Yes, Vagrant did 2 80s discs. They were mentioned in the review.

Ohh yeah you remember wayyy back when vagrant still had some dignity??? didn't they do a punk/80s compilation thing???.....twice?

----Travis.

Ok the punk goes metal thing was kinda funny.......but it's gone to far. Fearless you better kill it before it takes over. ehhhhhhhh too late.

-------travis

This makes me laugh.
um? punk....I'm sorry when I last checked punk originated in the 70's and carried out into the 80's. oh and needless to say the bands on here are not ever remotly punk.

For Christ's sake, it's 80s!! There's no apostrophe between the zero and the "s"! Fucking morons!

-Chinatown

i see the 80s, but i dont see the punk.

"btw the version of holding out for a hero in shrek 2 is better than the version on this."

anything frou frou does is better than this shit sandwich

If you're interested in really oldie timie music (think 30s, 20s, and yes, the teens) check out the Frisky Frolics, a local group led by this guy Ricky who's currently based in Alameda, CA.

I've seen him do weird 1910s music with a ukelele and a tuba, and later flappers tunes, complete with furskin caps and dapper flapper clothes. He's a bit obsessive, but really good and definitely all alone in terms of trying to present this mostly lost music in what seems like an authentic manner. Not sure if he's on-line at all. Good luck!

One more comment and I'm done...

Punk Goes 30's would be awesome.

-benz

Unless you did coke, the 80s weren't that cool.

-benz

I don't know when it happened, but somewhere someone interpreted the 80's as a time when everyone was absolutely retarded. As if every other decade could not match its ridiculousness.

And now it's cool to glorify it.

-benz

there's no such thing as punk anymore.

I liked this idea better when it was called "Before You Were Punk" or whatever.

i looked at this and immediately thought

A. there was already a 'punk goes 80's' com released in the late 90's that was excellent in all ways

B. most of the bands on here are not punk nor would even the bands themselves claim to be. i highly doubt even jamisonparker or the early november would label themselves as punk...at least i pray they wouldnt

C. what constitues punk has really become pussified and marketable. it went from uguly dude music to popular girl music. weird.

paul

if amber pacific has the "best" song on here.....then you know this is shit...although, youre opinion is also shit since you didnt mention the only good song on here, GAD

- Phucky mcPhuckDuck

- score is from the number of good songs....that 1/2 = 1

great review, shitty ass album. Its been done, twice.

Did you guys know that the new motion city soundtrack album was the most anticipated release of the year? It says so right on the ad banner at the top of the main page. It even says It was produced by the douche from Blink 182 as if he's some sort of production master.

btw the version of holding out for a hero in shrek 2 is better than the version on this.

that's a lot of comments.

while I do agree wtih pretty much everything this review said, i actually enjoy the reliant k track. it's the only one i think was done pretty well. sure it's very poppy, but it's one of like 2 tracks on here that bear some resemblence to punk, even if it is poppy. plus i enjoy it. a few other tracks I think are enjoyable, even if they're not "punk" in the slightest. there have been worse cover compilations put out in the past. there have been far more better ones as well, but there's been worse. the problem with this one is that fearless is trying to water down the word "punk" even further that it is already just to make some money. it's sad, really. thrice maybe have recorded Send me an Angel as a joke, but it's 100 times better for this CD's purpose, on a different CD, than anything on here. and we thought blink was bad.

80s goes lame.

the only worthwhile track on this is the GAD song

in my opinion, the best covers album was Punk Goes Metal, with link 80s extremly innovative cover of "harverster of sorrow," as well as guttermouth doing "sexual abuse" & jugheads revenge covering some poison song that i cant remember the name of atm

to the guy that mentioned the REM tribute:

Jawbreaker's version of Pretty Persuasion kicked total ass. its on their Etc. comp. for any interested parties.

The Gatsby's cover is way better than that boring, droning, whining piece of poop that The Cure recorded originally. Gatsby's sound like they actually have some conviction when they play music.

