Suburban Annihilation – The California Hardcore Explosion SEALED 2LP Color Vinyl

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This aggressive collection draws from California’s rich history of punk, more specifically hardcore: a new sound that eschewed melody for intensity, a sound that took punk harder and faster, a sound intrinsically American. Whilst hardcore was also burning over on the East Coast, it was in California that it had ignited and sprawled, a sonic punch in the face that raged socio-political disdain and total abandonment for commercialism, fueled by a crumbling American Dream and the collapse of family values.

Suburban Annihilation takes you from the major cities, to the coastal towns, to the SoCal suburbs, showcasing some the most important bands of the West Coast. Blasting off with the Adolescents ‘I Hate Children’, it heads from the year zero of Middle Class’s ‘Out Of Vogue’ to the surf punk of Agent Orange’s ‘Bloodstains’, from the blues tinged outlaw of The Gun Club’s ‘She’s Like Heroin to Me’ to the classic anti-anthems: ‘Live Fast Die Young’ by the Circle Jerks, lifted from their seminal Group Sex album, and the hardcore staple ‘California Über Alles’ by the Dead Kennedys. Also present are so many other bands integral to the era: T.S.O.L, Wasted Youth, Germs, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, Negative Trend, Flipper and many more.

Though the music was designed to repel, this historical document has been lovingly designed to remind us that this genre created some of the most immediate and acutely-realised music ever produced. Making this collection of choice cuts essential for long-time fans of hardcore and punk, just as those new and inquisitive about one of the most angry and pissed off genres to have given birth in America.

Product includes

Limited edition MONDO exclusive 2xLP ‘AMERICAN DAMAGE COLOURED VINYL'

MONDO exclusive Sleeve Design

Tracklist co-curated by Henry Rollins

Liner notes by Lisa Fancher of Frontier Records

Bio by author/journalist Benjamin Myers

Booklet featuring the images of legendary punk photographer Edward Colver 

Tracklist

ADOLESCENTS I Hate Children

MIDDLE CLASS Out Of Vogue

AGENT ORANGE Bloodstains

DEAD KENNEDYS Chemical Warfare

SIMPLETONES I Like Drugs

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Fascist Pig

T.S.O.L. Abolish Government/Silent Majority

CIRCLE JERKS Beverly Hills

WASTED YOUTH Fuck Authority

THE GUN CLUB She’s Like Heroin To Me

REDD KROSS Burn Out

CHINA WHITE Live In Your Eyes

CIRCLE JERKS Live Fast Die Young

NEGATIVE TREND How Ya Feeling?

EDDIE AND THE SUBTITLES American Society

CHANNEL 3 Manzanar

FLIPPER Ha Ha Ha

RIKK AGNEW O.C. Life

SOCIAL DISTORTION Playpen

DEAD KENNEDYS California Über Alles

SHATTERED FAITH I Love America

THE WEIRDOS Helium Bar

MIDDLE CLASS Insurgence

GERMS Communist Eyes

ADOLESCENTS Kids Of The Black Hole