Post #100 - Fuck, 20 Years Ago Was A Long Time Back

Here we go. A truly momentous moment. 100 posts...a huge portion of which have come in the past month.

To celebrate this joyous occasion, I've put together this delightful comp. It's 20 songs from 20 years ago. Pretty simple, no? It was a shit year personally, but a pretty great year for music. It was the year I got turned onto Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, and Death Cab for Cutie. It was the year of "Voodoo" and "Supreme Clientele", "The Moon and Antarctica" and "69 Love Songs". I went to University of Maryland for the year, and failed out within 9 months. I moved back to the Baltimore suburbs, started working as a buyer for a bookstore, began going to three shows a week.

I could have turned this into one of those amazing Fluxblog-style surveys of the year; it was the first year I intentionally expanded my listening habits, and my record collection still reflects that. This, however, is a punk-focused blog, and I wanted to stick to 20 songs, so, there you go. I think it's a pretty decent cross-section of what I was buying at Reptilian and learning about from Punk Planet and HeartattaCk. Here's what you're downloading:

1. Spazz, "Let's Fucking Go!"
2. Dillinger Four, "Music Is None of My Business"
3. Leatherface, "Watching You Sleep"
4. Alkaline Trio, "Radio"
5. Strike Anywhere, "Chorus of One"
6. The Briefs, "New Shoes"
7. The Fuses, "Solution R"
8. The Hives, "A Get Together To Tear It Apart"
9. Charles Bronson, "Couldn't Fuckin' Care Less"
10. American Nightmare, "Protest Song #00"
11. Assfactor 4, "Free Tibet and Pussy"
12. Hot Snakes, "Salton City"
13. Skull Kontrol, "Primitive Offerings" (HEY!)
14. Lifter Puller, "Space Humping $19.99"
15. Braid, "You're Lucky to be Alive"
16. Shellac, "Watch Song"
17. Midiron Blast Shaft, "With A Fine Tooth Comb-Over"
18. Vaz, "Statik Electrik"
19. Cutthroats 9, "Prey"
20. Pg.99, "By the Fireplace in White"

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll acknowledge the elephant in the room. I recognize that there's a real dearth of non-male, non-white voices in this mix. I had less broad taste 20 years ago. It's probably why I didn't date much back then. But this IS perfect to slap onto a C-60, throw into the tape deck, and play full blast while you bomb around a back road with your best friends, chain smoking and drinking Big Gulps and talking about how the whole of your world is still in front of you.

Anyway, enjoy the mix, and thanks for coming back. This is Primitive Offerings 100.

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