Scum of the Earth punk compilation (LP)
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February 3, 2020
Start Date:
August 6, 2019
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Oddly enough, SOTE vol 1&2 don't really register as garage comps, nor as consumer guides or party soundtracks or, don't know really, they are things unto themselves, works of abject originality, like the Cramps, or a Kurt Schwitters collage.
Both volumes positively shimmer with punk rock gnosis: that rare insight that it is all the same anyway and that the transient nature of the everyday means that the blasts spilled on the gramophone are something between us and said blasts, hence it don't really matter what the band wears, what decade they are from, their race or their socio-economical strata. Both volumes are loosely divided into a punk-side and a general pre('60's)-punk weirdness side, that are put together with such an insight into the craft of compiling that the natural flow of the comps is so goddamn 24-karat that I think I have the sequence memorized through repeated play over the years.
