It's a cool idea that I have no clue how to replicate in 2025. Take a sampling of your favorite 7"s from the previous year, pull a song from each, put out a compilation with these vinyl-only tracks. It's like a playlist...except good! Mel Cheplowitz: the original influencer!
This second volume is quite good, led off by recent rediscovery Cub. One of my personal favs, Tugboat Annie, contribute with the A-side from their second Sonic Bubblegum 7". There are cuts by the nascent Plow United, who I thought were a mega-huge band in the pre-internet mid-90s, and by Beatnik Termites, who I knew from the classic PUNK USA comp and now cannot recall if I ever actually saw them play live. Tho it feels like I did.
And there are sixteen other songs here, the sort that, if you have any sort of 7" collection dating from this period, you've played a few times and then let collect dust. They're the sort of songs you feel smart for taking a chance on plucking them from the dollar bin. Punk rock, a dime a dozen, committed first to wax and then to five inches of aluminum.
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