List of punk rock compilation albums
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This is a list of punk rock compilation albums. 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.
Multiple-band albums
[edit]Vereinigte Staaten
[edit]Album | Released | Label | Description |
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American Youth Report | 1982 LP, 1994 CD | Bomp! Records | Mostly Southern California hardcore |
The Blasting Concept [1] | 1983 LP | SST Records[1] | SST artists, mostly Southern California hardcore |
Can of Pork [2] | 1992 2xLP, 1994 CD | Lookout! Records[2] | 29 bands mostly from California. Also features bands from other parts of the U.S. |
The Decline of Western Civilization (soundtrack) | 1981 LP, 1996 CD | Warner Bros. | Live performances from the movie. Mostly L.A. hardcore. |
Fat Music | Various 1994-2010 | Fat Wreck Chords | Various bands on the Fat Wreck Chords roster |
Flex Your Head | 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 | 1981 LP, 1998 CD | Time Bomb/Bemis Brain | Side 1 hardcore, side 2 deathrock |
Let Them Eat Jellybeans! | 1981 LP | Alternative Tentacles | Side 1 hardcore, side 2 various genres. |
Nardcore | 1984 LP, 2002 CD | Mystic Records | Hardcore from Oxnard, California. An example of Mystic's "local" records. |
International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation | 1984 2-LP, 1997 2-CD | R Radical Records (1984) New Red Archives (1997) |
55 punk and hardcore bands from 13 countries around the world. |
New York Thrash [3] | 1982 cassette, 1998 CD | ROIR[3] | CD has additional tracks. Punk and hardcore. |
Not So Quiet on the Western Front | 1982 LP, 1999 CD | Alternative Tentacles | 47 bands, mostly Northern California hardcore. |
Punk-O-Rama [4] | Various 1994-2005 | Epitaph Records | Series of low-cost albums featuring Epitaph artists. Early issues are mostly punk. |
Punkzilla | Various 2001 | Nitro Records | Compilation album consisting of songs by bands on Nitro Records. |
Red Scare Industries: Ten Years Of Your Dumb Bullshit | Various 2014 CD & LP | Red Scare Industries | 17 artists from the Red Scare roster, unreleased material |
Rock Against Bush | Various 2004 | Fat Wreck Chords | Punk rock songs against George Bush. |
Rodney on the ROQ | Various | Posh Boy Records | Series of three. Punk and New Wave as popularized by the radio program. |
Something to Believe in | 1984 | BYO Records | 17 Bands, mostlry early 80's hardcore |
Streets | 1977 LP | Beggars Banquet Records | Early punk compilation (mostly from UK) |
The Thing That Ate Floyd | 1988 LP, 2002 CD | Lookout! Records | East Bay punk and hardcore. |
This Is Boston, Not L.A. | 1982 LP | Modern Method Records | Early Boston hardcore. CD version also includes the Unsafe at Any Speed compilation EP. |
Turn It Around! | 1987 2x 7", 1991 12" | Maximumrocknroll Very Small Records |
12 bands from the 924 Gilman Street project in Berkeley, California. |
Vereinigtes Königreich
[edit]Album | Released | Label | Description |
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Raw War (The World Of Punk)[5] | 1983 CS | Xcentric Noise Records | International compilation with bands from Brazil, Canada, Finland, Holland, Italy, Norway, and the U.K. |
Single-band albums
[edit]The Clash
[edit]The Cramps
[edit]Germs
[edit]Ramones
[edit]- All the Stuff (And More) Volume One
- All the Stuff (And More) Volume Two
- Best of the Chrysalis Years
- The Best of the Ramones
- The Chrysalis Years
- Essential (Ramones album)
- Greatest Hits (Ramones album)
- Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
- Lifestyles of the Ramones
- Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits
- Masters of Rock: Ramones
- Weird Tales of the Ramones
The Reverend Horton Heat
[edit]The Saints
[edit]By punk rock subgenre
[edit]Garage punk
[edit]Protopunk
[edit]- A-Square (Of Course): The Story of Michigan's Legendary A-Square Records
- Green Crystal Ties, Volume 7: Mind-Expanding Punk of the 60s
- No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion
- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
- SEX: Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die
Punk jazz
[edit]John Zorn compilation albums
[edit]Ska punk
[edit]NOFX compilation albums
[edit]- 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
- The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
- The Longest EP
- Maximum Rocknroll (album)
See also
[edit]- Lists of albums
- Mystic Records, a label specializing in compilation albums
- Punk rock subgenres
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood Talks About His Love for Disney and Old Musicals". Vice. November 21, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ^ a b "A Brief History of Krupted Peasant Farmerz". Metroactive. July 17, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ^ a b Nadler, B. (2014). Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981-1991: Scene History Series. Scene History. Microcosm Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-62106-908-9. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ^ Punknews.org (April 29, 2017). "Various Artists - Old Skars and Upstarts". Punknews.org. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ^ "Blast From the Past: Xcentric Noise". MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL. 2015-08-04. Retrieved 2019-03-13.