This aggressive collection draws from California’s rich history of punk, more specifically hardcore: a new sound that eschewed melody for intensity, a sound that took punk harder and faster, a sound intrinsically American. Whilst hardcore was also burning over on the East Coast, it was in California that it had ignited and sprawled, a sonic punch in the face that raged socio-political disdain and total abandonment for commercialism, fueled by a crumbling American Dream and the collapse of family values.

Adolescents - I Hate Children
Middle Class - Out Of Vogue
Agent Orange - Bloodstains
Dead Kennedys - Chemical Warfare
Simpletones - I Like Drugs
Suicidal Tendencies - Fascist Pig
T.s.o.l. - Abolish Government/silent Majority
Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills
Wasted Youth - Fuck Authority
The Gun Club - She’s Like Heroin To Me
Redd Kross - Burn Out
China White - Live In Your Eyes
Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young
Negative Trend - How Ya Feeling?
Eddie And The Subtitles - American Society
Channel 3 - Manzanar
Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
Rikk Agnew O.c. - Life
Social Distortion - Playpen
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
Shattered Faith - I Love America
The Weirdos - Helium Bar
Middle Class - Insurgence
Germs - Communist Eyes
Adolescents - Kids Of The Black Hole