VARIOUS ARTISTS
Punk-O-Rama IV (Epitaph)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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Ah yes, it's that time of the year again, when Epitaph Records fires off a low cost ($4.99) sampler of their best from the previous year. We're talkin' bang for the buck, here. 25 tunes by some of today's very best punk bands for five measly bucks. Pennywise, Rancid, Dwarves, H20, Gas Huffer, Bad Religion, Pulley, Agnostic Front, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and even new Epitaph signee Tom Waites are all here. Not a bad lineup, and those are just a few of 'em. There is one small complaint. This is an interactive CD. Neat, huh? Everybody's doing it. Except this one immediately jumps into the install shield without asking you if you even want it to install anything on your system. All it's installing is a fancy graphic menu, a few band photos and biographies, but it's nice to feel you have the option on such things. (You do, of course. Just say "cancel," man!) Still, getting these 25 songs by these 25 bands for these 20 quarters makes up for that little hassle.

Track List:

Fight It (Pennywise) * Second Best (Pulley) * Faster Than The World (H20) * 1998 (Rancid) * The Will The Message (Bombshell Rocks) * Hopeless Romantic (The Bouncing Souls) * The Getaway (Ten Foot Pole) * Think The World (All) * Snap Decision (New Bomb Turks) * Generator (Bad Religion) * I Will Deny (Dwarves) * Let's Do This (Straight Faced) * It's My Life (Agnostic Front) * Weakend Revolution (59 Times The Pain) * Summerholidy vs Punkroutine (Refused) * The Always Come Back (Voodoo Glow Skulls) * Twisted (Zeke) * Don't Panic (Gas Huffer) * Big In Japan (Tom Waites) * Someone To Love (Gentleman Jack Grisham) * A Life's Story (Union 13) * Picture This (98 Mute) * Lucky (Osker) * Mr. Clean (Millencolin) * Kids Of The K Hole (NOFX)

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