Fun, high energy compilation.
Timothy Patrick Hinkle | Sandy, Utah United States | 03/03/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I love this CD. It's full of wonderful, high-energy music that helps me feel a bit more alive. (It's the kind of thing I like to play when I get up in the morning, or on the drive to work, in order to jump start myself.)I'm not sure that all this music would fit most people's definition of punk rock. It leans toward the pop side of punk. Fischer-Z's "The Worker" is not a punk song; it's 80s synth-pop. Regardless of genre, all the tracks are excellent, except possibly "The Greatest Cockney Ripoff" by the Cockney Rejects which seems to be a slight reworking of the Sex Pistols' "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle."As an added bonus, the last track - "Eighties" by Killing Joke - features the famous bass line from Nirvana's "Come as You Are" a decade before Nirvana got to it."
Mark the Poseur
PAUL BROWN | DEARBORN HTS., MI United States | 02/10/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"You have to know where you've been to know where you're going. This compilation includes most of the original scenesters in Britain at that time (except Blondie). Today's radio would be nothing without these people. Includes rare tracks that have been sampled and ripped off for almost 3 decades now. A decent buy!"