This one is is from San Francisco. It's 1980. It definitely leans more towards the pop side as opposed to the punk side of things. I'm generally Ok with that. It's a compilation so it has its good songs and a few clunkers which I'll leave up to you to personally decide is which. This used to be a very common record that cluttered up Compilation bins at record stores for many years. It's less common now since I assume that nobody ever bought it. I finally caved in not too long ago and I'm kind of glad I did.
This record solved a mystery I wasn't even aware was a mystery in need of solving. There's millions of little bits of music that are eternally stuck in my memory waiting to spring forth at inopportune moments which seem to come from nowhere such that I wonder sometimes if it actually exists in reality or only my sweaty back brain. Every once in a while somebody would mention the word "radioactive" and a tiny part of my brain would throb with a loop of a part of a long forgotten song I probably heard twice a long long time ago. "Is your radio active?..." would repeat a bit and then move on to something even less important. Playing this record solved that enigma. The song in question is by the Times 5. I feel better already.
Other reasons that this may be of interest to anybody besides myself are the appearance of Sudden Fun who otherwise released a rather sought after seven inch that I wish I had and the initial release of the Offs "Everyone's a Bigot" which was more popularly known and released on another compilation on Subterranean Records called "Let Them Eat Jellybeans" which was essential to every record collection's cool factor at the onset of the 80's. I also like the Mutants.
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