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 Various Artists
The Power Of Music: A Comprehensive Collection of 40 Canadian Artists For A Cause (released 2005)
Underground Operations - www.undergroundoperations.com
This is one sweet comp album! Two discs, forty bands, all kinds of punk...and all for a cause! The disc is dedicated (and all proceeds go to) OCAP, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Just about every variation of punk rock is represented from pop-punk rockers Belvedere to screamers I Hate Sally to ska-rockers Bedouin Soundclash. You get perhaps one of the best collections of Canadaian music ever compiled. Most of what is on the disc is unreleased material, b-sides or out of print tracks that have been generously donated to support the cause. Again, the cause being OCAP is "an organization of poor and working people fighting to create a society without poverty, exploitation and oppression." Sure, that's an ideal society, and many of us probably accept that it may never come, but OCAP is there to lay the seeds of the revolution that surely has the support to take place. It's really only a matter of time and effort from all. In the meantime, the soundtrack will get you through the rough spots of the coming change, and it can only help to further the organization's efforts when you pick up the disc for your own selfish reason. Mine? I wanted to get forty songs that I didn't own and to make a contribution to a future utopian society. Yeah, I did my part! Now it's your turn... Go out, get a copy of the disc that features more Canadian bands than you've cared to admit exist. Seriously, how can you say no to a comp that features Choke, The Matadors, Planet Smashers, The Failure, controller.controller, Kilbourne, and Closet Monster? Just as the title of this compilation says: "A Comprehensive Collection of 40 Canadian Artists For A Cause", the disc is chock full of artists from the west coast to the east and is only there to further the work and development efforts of those fighting for all our rights as an individuals. -MG |
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TRACK LIST
1. Belvedere - Subhuman Nature
2. Dead Letter Dept - Burn Your Atticus Shirt And Start A Real Band
3. Magneta Lane - Ugly Socialite
4. Bombs Over Providence - I'll White Wash Your Fence
5. I Was A Spy - Cape? Check. Mask? Check. Alright. Let's Go!
6. Kiros - Holding Onto Self Destruction
7. Choke - Breathing Won't Come Easy
8. In Time - Forward Thinking. Forward Concern
9. The Matadors - Creeping Demon
10. I Hate Sally - Under The Ribs Of Death
11. Junction - Frequencies
12. Fallout Frequency - Beyond Our Means
13. Fullblast - No One Says Anything Funny Anymore
14. Planet Smashers - Retribution
15. Shotgun Rules - Like Helicopters
16. Ghosts Of Modern Man - Night Light
17. Wheels On The Bus - One More Reason
18. Failure - The Oath
19. Protest The Hero - An Apethetic New World
20. Weakerthans - The Reasons
21. Hostage Life - Ceci N'est Pas Une Chanson
22. Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down
23. Bedouin Soundclash - Immigrant Workforce
24. Blue Skies At War - Constant Reminder
25. New World On Fire - An Appeal For Change
26. Bucket Truck - I Am The New York Times
27. Che Chapter 127 - From The Ashes Of Hiroshima
28. Reason - Red Skies At Dawn
29. Summer Hero - Say Hey
30. Controller, Controller - History
31. Hartsfield - My Heart Burns For This
32. Throck Morton - Nag, Nag, Nag
33. Raising The Fawn - Gwendolyn
34. Kilbourne - Orphanage Of The Future
35. Cold Blue Sky - Gutted
36. Brat Attack - Call To Action
37. Marble Index - Missing File
38. Flatliners - Fred's Got Slacks
39. Moneen - Start Angry, End Mad
40. Closet Monster - Empire Strikes Iraq |
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