I love this compilation. For some reason, it seems to have been somewhat ignored by the critical community when it came out, but eventually, it came to my attention. I love it because it made me search up some of the more obscure punk bands, like Penetration, Subway Sect, the Boys, 999, Rezillos, the Ruts, Sham 69, and the Skids. It's just great, and they had the wisdom to keep it to four discs. I consider it on a par with the other great four-disc genre /era compilations like The Funk Box, Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music, and The Sound of the Suburbs. I regret that I do not have the booklet that came with it, just the discs, in original jewel boxes, which I got for relatively cheap because of that. But there is something punk about not having the accoutrements. I did go up on eBay to see if anyone was selling the booklet but was disappointed to see the price gouging and so passed.
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