V/A - "Punk Covers" (2002)

I've bought tons of punk compilations of the years. Not sure why, as they all tend to feature the same songs and the same bands anyway. About four years ago however, I bought a rather interesting 10 CD box set of old punk songs from the 70's and 80's, entitled Horrible Punk - God Bless This Box.

Each CD had its own theme, like “Punk Live Classics” (live recordings so lo-fi you can’t tell one song from another), “Extreme Punk” (bands like Chaos UK, Driller Killer, Chaotic Dischord, Blitzkrieg and External Menace) and “Punk Indie Chart Hits” (Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Spizz Energi, Johnny Thunders etc).

Anyway, the best and most interesting of these 10 CD’s was the fourth one “Punk Covers”, which I offer you here in its entirety.

The quality of these track range from excellent (One Way System, The Wall, The Vibrators ones and the Vice Squad ones) to excruciating (Disorder, Sid Vicious) and everything in between.

(zip) V/A - Punk Covers (43 mb)

1. Anti-Pasti - I wanna be your dog (The Stooges)
2. Sid Vicious - My way (Frank Sinatra)
3. The Vibrators - Jumpin' Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones)
4. Vice Squad - The times they are a-changin' (Bob Dylan)
5. One Way System - Cum on feel the noize (Slade)
6. Hollywood Brats - Then he kissed me (The Crystals)
7. Erazerhead - A teenager in love (Dion & The Belmonts)
8. G.B.H. - Pretty vacant (The Sex Pistols)
9. Disorder - Joleen (Dolly Parton)
10. Angelic Upstarts - White riot (The Clash)
11. Eater - Jeepster (T. Rex)
12. Vice Squad - Teenage rampage (Sweet)
13. Suburban Studs - My generation (The Who)
14. The Vibrators - Gimme some lovin' (The Spencer Davis Group)
15. The Drones - Be my baby (The Ronettes)
16. The Wall - Day tripper (The Beatles)