The Vault: Snot-Punk For Punk Snobs

Brian Raftery | May 11, 2007 10:34 am
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Believe 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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