by Johnny Death | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Never Give In – A Tribute to Bad Brains – CD (Century Media) 16 Bands pay tribute to the Bad Brains. Highlights include Moby doing sailing on A very melodic and rather depressing track. Other bands include punk bands like Ignite, and metal...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – My So-Called Punk Rock Life – CD (Melted Records) The best thing that I liked about this CD is that it introduces me to many great bands that I have never heard of. This is a wonderful pop punk compilation that has received many plays on my stereo. I...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Music to Listen to Music By – CD (Coldfront Records) This is pure, unadulterated boy pop-punk music. With the likes of All Systems Go!, Hagfish, Mcrackins, Diesel Boy, Electric Frankenstein, (REO) Speedealer, Toilet Boys and more what else could your...
by Gail Pop | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Music in the Air – The Dixie Hummingbirds – CD (House of Blues) “Music In the Air” is a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the career of the Dixie Hummingbirds. The Dixie Hummingbirds are a gospel quartet that originated in...
by Gail Pop | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Jingle Blues – CD (House of Blues) “Jingle Blues” is a collection of classy blues Christmas songs provided by the House of Blues. I really enjoyed the collection because it didn’t seem like the songs were performed by some over paid...
by Grog Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Greetings from the Welfare State – CD (BYO Records) This is a compilation of some of the best current British punk bands. Most fall into the pissed off street punk arena. If you’d like a taste of current British punk, then this would be a good...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – The East Coast of Oi! – CD (Radical Records) When I hear Oi!, I always think about the story of the skinhead who got the word “Oi!” tattooed on his forehead. The tattoo bleed making the “Oi!” turn into “Oil”. So I...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Cinema Beer Belly – CD (Hopeless Records) This CD is pure punk rock. Twenty bands offering up some great jams for everyone’s listening pleasure. Everything was wonderful on this release but the tunes that really stood out were the ones by...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Blues Down Deep / Songs of Janis Joplin – CD (House of Blues) Yet another great release from the folks at the House of Blues where blues artists cover the songs of a musical legend. What makes this release so great is that Janis’ songs scream...
by Grog Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Before You Were Punk 2 – CD (Vagrant Records) The sequel compilation, from the age of sequels, of current punk-pop bands (most of whose members are my age) playing hit new wave songs from the 80′s (when I was a teen). You get a bunch of great...
by Mite Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
V/A – Across the Bridge of Hope – CD (White Records / Sony) This is a benefit release for the people who died or were injured as a result of the Omagh bomb tragedy that happened last year. I’m sad to say that I found the release to be very weak. Some...
by Grog Mutant | 2000 | Music Reviews - V/A
The Vehicle Birth / The Wicked Farleys – Toronto/How’s My Driving – 7″ (Doom Nibbler Records) The Vehicle Birth start things off with a slow building post-punk song that gets interesting about half way through. Then it started to decompose into...
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