Got to listen to all of it yesterday, and wow, sounds real good, both creatively and technically; nice, even mastering job. Very rockin stuff.

Giving it my first listen now.. helping get through a tedious morning at work. There's some really great stuff on this.

This is too good, listening to it right now! It's fun to discover one great band after another!

just finishing listening to it for the first time. Great job! Lots of cool stuff that I'll be hanging on to. Our band will get around to submitting something in the coming months - working on getting a good enough recording together. Thanks for all the work on the hideout.

Hell Crab City just kicked my ass! The comp is the tops! Thanks kopper!

There seems to be something wrong with my page. I can't sign out, leave garage punk to try again, change my profile theme, or find the compilation download. Every time I close the site, and then come back, I'm still signed in. So whatever you can do... I tried sending this through mail and chat, and it still will do nothing. Sorry to do this through a forum, but I can't post anywhere else.

I'm having my first listen to Volume One... it's excellent! Much more variety in 'style department' than I expected. A wide range of Garage Punk, something for every lover of FUZZ.

Hats off to Kopper, so far so good!

Just wanted to say thanks for including my band, Undercover Bonobos, on the series. I think we're on #3, or was it 4? Can't find the email. But, thanks! Going to grab #1 now.

Big Bonobo love,
G. Wood

hey, kopper...

can you let us know about how many new members since this morning?

guess many people joined to download the record for free! :)

Hell yeah! Did I say this before? Hipping people in America and Europe to buy it (and review it...).

km: Hey, thank you! All I did is smear some ink on the cover :)

km said:

Love it!  Thanks to kopper, Idon Mine, and all the bands! 

i guess i'm not considered a member, or i'm just missing something. it says it's under the about drop down box, but i just get an old post from you. oh well, i'll try another day.

How closely did you read the instructions, Whitey?

Whitey Allin said:

I know dumb ass is already applied..But I'm not finding the download for the compilation.

I know dumb ass is already applied..But I'm not finding the download for the compilation.

Well, kopper, I did listen to it, and I did find some tracks that I really liked.  They were 1, 2, 4, 16, 17 (Love the song title, BTW), 19, 20, 21 and 22.  I especially appreciate the Cynics being included in the first compilation, since they're now my favorite home town band (Most of my other favorite local bands are now defunct).

I'm looking forward to all the subsequent compilations.

Found it on Amazon! It'd be cool if some people could review it there (wink, wink):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VTRTDC

Playing it now! This comp kills!!!! Congratulations to everyone concerned!!!!

(Oh Yeah, and it's coming up fine on Amazon in the UK!)

Congratulations on the release of the compilation album!  I look forward to listening to it, and future tunes!

Just downloading! Thanks a lot!

Hey there Axel! Ill write you some lyrics! I really enjoy it, so if you are serious, send me some music and get in touch!

Best, Chris

Is this for real? That's the funniest post I've seen in a long time.

I look at myself as a musician, not a poet. So I don't think too much about lyrics ( I even don't know the whole lyrics of bunch of my favorite songs). Sometime when I'm really down I can write some bitter words but that's it really. One time I wrote lyrics about wanting to have sex with one of my teachers, but you can't use that over and over....

So how do you folks write good lyrics? How do you get in the mood? Without drugs or alcohol?

I'm interested...

I never really cared much for the Clash, but their first record fits fine next to any other classic 'punk' LP of that era (though not next to my records). The rest of their career was a fine adventure in song writing and recording, but they were more 'punk' in their attitude of not being boxed into the genre than what we often classify as 'punk' music. They sure grew out of their bondage pants, and I'll give 'em credit for that!

Here is an explanation of the word 'punk' -
"worthless person" (especially a young hoodlum), 1917, probably from punk kid "criminal's apprentice," underworld slang first attested 1904 (with overtones of "catamite"). Ultimately from punk "prostitute, harlot, strumpet," first recorded 1596, of unknown origin. For sense shift from "harlot" to "homosexual," cf. gay. By 1923 used generally for "young boy, inexperienced person" (originally in show business, e.g. punk day, circus slang from 1930, "day when children are admitted free"). The verb meaning "to back out of" is from 1920. The "young criminal" sense is no doubt the inspiration in punk rock first attested 1971 (in a Dave Marsh article in "Creem"), popularized 1976.

"Garage" isn't about being a "garage band," it's related to the roots of the music you play, i.e., '60s garage. Yes, originally the term was applied to the explosion of bands in the US and elsewhere in '65-'67 who mostly played in their garages. That's how the term originated, but it has become more than that and is now a specific style of rock'n'roll (indeed, a more pure form of rock'n'roll than you will hear anywhere). So yes, mainstream bands can play garage rock or garage punk. They're styles of music, not descriptions of where bands practice.

John Paul Jackson said:

Great point.  the media has to make "labels" like "garage"so they can write their stories.  So labels are just made up, they dont exist.  but maybe its ok to say "Oh this is a garage rock band." so you can describe it to your friend or whatever.  I love talkin bout this sh***t lol 

Old School Hero said:

Good Point. And now to open up a whole new can of worms...This also makes me wonder...are you still a Garage Band if you enter the mainstream?

Mike Humsgreen said:

What do you think of the whole 'sell out' thing, when a band gets too big for DIY to still be possible? For me Clash, the Ramones, Sex Pistols were all punk but at some point whatever 'punk' was has gotten badly lost that you can now (for years) buy Tshirts with these bands on at Top Man.

i loikes the clash. i love their atrocious triple-album sandanista! i loved the 101ers(i first scored some naughty in the elgin back in my youthful shenanigans days). i view things from this side of the atlantic. maybe punk rock is a musical genre that just haphazardly evolved from rock'nroll antecedents, without any sort of ideological agenda, or fuzzy liberal humanitarianism, or anti-establishment behind it? maybe it is about fuzzed-out guitars, and frat-boy jack-ass attitudes by people who go on to work on wall street? but it's a pity!

I saw ? & The Mysterians last year in New York at a free show (that also featured The Gories, Death and Mitch Ryder) The highlight is when Ronnie Spector joined them onstage for "96 Tears" I wrote about that show here: http://steveterrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/terrells-tune-up-what-i-did-on-my.html And I wrote about The T.A.M.I. show HERE: http://steveterrell.blogspot.com/2010/04/terrells-tuneup-tamis-in-love.html