Not So Quiet on the Western Front: Alternative Tentacles

Not So Quiet on the Western Front: Alternative Tentacles Artist: Various Artists
Label: Alternative Tentacle
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 721616001426
EAN: 0721616001426
ASIN: B00000HZNM


Release Date: 1999-05-11

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Listmania:

  1. REAL PUNK
  2. Best 80's HARDCORE punk rock albums
  3. Best punk comps that are not Punk O Rama
  4. Good Old School Punk Albums
  5. exotic melange of furry shorts, sheer volume and tape loops
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  8. Great and Eclectic Albums (a start anyway...)
  9. Ladies and Gentlemen, Punk Rock.
  10. Best 25 Punk Albums Ever

Tracks:

  1. Intensified Chaos - Intensified Chaos
  2. Their Mistakes - Social Unrest
  3. Dan With The Mellow Hair - Naked Lady Wrestlers
  4. Holocaust - M.A.D.
  5. Rich Plastic People - Killjoy
  6. Fun With Acid - Fang
  7. El Salvador - Capitol Punishment
  8. Collapse - Ribsy
  9. Annihilation - Crucifix
  10. I Don't Wanna Die For My Country - Square Cools
  11. Pay Salvation - Los Olvidados
  12. What Price Will You Pay? - Code Of Honor
  13. Fuck Your Amerika - 7 Seconds
  14. Race War - Unaware
  15. Turmoil - Frigidettes
  16. Don't Conform - 5th Column
  17. Shrunken Heads - Ghost Dance
  18. A Child And His Lawn Mower - Dead Kennedys
  19. All I Know - Rebel Truth
  20. Learning Process - Pariah
  21. Reagum - Lennonburger
  22. Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition - Impatient Youth
  23. GDMFSOB - Bad Posture
  24. Assassination Attempt - Demented Youth
  25. The Only Good Cop... - Millions Of Dead Cops
  26. The Few, The Proud, The Dead - Karnage
  27. Scare - Domino Theory
  28. Dead Porker - NBJ
  29. Human Farm - Whipping Boy
  30. Worker Bee - Angst
  31. Premature Enlistment - Free Beer
  32. Sacrifice - Flipper
  33. No One Listens - Vengeance
  34. S/M Nightmare - Juvinel Justice
  35. Fat, Drunk, & Stupid - Section 8
  36. Libyan Hit Squad - Tongue Avulsion
  37. Off To War - Maniax
  38. Strike Out - Vicious Circle
  39. Breakout - UXB
  40. Shitcan - Scapegoats
  41. The Oven Is My Friend - Church Police
  42. Systems Suck - Deadly Reign
  43. Dead Men Tell No Tales - No Alternative
  44. Punk Is An Attitude - Wrecks
  45. SLT - Urban Assault
  46. No More Riots - Bent Nails
  47. New Left - MIA

Similar Items:

  1. Old School Punk
  2. Peace War
  3. This Is Boston, Not L.A.
  4. New York Thrash
  5. Vicious Circle

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars one of the best comps.......2006-03-24

Not So Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best comps because it offers most of the best hardcore/punk from California and Nevada at the time. I definitly recommend this to anyone who is new to hardcore,Check it out.

5 out of 5 stars The Definitive NorCal Punk Compilation.......2004-12-24

This is it; this is the music that liberated thousands of my fellow Northern Californians. There's some truly kick-ass $hit on here. And while the styles range tremendously, every song on this album is good. And then some are GREAT, like "Pay Salvation" by Los Olvidados or "Breakout" by UXB. If you like Maximum Rock and Roll, you will love this album! This is a monument to nonconformity and I highly recommend it.

4 out of 5 stars The Oven is my Friend.......2003-05-24

This album was just amazing! While most of it was predictable top-notch 80's hardcore, there was also some cool noise and other stuff mixed in. Almost every song on this is great. It reflects the anger and intensity that existed back then. The Reagan Cultural Doctrine did not leave room for a few of us in scattered pockets in the US, and this music made an awful decade tolerable. This record was my soundtrack for delinquency.

Having lived in the era, the CD seems like a time capsule. Not essential unless you want a history lesson and can deal with all of the era-specific references. The Church Police song was the best one and it was not even hardcore.

5 out of 5 stars A slice of early 80's Americana.......2002-09-17

No, it ain't the music of back-woods hillbillies or lonesome cowboys out on the range, but it's no less authentic or expressive of a unique moment in American culture. Perhaps we are still too close to this era to recognize what a spontaneous and authentic musical phenomenon took place in the days before hardcore punk became mired in its own cliches and formulas. I myself was a part of this scene, and my band, the Church Police, is one of the 49 groups from California and Nevada that fill this CD. Not all of the bands, but many, were what I call "suburban subdivision bedroom bands," because that's where we played some of our best music and, in a few cases, where some of these recordings were made.

It's hard to imagine a compilation that could have done a better job at representing what was happening in the punk scene at the time. There are a few of the big name S.F. bands, the Dead Kennedys and Flipper, that were main players in that era, but they don't dominate the collection (though Flipper's cut is probably the longest.) Instead, what strikes me most vividly now is the fresh sound and brashness of these bands. It's kind of funny listening to them, such a blend of hyped emotions, serious anger and alienation, but tempered by irony because most of the bands knew that they really weren't gonna go anywhere as far as a "career" was concerned. We were as interested in getting into the shows for free ("put me on your guest list!") and maybe winding up the night with 25 or 50 bucks in our pockets after all was said and done. You gotta love the spontaneity and craziness that these kids brought to their music. It would be incredible to have a reunion of these bands, not that too many of them are doing much with music these days, I imagine. I don't listen to a whole lot of underground hardcore these days, but if you want a top-notch sampler of the "real stuff" I recommend this without reservation.

5 out of 5 stars The epitome of punk rock compilations.......2002-01-16

This comp proves once and for all that American punk rock bands beat the living sh#t out of most of their British counterparts. Next time you run into someone who thinks that Fat Wreck Chords/Warped Tour bands are punk rock, force them to listen to this compilation. It will either convert them or make them realize that they don't like punk rock. Buy this now!

Music CD:

  1. From Bleeding Hands ~ Turmoil
  2. The Metallic-Era, Vol. 1 ~ Metallica
  3. Use Your Illusion II ~ Guns N' Roses
  4. Leave Scars ~ Dark Angel
  5. Still Life ~ Opeth
  6. Drug Problem That Never Existed ~ Mondo Generator
  7. Earth.Revolt ~ Deadlock
  8. The Ballads III ~ Axel Rudi Pell
  9. Lights Out in Tokyo: Live ~ Ufo
  10. Sarabands ~ Corpus Delecti

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Finest Arvest of ~ Wurzels

You Wanted the Best You Got the Best ~ Kiss

Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz ~ Pretty Boy Floyd

Trio ~ V%C3%A4sen

Acústico MTV ~ Capital Inicial

Guerra de las Puntas, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

Ready For Bed

Rant N' Rave With the Stray Cats ~ Stray Cats

Classics at the Movies: Love

Danger! ~ Rochelle Fleming