alternative tentacles. virus 14 / 47 tracks / 1982

RI: alternative tentacles. / 2000

+ Maximum Rock n Roll fanzine #0, one page per band. 2000 reissue is clearly marked on the top of the front sleeve.

Legendary Bay Area compilation with tons of great bands. Music ranges from simple garage punk to great hardcore. This has pretty much all the Northern Californian punk bands that mattered back then… Fang, Capitol Punishment, Crucifix, Code of Honor, Dead Kennedys, MDC, Flipper etc etc… the list goes on and on. It might be important to mention that the bands that turned rock/emo/whatever in the mid-80s (like MIA, Social Unrest or 7 Seconds) still play pure hardcore here. Not everything here qualifies as classic punk or hardcore, but this is an essential document nonetheless. [7]  

Man wird förmlich erschlagen von der Masse der Bands, es ist so ziemlich alles dabei, was damals Rang & Namen in der Bay Area hatte. Es ist unmöglich, hier alle Bands einzeln vorzustellen; die Stilrichtungen reichen von dilettantischem Kellerpunk bis hin zu genialen Kostbarkeiten; wer sich die Tracklist ansieht, wird schon einen Eindruck von dem bekommen, was ihn erwartet. Bemerkenswert ist, daß die meisten heute etablierten Bands hier noch mit frühen/einfachen Cuts vertreten sind; ganz allgemein ist diese Platte unbedingt empfehlenswert, vielleicht weniger wegen der Qualität der Tracks, sondern eher als Dokument einer wichtigen Periode einer sehr agilen Scene.

Tracks: Intensified Chaos - intensified chaos / Social Unrest - their mistakes / Naked Lady Wrestlers - dan with the mellow hair / M.A.D. - holocaust / Killjoy - rich plastic people / Fang - fun with acid / Capitol Punishment - el salvador / Ribsy - collapse / Crucifix - annihilation / Square Cools - i don’t wanna die… / Los Olvidados - pay salvation / Code of Honor - what price will you pay? // 7 Seconds - fuck your america / Unaware - race war / Frigidettes - race war / 5th Column - don’t conform / Ghost Dance - shrunken heads / Dead Kennedys - a child and his lawn mower / Rebel Truth - all i know / Pariah - learning process / Lennonburger - reagum / Impatient Youth - praise the lord… / Bad Posture - gdmfsob / Demented Youth - assassination attempt / MDC - the only good cop… // Karnage - the few, the proud, the dead / Domino Theory - scare / NBJ - dead porker / Whipping Boy - human farm / Angst - worker bee / Free Beer - premature enlistment / Flipper - sacrifice / Vengeance - no one listens / Juvinel Justice - s/m nightmare / Section 8 - fat, drunk & stupid / Tongue Avulsion - libyan hit squad // Maniax - off to war / Vicious Circle - strike out / UXB - breakout / Scapegoats - shitcan / Church Police - the oven is my friend / Deadly Reign - systems suck / No Alternative - dead men tell no lies / Wrecks - punk is an attitude / Urban Assault - slt / Bent Nails - no more riots / MIA - new left