Various Artists - Suburban Annihilation: The California Hardcore Explosion / From The City To The Beach: 1978-1983 (Limited Edition)

Tracklist co-curated by Henry Rollins
Booklet include biographies & images of legendary punk photographer Edward Colver

Futurismo present their new anthology series: Altered Vision, beginning with Suburban Annihilation: The California Hardcore Explosion / From The City To The Beach: 1978-1983.

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Though the music was designed to repel, this historical document has been lovingly designed to remind us that this genre created some of the most immediate and acutely-realised music ever produced.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.

Tracklist

1. I Hate Children - Adolescents
2. Out Of Vogue - Middle Class
3. Bloodstains - Agent Orange
4. Chemical Warfare - Dead Kennedys
5. I Like Drugs - Simpletones
6. Fascist Pig - Suicidal Tendencies
7. Abolish Government/Silent Majority - T.S.O.L.
8. Beverly Hills - Circle Jerks
9. Fuck Authority - Wasted Youth
10. She's Like Heroin To Me - The Gun Club
11. Burn Out - Red Kross
12. Live In Your Eyes - China White
13. Live Fast Die Young - Circle Jerks
14. How Ya Feeling? - Negative Trend
15. American Society - Eddie And The Subtitles
16. Manzanar - Channel 3
17. Ha Ha Ha - Flipper
18. O.C. Life - Rikk Agnew
19. Playpen - Social Distortion
20. California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
21. I Love America - Shattered Faith
22. Helium Bar - The Weirdos
23. Insurgence - Middle Class
24. Communist Eyes - Germs
25. Kids Of The Black Hole - Adolescents