Coffin Nails - Let's Wreck (2005)

The best of collection of this fun and humorous psychobilly act that didn't take itself too seriously. Currently released another album this year (The Dead Don't Get Older) and are touring once again.

1. Let's Wreck

2. Uncle Willy

3. Psycho Disease

4. Wind Up Dead

5. Penetration

6. If Only Mother

7. Heartbreak Hotel

8. Coffin Nails

9. Blubbery Love

10. She's a Moose

11. Carling Black Label

12. Skeleton Swamp

13. Inspector Clueso

14. Been Around the World

15. Ooh Ahh

16. No Way

17. When I'm Drunk

18. Girl Next Door

19. Neurotic Dave

20. Hard as Nails

21. STD

22. Forbidden Love

23. Freaks Come Out at Night

24. Scared of the Dark

25. Woke Up This Morning

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999 - Homicide: The Best Of (1998)

1. Boys in the Gang

2. Biggest Prize in Sport

3. Feeling Alright with the Crew

4. Lie Lie Lie

5. English Wipeout

6. Inside Out

7. Emergency

8. Boiler

9. Obsessed

10. Nasty Nasty

11. Black Flowers for the Bride

12. Crazy

13. Homicide

14. Absolution

15. There is No Glory Mary's Story

16. Signed Dangerous of Hollywood

17. I'm Alive

18. Deep in the Shadow

19. Don't You Know I Need You

20. My Street Stinks

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Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches (1981)

As hardcore punk was breaking in the Boston area around them, Mission of Burma took punk in a different direction.

1. That's When I Reach for my Revolver

2. Outlaw

3. Fame and Fortune

4. This is not a Photograph

5. Red

6. All World Cowboy Romance

7. Academy Fight Song

8. Max Ernst

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Radio Birdman - The Essential 74-78

1. Aloha Steve and Danno

2. Murder City Nights

3. New Race

4. Love Kills

5. Descent into the Maelstrom

6. Burn my Eye

7. I-94

8. Anglo Girl Desire

9. Hand of Law

10. Snake

11. Do the Pop

12. Non-Stop Girls

13. What Gives?

14. Man with the Golden Helmet

15. Hanging On

16. Crying Sun

17. Smith and Wesson Blues

18. Time to Fall

19. Alone in the Endzone

20. Breaks in in my Heart (live)

21. More Fun (live)

22. Dark Surprise (live)

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The Adicts - Sound of Music (1982)

Underappreciated catchy first wave British punk rock that draws from A Clockwork Orange and Droog imagery.

1. How Sad

2. 4 3 2 1

3. Chinese Takeaway

4. Johnny Was A Solider

5. Disco

6. Eyes in the Back of your Head

7. Joker in the Pack

8. Lullaby

9. My Baby Got Run Over By A Steamroller

10. A Man's Gotta Do

11. Let's Go

12. Easy Way Out

13. Shake Rattle Bang Your Head

14. You'll Never Walk Alone

15. Too Young

16. I Wanna Be Sedated

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Zero Boys - Vicious Circle (1982)

Reissue 2000.

1. Vicious Circle

2. Amphetamine Addiction

3. New Generation

4. Dirty Alleys/Dirty Minds

5. Civilization's Dying

6. Livin' in the 80's

7. Drug Free Youth

8. Down the Drain

9. Outta Style

10. You Can Touch Me

11. Forced Entry

12. Hightime

13. Charles' Place

14. Trying Harder

15. She Said Goodbye

16. Slam and Worm

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VA - Skabilly Rebel - The Roddy Radiation Anthology

Roddy Radiation (Roddy Byers) guitarist for two tone ska legends The Specials in his other rockabilly/country acts with hints of ska.

1. Desire - The Bonediggers

2. What's the Matter - The Bonediggers

3. Hook, Line, and Sinker - The Bonediggers

4. Bonediggin' -The Bonediggers

5. Blues Attack - The Bonediggers

6. The Man with No Name - The Raiders

7. Lorraine - The Tearjerkers

8. Judgement Day - The Tearjerkers

9. Doldrums - The Raiders

10. Don't Drive Me - The Tearjerkers

11. Heartbreak City - The Raiders

12. Black Leather Jacket - The Bonediggers

13. Nothing Lasts Forever - The Tearjerkers

14. Fallen Angel - Roddy and Mark Byers

15. Blue Angel- Roddy Byers

16. Dream World - The Tearjerkers

17. Reckless Romance - Roddy Byers

18. Dixie Ska - Roddy and Mark Byers

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Lee Rocker - Bulletproof (2003)

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Black Cat White Cat (1998)

1. Bubamara - Main Version

2. Duj Sandale

3. Railway Station

4. Jek Di Tharn II

5. Daddy, Don't Ever Die on a Friday

6. Bubamara - Vivaldi Version

7. Daddy's Gone

8. Long Vehicle

9. Pit Bull

10. El Bubamara Pasa

11. Ja volim te jose (Meine Stadt)

12. Bubamara - Tree Stump

13. Jek Di Tharn

14. Lies

15. Hunting

16. Dejo Dance

17. Bulgarian Dance

18. Bubamara - Sunflower

19. Black Cat, White Cat

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The Professionals - I Didn't See It Coming (1981)

Ex-Sex Pistols members Steve Jones and Paul Cook pair up in the Professionals and keep the punk rock but go more melodic and less snotty.

