Various Artists-RAFR (1995)


 

Artist: Various Artists (The Padded Cell, D-Generation, The Smugglers, Fur, Mad Daddys, Snap-Her, The Living End, Skull Control, The Humpers, The Grey Spikes, Satan's Cheerleaders, The Candy Snatchers, New York Loose, Clowns For Progress, Trick Babys, Wax, Black Train Jack, Ultraviolet Eye, The Raging Lamos, Permanent Green Light, The Odd Numbers, Teengenerate, Special Head, Anus The Menace)

Title:  RAFR

Label: Flipside

Format: CD

Cat: FLIP 69

Year of Release: 1995

Country and Year of Edition: US 1995

Sell Price: $3.71 VG+/VG+ 7/21/24

Discogs Last Sold: 4/7/24 VG/VG+ $2.76

Low: $1.88

Median: $4.12

Average: $4.36

High: $8.00

Current low price: $3.75

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16

Have/Want: 110/32

Where Sold: Pasadena, MD

Time it took to sell:  11 years

Where and When Purchased: used Kims dollar shelf

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Flipside Magazine was one of the most crucial magazines when I got into independent punk and hardcore music in the mid-80's.   They also had compilation albums that were among the first I bought in the genre.   Flipside had a three volume series from 1995-2000 called Rock and Fucking Roll. This one continued the tradition in the mid-90's covering many bands that were in the NYC scene they covered that would play Continental and CB's like the Candy Snatchers, D-Generation, Clowns For Progress or NY Loose.  I was surprised Jessie Malin had a Rose Tattoo style vocal on the track "Scorch." 

This also has bands I bought around the time like Teengenerate from Japan, the Smugglers from Vancouver, The Humpers from Long Beach or the Mad Daddys from Jersey.

However the tracks that stand out on this are mostly led by ladies in bands I didn't really remember.  Things like Fur "My Beautiful Wreck" and Snap-Her's "Crack Pipe Johnny" made my ears perk up.  Another thing was the seemingly out of place psych-pop paisley underground LA  band Permanent Green Light track "The Goddess Bunny."  

On the other end of the spectrum Black Train Jack's plaintive "Thank You" sounds like a bad Descendents/7 Seconds track on the emo end of the spectrum just before the cutoff point where those type of bands became top 40 mall punk.

State of the art punk rock 1995.

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