(This is the first installment of Not New Music Tuesdays, a new feature by our new writer, Twin Cheeks. I know, right? We're having a contest for most immature nom de plume, and I think TC is winning so far.  Anyway, TC will be doing this every week-- presenting full album downloads taken from a personal record collection that most of you couldn't even dream of amassing. I think many of you will be pleasantly surprised by the stuff you'll find here: a lot of it obscure, all of it good, and almost none of it recent. Most of these posts will NOT focus on local releases, but we thought we'd start things off this week with an old local punk compilation that contains some great stuff that you should really hear. Enjoy! --SR)


Ok. New column, old music. Maybe some of you have heard this stuff, maybe some of you haven't. Maybe some of you will like it, maybe some of you won't. Either way, it won't kill you to listen to it.

People seem to enjoy bitching about how local music sucks these days, so I thought we should take a listen to what was going on locally 30 years ago. Recorded at ESR Studios in 1978-79 and released in 1979,  Are We Too Late for the Trend... compiled the best (or maybe the whole) of the dfw punk scene at the time. Good shit. --


01 - vomit pigs - my face is on your lunchbox
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02 - plastic idols - siamese love
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03 - telefones - solid ground
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04 - infants - giant girl in the 5th grade
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05 - barry kooda - so sorry
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06 - blindate - we're not here
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07 - e = mc2 - rocket rocket
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08 - skuds - dead dogs
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09 - control - nightmare in my closet
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10 - smegma - whips and midgets
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11 - superman's girlfriend - lois lois
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12 - nervebreakers - i love your neurosis
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13 - snakes - karen ann
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