1. The Magnificent

2. Payola

3. Northern Slide

4. Friday Night Square

5. Kick Down the Doors

6. Little Boys

7. All The Way

8. Crescendo

9. Madhouse

10. Too Far To Fall

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The Joykiller - Static (1996)

Edgy melodic pop punk with piano featuring Jack Grisham from T.S.O.L.

1. Hate

2. I Don't Know

3. Brainless

4. Sanity

5. Sad

6. White Boy, White Girl

7. Destroyer

8. Sorry

9. Television

10. She's So Static

11. Wanting the Kiss to Go On

12. Get Started

13. Nowhere Ever

14. What a Girl

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The Rocketz - Rise of the Undead (2005)

Catchy So Cal Psychobilly. One of the best American Psychobilly acts going.

1. Rise of the Undead

2. Long Blonde Hair

3. Killing

4. Die Zombie Die

5. My Girlfriend

6. Get Away

7. Vampire's Sorrow

8. Mad Mad Dead

9. Waking Without You

10. Frenzy

11. Police on my Back

12. Wildman

13. I Want U Dead

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A.P.P.L.E - Plutocracy = Tyranny and Exploitation (1996)

Contains previously released EP "A Very Sensitive Facist" plus live recordings from a radio show. Very Crass-influenced peaceful anarcho punk with a female lead vocal and contains a cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."

1. Plutocracy

2. Rape Our Mother

3. Sanctuary

4. Peace is Possible

5. Double Standards

6. Price of Freedom

7. Amerikkka

8. Fuck Authority

9. Blowin' in the Wind

10. If in Heaven

11. Impeach Reagan

12. The Observer

13. They Never Said It Would Be Like This

14. Shanty Town Blues

15. Where Have All the Flowers Gone

16. Why Work?

17. Abscence of Malice

18. Disintegrate the Church and State

19. Founding Fathers

20. Cinderella

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Foot Foot - Snaggle and Buck (2006)

Lo-fi, acoustic/singer-songwriter, and real good bluesy slide guitar.

1. Dandelions and Spastics

2. Rakes and Rails

3. Criminal Wealth

4. M'Nausea Tua

5. Ancient Twisted Dream

6. Lumbar

7. Shasta Heavy

8. Wind Blows The Door Open

9. Out of the Sand

10. Lay Low

11. Tall and Thin

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Holy Rollin' Hellfires - S/T

1. Sweet n Low

2. Thinkin' Twice

3. Breaker 19

4. 1 Horse Town

5. Cornfed & Inbred

6. Walk the Yellow Line

7. No Twang like Poon Twang

8. Too Many Women

9. Cowboy Ways

10. On my Side

11. Mile Marker 69

12. 5 Shots

13. Drunk and Stoned

14. What the Hells Goin' On

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Gang of Four - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (1990)

1. At Home He's a Tourist

2. Damaged Goods

3. Natural's Not In It

4. Not Great Men

5. Anthrax

6. Return the Gift

7. It's Her Factory

8. What We Wall Want (Live)

9. Paralysed

10. A Hole in the Wallet

11. Cheeseburger

12. To Hell With Poverty

13. Capital (It Fails Us Now)

14. Call Me Up

15. I Will Be A Good Boy

16. The History of the World

17. I love a Man in Uniform

18. It Is Love

19. Woman Town

20. We Live as We Dream, Alone

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Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression (1976)

Re-issue 2000.

1. Get Across To You

2. Why Can't It Be Me?

3. Show Me

4. All I Need Is Money

5. Double CHeckin' Woman

6. The Kids Are Alright (live)

7. Teenage Depression

8. Horseplay

9. Been So Long

10. Shake

11. On the Run

12. Writing on the Wall

13. Cruisin' (In the Lincoln)

14. Wooly Bully

15. Horseplay (Single Version)

16. 96 Tears (Live)

17. Get out of Denver (Live)

18. Gloria/Satisfaction (Live)

19. On the Run (Live)

20. Hard Drivin' Man (Live)

21. Horseplay (Live)

22. Double Checkin' Woman (Live)

23. All I Need Is Money (Live)

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The Sharks - Colour My Flesh (1996)

1. Hanger 84

2. Grave Robber

3. Desire Calls

4. Time Bomb

5. Blue Water, White Water

6. Rat Race

7. Man With The X Ray Eyes

8. Colour My Flesh

9. Sgt. Rock

10. Parasite

11. Too Little, Too Late

12. The Game

13. Jet Boy

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Eater - All of Eater (1998)

Rough, aggressive, 77 style punk. Highly underrated in terms of Britain's first wave of punk.

