Various - Let There Be Singles. (The Imports)

This is an out-of-print double-CD collection of 7" singles released by Alternative Tentacles during the 90s - a time when the label moved past hardcore punk and was releasing all kinds of diferent stuff, represented here by several great noise-rock bands (Kepone, Pachinko, Buzzkill), a few Ramones members side projects (C.J. Ramone's Los Gusanos and Joey Ramone's not-that-hot collaboration with his brother, Sibling Rivalry), a couple of uneventful punk rock'n'roll bands (Tribe 8, White Trash Debutantes - notable at least for the lyric "Vanilla Ice is the only person capable of insulting two races just by opening his mouth" - I paraphrase but I have no intention of listening to the song again), some weird ethnic-y stuff (Life After Life, the excellent Radiopuhelimet), and two guises of Nomeansno (a fun Hanson Brothers single and a regular NMN one, unfortunately containing the same versions of songs readily available on the "Sex Mad" LP). All in all it's a rather schizophrenic listen and I don't think anyone will like all the bands on offer here, but if you're into a noisier and weirder take on punk rock, you should at least like some of it.

Disc One:

1. Los Gusanos - I'd Love to Save the World (2:45)
2. Los Gusanos - Keeping Time (2:41)
3. Los Gusanos - Know What I Got Here (3:06)
4. Los Gusanos - Ride (2:57)
5. Life After Life - Harrahya (4:18)
6. Life After Life - Doors (4:55)
7. Life After Life - Mexico (4:13)
8. Pachinko - Bobble Head (2:43)
9. Pachinko - Lesbians or Lovers (1:08)
10. Pachinko - Get Along Gang (3:56)
11. Molotov Cocktail - Drive (3:08)
12. Molotov Cocktail - Aliens (3:02)
13. Molotov Cocktail - Jerks in Progress (4:06)
14. Molotov Cocktail - Tcts (1:28)
15. Buzzkill - Fuck Your Band (1:20)
16. Buzzkill - Meat (1:23)
17. Buzzkill - Thick Slab Meat (1:42)
18. Buzzkill - My Own Self (2:11)
19. Tribe 8 - Wrong Bathroom (3:16)
20. Tribe 8 - Radar Love (live) (4:14)
21. Tribe 8 - Ice Cream Man (live) (2:43)
22. Tribe 8 - Manipulate (live) (1:46)
23. The Hanson Brothers - Brad (2:58)
24. The Hanson Brothers - Hey, There Goes That Kid (1:59)

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Disc Two:

1. Kepone - 295 (2:03)
2. Kepone - Phobic (2:46)
3. Radiopuhelimet - Säälimättömän Ovela Mies (1:52)
4. Radiopuhelimet - Optiolaulu (1:57)
5. Radiopuhelimet - Paha Pouli (1:55)
6. Radiopuhelimet - Jäämeri (2:06)
7. Radiopuhelimet - Palaan Pohjoiseen (Back to the North) (3:12)
8. Sibling Rivalry - See My Way (4:11)
9. Sibling Rivalry - On the Beach (3:02)
10. Sibling Rivalry - Don't Be So Strange (2:25)
11. White Trash Debutantes - Bill Dakota (2:41)
12. White Trash Debutantes - Bad in Bed (2:38)
13. Hack - Rawhead (2:38)
14. Hack - The Promise (3:47)
15. Hack - Everything (5:52)
16. Nomeansno - Dad (3:03)
17. Nomeansno - Revenge (5:17)
18. Tragic Mulatto - Whole Lotta Love (6:42)

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