Artist	Song
X	We're Desperate
from Wild Gift (2007)
Black Flag	TV Party
from Damaged (2006)
The Germs	Lexicon Devil
from M.I.A.: The Complete Anthology (2005)
The Circle Jerks	Wild In the Streets
from Wild In the Streets (1982)
Bad Religion	Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell
from How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (2005)
Minutemen	Corona
from Double Nickels On the Dime (2006)
Fear	I Love Livin' In the City
from The Record (2005)
Descendents	Suburban Home
from Milo Goes to College (2006)
T.S.O.L.	Superficial Love
from T.S.O.L. / Weathered Statues (1997)
Agent Orange	Bloodstains (Original 1979 Version)
from Living In Darkness (1981)
The Vandals	Pizza Tran
from Fear of a Punk Planet: Anniversary Edition (2000)
45 Grave	Partytime
from Sleep In Safety (2006)

Comment:

New York and London got all the press — and most of the big record deals — but make no mistake: SoCal's scene rocked the punk landscape like an 8.5-magnitude quake. Maybe the scene's great unsung heroes "Hollyweird's" Weirdos didn't cut punk's most famous neutron-bomb track (that would be the Dead Kennedys' "Kill the Poor"), but "We Got the Neutron Bomb" got there first, with a gut-churning howl of rage kicking the door down to an anti-war screamfest. With the start-stop herky-jerk of a teenager learning to drive stick, Germs frontman Darby Crash lurches through "Lexicon Devil" with its "gimme gimme [i]this[/i], gimme gimme [i]that[/i]" chorus as if he knew he had to grab for every last instant before the bomb ticking inside him went off . . . as it did, two years later. And Bad Religion just wants [i]out[/i] — and [i]now[/i] — in their vocal-cord-shredding convulsion of manic panic "F**k Armageddon . . . This Is Hell." From Social D to Suicidal Tendencies, we'll bring the glory of Madame Wong's and the Cuckoo's Nest slamming straight [i]through[/i] your ear buds.

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