1. You

2. Public Toys

3. Room for One

4. Lock It Up

5. Sweet Jane

6. Fifteen

7. I Don't Need It

8. Anne

9. Get Raped

10. Space Dreaming

11. Queen Bitch

12. My Business

13. Waiting For The Man

14. No More

15. No Brains

16. Love and Peace (H-Bomb)

17. Outside View

18. Thinking of the USA

19. Michael's Monetary System

20. She's Wearing Green

21. Notebook

22. Jeep Star

23. Debutantes Ball

24. Holland

25. What She Wants She Needs

26. Reach for the Sky

27. Point of View

28. Typerwriter Babes

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The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (1977)

The Adicts - Sound of Music (1982)

Wire - Pink Flag (1977)

Before Wire went exploring way into post punk/experimental territory, this was a punk classic out of Britain blasting through 21 songs in 35 minutes (ala the Ramones go to art school.)

1. Reuters

2. Field Day for the Sundays

3. Three Girl Rhumba

4. Ex Lion Tamer

5. Lowdown

6. Start to Move

7. Brazil

8. It's So Obvious

9. Surgeon's Girl

10. Pink Flag

11. The Commercial

12. Straight Line

13. 106 Beats That

14. Mr. Suit

15. Strange

16. Fragile

17. Mannequin

18. Different to Me

19. Champs

20. Feeling Called Love

21. 12 X U

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The Kings of Nuthin' - Fight Songs for Fuck Ups (2002)

Boston street punks playing an edgier take on old rhyhtm & blues and rockabilly is truly irresistible.

1. Into/New Thing Nutin'

2. Shit Out of Luck

3. Waitin' to Leave

4. Nuthin' to Lose

5. Where Do We Go?

6. The Kids Will Have No Say

7. La Chupacabra

8. Drive All Night

9. Iron out the Irony

10. Callin' to Let You Know

11. All I've Lost

12. Nailhead

13. Another Year

14. 11 to 3

15. Fight Songs for Fuck Ups

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Master Ace - Take a Look Around (1990)

Early 90's hip hop. It features "Me and the Biz" which was written by Master Ace about him and Biz Markie, but due to conflict Ace filled in and rapped Biz's part in another voice. Seemingly made it more of a classic.

1. Music Man

2. I Got Ta

3. Letter to the Better (Remix)

4. Me and the Biz

5. Other Side of Town

6. Ace iz Wild

7. Four Minus Three

8. Can't Stop the Bum Rush

9. Movin' On

10. Brooklyn Battles

11. Maybe Next Time

12. As I Reminisce

13. Take a Look Around

14. Together

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Whorehouse of Representatives - Discography 93-99 (2006)

1. The Reasons Why

2. Economic Liposuction

3. Slow Suicide

4. Prepare to Fight

5. Mr. White Collar

6. The PC Song

7. I Got No Cock

8. Brainwashed

9. Body Aches

10. Problem Hasn't Gone Away

11. Straight Jacket

12. Society's Trap

13. Blinded by Darkness

14. Fuck Authority

15. Junkie

16. Die by Myself

17. Nowhere

18. Stripped

19. Censorship

20. Acid Rain

21. Blinded by Darkness

22. Greed is a Disease

23. No Purpose No Gain

24. PC Song

25. Educate your Mind

26. Let Freedom Reign

27. Sand in the Gears

28. Suffer in Silence

29. Stolen Land

30. Die on your Knees

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The Herbaliser - Take London (2005)

1. Take London

2. Nahmean Nahm Sayin

3. Song for Mary

4. Generals

5. Gadget Funk

6. Filure's No Option

7. Lord Lord

8. The Man Who Knows (Interlude)

9. Kittyknapper

10. Geddim

11. Close your Eyes

12. Sonofanuthamutha

13. Twice Around

14. I Know a Bloke (Interlude)

15. 8 Man Strong

16. Serge

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Echo & The Bunnymen - Ballyhoo The Best Of (1997)

Great collection from one of the most seminal post-punk bands. It features "The Killing Moon" which you may have heard before at the beginning of the movie, Donnie Darko.

1. Rescue

2. Do It Clean

3. Villers Terrace

4. All That Jazz

5. Over the Wall

6. A Promise

7. The Disease

8. The Back of Love

9. The Cutter

10. Never Stop

11. The Killing Moon

12. Silver

13. Seven Seas

14. Bring on the Dancing Horses

15. People are Strange

16. The Game

17. Lips like Sugar

18. Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

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