes End - The HollowPoints
Hanging on the Corner - Blood for Blood
Lower East Side - Roger Miret & the Disasters
Monday Morning Ornaments - Stitches
Underage Girlfriend
Because Your My Friend
Wild in the Streets - Kings of Nuthin'

Performer Notes:

• Despite media proclamations that punk had become absorbed into the mainstream by the end of the 20th century, in fact much of it remained underground, known to just a very few. If nothing else, this 2005 compilation is evidence of that, with 30 songs, most in a punkish vein, by artists who were unknown in the overground and almost totally undiscussed even by the alternative scene. While it's generic as a whole and often mediocre, at least both the stylistic variety and recording fidelity are better than what you'll find in many such anthologies. Plus there's certainly a lot of music for one disc -- 30 songs and 77 minutes in all. There's cowpunk (Bad Lieutnants), straight-ahead buzzsaw punk, punk with a streak of power pop (Briefs, R.X. Son), Sex Pistols-like riffing, a pointless cover of David Bowie's "Suffragette City" (by Turbo Negro), woman-fronted pop-punk (Epoxies), hardcore with a galloping beat, hardcore with a pell-mell beat, and some anthemic riffing and singing with distant debts to classic rock. And there's lyrical outrageousness -- the Duane Peters Gunfight's "Blow My Brains," River Boat Gamblers' "Smoking Crack with L.A. Reid," and the Orphans, whose woman vocalist sings, "I don't wanna share my bed with your underage girlfriend." ~ Richie Unterberger

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 10 October, 2005

Label: Disaster Records

Dimensions: 13.3 x 14.8 x 0.8 centimeters (0.06 kg)