List of punk compilation albums
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Compilation albums played a particularly vital role in the development of new punk rock
bands, since relatively few local bands had a large enough audience to justify their own albums.
This article lists a number of the most significant punk compilation albums.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
bands, since relatively few local bands had a large enough audience to justify their own albums.
This article lists a number of the most significant punk compilation albums.
| Album | Released | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Youth Report American Youth Report American Youth Report is an American punk compilation originally released in 1982 and reissued on CD in 1991.-Track listing:# "One for All" - Modern Warfare# "Only Gonna Die" - Bad Religion# "Catholic Boy" - Channel 3# "Losing Battle" - Adolescents... |
1982 LP, 1994 CD | Bomp Records | Mostly Southern California hardcore |
| The Blasting Concept The Blasting Concept The Blasting Concept was a compilation released in 1983 on SST Records. It was followed by a second volume in 1985.- Track listing :# Minutemen - "Paranoid Chant" - 1:18# Minutemen - "The Maze" - 0:41... |
1983 LP | SST Records SST Records SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment... |
SST artists, mostly Southern California hardcore |
| The Decline of Western Civilization The Decline of Western Civilization The soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the... (soundtrack) |
1981 LP, 1996 CD | Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,... |
Live performances from the movie. Mostly L.A. hardcore. |
| Flex Your Head Flex Your Head Flex Your Head is a punk rock compilation album. It was originally released in January 1982, and was re-released on CD in August 1995. A remastered CD version was released in 2002... |
1982 LP, 1993 CD | Dischord | 11 bands from the Washington D.C. hardcore scene |
| Flipside Vinyl Fanzine | 1984 LP, 1993 CD | Flipside Records | 3-record set. The 2-CD version omits a few songs. Hardcore. |
| Hell Comes to Your House Hell Comes To Your House Hell Comes to Your House is an American Deathrock and punk compilation that chronicles the emergence of Deathrock as a genre.The album was originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998... |
1982 LP, 1998 CD | Time Bomb Time Bomb Recordings Time Bomb Recordings is a Laguna Beach, California based record label founded by Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot in a 1994 joint-venture agreement with Arista Records... /Bemis Brain |
Side 1 hardcore, side 2 deathrock |
| Let Them Eat Jellybeans Let Them Eat Jellybeans Let Them Eat Jellybeans!, subtitled "17 Extracts From Americas Darker Side", is a compilation album released by Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles in 1981. It was one of the earliest compilations of underground music in the United States and its original release included an insert of all of the... |
1981 LP | Alternative Tentacles Alternative Tentacles Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label originally based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles", and after realizing the potential for an independent... |
Side 1 hardcore, side 2 various genres. |
| Nardcore Nardcore Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s, originating in Silver Strand Beach, Oxnard and Port Hueneme. Early bands in the Nardcore scene included Agression, Dr. Know, False Confession, Ill Repute, Habeas Corpus, RKL, Stalag 13 and Scared Straight... |
1984 LP, 2002 CD | Mystic Records Mystic Records Mystic Records is a record label and music production company that was based in Hollywood CA one block south of Hollywood and Vine and later moved to Oceanside, California... |
Hardcore from Oxnard, California. An example of Mystic's "local" records. |
| New York Thrash New York Thrash New York Thrash is a hardcore punk compilation album released by ROIR in 1982.Considered a definitive document of the early New York hardcore scene, New York Thrash features rare and otherwise unreleased recordings, including the first recorded material by the Beastie Boys, as well as material by... |
1982 cassette, 1998 CD | ROIR ROIR ROIR , or Reach Out International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper.ROIR was founded the same year that the Sony Walkman launched, and initially, the label exclusively distributed its releases in cassette format... |
CD has additional tracks. Punk and hardcore. |
