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This aggressive collection draws from California’s rich history of punk, more specifically hardcore: a new sound that eschewed melody for intensity, a sound that took punk harder and faster, a sound intrinsically American. Whilst hardcore was also burning over on the East Coast, it was in California that it had ignited and sprawled, a sonic punch in the face that raged socio-political disdain and total abandonment for commercialism, fuelled by a crumbling American Dream and the collapse of family values.
Tracklist
1 I Hate Children - Adolescents
2 Out of Vogue - Middle Class
3 Bloodstains - Agent Orange
4 Chemical Warfare - Dead Kennedys
5 I Like Drugs - The Simpletones
6 Fascist Pig - Suicidal Tendencies
7 Abolish Government/Silent Majority - T.S.O.L.
8 Beverly Hills - Circle Jerks
9 Fuck Authority - Wasted Youth
10 She's Like Heroin to Me - The Gun Club
11 Burn Out - Red Kross
12 Live in Your Eyes - China White
13 Live Fast Die Young - Circle Jerks
14 How Ya Feeling? - Negative Trend
15 American Society - Eddie and The Subtitles
16 Manzanar - Channel 3
17 Ha Ha Ha - Flipper
18 Life - Rikk Agnew O.C.
19 Playpen - Social Distortion
20 California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
21 I Love America - Shattered Faith
22 Helium Bar - The Weirdos
23 Insurgence - Middle Class
24 Communist Eyes - The Germs
25 Kids of the Black Hole - Adolescents