I like the Midtown song somewhat, but that is because I like the Outfield alot.

The rest of this is garbage. I can't believe I wasted my precious time downloading this.

Good Review...Shit album

www.lastname-t.com

has anyone watched mtv2 lately? punk already went 80s! (zing)

disclaimer: it's 4:30am and that struck me as amusing

The best 80s comp ever was "Surprise Your Pig: Tribute to REM." It had Jawbreaker, J Church, MTX, Jawbox, Teco Vee and others on it. Most of the songs sounded only vaguely like the originals, and some of them were even better!

OC

This score is for the review, because the guy actually gives a shit about being fair and not just talking shit on something that doesn't perfectly fit his tastes. Please dude, write more of these.

They should change this web site's name to "BuddyheadJr.com"

I liked Halifax's straight up.. and was probably the most "punk" sounding of all the songs in my opinion.

You know what would have been a perfect addition to this comp? The Get Up Kids cover of Close To Me. Because I hate the get up kids, and i hate the cure, but somehow they managed to do a verison that i think kicks ass.. and since they were determined to have mediocre emo bands do 80's covers.. you'd think they would have at least tried to get ones that were GOOD.

Not to mention I hate rufio even more now.

"how about "punk goes good"? where's that? when's that shit coming out? FUCK FEARLESS."

I laughed outloud at that. I rarely laugh outloud at all the shit talking on this site. And I never type in l33t speak either, so fuck off.

-!GreenVandal!

I think 'your love' by the outfield is a great fuckin song... and i love the cover by midtown.

Thats how i conduc it.

Alternative Press will give this a 5 out of 5.

I think Gatsbys did a good job with their Cure cover, they definitely made their own.

I also love Motion City Soundtrack's cover of REM's "Pop Song 89," as it's pretty much a spot-on cover of a great song. They didn't over-Moog it or anything.

-Scott

This compilation is not bad, but they really should accelerated the songs. I think the best one here is Halifax version of "Straight Up". More 3 good versions are Amber Pacific covering "Video Killed The Radio Star" and Gatsby's covering "Just Like Heaven" and So The Say covering "Forever Young"

f I can, however, let me just quickly say that just a few years ago the word "punk" was still -- more often than not -- being used to describe relatively intense music featuring characteristics like aggressive guitar strumming, up-tempo drumming, unpolished vocals and raw production.

reviewer, you fucking rule.

I hear tell of Al Gore working on something like that, but he's probably just talking out his ass. But in the meantime:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000 0HVS/104-5468829-2588750?v=glance

Yeah, that's a good one.

If only there were some way to do instantaneous searches for information in a digital fashion. You'd think someone would come up with something like that. Until that point, I'll just sit here and rack my brains for the name of that damn comp.

That's the one. The Muffs were on there too.

Oh yeah, I can see the cover of that now. A teenybopper gal in her room, surrounded by... records? punk things? Kind of an updated Rodney on the ROQ cover, right?

There was one decent 80s cover cd a looong time ago. Probably over 10 years old, but I think it was called Freedom of Choice. It had a killer Sonic Youth cover of Ca Plane Pour Moi and Superchunk doing Girl U Want. I lost it years ago, but I remember liking it at the time.

punk goes 80's.. they should have made it a old school hardcore comp

Along with Seven Seconds covering "99 Red Balloons," here's 2 other punk covers of mainstream pop hits at the time. It's pretty nutty if you think about it. It's like if Rancid covered a Kanye West tune, or Toxic Narcotic covered Gwen Stefani...

Gang Green "Voices Carry"
Electric Love Muffin "Venus" (A cover of the remake, really)

I know I'm missing some, anyone have others?

P.S.- Props to Ken's comment below- we hated Huey Lewis, Rick Springfield, John Cougar Mellencamp, Debbie Gibson, Duran Duran, Cinderella, all those crap mainstream twats.

see. the real warning sign should have been that giant FEARLESS RECORDS logo on the cd. Because FR hasn't put out anything worth listenting to since they put out Vaya for at the drive in.

