ABCs of Punk

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Plenty in the works: posts of great ol' records, yeah, but enhanced with contributions from the bands' members. I won't name those bands until I have the material in hand, but for clues, some appear on the ABCs of Punk compilation Richmond, Va.'s Whirled Records released in, I think, 1997.

Per the concept, each of the alphabet's 26 letters are represented. I guess the X-Rays were a shoo-in, as perhaps was Quadiliacha because the Queers didn't really fit the bill, but selections for their respective first initials included Action Patrol, Braid and Cornelius onto Rye Coalition, Sleepytime Trio and The Fresh-O-Matics (yes, that's the 'T' band and that's cheating), et cetera.

Eagle Bravo's cut, I will note, is a supreme cover of Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out."

I consider Whirled Records one of the time period's better labels, having released, for example, Action Patrol's full-length and other comps including Attaining the Supreme, which bore one of the funniest ever concepts for cover art. I'll get to that one one day, but for the moment:

Enjoy the ABCs of Punk. Here's part one. And here's part two.

TITLE: ABCs of Punk
LABEL: Whirled Records
YEAR: 1997
TRACKS:
Action Patrol - Benign
Braid - Bridge to Canada
Cornelius - Novels of Our Grandfathers
Doc Hopper - Iron Fist
Eagle Bravo - Steppin' Out
Four Hundred Years - Sequence
Gus - Hand to Mouth
Hellnation - Information Barrier
In/Humanity - Super Plan B
J Church - Socialist Newspaper
Kerosene 454 - T-Minus 100
Less Than Jake - Son of Dick
Men's Recovery Project - Fresh Frankness
Norman Mayer Group - Albeit L
Oblivion - Hey Chewbacca
Pezz - Mokunker
Quadiliacha - Ben Burton Park
Rye Coalition - We Have Ridden
Sleepytime Trio - Flake City
The Fresh-O-Matics - Death on I-85
Unsettled - Genocide
Vanderbuilderass - I Think I Can See
Wesley Willis - I Can't Drive
X-Rays - Totalled Baby
(Young) Pioneers - The Marching Blue Ants (Of Strongarm Robbery)
Zoinks! - Pedestal