This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
This latest dirt-cheap set of tracks from punk label Epitaph is subtitled Straight Outta The Pit, and rightly so: Tthat’s where most of the these 25 tracks come from.
Rancid, All, Ten Foot Pole, New Bomb Turks, Bad Religion, NoFX, Agnostic Front and my personal heroes, tattooed metal gods Zeke, are just a drop of sweat in the bucketload of mosh-rock mainstays who give this comp plenty of bang, boom and crash for the kids’ allowance bucks. As for new toonage, well, there’s a smoking, brand-spanking Pennywise track. But you’ll get the biggest kick out of seeing new Epitaph artist Tom Waits in the lineup — who wouldn’t love to see the little skaters’ faces when his gravel-throated honk comes outta their speakers? Now that’s punk rock.