Comment below me brought to you in part by fat slut fan bitch with nothing else to do other than pick her pussy and listen to "forget what you know".

the midtown song is fantastic, they really paid tribute to the OUTFIELD! soo fucking good. Like amazing job!

how about "punk goes good"? where's that? when's that shit coming out? FUCK FEARLESS.

"What I really don't understand is why someone (the reviewer) decided to pay $11.99 for this piece of shit."

I was just looking for something fun. That's all. Like I mentioned before, I enjoyed the Vagrant discs and the earlier Punk Goes... discs. I was a kid when these originals were in heavy rotation on the radio and MTV (which was brand new at the time), so I thought it would be a blast to hear this even though none of the bands were my thing. I at least expected them to "punk' the songs though. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

-Stewart Dowouis

Nu emo SHOULDN'T be a genre.

Nu-emo is not a new genre.

What I find even more disturbing than the crappiness of this CD is that someone seems to have decided that there is now a genre of music called "nü-emo".

What I really don't understand is why someone (the reviewer) decided to pay $11.99 for this piece of shit.

NO MORE COVER SONGS PLEASE! NO MORE MOVIE REMAKES PLEASE! Where's all the new ideas that will define this period of time? C'mon, The Honeymooners w/ Cedric the Entertainer? This Punk goes 80's crap, I can't take much more of this!

The best 80's cover is 7 Seconds' cover of "99 Red Balloons", because it was done in the 80s, and they completely destroyed it. And why would someone do "I'll Melt With You" when Good Riddance already did an amazing version? Terrible. These Fearless comps get worse with every edition.

--Cos

I liked Guttermouth's "Happy Loving Couples" on Before You Were Punk...

the ramones were still playing in the 80s so what the fuck is this all about?

this is one of the most non-assholish negative reviews ive read on this site.

he makes me hurt for this record being bad for him.

The thing about vagrants before you were punk comps was that, I at least, never thought I would ever like a bunch of punk bands covering 80's songs, and especially not if itson vagrant, yet the proof was in the puddin, it had some great non ironic, sincerely fun tuneage. I like good riddance covering melt with you, i liked the cure cover, so the ONLY way to put out comps like this is to actually make a good record.

Big stinkeye to fearless, who otherwise i will balance, puts out quality.

wyzo

You dropped $12 to get Early November and Rufio covering 80s songs? You know, you are allowed to turn the cd over and look at the tracklisting.

should've called this "bad nu-emo/DTR wanna-bes goes 80's". Seriously, somebody over at the Fearless HQ MUST have heard of a real punk band...right?

Dear Fearless:

Punk was in fact around during the 80's, and spent a lot of time hating the bands and songs on this record. Just thought I'd Let you know.

-Ken

You should have known better, dude.

Fuck Early November for ruining such a great song

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I could have sworn punk was around in the 80s. Maybe that punk was just boring or something

Goddamnit! Why is "80s" considered a genre of music or a clothing style? Like I see pictures in peoples myspaces labeled something like, "going out for 80s night!" and they're all wearing spandex and neon shit. Goddamn, I don't remember wearing that stuff and luckily I've trained my mind so when someone says, "it's 80s music" I don't think of flock of seagulls and instead start humming replacements songs.

It's 12:49 AM. I'm lucky to be making even vague sense.

The grammatical mistakes in my original post are pissing me off.

Game: Edit Allison's sentence. Who can come up with a version that's actually understandable?

If they're going to call the fucking thing "Punk Goes 80s," you would think they would make some sort of at least token effort to involve a single actual punk band.

We all agree with you but it's been said so much since this thing was announced on the site... I mean is it really necesarry to even waste the keystrokes of saying it again?

Le Gnome is right.

OC

This is a joke but I still want the Gatbsys track.

If they're going to call the fucking thing "Punk Goes 80s," you would think they would make some sort of at least token effort to involve a single actual punk band.