What I mean, and I know seeing past your own ego to comprehend my actual words may be hard, is that people have been making the exact same argument you are making about Epitaph signing these bands, and namedropping the same obscure "real" emo bands for 4-5 years now, yet you're acting like you're the first. Stop it.

"So, you're about five years too late to this discussion, AND you're trying to namedrop? Ha."

Oh geeze, you're talking about time being relevant on a site that reviews Discharge reissues.

So I mention the likes of Vermin Scum and such, big whoop. I just find it amusing that people are still in the habit of naming off Epitaph bands in tight-pants as "emo".

im gonna go ahead and say that 3 is the best one,
by the time 6 came out, it seemed that most of the artists had definitely crossed over to the pop side of pop-punk, making a vagrant sampler seem equal by comparsion.

Hey, why didn't Epitaph carry on doing PunkOrama compilations with the (few) punk bands that it still has and stick all the other commercial bullshit on the unsound disc? I don't see why Epitaph has to have just one regular compilation series. I can understand that everyone wants a slice of the emo/screamo action, but why shit on your fans like Victory has?

people used to buy sampler comps before mp3s existed......now there is no reason to buy sampler comps

did you know there was a time on this land!

Yeah, the 6th one was my favourite as well. The ALL track on it is so rad.

In terms of Hopeless Samplers, number 3 is the best. The first 6 songs are all killer.

I agree 6 was the best. That Osker song was cool. Man I miss Osker.

Posted by FuckYouOiOiOi on 2006-12-13 21:52:14
My Score:

i own every punk-o-rama up till 7 (and every fat music too) and i say punk-o-rama volume six was the best one.

unsound is a piece of shit.

Posted by stuxmusic on 2006-12-13 21:14:14
My Score:

I looked at this comp and thought that it was pretty gash. But I thought the idea was still great. Relitively cheap release chock full of bands that the kids like, with maybe some new ones they can introduce them too.

I figure that was what the comps were always there to do, show some bands you already like alongside some you aint heard of, and in that instance i give this a 3 1/2, because it does it well enough for its purpose.

nothin can touch punk o rama 4
it has the best artwork too.

PUNK O RAMA 1
THE ORIGINAL
THE BEST
THE ONE

THE OTHERS UNTIL number 5 were great

5 to 10 PIECE OF SHIT
THIS UNSOUND IS SHITSOUND

god awful this may be but the god awfuls are good

i dont have 3 but i do have 5 and that was a good one not one emo song on it
unlike now

number 3 was easily the best

POR 3 and 5 were the best.

" ' his dude should review something that he likes instead of just picking things that are obviously shitty and bitching about them'

He didn't pick them, they were assigned."

You can get assigned things when you aren't staff?

"Epitaph has "emo/screamo" bands on its label now?

Something tells me its not the pretentious variety that ape the back-catalogue of Vermin Scum, but rather the kind that live inside Hot Topics all over america and sing about how they're going to "kill their fifteen year old girlfriend and douse her in hot-sauce and masscara".

To be completely honest, even the fellows jocking the ashes of Annapolis are more fun than the later."

So, you're about five years too late to this discussion, AND you're trying to namedrop? Ha.

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 9:35 PM (EST)
My Score:

"POR 5 was pretty good, but didn't it have the Hives?"

If it did, then they were the only redeemable part of that shitbag. Seriously, Epitaph. What a joke.

Posted by SuperRad on 2006-12-12 17:47:34
My Score:

Bring punk o rama back you sons of bitches!

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 4:56 PM (EST)
My Score:

I just bought this piece of shit for $3 and I want my money back. There are about 3 listenable songs on there, the rest is god awful

Epitaph has "emo/screamo" bands on its label now?

Something tells me its not the pretentious variety that ape the back-catalogue of Vermin Scum, but rather the kind that live inside Hot Topics all over america and sing about how they're going to "kill their fifteen year old girlfriend and douse her in hot-sauce and masscara".

To be completely honest, even the fellows jocking the ashes of Annapolis are more fun than the later.

ehh...it's got Converge and Some Girls on it, so it's not terrible. Still, I wouldn't spend money on it.

The label has moved on. "Gone is the melodic/hardcore pop of yesteryear"...now Mr.Brett has figured out what will sell, not what's good pop-punk. I like what he's doing with Anti-, but Epitaph now isn't just lame, like is was in the '90s -- it's irrelevant. They offer nothing more than any other emo/screamo label.
-feeeding5000

i just recently got into Sage Francis... good stuff

this dude should review something that he likes instead of just picking things that are obviously shitty and bitching about them

He didn't pick them, they were assigned.

Posted by fox82 on 2006-12-12 09:52:21

no, i don't think por5 had the hives... at least not in europe. from the almost 30 tracks there's very few skipable tracks on it.. good songs by nofx, pennywise, vision, madball, af, guttermouth (maybe...), voodoo glow skulls etc.

5 was the shit, but 6 had more of an impact on me. Basically I liked the soundtrack to Dave Mirra BMX Maximum Remix (Millencolin, Death By Stereo, Deviates, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, etc) and I saw POR 6 for $5 and it had a lot of those bands. After buying it I've been obsessed with almost every punk band signed to Epitaph.

the punk or rama cd's were so good. this...this is not. other than the souls and the draft. the rest is doo doo. especially the new bands i never heard of that all sounded like the Used or something. it made my head hurt.

Paul

the fact that sage francis is still on this label makes me sad

this dude should review something that he likes instead of just picking things that are obviously shitty and bitching about them

Posted by saint_nick on 2006-12-12 11:06:47
My Score:

por 5 had the hives. but por 2 had tsol -code blue. score for por 1-6

no, i don't think por5 had the hives... at least not in europe. from the almost 30 tracks there's very few skipable tracks on it.. good songs by nofx, pennywise, vision, madball, af, guttermouth (maybe...), voodoo glow skulls etc.

"dear lord, thank you for baby ducks, ziggy comics, and sweatin' to the oldies 1, 2, and 4"

POR 5 was pretty good, but didn't it have the Hives? And it also had that crappy Refused b-side. They could have used any song by Refused and they chose that one...

But the 6th one is still the best, got it back in like 5th/6th grade and I've been obsessed with the 'punk' bands that have signed to Epitaph ever since.

Well at least they stopped using the punk-O-rama title for these comps... i think after por7 or 6, epitaph began to suck. Give me punk-o-rama 1, 3 and 5 any day over this shit!

Posted by crazytoledo on 2006-12-12 08:02:20
My Score:

The design for this album is awesome, but besides that, this was pretty bland.

Best Epitaph Comp: Punk-O-Rama 6

these things have been rendered useless, shitty songs aside most of these songs are available for free as mp3's on the Epitaph website let alone illegally. Best POR? I'd say 3.

not very good, even with BR and the Bouncing souls.

I used to buy them back in the day when it took 30 minutes for my shitty dialup connection to download a low bitrate mp3 file. They seem kind of redundant now.

no

why would you buy it if it's free on the counter?