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Various Artists - Posh Boy
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Because of the folks working tirelessly from the inside — the promoters, DIY venue owners, and others who spent every waking moment spreading the gospel of this loud, bizarre, shitstained music — early American punk reached the unlikeliest of ears. Orange County’s Robbie Fields, known in certain circles as the Posh Boy, was one such chronicler, and it’s in no small part because of him that the world came to know the darker, dirtier side of sunny southern California. Beach Blvd., a stellar compilation first released on the Posh Boy label in 1979, features the music of three disparate groups: the sunny, melodic, totally SoCal swagger of The Simpletones; the laborious, spooky ghost-fuzz of Rik L Rik; and the ADD-riddled pop-punk of The Crowd, an outfit equal parts Dead Kennedys and The Cramps. None sounded quite like the other, yet all three groups now seem insistently entrenched in a particular milieu. This is, of course, because they were. In the late 1970s and early 80s, the southern California punk scene was among the richest and most vibrant the world over, and it shows on Beach Blvd....full text |
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