Dogs don't live to bark 20 years, but record labels do-and the Massachusetts mongrels at Arf! Arf! Now have 20 candles burning on their birthday cake. You don't get to blow 'em out, but you can join in on the celebration with this bargain 50-song extravaganza that touches on pieces of the label's history. Actually, this sampler is more of a parallel universe, as it serves up alternates, demos and outtakes from artists whose works have been emblazoned with the twin Arf! Arf! #dogs, the twin birds of it's budget line Cheep! Cheep! #subsidiary, or the dignified font of it's new music spin-off, s'z. It is not, however, the bottom of the barrel; it's simply the stuff that, for one reason or another, didn't quite make it onto one of the imprint's many fine releases. But it had to come out eventually, and since the label's a year away from the legal drinking age, what else was it gonna toast with' Whatever your choice of musical beverage, you will certainly get your fill on these two CDs. For less than the price of two beers in a bar (or a couple sodas if you're driving), you get two 78-minute discs crammed with the type of stuff that's had Arf! Arf! #fans growling for years, whether the garage antics of the Litter and the Rising Storm, the psychedelic visions of Lazy Smoke and the Flat Earth Society, or the sheer strangeness of the Space Negros and Lucia Pamela. Maybe an old mutt can't learn new tricks, but the brains behind Arf! Arf! #don't need to. As the breadth of musical styles encompassed on this sampler prove, these people know plenty of tricks already. Kick out the dogs, motherf***er!
6 Can You Get Me Out of This Place - Four Commandments
7 Mary Is Alone - Dry Ice
8 You Gave Me Light - Lazy Smoke
9 More Incidental Music - the Lost
10 Satori - Flat Earth Society
11 Action Woman - Litter
12 Tallyman - Litter
13 Without You - Those of Us
14 Pride of a Man - Steve Ellis and the Starfires
15 Instrumental - Dee Jay & the Runaways
16 Espanie'l - Chuck Barr & the Playboys
17 I Can't Take It - Yankee Rebels
18 My Life with You - Traditions
19 Mojo Workout - Pat Farrell
20 I Need Love Now (Instrumental) - Flowerz
21 In Retrospect - Six Feet Under
22 Country - Fredric
23 Freedom - White Lightning
24 Rock and Roll Woman - Legends
25 Please Let Me Into Your Secrets - TNT
26 King Queen - Pandora
27 House Flaming - Moving Parts
- Disc 2 -
1 Soul Searchin' - Electras
2 No No No - Lovin' Sandwich
3 (Boss) Be Good to Me - Apollo's Apaches
4 Kiddie a Go Go - Males
5 Let's All Mix Together - Black Diamonds
6 Of Dreams - Morgen
7 Enjoy Yourself - Dragonfly
8 Distortions of Darkness - 31 Flavors
9 The Rake - Id
10 Freakout (Part One) - Soundz
11 In a Gadda Da Vida - Space Negros
12 Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - Space Negros
13 Crossfire/Tea for Two Cha Cha Cha - Space Negros
14 We Will Fall - Space Negros
15 It Looks You in the Eye - Erik Lindgren
16 Deep in the Heart of Texas - the Beagles
17 Fancy Woman - High Voltage
18 In the Year 2001! - Lucia Pamela
19 Sings - Jack Mudurian
20 Insanity - Ken Field
21 Changes - Erik Lindgren
22 Action Man - Erik Lindgren
23 Waltham Camera & Stereo 1 (1982) - Erik Lindgren
Dogs don't live to bark 20 years, but record labels do-and the Massachusetts mongrels at Arf! Arf! Now have 20 candles burning on their birthday cake. You don't get to blow 'em out, but you can join in on the celebration with this bargain 50-song extravaganza that touches on pieces of the label's history. Actually, this sampler is more of a parallel universe, as it serves up alternates, demos and outtakes from artists whose works have been emblazoned with the twin Arf! Arf! #dogs, the twin birds of it's budget line Cheep! Cheep! #subsidiary, or the dignified font of it's new music spin-off, s'z. It is not, however, the bottom of the barrel; it's simply the stuff that, for one reason or another, didn't quite make it onto one of the imprint's many fine releases. But it had to come out eventually, and since the label's a year away from the legal drinking age, what else was it gonna toast with' Whatever your choice of musical beverage, you will certainly get your fill on these two CDs. For less than the price of two beers in a bar (or a couple sodas if you're driving), you get two 78-minute discs crammed with the type of stuff that's had Arf! Arf! #fans growling for years, whether the garage antics of the Litter and the Rising Storm, the psychedelic visions of Lazy Smoke and the Flat Earth Society, or the sheer strangeness of the Space Negros and Lucia Pamela. Maybe an old mutt can't learn new tricks, but the brains behind Arf! Arf! #don't need to. As the breadth of musical styles encompassed on this sampler prove, these people know plenty of tricks already. Kick out the dogs, motherf***er!