| Not So Quiet on the Western Front | 1982 LP, 1999 CD | Alternative Tentacles Alternative Tentacles Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label originally based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles", and after realizing the potential for an independent... |
47 bands, mostly Northern California hardcore |
| P.E.A.C.E./War P.E.A.C.E./War P.E.A.C.E./War is a compilation double album first released in 1984 by R Radical Records, the label run by MDC's Dave Dictor, in association with the San Francisco Bay Area punk fanzine Maximum RocknRoll... |
Various | R Radical Records | Double album. 53 Punk and Hardcore bands from 13 countries around the world. |
| Punk-O-Rama Punk-O-Rama Punk-O-Rama was the title given to a series of ten compilation albums published by Epitaph Records between 1994 and 2005. The first volume was released in 1994, the second in 1996, and the rest annually from 1998 to 2005. The albums included artists from Epitaph's roster as well as from its... |
Various 1994-2005 | Epitaph Records Epitaph Records Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record... |
Series of low-cost albums featuring Epitaph artists. Early issues are mostly punk. |
| Punkzilla Punkzilla -Track listing:# "Dream Of Waking" – AFI – 3:04# "Democracy?" – The Damned – 3:15# "Not The Same" – Bodyjar – 3:08# "Behind The Music" – The Vandals – 2:44# "Still" – Rufio – 3:06# "Jennifer Lost the War" – The Offspring – 2:37# "Wasted" – T.S.O.L. – 1:52... |
Various 2001 | Nitro Records Nitro Records Nitro Records is an independent record label created and owned by Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel . They started the label in 1994. The label is famous for being an incubator for punk rock artists who have subsequently become successful, most notably AFI... |
Compilation album consisting of songs by bands on Nitro Records. |
| Rock Against Bush Rock Against Bush Rock Against Bush was a project mobilizing punk and alternative musicians against the 2004 U.S. Presidential re-election campaign of George W. Bush... |
Various 2004 | Fat Wreck Chords Fat Wreck Chords Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock. It was started by Fat Mike and his ex-wife, Erin, in 1990.... |
Punk rock songs against George Bush. |
| Rodney on the ROQ | Various | Posh Boy Records Posh Boy Records Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Robbie Fields, a high school substitute teacher and former copyboy at the L A Times who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the late 1970s... |
Series of three. Punk and New Wave as popularized by the radio program. |
| Streets Streets (punk album) Streets is a compilation album of early British punk rock bands from a variety of independent record labels . It was an attempt at an end of year ‘round up’ and, significantly, was the first album released on Beggars Banquet Records .The sleeve notes stated that: "1977 was the year that the music... |
1977 LP | Beggars Banquet Records Beggars Banquet Records Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels... |
Early punk compilation (mostly from UK) |
| The Thing That Ate Floyd The Thing That Ate Floyd The Thing That Ate Floyd is a compilation album released in December 1988 by Lookout! Records. The album is a compilation of bands from the 924 Gilman St. punk rock scene. It includes bands such as Operation Ivy, No Use for a Name, Crimpshrine and The Mr... |
1988 LP, 2002 CD | Lookout! Records Lookout! Records -History:Larry Livermore and David Hayes formed the label in 1987. From the start, Lookout released punk rock records, but over time expanded its scope to include various types of pop rock, reggae fusion, acoustic rock, pop punk, and indie rock... |
East Bay East Bay -Places:In Canada:*East Bay, Nova Scotia, a small town in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia*East Bay , the east arm of the Bras d'Or Lake located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton IslandIn the United States:... punk and hardcore. |
| This Is Boston, Not L.A. This Is Boston, Not L.A. This Is Boston, Not L.A.is a hardcore punk compilation album released in 1982. It is considered the definitive album from the Boston hardcore scene, as several of the bands that were prominent in that scene appear on the album... |
1982 LP | Modern Method Records Modern Method Records Modern Method Records was a record label that helped to document the Boston hardcore scene in the early 80's. Modern Method was an offshoot of the Newbury Comics retail store and also the Boston Rock magazine. The label was located at 268 Newbury ST. in Boston.... |
Early Boston hardcore. CD version also includes the Unsafe At Any Speed compilation EP. |