Yo Hablo EP (1996 Lengua Armada)

Hardcore comp dedicated to  "the mistreated woman". The songs aren't uniformly about women though, and the Jara track is especially timely: 

Listen to the man on the radio

He's got a one minute spot

So he makes it good

No holds barred

So let racist lies fly

Talking genocide so gingerly

And talking so unashamed

Being on the north side

Must make it so easy

He's talking about one language

He's talking about a purified culture

Racial fear disguised as the American Dream

I can almost see the crosses burning

I can almost smell the body pits

Smells like maybe Auschwitz did

Except the lampshades will  illuminate a darker tone

Border Patrol builds higher fences

Border Patrol gets bigger guns

Drawing another lie in the sand

The Gestapo now rides the Rio Grande

Advancing another line in the sand

All of this for another line in the sand

1. Copout - Haitian Expeditionary Force
2. Animal Farm - Our Enemy
3. Arma Contra Arma - Huevos Hinchados
4. Haymarket - Slap Happy
5. Jara - One Minute Spot
6. Assfactor 4 - Boy Cult Seavers
7. Spitboy - Wizened

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Worse Than Alternative, It's Another Punk Comp (1999 Trend Is Dead / Reinforcement)

One of the better late 90's punk comps, IMHO. Notable because until Various States Of Disrepair came out, I think this was the only place you could find Hickey's "Robots Never Cry."

1. Down By Law - All American
2. Cletus - Oh No Here Comes Your Mom (Rough Mix)
3. The Broadways - 25 Degrees North
4. Homegrown - Shirley D. Pressed
5. Love Camp 7 - I'd Love To See Him Go 20 Rounds With Satan In A Fistfight
6. Pablum - Jerry's Dead
7. Frantics - Rainbows & Graveyards
8. Santa's Dead - I Hate You More Than Books
9. Bickley - Say Something
10. Nobodys - Hey Doofus
11. Abducted - I Don't Wanna Cheer Up
12. Tinkle - Where Have Your Senses Gone?
13. The Cretins - Soups On
14. Bracket - Shoe Gazer
15. Cooter - Walk On Water
16. Pseudo Heroes - Lost Cause
17. American Steel - One Of These Days
18. IDK - What We Do
19. Mohawk Barbie - The Mall
20. The Repellents - Heritage Drink
21. Day 19 - She's A Satanist (Alternate Version)
22. Your Mother - If Spankin' It Were An Olympic Event I'd Be Sponsored By Nike (Or Maybe Kleenex)
23. Sister Raisin - Secret Shake
24. Oblique - Dollars And Sense
25. Walter Krug - Superman
26. Supaflies - Weight
27. The Rehabs - Darkness On My Shoulder
28. Spoiled Rotten - She Likes Girls
29. The Vapids - Crystal Is A Rocknroller
30. The Commercials - Ch-Change
31. Hickey - Robots Never Cry
32. The Young Hasselhoffs - End Of Time

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12 Songs You Won't Like By 12 Bands You've Never Heard of From Boise, Idaho (1995 Spudtown Records)

Solid comp of Boise bands. Standouts for me are the Fondled-ish Skidfish, early FYP-esque Freak In A Jar, and Potato Potato with their husky M Blanket type vocals. Only 500 of these were pressed. 

1. Angered Youth - Countdown
2. Skidfish - Reagan's Got Alzheimer's
3. Malnutrition - Evolution
4. Freak In A Jar - Kick Your Momma When She's Down
5. Haggis - No Direction
6. The Mosquitones - Red Beer
7. The Adversives - Drop Out
8. Potato Potato - We Should Call It Lucky
9. Dink - Fuckin' Around
10. Citizen Angst - Bad Cop/Religion
11. Life After Johnny - Nampa
12. One Fantastic Mouth - You Bad

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Six-O-Seven - Take It Light EP (1998 Crap Records)

Named after their New York area code, I guess you would call Six-O-Seven emotional hardcore in the mid-90's sense. I don't know. I've completely lost the ability to classify anything anymore. Two of these songs were on the "Cause That's The Way You Like It, Baby" comp, also on Crap Records, which is how I first heard about them.

1. Flip
2. Anyway
3. Return
4. Trainbrain
5. Repaved

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The Hoi Polloi - Second Crack (1981 Self-released) #PowerPop

More power pop from a band I know nothing about! But I like this one much more than yesterday's offering. Great stuff.

1. Girls
2. Just Like Before
3. Hey Nonny Nonny
4. Time

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The Hoi Polloi - The Watcher EP (1980 Self-released) #PowerPop

Some pretty obscure power pop from Michigan. I don't know much about them...

1. The Watcher
2. Waitin' For The Phone

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The Bottom Feeders - Porn Star Haircut EP (1995 Get Hip)

I'll forever confuse these dudes with The Bar Feeders, which is dumb, akin to confusing The San Francisco Giants with the Los Angeles Dodgers, if you're into SF (Bar Feeders) / LA (Bottom Feeders) comparisons.

Garage punk from Los Angeles. 

1. Porn Star Haircut
2. The Bag

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Pile-Up - Hard To Say EP (1993 Theologian)

First heard "Hard To Say" on one of those early Theologian Records comps.  Always liked the song, but it kind of just faded from my memory until recently. This is very early 90's - kinda grungy, kinda moody. Reminds me of Wool in a way. I know absolutely nothing about this band, but there is a very soft spot in my heart for stuff like this.

1. Hard To Say
2. Dustin Jr. 

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Red #9 - No Hope? (1995 Farmhouse Records)

Or, alternatively, Red Number Nine. 90's female pop-punk from Saratoga, CA.  My memory is a little foggy, but it seemed like every loved them for a minute (they were on the Shreds Vol. 2 and Slice Of Lemon comps) and then they just kind of disappeared. Which is a shame, because they were great. There are obvious comparisons to be made, but I ain't going to make them. 

Fun fact: Guitarist/Vocalist Michelle Mallinger went on to become a Soprano.

1. Deli Girl
2. No Sympathy
3. Better Than Me
4. Tell Me Why
5. No Hope?
6. Kids
7. Parasite
8. Rain
9. Don't Care
10. Where Do I Belong?

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Free Verse - Access Denied (1998 Brain Floss)

This has probably been passed over thousands of times in record stores across the country. The bad artwork simply gives no clue to what's inside. Look at it. What do you think you're going to find inside? Probably not what you think.

Mix Bikini Kill and Babes In Toyland, maybe with a little dash of Red Aunts, and you'll be in the ballpark. Kick ass, angry female punk from Lawrence, Kansas. I have no idea why they are not as well known as their influences.

1. Johnny Fever
2. Chunk
3. Jane Explains History
4. Nothing Whatsoever
5. Aerosol
6. Red & Blue
7. Pretty Kitty
8. Hug
9. Angels Pissing
10. Feels Blind

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