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Warped Music II (SideOneDummy)
Reviewed by Shaun Dale

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If sounds are more important than shoes and skateboards in your life, this might be all the Warped Tour you'll ever need. Well, maybe not. You'll have to provide your own mosh pit if you need bruises to make the experience complete, and recreating the volume of the live show would threaten the integrity of most home speakers, but just the same, this is twenty three tracks of the best of contemporary punk and if the show didn't come to your town last year you can grab at least some of the excitement this way.

This is a coast to coast overview, from the NYC hardcore of H2O to the SoCal assault of Pennywise with lots and lots in between. If you're among those who haven't been paying much attention since '77, there's ample evidence here that punk's alive and well in the waning days of the nineties. If you've been keeping up, you already knew that, and you know these bands, and you want this CD.

Track List: H2O/Old Skool Recess * Dropkick Murphys/Going Strong * Suicidal Tendencies/We Are Family * Pennywise/Just For You * 98 Mute/ Perfect Sense * MXPX/Party, My House, Be There * 22 Jacks/Somewhere In Between * Less Than Jake/Losing Streak * Deviates/One Day * 7 Seconds/ Here We Go Again Kids * Good Riddance/Shadow Of Defeat * Sick Of It All/ Guilty * Unwritten Law/Lonesome * Riverfenix/Speechless * Clowns For Progress/Go Ask Charley! * Molotov/Gimme Tha Power * Voodoo Glow Skulls/ Symptomatic * Amazing Crowns/Invitation To Alienation * The Aquabats/Why Rock * Mustard Plug/Throw A Bomb * Assorted Jellybeans/www.II.Booshduck: do:dis.A.J.B..com * Frenzal Rhomb/Never Has So Much Fun * Blink 182/ Apple Shampoo

(C) 1998 - Shaun Dale