I'll ride this groove a little while longer and put up a pretty good series, "Give 'Em The Boot", which features bands from Hellcat Records......Hellcat is headed by Tim Armstrong of Rancid, thus the name of the series (From the lyrics of the kick-ass Rancid song "Roots Radical". Again, fairly obscure stuff here (although there are appearances by Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, maybe a couple of other fairly well known acts).....Volume 1 was released in 1997, Volume 6 was released ten years later 2007.....apparently there is a Vo7, released in 2009, I do not have it, have never heard it, and cannot find it on Pirate Bay.....CALLING ALL FRIENDS OF THE BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'll put up Volumes 1-3 tonight and Volumes 4-6 tomorrow, hopefully one of you kind souls has volume 7 that you will share with the rest of us. Interesting how much things have changed/remained the same on the scene over the ten year period. Volume 1, besides the aforementioned Rancid and Dropkick Murphys, has killer cuts from Voodoo Glow Skulls, Choking Victim, Skinnerbox, and Union 13's own version of "Roots Radical". Volume 2 adds Leftover Crack (just GOTTA love that name!), The Distillers (whom you should know!), and lots more, while Volume 3 adds a track from Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros. This is a very good set, fans of Rancid will flip over these somewhat-Rancid like acts, just listening to some random tracks from these (first three) discs today, and this shit rocks out as hard as I remember. Give 'em the boot, ya know I'm a radical!
VOLUME 1-RANCID-The Brothels/02 THE SLACKERS-Watch This/03 HEPCAT-Can't Wait/04 THE PIETASTERS-New Breed/05 THE BUSINESS-Spirit of the Streets/06 VOODOO GLOW SKULLS-Los Hombres No Lloran/07 DROPKICK MURPHYS-Barroom Heroes/08 SKINNERBOX-Does He Love You/09 THE UPBEAT-17@17 10/STUBBORN ALL STARS-Open Season/11 THE GADJITS-Beautiful Girl/12 UNION 13-Roots Radical/13 US BOMBS-Jaks/14 SWINGIN' UTTERS-Fifteenth and T/15 THE SKATALITES-Latin Goes Ska/16 THE SILENCERS-Policeman/17 PRESSURE POINT-Heart Like a Lion/18 CHOKING VICTIM-Infested/19 F-MINUS-No Time/20 THE DAVE HILLYARD ROCKSTEADY 7-PlaytimeVOLUME 2-01 INTRO/02 DROPKICK MURPHYS-The Gang's All Here/03 HEPCAT-Riding the Region/04 RANCID-If the Kids are United/05 TIGER ARMY-Nocturnal/06 THE PIETASTERS-Can't Stand It/07 NOCTURNAL-Tell Me What You're Feeling/08 US BOMBS-Goin' Out/09 THE GADJITS-Bad Gadjit/10 THE DISTILLERS- LA Girl/11 BUJU BANTON-Misty Days/12 DAVID HILLYARD ROCKSTEADY 7-The Fool/13 BUCCANEER-Bruk Out/14 THE SLACKERS-Have the Time/15 CHOKING VICTIM-Crack Rock Steady/16 F-MINUS-Forget Yourself/17 LEFTOVER CRACK-Crack City Rockers/18 MOUTHWASH-Fools Gold/19 INDK-Rent For Sale/20 VANITY 5-Flight of the Phoenicians/21 RANCID-Life Won't Wait
MacCumhail/03 US BOMBS-Die Alone/04 RANCID-Golden Gate Fields/05 LARS FREDRICKSON & THE BASTARDS-Skunx/06 F-MINUS-Suburban BLight/07 AGNOSTIC FRONT-Liberty/08 THE NERVE AGENTS-The Poisoning/09 DUANE PETERS & THE HUNNS-Amera Nights/10 ROGER MIRET & THE DISASTERS-Give em the Boot/11 LEFTOVER CRACK-Athiest Anthem/12 NEKROMANTIX-Who Killed the Cheerleader/13 TIGER ARMY-Power of Moonlite/14 DEVILS BRIGADE-Vampire Girl/15 THE SLACKERS-Information Error/16 JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS-Global a Go-Go/17 KING DJANGO-Precipice/18 THE PIETASTERS-Nothing Good To Eat/19 MOUTHWASH-We Evolve/20 THE GADJITS-One Stone's Throw (From a Riot)/21 HEPCAT-Beautiful
Links be up when they be up, PLEASE if any of you FRIENDS OF THE BLOG are in posession of Volume 7 and are in a position to share it with the rest of us, please notify me in the comments section or via email......