Description
Release :21-07-2023
Tracklist:
A1. ADOLESCENTS – I Hate Children
A2. MIDDLE CLASS – Out Of Vogue
A3. AGENT ORANGE – Bloodstains
A4. DEAD KENNEDYS – Chemical Warfare
A5. SIMPLETONES – I Like Drugs
A6. SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – Fascist Pig
B1 T.S.O.L. – Abolish Government/Silent Majority
B2. CIRCLE JERKS – Beverly Hills
B3 WASTED YOUTH – Fuck Authority
B4. THE GUN CLUB – She’s Like Heroin To Me
B5. REDD KROSS – Burn Out
B6. CHINA WHITE – Live In Your Eyes
C1. CIRCLE JERKS – Live Fast Die Young
C2. NEGATIVE TREND – How Ya Feeling?
C3. EDDIE AND THE SUBTITLES – American Society
C4. CHANNEL 3 – Manzanar
C5. FLIPPER – Ha Ha Ha
C6. RIKK AGNEW O.C. – Life
C7. SOCIAL DISTORTION – Playpen
D1. DEAD KENNEDYS – California Über Alles
D2. SHATTERED FAITH – I Love America
D3. THE WEIRDOS – Helium Bar
D4. MIDDLE CLASS – Insurgence
D5. GERMS – Communist Eyes
D6. ADOLESCENTS – Kids Of The Black Hole
Tracklist co-curated by Henry Rollins, it contains liner notes by Lisa Fancher of Frontier, a bio by award winning author Benjamin Myers, and contains a booklet featuring an array of images by the legendary punk photographer Edward Colver.
This aggressive collection draws from California’s rich history of punk, more specifically hardcore: a new sound that eschewed melody for intensity, a sound that took punk harder and faster, a sound intrinsically American. Whilst hardcore was also burning over on the East Coast, it was in California that it had ignited and sprawled, a sonic punch in the face that raged socio-political disdain and total abandonment for commercialism, fuelled by a crumbling American Dream and the collapse of family values.
Suburban Annihilation takes you from the major cities, to the coastal towns, to the SoCal suburbs, showcasing some the most important bands of the West Coast. Blasting off with the Adolescents ‘I Hate Children’, it heads from the year zero of Middle Class’s ‘Out Of Vogue’ to the surf punk of Agent Orange’s ‘Bloodstains’, from the blues tinged outlaw of The Gun Club’s ‘She’s Like Heroin to Me’ to the classic anti-anthems: ‘Live Fast Die Young’ by the Circle Jerks, lifted from their seminal Group Sex album, and the hardcore staple ‘California Über Alles’ by the Dead Kennedys. Also present are so many other bands integral to the era: T.S.O.L, Wasted Youth, Germs, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, Negative Trend, Flipper and many more.
Though the music was designed to repel, this historical document has been lovingly designed to remind us that this genre created some of the most immediate and acutely-realised music ever produced. Making this collection of choice cuts essential for long-time fans of hardcore and punk, just as those new and inquisitive about one of the most angry and pissed off genres to have given birth in America.
