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AZPunk Compilation Albums 2002-2010

AZPunk.comp Volume 2

November 15, 2003 • Mastered @ Worker Bee Studios by Dennis Gilman • Artwork by Micah Elliot

  1. Parkway Wretch • Andrew Lawson
  2. B.Y.O.W. • Wrecking Ball
  3. Casket Life • Drawn To Blood
  4. Sidetracked • All I Have
  5. 80*D • My Car Sucks
  6. Spindle • At The Door
  7. Calabrese • Blood In My Eyes
  8. Mid-life • 2:16AM
  9. Bullet Train To Moscow • Pars For Party
  10. Where Eagles Dare • Despite The casualties
  11. Shark Pants • Watergun
  12. The Dames • You Will Be Mine
  13. Labor Party • I Won't Do It
  14. The Wongs • I Can't Say No
  15. Demolition Bois • Have Another Drink
  16. The Deans • Jimmy Jimmy
  17. Idiotkin • Again
  18. Swing Ding Amigos • Nyquil
  19. The Corrupt • My First Punk Song
  20. The Wankers • Groups
  21. Blemish • Boys Lie
  22. Vadoom • Tanya
  23. Reburn And The Skidmarks • Do The Math
  24. No Gimmick • I Won't Tell
  25. Monster Squad • We Need
  26. Authority Zero • Siempre Loco
  27. Line Of Fire • Left Behind
  28. North Side Kings • Lowlife
  29. Smoky Mountain Skullbusters • We're Gonna Die
  30. Glass Heroes • American Muscle
  31. Blanche Davidian • Marilynesque Chambers
  32. The Wrongsiders • Death Or Glory
  33. Half Empties • Pist N Broke
  34. Last Action Zeros • Smash The Past

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AZ Punk.Comp Volume 2

By: Mike Cryer • Phoenix New Times • January 2004

If any other genre birthed a compilation featuring 34 different bands, the project would likely be sold as a boxed set. Yet the Valley enthusiasts who run AZPUNK.com have succeeded in packing that number of acts from around the state onto a single disc -- with plenty of room to spare. The decision to overload the disc has more to do with a fear of leaving anyone out than it does with an abundance of talent. Which is sorta the point -- punk has always thrived on supporting its own, and this disc is no exception.

Traditional punk rock is the compilation's mainstay. In customary fashion, the majority of the song titles and band names are clever puns that connote the disaffected and marginalized -- Last Action Zeros, 80-D, Glass Heroes. The only group ballsy enough to go ahead and name its band with a straight-up cliché is Where Eagles Dare. The disc's songs come with the requisite pedestrian breakdowns and ubiquitous screaming, attributes common to the genre.

The disc, in its overview of the waterfront, does a good job balancing the political tunes with Dada-like nihilism. Parkway Wretch kicks off the comp with the sentimental track "Andrew Lawson." Complete with a schmaltzy voice-over, the song eulogizes Andrew, who apparently was killed by a stray bullet. Tucson's Shark Pants and Swing Ding Amigos support the anti-emo camp with their songs "Watergun" and "Nyquil" -- the songs combined clock in at a minute and a half and are as far from the political as their titles suggest.

Another brief but telling track, The Corrupt's "My First Punk Song," perfectly illustrates the disc's sensibility. It's a 46-second meta-lyric in which the title is repeatedly screamed. Reinforcing and belying punk rock's innocence, it relishes the genre's defeatist simplicity.

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