You Call This Music?! Volume 2

You Call This Music?! Volume 2 (2002) is the second volume in a series of punk music compilations released by Southern California based Geykido Comet Records. Its cover artwork is by NYC artist Fly.

The series title lampoons the Top-40 offerings of the "Now! That's What I Call Music" series.

Excerpt from an OC Weekly SPOTLIGHT review

Everybody has an idea about what is and isn’t punk, but there has always been one sure way to test for authenticity: real punk is never easy to listen to. Instead, it’s a genre that has always demanded something out of an audience, from self-examination to a skeptical perspective toward authority to a willingness to abandon any firm definition of punk rock in the first place. And whether poppy, garage-y, grind-y or arty, the bands on this GC Records compilation are punk rock. You Call This Music?! Volume 2 has the feel of a mix tape made by an enthusiastic punk fan with good taste in energetic and boundary-bending music: most of the bands present a variation on the tool-shed punk ethos (grinding guitars, pounding drums, sandpaper vocals), but several dare to add electronic drums and synthesizers to the mix. Standouts include the always energetic and catchy Toys That Kill, Anaheim garage/pop band the Lipstick Pickups, soundscapers Zero Content, the neo-new wave of Subincision, and Norwegian power pop band Pornshot. It’s impressive that the wide variety of punk subgenres presented on this disc can be put back to back without the unfocused feel endemic to so many multiband compilations. The bands here are unified by passion and a sense of fun, which holds them together much more tightly than whether or not they play rock punk, garage & roll, or whichever silly descriptor you want to use. For only $3, there’s more than enough good music to justify purchasing this CD. It’s the cheapest re-definition of punk you’re gonna find.

--Rex Reason, 2002 (taken from [http://www.gcrecords.com/releases/gccd008.htm Official Website which provides all press reviews of album] )

Track listing

1 Intro

2 East Arcadia -Focus

3 Toys That Kill -Little Bit Stranger

4 The Grand Prixx -Ballad Of Sara And Anna

5 Jag Offs -Porchcore

6 Happy Campers -Reminisce

7 Nazis from Mars -Animal Farm 2084

8 Intro5pect -Sustainable Yield

9 ESL?! -Tycho Brahe

10 Kill the Scientist -I Saw....

11 Backside -Dear God From Me

12 As I -Revolution Calls

13 Diabolical Exploits -Lies

14 Operation Cliff Clavin -A Bomb and A Plan

15 Spazz -Typical Hardcore Song #1

16 Pillbox Terror -Christine

17 Chris Dodge/Dave Witte -Whiffletree

18 The Voids -Capitalist

19 Jack Killed Jill -Everyday

20 Zero Content -An Archist

21 Peelander-Z -Rocket Gold Star

22 Libertine -Moscow

23 Pornshot -Mad Song

24 Lucid Nation -Commercial

25 Friday Knights -Again

26 Lipstick Pickups -Can't Resist That Boy

27 The Devil is Electric -The New World

28 Bikini Bumps -The Cigarette Butt Fiasco

29 Four Letter Words -Slums of Shaolin

30 Fracas -Kill Me

31 UNX -Where Cracks Appear

32 Broken Society -Jock Pit

33 3x Fast -Nothing to Do But Laugh

34 Armistice -Chain of Command

35 Subincision -Punk Chick

36 Microsurgeon -Bug Report

37 Outro

ee also

* You Call This Music?! Volume 1
* Geykido Comet Records Compilations

External links

* [http://www.gcrecords.com Geykido Comet Records website]