The Vault: Snot-Punk For Punk Snobs

punkusa.jpgBelieve it or not, there once was a time–and we realize how crazy this will sound–when a new pop-punk compilation was not released every three days. Really! In fact, at one point in the mid-’90s, you had to wait three or four whole weeks until you could buy another lower-priced collection of 23 bands doing exactly the same thing. And while most of those records were eventually returned to the used-CD store, Lookout! Records’ 1994 round-up Punk USA remains a stand-out, as it hits on every pre-emo “punk” strain possible, from the snot-rock sounds of the Vindictives to the stab-guitar melodrama of Garden Variety:

Scratch Bongowax – Nobody Home [MP3, link expired]
The Vindictives – I’m In Trouble Now [MP3, link expired]
Garden Variety – Pretty Mouth [MP3, link expired]

 
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  1. Bazooka Tooth  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    Editor: Any chance you have a copy of “Punk Sucks” still lying around? That was, I think, probably the first (and best: pre-fame Blink & Sublime, Pennywise, Unwritten Law, Homegrown–so good) cheap-ass compilation, and it blasted on my car stereo everyday on the way to school. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

  2. thepunkguy  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    How did Radio 4 emerge from Garden Variety? I am just asking.

  3. rinjonjori  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    Radio 4? never heard that… Garden Variety is awesome. The world can never have enough bands that sound like American Standard.

  4. King of Pants  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    What, no Less Than Jake?

  5. Lucas Jensen  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    Holy crap. I have this CD.

  6. pjohn  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    jawbreaker’s sea foam green is on here – this is so worth owning just for that.

  7. thepunkguy  |   Posted on May 11th, 2007

    yeah. anthony roman from GV went on to start radio 4. i remember him saying years ago that he was starting a rockabilly band. I think maybe he meant radio 4. either that or he was planning on starting a band with lil stevie.

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