Punk Sucks

"Punk Sucks" is a California punk rock compilation album, released by Southern California-based Liberation Records in 1995.

The album title is believed to have been derived from an obscure t-shirt design produced by a local independent record store in Costa Mesa, California: Noise-Noise-Noise.

Because of its sudden overwhelming national popularity, many credit this album for introducing a new generation of fans to punk music in the mid 1990's. Fans of F.Y.P and Naked Aggression, who were generally considered up to that point more underground hardcore punk bands with limited followings, allegedly noticed an increase in mainstream "jock" attendance at their shows shortly after the release of this CD. But actual evidence that this compilation was a direct influence of that change in crowd make-up has been disputed, as the entire punk scene at the time was changing in demographics due to increased popularity. Regardless, the influence of this album in introducing a new generation of fans to punk rock is not disputed.

Track listing

#Pennywise - "Slowdown"
#No Use for a Name - "Soulmate"
#Ten Foot Pole - "Racer X"
#Sublime - "All You Need"
#Home Grown - "Face in the Crowd"
#Voodoo Glow Skulls - "Descendent's Song"
#White Kaps - "Germs"
#88 Fingers Louie - "Too Many"
#Neighbors - "Sometimes"
#H.F.L. - "Old School Pride"
#Everready - "I Hate You"
#Bollweevils - "New Dreams"
#Unwritten Law - "Crazy Poway Kids"
#Good Riddance - "Mother Superior"
#blink-182 - "M+M's"
#Strung Out - "Support Your Troops"
#Naked Aggression - "Right Now"
#Jughead's Revenge - "49 And 61"
#Funeral Oration - "Damn You"
#Overlap - "Song #9"
#Bouncing Souls - "The Ballad Of Johnny X"
#Boris the Sprinkler - "All My Time"
#Glue Gun - "Skate The Haight"
#Quincy Punx - "Cereal Killer"
#Fed Up! - "Can't Figure It"
#Straight Faced - "Omit"
#F.Y.P - "2000 A.D."
#Fighting Cause - "Bummers"
#Supernovice - "Out On The Grass"
#The Living End - "Deadbeat"