Artist	Song
The Replacements	We're Coming Out
Rites of Spring	Hain's Point
Embrace	Dance of Days
Squirrel Bait	Choose Yr Poison
Hnsker Dn	59 Times the Pain
Dag Nasty	Under Your Influence
Government Issue	Caring Line
Descendents	Silly Girl
Naked Raygun	Soldier's Requiem
Verbal Assault	Scared
Ignition	Anger Means
Soul Side	Punch the Geek
Swiz	Nine
Lost	Skyscraper
Superchunk	Slack Motherfucker
Hnsker Dn	Don't Wanna Know if You Are Lonely
Samiam	Underground
Fuel	Disengaged
411	Carnal Knowledge
All	Carnage
Big Drill Car	Take Away
Slap of Reality	Where's It Going
Shades Apart	On the Inside
Kingface	Like a King
Rain	Worlds at War
Shudder to Think	Jade-Dust Eyes
Dag Nasty	Exercise

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So I've been doin this band project with this younger feller who's into a lot of newish indie/post-hardcore/emo/whatever. I made this for him as his proto-post-hardcore indoctrination... Kind of a primer to the pre-Nevermind state of post-punk. There's not a lot of bands on here that were really tagged with any of those labels, but it's pretty hard to deny that they laid the framework for the stuff that's flooding MTV today.

This was before "emo" meant having perfectly groomed sideburns, playing acoustic guitar and whining about your old girlfriend; this is when emo meant being a grimy quasi-hippie, playing a beat-to-shit thrift store electric, and....uh...whining about your old girlfriend.

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