 
Back in the late 90’s buying a compilation
album seemed to be all the rage with the latest
edition of the ‘Now That’s What I
Call Music’ compilation album being on pretty
much everyone’s most wanted album list and
also the likes of Punk O Rama’, ‘Rock
Against Bush’, ‘The Kerrang Albums’
also being the most wanted compilation albums
in the alternative music scene, yet in recent
years compilation albums have been few and far
between mainly due to the fact that digital music
has taken off so much that you can download singles
and single tracks from an album for the little
cost of 79p and make up your own playlist for
the fraction of the cost of what a compilation
album costs.
Well on the 19th August Universal Music are being
daring and putting out a 44 track compilation
album called ‘Teenage Dirtbags’ which
features some of the biggest and best bands and
tracks from the golden era of pop punk so if you
were a teen in the late 90’s or early 00’s
then it is safe to say that ‘Teenage Dirtbags’
contains the playlist from your teenage years.
The album features some complete gems such as
Wheatus ‘Teenage Dirtbags’, Blink
182 ‘All The Small Things’, Sum 41
‘In Too Deep’, ‘ Lit ‘My
Own Worst Enemy’, ‘ New Found Glory
‘My Friends Over You’, Bowling For
Soup ‘Girl All The Bad Guys Want’,
Puddle Of Mudd ‘She Hates Me, OPM ‘Heaven
Is A Halfpipe’, Billy Talent ‘Try
Honestly’, Weezer ‘Buddy Holly’,
‘The Bloodhound Gang ‘The Bad Touch’,
P.O.D ‘Alive’, Yellowcard ‘Oceans
Avenue’, A ‘Nothing’, ‘Papa
Roach ‘Last Resort’, Reel Big Fish
‘Sell Out’ and so many more classic
songs.
The whole double compilation album is full of
classic tracks the majority of them as listed
above are great but there are also a couple of
guilty pleasures such as Metro Station ‘Shake
It’, Rasmus ‘In The Shadows’
and Sugar Ray ’Every Morning’ which
may well be cringe worthy to re-experience all
these years on.
For me ‘Teenage Dirtbags’ takes me
way back to the release of the first ever American
Pie film as many of the tracks featured here were
featured during that film and the soundtrack which
was released alongside the film, it also reminds
me of trips to Newquay and general teenage nights
out and I am sure that for thousands of people
just looking over the track list of this compilation
will bring back many good memories.
Overal £10 for a 44 track compilation album
is fantastic as it works out as 22p a track and
when the track listing is this solid I can see
‘Teenage Dirtbags’ being peoples playlist
for the next couple of months.
4/5
Review by Trigger |
