Rough Trade Shops: Rock and Roll 1

Hate The Police - Mudhoney/Know Your Product - The Saints/Chase The Dragon - Beasts of Bourbon/Human Cannonball - Butthole Surfers/Rocket USA - Suicide/Stand Up! - PW Long w/ Reelfoot/ Alright - Pussy Galore/That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma/Cat Claw - The Kills/Nonalignment Pact - Pere Ubu/Phobias - l.a.l./My Rival - Alex Chilton/Stained And Lit - Red Red Meat/View From Here - The Gories/Born In 69 - Rocket From The Crypt/Otherside - The Beatings/Hot Wire My Heart - Crime/Born On The Floor - The Make Up/Play In The Summer - Trans Am/Life Of Crime - The Weirdos/Mercury - Royal Trux/More Light - J. Mascis And The Fog

Phew - 'cos you asked so nice, Julio. And it kicks off w/ the Stooges!

this seems really boring, esp. in contrast to the "rough trade electronic" set (or even the "rough trade 25 years" box).

The song selection, or the concept itself?

There are things on it I'm certainly going to put on mixtapes, which for me is always a gd enough reason to invest.

Granted, I have certain affection for bands from Detroit and Cleveland, but still. I haven't heard this comp yet, but the tracks I already know are excellent. This is 2002; there is no such thing as a zeitgeist anymore.

If you want to attack something that reeks of 1992, you should go after all the Nirvana Hype that has been foisted on the public to boost sales of the GH comp. If I see one more rockumentary that tells me what a deep and complex genius KC was, I am going to start blowing shit up.

haha this just about sez it all. (in so many ways.)

(you include a jon spencer blues explosion track = you are off the "good humans" list, qed.)

Even so, I take it that comparisons with Electronic 01 are supposed to be made and - while that earlier comp. omits some important avenues of electronic music, as Dr.C noted on the dedicated thread - it's a not bad "overview". This new one seems to leave out much more of what I would dub 'rock and roll' (if you twisted my arm). Perhaps the problem is simply that the title sucks bigtime?

I guess "good starting point" is a very arbitrary term.

I will personalize this to see if it makes more sense. When I was 15, England's Dreaming by Jon Savage was published and talked about all these great bands that nobody I knew listened to (kids at my HS liked Grunge, NIN, Steve Miller Band, Grtful Dead...) and I liked Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Clash, DK's, Kraftwerk and Bowie. At that time I did not have access to compilations or CD-reissues of a lot of this material, and I did not have an older-brother type figure to hip to to it. The best thing we had back then was the Rhino "Punk" comps...

What this meant was that when I actually got a hold of a lot of his material (mid 20's) I was almost too old to enjoy it (I mean I like it, but it would have blown my mind a decade ago.) Something like this is great for a kid just getting out of his "obvious" punk phase. If I had had a record store clerk put something like this in my hand a decade ago it was have definitely changed my musical interests. It is a good thing to have around when some 16 year old wants to know what else is out there.

I cannot comment on the stuff that I haven't heard, but the bands I do know are fairly well represented. I have played a lot of those tracks for people who are curious about different bands and scenes. If you want to know what the Detroit Cobras sound like, Hey Sailor is a damn good place to start.